• plant biotechnology with elements of phytochemistry;
• biotechnology of higher fungi;
• mycochemistry.

• HPLC Chromatograph Hitachi LaChrom (Merck) - Detector UV L-7400;
• HPLC Chromatograph Hitachi ELITE LaChrom (Merck) – Detectors: DAD L-2455, FL L-2485;
• Freeze Dry System (Labconco);
• Laminar flow cabinet.

• establishing and maintaining in vitro cultures of plants and fungi intended as a source of therapeutically important  compounds (e.g. phenolic acids, coumarins, flavonoids, lignans, glucosionoletes, lipoic acid, arbutin);
• comparative phytochemical studies of biomass from in vitro cultures with plants growing in vivo;
• chemical studies of higher fungi aimed at examining the content of biologically active metabolites (e.g. non-hallucinogenic indole compounds, phenolic acids, sterols, fatty acids, polysaccharides).
• quantitative analysis of phenolic acids in the plant and fungal extracts;
• quantitative analysis of indole compounds in the fungal and plant extracts.

Methods and research techniques:

• maintaining of medicinal plants and higher fungi in vitro cultures;
• lyophilization of the plant and fungal material (biomass);
• extraction of the plant and fungal material using different polarity solvents;
• quantitative analysis of the active compounds by HPLC method.