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March 21, 2012
Mihály Kovács' D.Sc. thesis defense at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Thesis summary (in Hungarian)
Thesis (full text, in Hungarian)



March 5, 2012
Paper published in PNAS: „Nonmuscle myosin II exerts tension but does not translocate actin in vertebrate cytokinesis”
PubMed Abstract
Full text



February 1, 2012
Máté Gyimesi starts visiting fellowship in the Kowalczykowski group, University of California, Davis, funded by a FP7 Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship



January 24, 2012
Mihály Kovács receives Ignaz L. Lieben Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
About the prize
Press release of the ÖAW
Press release of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences



January 16, 2012
Paper published in Nucleic Acids Research: „Complex activities of the human Bloom's syndrome helicase are encoded in a core region comprising the RecA and Zn-binding domains”
PubMed Abstract
Full text



December 16-17, 2011
Group retreat in Visegrád, Hungary
Guest speakers: William Pitt (UCB Celltech, Cambridge, U.K.), Neil Kad (University of Essex, U.K.), Bálint Kintses (Cambridge University, U.K.)



November 30, 2011
Judit Gervai and Eszter Molnár present their work at Student Research Concerence of Eötvös University



October 1, 2011
Veronika Ferencziová (researcher) and Anikó Krajcsi (assistant) join group



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Job vacancy

Ph. D. studentship
Ph.D. fellowships are available in our laboratory to study novel mechanisms and inhibitors of DNA helicases and actomyosin-based motility in a stimulating international environment at the Department of Biochemistry, Eötvös University.
The project work will be complemented by a comprehensive doctoral training program in Structural Biochemistry offered by Eötvös University.
Previous project work experience of applicants in biochemistry or biophysics or molecular biology is desirable.
Please submit your CV and motivation letter here or via email.



Postdoctoral position
A postdoctoral appointment is available in our laboratory to study problems related to molecular mechanisms of DNA helicases, myosin motors and their inhibitors, or other areas of biochemistry/molecular biophysics, subject to discussion with applicants.
Our lab and the Department of Biochemistry at Eötvös University offers a stimulating, liberal, international environment in the historic but modern city of Budapest.
Applicants are expected to hold or be about to obtain a Ph.D. in biochemistry or biophysics or molecular biology.
Please submit your CV and motivation letter here or via email.


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Motor Enzymology
Research Group




Mihály Kovács, Ph. D.

Research Associate Professor

Eötvös University
Department of Biochemistry
Eötvös University



H-1117 Budapest
Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C.
Hungary

Phone: +36-1-372-2500 /8401
Fax: +36-1-381-2172

E-mail: kovacsm@elte.hu, stoci1@gmail.com



Funding

National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
John E. Fogarty International Center
European Molecular Biology Organization
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Human Frontier Science Program Research Grant
National Office for Research and Technology, Hungary
Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
Norway Fund Grant
 
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