PhD Alumni
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Katarina Stroffekova (LEF, 1997) The relationships between gating charge and calcium concentration in skeletal muscle; Supervisor: Ivan Zahradnik Present position: Researcher, Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia |
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Jana Pavelkova (LEF, 1998) Analysis of calcium currents of contracting cardiomyocytes using mathmatical modelling; Supervisor: Ivan Zahradnik Present position: Research Fellow, Laboratory of Electrophysiology, Department of Muscle Cell Research, Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics, SAS, Bratislava, Slovakia |
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Igor Minarovic (LMB, 1999) Interaction of antidepressants with cardiac L-type calcium channels; Supervisors: Ivan Zahradnik, Alexandra Zahradnikova Present position: Board member, Slovak Chamber of Pharmacists; Chairman of the Board, Cooperative of Pharmacies, Zilina, Slovakia |
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Miroslav Dura (LMB, 2003) Molecular mechanisms of ryanodine receptor gating; Supervisor: Alexandra Zahradnikova Present position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Unit for Cellular Biophysics and Translational Cardiology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany |
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Michaela Pavlovicova (LCM, 2003) Stereological analysis of the relationships between organelles of muscle cells and their adaptation to creatine kinase deficit; Supervisor: Marta Novotova Present position: Researcher, Laboratory of Biophysics, Department of Transport Proteins, Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics, SAS, Bratislava, Slovakia |
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Zuzana Kubalova (LMB, 2005) Ion channels in excitation-contraction coupling; Supervisor: Alexandra Zahradnikova Present position: CEO, ABC Monitoring, s.r.o., Modra, Slovakia |
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Pavel Novak (LEF, 2006) Measurement of passive electrical parameters of cardiac myocytes; Supervisor: Ivan Zahradnik Present position: Lecturer, Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Materials, School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary, University of London, London, England |
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Eva Polakova (LMB, 2008) Excitation-contraction coupling in cardiac myocytes; Supervisor: Alexandra Zahradnikova Present position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA |
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Julius Parulek (LEF, 2008) Problem-solving environment for stereology-based implicit modeling of muscle cells; Supervisor-specialist: Ivan Zahradnik Present position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway |
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Lucia Tylkova-Skvarkova (LCM, 2009) Cellular adaptation of slow skeletal muscle fibres in mice with blocked expression of the gene for cytosolic and mitochondrial creatine kinase; Supervisor: Marta Novotova Present position: Researcher, Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia |
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Alexandra Zahradnikova, jr. (LCM, 2009) Local calcium release during excitation-contraction coupling; Supervisor: Marta Novotova Present position: Research Fellow, Laboratory of Cell Morphology, Department of Muscle Cell Research, Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics, SAS, Bratislava, Slovakia |
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Barbora Tencerova (LMB, 2012) Regulation of activity of ryanodine receptors; Supervisor: Alexandra Zahradnikova Present position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway |
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Radoslav Janicek (LMB, 2013) Calcium signaling in cardiac myocytes; Supervisor: Alexandra Zahradnikova Present position: Post-doctoral Student, Department of Physiology , University of Bern, Bühlplatz 5, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland |
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Andrea Faltinova (LMB, 2015) Biophysical mechanisms of regulation of diastolic activity of the ryanodine receptor; Supervisor: Alexandra Zahradnikova Present position: Regional Public Health Authority Bratislava; Slovak representative for EDQM (European Directorate for The Quality of Medicines & Health Care) and PEMSAC (The Platform of European Market Surveillance Authorities for Cosmetics) |
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Matej Hotka (LEF, 2015) Variability of the impedance of sarcolemma in cardiac myocytes; Supervisor: Ivan Zahradnik Present position: (1) Research Fellow, Laboratory of Electrophysiology, Department of Muscle Cell Research, Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics, SAS, Bratislava, Slovakia; (2) Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurophysiology and Neuropharmacology, Centre of Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University Vienna, Austria |
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Zuzana Nichtova (LCM, 2015) Variability of plasma membrane microdomains of cardiac myocytes induced by isoprenaline; Supervisor: Tatiana Stankovicova; Supervisor-specialist: Marta Novotova Present position: (1) Research Fellow, Laboratory of Cell Morphology, Department of Muscle Cell Research, Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics, SAS, Bratislava, Slovakia; (2) Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology, Anatomy & Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA |