Talk Title: Quantification of Major Gangliosides in Biological Samples
She is Full Professor at the Department of Pharmacodynamics, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary since 2008. She graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Semmelweis University and earned her PhD there. Between 1990 and 1993 she spent three years as postdoctoral fellow at the Barnett Institute, Northeastern University, Boston USA. She worked in the laboratory of Prof. Barry Karger on the development of capillary electrophoresis methods in the pioneering time of this separation technique. She got the degree of Doctor of Sciences from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2007.
Her research interest is related to amine oxidase enzymes, their contribution to cytotoxicity and/or cytoprotection and the role of D-amino acids as neuromodulators. Recently ganglioside composition of tissues and the alteration of receptor functions as the consequence of the change in the lipid raft composition is her focus. She connects the use of quantitative separation techniques to pharmacological research. She has over a hundred papers in peer reviewed journals.