Zainteresowania naukowe i badawcze
Wczesnorozwojowe uwarunkowania zdrowia i reprodukcji człowieka, programowanie płodowe i jego biomarkery, starzenie biologiczne
Udział w projektach badawczych
2022-obecnie The effect of paternal adverse childhood experiences on the offspring’s brain development – potential mechanisms and cognitive consequences for the child. The FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, University of Turku, Finlandia, Badacz wizytujący, kierownik
2022-obecnie Trauma, resilience, health: Hormonal, immunological, and genetic biomarkers of stress response among three generations of Ukrainian refugees. kierownik projektu: prof. Grażyna Jasieńska, Grant Narodowej Agencji Wymiany Akademickiej (NAWA), wykonawca
2021-2022 Is female reproduction shaped by early-life stress level? Stypendium im. Bekkera Narodowej Agencji Wymiany Akademickiej (NAWA), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Badacz wizytujący, kierownik
2018-2021 Programowanie wczesnorozwojowe i aktywność fizyczna w życiu dorosłym a stężenia hormonów płciowych u kobiet: implikacje dla prewencji raka piersi, kierownik projektu: prof. Grażyna Jasieńska, post-doc
2015-2017 Afast! Powiedz To. Grant z Narodowego Centrum Badań i Rozwoju, kierownik
2014-2016 Biomarkery programowania płodowego a zdrowie i rozrodczość kobiet, grant z Narodowego Centrum Nauki, kierownik
2013-2015 Parametry historii reprodukcyjnej kobiet i kondycja biologiczna dzieci w zależności od obecności pokolenia dziadków, kierownik projektu: prof. Grażyna Jasieńska, wykonawca
2011-2014 Płodność a starzenie się i długość życia kobiet, grant Ideas Plus z Ministerstwa Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego, kierownik grantu: prof. Grażyna Jasieńska, asystent
2011-2014 Cechy historii reprodukcyjnej a starzenie się i długość życia kobiet, grant z Narodowego Centrum Nauki, kierownik: prof. Grażyna Jasieńska, asystent
2012 Impacts of Maternal Environment on Breast Milk composition, kierownik grantu: dr Katie Hinde Harvard University, asystent
2011 Life style, work and hormones, kierownik grantu: Louis Calistro Alvarado, MSc, University of New Mexico, asystent
2011 Styl życia i poziomy hormonów cyklu menstruacyjnego, kierownik projektu: dr Anna Ziomkiewicz-Wichary, asystent
2008-2010 HAPPIE – Health, Alcohol and Psychosocial Factors in Eastern Europe, kierownik projektu: prof. dr hab. Andrzej Pająk
2010 Polsko-Amerykański Projekt Badawczy: Alergie Pokarmowe Wśród Mieszkańców Beskidu Wyspowego, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Department of Anthropology), kierownik projektu: prof. Kathryn Clancy
2010 Men’s life history, hormones, and health project, University of New Mexico, kierownik projektu: dr Louis Calistro Alvarado
Publikacje
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). 2024. General and abdominal adiposity and hypertension in eight world regions: a pooled analysis of 837 population-based studies with 7· 5 million participants. The Lancet, 404(10455), 851-863, doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)01405-3
Żyrek J, Klimek M, Apanasewicz A, Ciochoń A, Danel DP, Marcinkowska UMM, Mijas M, Ziomkiewicz A, Galbarczyk A. 2024. Social support during pregnancy and the risk of postpartum depression in Polish women. A prospective study. 2024. Scientific Reports 14 (1), 6906, doi: doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-57477-1
Słojewska K, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Tubek-Krokosz A, Krzych-Miłkowska K, Szklarczyk J, Mijas M, Ścibor M, Jasienska G. 2024. Higher number of steps is related to lower endogenous progesterone but not estradiol levels in women. PLOS ONE 19 (4), e0299580, doi: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299580
Galbarczyk A, Marcinkowska UM, Klimek M, Jasienska G. 2023. Extreme pubic hair removal as a potential risk factor for recurrent urinary tract infections in women. Scientific Reports, 13,19045. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-46481-6
Klimek M, Entringer S, Matras A, Blukacz M, Nenko I, Galbarczyk A, Jasienska G. 2023. Early-life adversities and later-life reproductive patterns in women with fully traced reproductive history. Scientific Reports, 8;13:9328, doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-36226-w
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). 2023. Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development. Nature 615, 874–883, doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05772-8
