Jan Gawor currently works at the DNA Sequencing and Oligonucleotuide Synthesis Laboratory oligo.pl, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics Polish Academy of Sciences. Jan does research in Microbial Genomics, Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics and Genetics. Their current project is 'Evaluation of the epidemic potential of the pathogenic algae of the Prototheca genus in Poland: environmental, clinical, and molecular studies on animal protothecosis'.