Congress

Dear Readers,

At the end of August, the Hungarian Society of Plant Biology organized its 12th Congress in Szeged. Certainly we participated in it and our group presented three posters and a lecture.

One poster showed data about selenium-induced morphological responses of the root system and the possible involvement of nitric oxide, ethylene and strigolactones in this process.

The poster prepared and presented by Dr. Zsuzsanna Kolbert

Another poster presented data on our rhizotron study. It showed results of zinc effect on Brassica root growth.

The poster prepared and presented by Dr. Gábor Feigl

Árpád Molnár, PhD student gave a lecture about the relationship between selenium toxicity and protein tyrosine nitration (based on his recently accepted paper). Also, Dr. Réka Szőllősi prepared a poster about the effect of selenium on root tissue morphology in selenium hyperaccumulator and non-accumulator Astragalus species.

Conference participants:

The Congress is over, the summer is over and the students are here :) 

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