Klimek M, Marcinkowska UM, Galbarczyk A, Nenko I, Jasienska G. 2023. The age at first reproduction as a potential mediator between facial fluctuating asymmetry and reproductive success in women. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 181(2):166-172, doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24746
Ciochoń A, Apanasewicz A, Danel D.P, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Ziomkiewicz A, Marcinkowska U.M. 2022. Antenatal classes in the context of prenatal anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 9(9), 5073, doi: 10.3390/ijerph19095073
Klimek M, Marcinkowska UM, Fedurek P, Kleisner K, Danel DP. 2022. Like father, like child? Paternal age at birth and offspring’s facial asymmetry and distinctiveness. Symmetry, 14(2), doi: 10.3390/sym14020344
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). 2021.Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants. The Lancet, 398: 957-980
Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Blukacz M, Nenko I, Jabłońska M, Jasienska G. 2021. Inflammaging: blame the sons. Relationships between the number of sons and the level of inflammatory mediators among post-reproductive women. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 175: 656-664
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). 2021. Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight. eLife, 10: e60060
Miłkowska K, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Zabłocka-Słowińska K, Jasienska G. 2021. Pathogen disgust, but not moral disgust, changes across the menstrual cycle. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42: 402-408
Klimek M, Galbarczyk A, Nenko I, Jasienska G. 2020. Biomarkers of fetal conditions: finger ridge-counts, facial fluctuating asymmetry, and digit ratio (2D:4D) – are they correlated in women? American Journal of Physical Anthropology ,174: 224-231
Fischer Pedersen JK, Klimek M, Galbarczyk A, Nenko I, Sobocki J, Christensen DL, Jasienska G. 2020. Digit ratio (2D:4D) is not related to cardiovascular diseases or their risk factors in menopausal women. American Journal of Human Biology, e23505
Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Nenko I, Jasienska G. 2019. Sons may be bad for maternal health at older age. New evidence for costs of reproduction in humans. The Journals of Gerontology Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 74: 648-651
Rogers MP, Lee KMN, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Klein LD, Zabłocka-Słowińska K, Jasienska G, Clancy KBH. 2019. Declining ages at menarche in an agrarian rural region of Poland. American Journal of Human Biology, 32: e23362
Kuna B, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Nenko I, Jasienska G. 2018. Age difference between parents influences parity and number of sons. American Journal of Human Biology, e23095
Richards G, Klimek M, Jasienska G, Marcinkowska U.M. 2018. Digit ratio (2D:4D) and circulating testosterone, oestradiol, and progesterone levels across the menstrual cycle. Early Human Development, 117: 68–73
Marcinkowska U.M, Little A.C, Galbarczyk A, Nenko I, Klimek M, Jasienska G. 2017. Costs of reproduction are reflected in women’s faces: post-menopausal women with fewer children are perceived as more attractive, healthier and younger than women with more children. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2017: 1–5
Klimek M, Macinkowska U.M, Jasienska G. 2016. Value of digit ratio 2D:4D, a biomarker of prenatal hormone exposure, is stable across the menstrual cycle. Early Human Development, 110: 21–24
Klimek M, Galbarczyk A, Nenko I, Jasienska G. 2016. Women with more feminine digit ratio (2D:4D) have higher reproductive success. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 160: 549–55
Ziomkiewicz A, Sancilio A, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Jasienska G, Bribiescas R. 2015. Evidence for the cost of reproduction in humans revealed by associations between lifetime reproductive effort and oxidative stress in postmenopausal women. PLOS ONE, e0145753
Alvarado LC, Muller M, Thompson ME, Klimek M, Nenko I, Jasienska G.The Paternal Provisioning Hypothesis: Effects of Workload and Testosterone Production on Men’s Musculature. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 158: 19-35
Klimek M, Galbarczyk A, Colleran H, Thune I, Ellison PT, Ziomkiewicz A, Jasienska G. 2015. Digit ratio (2D:4D) does not correlate with daily 17β–estradiol and progesterone concentrations in healthy women of reproductive age. American Journal of Human Biology, 27: 667–673
