When the semester is over...

Dear Readers!

This blog post is not of a scientific nature. We would like to show some pics that demonstrate how things are going on.

At the end of May, Dr. Gábor Feigl visited the 8th International Symposium on Root Development in Umea, Sweden. He presented a poster about excess element-induced tyrosine nitration in roots.

Conference web site

Lecture room (photo taken by G. Feigl)

The poster of our group (photo taken by G. Feigl)

In June, we submitted an application for a Hungarian-French Bilateral cooperation project, where our partner is Professor David Wendehenne and his lab. Finger cross! ;)

Since the semester is over, we have time to immerse ourselves in science :) Petri dishes (and rhizotrones) are everywhere!

Let's take a look at some photos of our working days...

Sampling for immunofluorescence (Astragalus species)

ilovemyjob (Zsuzsanna Kolbert, group leader)

Preparation of soil in rhizotrons (Gábor Feigl, postdoc)

Science in progress (Árpád Molnár, PhD student

Last year, we wrote a chapter in a book, which will be published soon (Wiley). The topic of our chapter is the relationship between ROS and NO during plant development.

about the book

Bye-bye till next time!

Buon giorno, dear Readers!

It is a special blog entry, because I am currently in Italy. In the frame of Erasmus+ project, I am spending a week in this beautiful country :)
I visited Professor Stefano Mancuso's lab in Florence, which was a great pleasure! I had interesting conversations on their current projects, I saw a real time non-invasive ion flux measurement which I found really interesting. Moreover, I hold a lecture which was an introduction of our group, research interest and present projects.
Professor Mancuso raised the possibility of a common project in which we could examine the effect of selenium on ion fluxes of the root system. I am excited, this topic would be interesting :)

Let me show you some pictures about the "bella Italia" :) I visited Pisa and Florence. Besides, my accommodation was in Calenzano and the University/Department is located in Sesto Fiorentino :) So, I was in motion! :)

In Pisa:

In the small but beautiful botanical garden of Pisa:

And a last picture about the presentation at the University:

So, thanks for the Erasmus project, it was a great opportunity to build a contact with this really brilliant lab! Hopefully, will be a sequel :)

Nice news

Nice news!

Árpád Molnár PhD student of our group has reached 3rd place in the "József Sófi Scholarship Conference". 

He presented his work entitled "Protein tyrosine nitration as a biomarker for plant selenium sensitivity."

We are proud of him, congratulations! 👏 🙌 🙌

Here you can find an article about this Conference (in Hungarian):
click here

Lab life, lab stuff! 👀 🙌

We did some small nice and useful developments in the lab.

• We bought an illuminating keyboard with which data evaluation in the dark is much more comfortable.
• A lamp with different illuminating colours was purchased as well. We can change colours, thus the light does not disturb microscopic observation. What a colourful lab! :)
• And a magnetic table for the useful scientific (and not so scientific) massages/comments.
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We are working! :D

Conference photo from Wien

This is the conference photo taken in Wien in February 2017 :)

Hello Everybody!

Let me report about a joyful event happend on 9th March 2017. 

I presented my scientific and classroom habilitation lectures both in English and in Hungarian!

It was really exhausting but I think I did well :)

Let me show 2 pictures (taken by my colleague, Dr. Péter Poór):

Scientific presentation (I am showing the appearance of stress-induced morphogenic response phenotype in Brassica species)

Classroom presentation (I am explaining the meristem cell structures)

Now, I can focus on research again ;)

Zsuzsanna

Wiener Schnitzel, Mozartkugel and Conference

Dear Readers, Greetings from Wien!

I am visiting the Conference entitled "Plant Nutrition, Growth and Environment Interactions III".

Conference website

This was the last day of the conference, tomorrow I travel home.

I heard interesting talks e.g. about iron transport, signalling, N/nitrate signalling, sulphur accumulation. The invited speakers presented the highest level science.

Now, I am full of new ideas :)

I presented a poster about selenium-influenced root architectural changes and the involvement of ethylene in this process.

And let me show some pictures about my last 3 days in Wien:

Conference people

 

 

Posters (only 19 posters were presented)

Me and my poster

And a last picture indicating that I am really in Wien (Stephansdom and platz):

I am glad to be here (thanks for János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and for the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (grant No. NFKI-6, K120383).