Katarzyna Jednoróg, Ph.D., Dsc Habil
Laboratory Head
k.jednorog@nencki.edu.pl

About me:

Education
- DSc Habil, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS (2017)
 - PhD in Biology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS (2010)
- MSc in Psychology, Jagiellonian University (2005)

Honors & awards
- Scientific Award from Polish Academy of Sciences, Division II: Biological and Agricultural Sciences, 2019
- Jerzy Konorski Award from Polish Neuroscience Society & Neurobiology Committee PAN, 2017, 2012
- Scientific award from the Polish Dyslexia Society, 2015
- The Minister Of Science And Higher Education Stipends For Distinguished Young Researchers, 2012-2015
- Scholarship START of the Foundation for Polish Science for most talented Polish young researchers, 2011, 2010

Scientific collaborations
2016-now: prof. Ewa Haman, University of Warsaw, Poland
2016-now: prof. Nienke van Attenveldt , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014-now: prof. Marcin Szwed, Jagiellonian University, Poland
2013-now: prof. Kenneth Pugh, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2010-now: prof. Franck Ramus, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
2009-now: prof. Stefan Heim, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Germany

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Research interests:

- the neurobiological basis of language skills in typical and atypical development
- mechanisms of typical and atypical literacy acquisition
- predictors of language-based learning disabilities
- universal brain organization for spoken and written language independent of orthography or sensory modality

Selected publications:

Kossowski B, Chyl K, Kacprzak A, Bogorodzki P, Jednoróg K. (2019). Dyslexia and age related effects in the neurometabolites concentration in the visual and temporo-parietal cortex. Sci Rep. 9(1):5096.

Chyl, K., Kossowski, B., Dębska, A., Łuniewska, M., Banaszkiewicz, A., Żelechowska, A., Frost, S.J., Mencl, W.E., Wypych, M., Marchewka, A., Pugh, K., Jednoróg, K. (2018). Prereader to beginning reader: changes induced by reading acquisition in print and speech brain networks. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 59(1):76-87.

Ramus F, Altarelli I, Jednoróg K, Zhao J, Scotto di Covella L. (2018). Neuroanatomy of developmental dyslexia: Pitfalls and promise Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 84:434-452.

Płoński P, Gradkowski W, Altarelli I, Monzalvo K, van Ermingen-Marbach M, Grande M, Heim S, Marchewka A, Bogorodzki P, Ramus F, Jednoróg K. (2017). Multi‐parameter machine learning approach to the neuroanatomical basis of developmental dyslexia Hum Brain Mapp. 38(2):900-908.

Dębska, A., Łuniewska, M., Chyl, K., Banaszkiewicz, A., Żelechowska, A., Wypych, M., Marchewka, A., Pugh, K.R., Jednoróg, K. (2016). Neural basis of phonological awareness in beginning readers with familial risk of dyslexia - results from shallow orthography NeuroImage, 132. 406-416.

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