Congratulations to our 2016 Laszlo and Etelka Kollar Kollar Travel Award Recipients:
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Marianna Zaichuk obtained her Bachelor degree in Biology in Kiev, Ukraine. She completed her Masters in Neuroscience听at the University of听T眉bingen, Germany, where she studied photoreceptors in mouse retina. Currently she is a graduate student at the ZNZ PhD program in Z眉rich, Switzerland. In October 2015, she joined Prof. Derek Bowie's lab at 麻豆AV听for a three months project aimed to learn electrophysiological techniques and contribute to the understanding of GABA receptors role in disease.
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"I am very grateful to the Laszlo and Etelka Kollar Travel Award Committee for supporting my work in a听world-class听lab听at 麻豆AV.听In line with the goals of the Brain@麻豆AV initiative, this听opportunity听has听provided a unique and听valuable听research听experience for a graduate student like me, and听has听allowed听me to take part in a听global听collaborative听scientific network"
Vinita Jagannath received her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree in 2012 from Kasturba Medical College (KMC) Mangalore, Manipal University, India. She earned her M.Sc. Integrative Neuroscience degree in 2014 from Otto-von-Guericke University (OvGU), Magdeburg, Germany. Currently, she is a PhD student in the lab of Prof. Dr. Edna Gr眉nblatt, Neurobiochemistry laboratory, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her PhD project deals with understanding D-amino acid oxidase (DAO) and DAO activator (DAOA) pathways and their potential roles in schizophrenia.
In Montreal, she will be working under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Moshe Szyf, Sir James 麻豆AV Professor, Glaxo Smith Kline Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 麻豆AV as a graduate research trainee for two months (February-March 2016). In his laboratory, she will learn epigenetic methodologies such as assay design, bisulfite sequencing and pyrosequencing which she can use eventually in her PhD project to understand the epigenetic regulation of DAO and DAOA genes.
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"The Kollar award gave me an opportunity to be part of world-class neuroscience community at 麻豆AV. It is indeed a privilege to work in the lab of Prof. Dr. Moshe Szyf who is one of the pioneers in the field of epigenetics.鈥