Puskarczyk K, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Nenko I, Odrzywołek L, Jasienska G. 2015. Being born after your brother is not a disadvantage: Reproductive success does not depend on the sex of the preceding sibling. American Journal of Human Biology ,27: 731-733
Klimek M, Galbarczyk A, Nenko I, Alvarado LC, Jasienska G. 2014. Digit ratio (2D:4D) as an indicator of body size, testosterone concentration and number of children in human males. Annals of Human Biology, 41: 518-523
Najważniejsze wystąpienia konferencyjne
Klimek, H. Karlsson, L. Karlsson, R. Korja, S. Nolvi, T. Häikiö, J.J. Tuulari, E.L. Kataja. Paternal adverse childhood experiences and offspring’s attentional disengagement from faces at 8 months – results from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study. 2nd FinnBrain International Congress on Prenatal and Early Life Stress, Turku, Finland, 2023 (poster)
Klimek, S. Entringer, A. Matras, M. Blukacz, I. Nenko, A. Galbarczyk, K. Słojewska, K. Krzych-Miłkowska, G. Jasienska. Growing up too fast? Adverse childhood experiences, later-life reproduction and sex hormones in women. Annual meeting of the Human Biology Association, Reno, Nevada (USA), 2023 (wystąpienie ustne)
Klimek, S. Entringer, A. Matras, M. Blukacz, I. Nenko, A. Galbarczyk, G. Jasienska. Early-life adversities and later-life reproduction in women with fully traced reproductive history. Developmental Origins of Health and Disease World Congress, Vancouver, Canada 2022 (poster)
Klimek. The early-life origins of reproduction in women. Medical Psychology Kolloquium, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, 2021 (wykład na zaproszenie)
Klimek, A. Apanasewicz-Grzegorczyk, A. Ciochoń, D. P. Danel, A. Galbarczyk, U.M. Marcinkowska, M. Mijas, A. Ziomkiewicz. Pandemic mindfulness: is there a difference in pregnancy and birth outcomes between women practicing relaxation techniques or not? Pandemic Babies? The Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on Fertility and Family Dynamics conference (virtual), Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Berlin, Germany 2021 (poster)
Klimek, U.M. Marcinkowska, A. Galbarczyk, I. Nenko, G. Jasienska. Facial fluctuating asymmetry and reproductive success – a mediating role of age at first reproduction. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Annual Meeting (digital), Kraków, 2021 (poster)
Klimek, A. Galbarczyk, I. Nenko, G. Jasienska. Fetal programming of inflammaging in women. DOHaD Australia and New Zealand Digital Trainee Conference, 2020 (poster)
Klimek. Is there a lifelong connection between early-life stress, telomere length and reproductive effort among women? Diversity in Telomere Dynamic Workshop, University of Edinburgh, UK, 2019 (wystąpienie ustne)
Klimek, A. Galbarczyk, I. Nenko, G. Jasienska. Dermatoglyphics, an indicator of early-life environment, predicts fertility in women. The Polish Society for Human and Evolution Studies, 6th International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 2019 (poster)
Klimek, A. Galbarczyk, I. Nenko, G. Jasienska. Facial fluctuating asymmetry: is it related to higher risk of cardiovascular diseases? International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, 2019 (poster)
Klimek, A. Galbarczyk, I. Nenko, G. Jasienska. Being in utero during the Second World War is related to biomarkers of fetal programming. Annual Meeting of DOHaD Society of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, Australia, 2018 (wystąpienie symposium)
Klimek, A. Galbarczyk, I. Nenko, G. Jasienska. Dermatoglyphic patterns are predictors of reproductive success in women. The 87th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Austin, USA, 2018 (wystąpienie ustne)
Klimek, A. Galbarczyk, I. Nenko, G. Jasienska. Finger dermatoglyphics and reproductive success in women. 10th World Congress of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, Rotterdam, Holandia, 2017 (poster)
Klimek, A. Galbarczyk, I. Nenko, G. Jasienska. Developmental conditions are important for health: facial fluctuating asymmetry and risk of cardiovascular diseases. International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health Annual Meeting, Groningen, Holandia, 2017 (poster)
Klimek, A. Galbarczyk, I. Nenko, G. Jasienska. Is facial fluctuating asymmetry, a biomarker of developmental stability, related to risk of cardiovascular diseases? Annual Meeting of DOHaD Society of Australia and New Zealand, Canberra, Australia, 2017 (prezentacja ustna)
Klimek, A. Galbarczyk, I. Nenko, G. Jasienska. Women with higher reproductive costs have more asymmetric faces. The Polish Society for Human and Evolution Studies, 3rd International Conference, Toruń, 2016 (poster)
