Beáta Bugyi

Curriculum vitae

Personal data
Place of birth: Mohács, Hungary
Date of birth: February 6^th, 1979
Nationality: Hungarian

Academic degrees
2006 Ph.D., Biological Sciences, Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

2003 MSc, Education of physics and mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

Education
2006 – 2010 Post-Doctoral fellow
Advisor: Prof. Marie-France Carlier
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Structurales, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

2003 - 2006 Ph.D. candidate in Biological Sciences
Advisors: Dr. Miklós Nyitrai and Prof. Béla Somogyi
Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

1998 - 2003 Graduate student
Physics and Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

1993 – 1997 High school student
Nagy László High School, Komló, Hungary

Language skills
English (fluent), German (basic), French (basic)

Research experience
2010 - Associate professor
Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
Research project: Molecular bases for the actin and tropomyosin isoform specific regulation of the actin cytoskeleton.

2006 – 2010 Post-Doctoral fellow
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Structurales, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Advisor: Prof. Marie-France Carlier
Research project: In vitro reconstitution of the regulation of coordinated actin assembly dynamics in cell migration.

2003 – 2006 Ph.D. student in Biological Sciences
Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
Advisors: Dr. Miklós Nyitrai and Prof. Béla Somogyi
Research project: The effect of formins on the polymerisation and dynamic properties of actin filaments.

2002 – 2003 Research student
Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
Advisor: Dr. János Erostyák
Research project: The investigation of quinazolone complexes using fluorescence spectroscopic methods.

Expertise and methods
Reconstituted biomimetic motility assays, optical microscopy (TIRFM, epifluorescence, phase contrast), fluorescence spectroscopic approaches, time-resolved fluorescence methods, protein biochemistry and purification (from tissue/bacteria) techniques.

Teaching experience
2008 September 24 – October 4 Instructor, ‘Studying cytoskeletal dynamics: from biology to physics’, EMBO Practical Course, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

2003 - 2006 Laboratory practises, seminars and lectures of Biophysics in Hungarian, in English and in German, Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

Memberships
2003 - Hungarian Society of Biophysics

Scholarships
2005 October 25 – November 18 Johannes Gutenberg University, Department of Molecular Biophysics, Study of the German language and the education of biophysics, Mainz, Germany

2004 November 26 – December 4 EMBO, EMBL, Advanced Light Microscopy Facility, Study of total internal reflection microscopic technique, Heidelberg, Germany

2004 March 8 – 19 ‘Physics of the cell’, International winterschool, Marie Curie Training Course of the European Union, Les Houches, France

Grants and awards
2011 – 2013 Research Grant from the Hungarian Science Foundation (OTKA PD 83648, HUF 27.021M)
2010 Kovács Tibor Award
2010 Magyary Zoltán Post-doctoral Fellowship
2010 „Baross Gábor Program 2009”, National Office for Research and Technology
(HUF 30M)
2009 Publication Award of the Hungarian Biophysical Society for young researchers
2009 La Ligue Contre Le Cancer, ’Allocation post doctorale pour Jeune Chercheur Confirmé’
2009 Fondation Recherche Médical, ‘Post-doctorante en France’
2007 - 2008 EMBO Long-term fellowship
2002 - 2003 Fellowship of Hungarian Republic
2000 - 2001 Fellowship of Hungarian Republic

Invited lectures, selected talks
Biomimetic model systems in dissecting molecular mechanisms related to actin cytoskeleton functions and dysfunctions
- 2010 June 10, Semmelwes University, Department of Biophysics and Radiobiology, Invited by Dr. Kellermayer Miklós ifj.

Biomimetikus modell rendszerek az aktin sejtváz funkcióinak és dysfunkcióinak vizsgálatában
- 2010 May 28, A TÁMOP Innovatív Kutatói Team Fóruma

A tropomiozin szerepe a lamellipodiális mozgás szabályozásában
- 2010 May 18 – 21, 40. Membrán Transzport Konferencia, Sümeg, Hungary

How do in vitro reconstituted actin-based motility assays provide insight into in vivo behavior.
- 2009 September 30, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, Invited by Prof. Jan Ellenberg and Dr. Péter Lénart

A tropomiozin szerepe a protrúziós aktin hálózatok szabályozásában.
- 2009 August 23 – 26, Meeting of the Hungarian Biochemical Society, Budapest, Hungary

A tropomiozin szerepe a protrúziós aktin hálózatok szabályozásában.
- 2009 August 23 – 26, XXIII Congress of the Hungarian Biophysical Society, Pécs, Hungary

How tropomyosin regulates lamellipodial actin-based motility: a combined biochemical and reconstituted motility approach.
- 2009 July 20, National Institutes of Health, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Laboratory of Molecular Physiology, Washington DC, USA, Invited by Prof. James R. Sellers and Dr. Attila Nagy

How biochemical and reconstitution approaches provide insight into cellular processes: functional synergy between formin, profilin and spire during drosophila morphogenesis.
- 2008 May 26 – 27, Journées du LEBS, Dourdan, France

Functional synergy between formin, profilin and Spire in actin assembly.
- 2007 August 15 – 18, International Conference on Molecular Recognition, Pécs, Hungary

A possible mechanism to regulate the formation of cytoskeletal protein complexes.
- 2005 September 25 – 28, 8^th International Symposium on Instrumental Analysis Graz, Austria

Collaborations
Péter Lénárt
Ellenberg Group, Gene Expression and Cell Biology/Biophysics Programmes
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1,D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Project: Dissecting assembly and function of the actin network essential for chromosome transport in oocytes