Part III project student
Joined the lab: October 2022
Background and Current Projects: I am a Hungarian student at Cambridge University, doing my 4th and last year of my integrated Masters in Biochemistry. Before that, I went to high school in Budapest. I have done the research for my Bachelor’s dissertation in Ritwick Sawarkar’s lab in the MRC Toxicology Unit on the effects of N-acetylcysteine on arsenite-induced transcriptional and translational attenuation, using Human Embryonic Kidney cells. I have also done a couple short internships: I used E. colias an expression system for an intrinsically disordered protein at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, in the group of Ágnes Tantos. Then I used bioinformatics to find lncRNA binding partners of the KMT2D protein from RNAseq data at the same research group. Finally, I used yeast cells to study the effect of intracellular Lipid Droplet abundance on proteasome activity at the University of Salzburg, in Mark Rinnerthaler’s lab.
Interests: Music, Playing the Cello, Singing in a choir, Playing board games and computer games, Reading (the Expanse series is soo amazing!), Via Ferrata