Klimek, A. Galbarczyk, I. Nenko, G. Jasienska. Women with higher reproductive costs have more asymmetric faces. Annual Meeting of DOHaD Society of Australia and New Zealand, Adelajda, Australia, czerwiec 2016 (oral-poster)
Klimek, Urszula M. Marcinkowska, G. Jasienska. Value of 2D:4D is stable across the menstrual cycle. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Annual Meeting, London, United Kingdom, kwiecień 2016 (poster)
Klimek, A. Galbarczyk, I. Nenko, G. Jasienska. Digit ratio (2D:4D), parameters of reproductive history and sex hormones in a rural population. 9th World Congress of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, Kapsztad, RPA, listopad 2015 (prezentacja oral-poster)
Klimek, A. Galbarczyk, I. Nenko, A. Ziomkiewicz, G. Jasienska. 2D:4D digit ratio, sex hormones and reproductive history of women. Konferencja Polskiego Towarzystwa Nauk o Człowieku i Ewolucji, Poznań, wrzesień 2015 (prezentacja ustna)
Klimek, A. Galbarczyk, H. Colleran, I. Thune, PT. Ellison, A. Ziomkiewicz, G. Jasienska. Prenatal exposure to sex hormones in relation to sex hormones in women of reproductive age. The 84th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, St. Louis, USA, marzec 2015 (prezentacja ustna)
Klimek, A. Galbarczyk, I. Nenko, G. Jasienska. Women with more feminine digit ratio have larger number of children and give birth to the last child at later age. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Annual Meeting, Helsinki, Finland, marzec 2015 (poster)
Klimek, A. Galbarczyk, I. Nenko, LC. Alvarado, G. Jasienska. More masculine 2D:4D predicts better biological condition, higher testosterone levels and higher number of children in men. The 83rd annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Calgary, Kanada, kwiecień 2014 (prezentacja ustna)
Klimek, A. Galbarczyk, I. Nenko, G. Jasieńska. Boys born after a brother are smaller at birth. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association, Amsterdam, Holandia, marzec 2013 (poster)
Wyjazdy zagraniczne i warsztaty
2024 Stypendium POBqLife „Wsparcie rozwoju kompetencji twardych – staże zagraniczne” zrealizowane na Uniwersytecie w Turku, Finlandia
2024 European Educational Programme in Epidemiology Summer School, Early-Life Epidemiology Course, Florencja, Włochy
2023 Non-coding genome, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Niemcy
2023 Telomere length and mitochondrial DNA analyses laboratory training, Hasselt University, Belgia
2023, 2022 Wyjazd w ramach programu Erasmus+, University of Turku, Finlandia
wrzesień 2021- styczeń 2022 Stypendium im. Mieczysława Bekkera Narodowej Agencji Wymiany Akademickiej, realizowane na Uniwersytecie Charité – Universitätsmedizin w Berlinie
2021 Wyjazd w ramach programu Erasmus+, Hasselt University, Belgia
2021 Kurs Virtual Placental Biology, Centre for Trophoblast Research, Cambridge University, Wielka Brytania
2020 Causal Mediation Analysis Training: Methods and Applications Using Health Data, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, New York City, USA (warsztaty online)
2019 Diversity in Telomere Dynamic Workshop, University of Edinburgh, UK
2019 Epigenetic Boot Camp: Planning and Analyzing DNA Methylation Studies, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, New York City, USA
2019 wyjazd w ramach programu Erasmus+, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
2018 „Jak zarządzać projektem badawczym?” Szkolenie Stowarzyszenia Rozwoju Karier Doktorantów i Doktorów PolDoc
2018 wyjazd w ramach programu Erasmus+, Glasgow Ageing Research Network, University of Glasgow
2017 wyjazd w ramach programu Erasmus+, Institute of Child Health, University College London
2015 Research Team Leader, warsztaty Fundacji na Rzecz Nauki Polskiej, Warszawa
2014 Warsztaty Evolutionary Aspects of Child Development and Health, SFU University, Vancouver, Kanada
Wyróżnienia
2018 Wyróżnienie w kategorii najlepszych wystąpień młodych badaczy (Early Career Researchers) pracy „Being in utero during the Second World War is related to biomarkers of fetal programming” na konferencji Towarzystwa Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Australia-New Zealand, Sydney
2017 Wyróżnienie pracy „Is facial fluctuating asymmetry, a biomarker of developmental stability, related to risk of cardiovascular diseases?” na corocznej konferencji Towarzystwa DOHaD (Developmental Origins of Health and Disease) Australia-New Zealand, Canberra
2014-2015 Stypendium dla najlepszych doktorantów Wydziału Lekarskiego UJ CM, Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego