University of Szeged
Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Winners of the Publication Prize of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of University of Szeged




2023. Dr. Payal Chakraborty
postdoctoral researcher

Chakraborty P, Orvos H, Hermesz E. (2023) Molecular Study on Twin Cohort with Discordant Birth Weight. Antioxidants 12: 1370.

Zahorán S, Márton Á, Dugmonits K, Chakraborty P, Khamit A, Hegyi P, Orvos H, Hermesz E. (2022) Molecular Background of Toxic-Substances-Induced Morphological Alterations in the Umbilical Cord Vessels and Fetal Red Blood Cells. Int J Mol Sci. 23(23):14673.

2022. Dr. Dávid Kovács
postdoc

Igaz N, Bélteky P, Kovács D, Papp C, Rónavári A, Szabó D, Gácser A, Kónya Z, Kiricsi M. (2022) Functionalized Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Drug-Delivery to Multidrug-Resistant Cancer Cells. Int J Nanomedicine. 17:3079-3096.

Kovács D, Igaz N, Gopisetty MK, Kiricsi M. (2022) Cancer Therapy by Silver Nanoparticles: Fiction or Reality? Int J Mol Sci. 23(2):839.

2022. Special Prize Dr. Nóra Zsindely
staff scientist

Kartali T, Zsindely N, Nyilasi I, Németh O, Sávai GN, Kocsubé S, Lipinszki Z, Patai R, Spisák K, Nagy G, Bodai L, Vágvölgyi C, Papp T. (2022) Molecular Characterization of Novel Mycoviruses in Seven Umbelopsis Strains. Viruses 14(11):2343.

Homa M, Ibragimova S, Szebenyi C, Nagy G, Zsindely N, Bodai L, Vágvölgyi C, Nagy G, Papp T. (2022) Differential Gene Expression of Mucor lusitanicus under Aerobic and Anaerobic Conditions. J Fungi (Basel) 8(4):404.

Ábrahám A, Villányi Z, Zsindely N, Nagy G, Szabó Á, Bodai L, Henn L, Boros IM. (2022) Despite its sequence identity with canonical H4, Drosophila H4r product is enriched at specific chromatin regions. Sci Rep. 12(1):5007.

Zsindely N, Siági F, Bodai L. (2021) DNA Methylation in Huntington's Disease. Int J Mol Sci. 22(23):12736.

2021. Dr. Balázs Vedelek
staff scientist

Vedelek B, Kovács Á, Boros IM. (2021) Evolutionary mode for the functional preservation of fast-evolving Drosophila telomere capping proteins. Open Biol. 2021. 11(11):210261.

2020. Payal Chakraborty
PhD student

Balogh G, Chakraborty P, Dugmonits KN, Péter M, Végh AG, Vígh L, Hermesz E (2020) Sustained maternal smoking-associated changes in the physico-chemical properties of fetal RBC membranes might serve as early markers for vascular comorbidities. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 1865:158615.

Chakraborty P, Dugmonits KN, Orvos H, Hermesz E (2020) Mature Twin Neonates Exhibit Oxidative Stress via Nitric Oxide Synthase Dysfunctionality: A Prognostic Stress Marker in the Red Blood Cells and Umbilical Cord Vessels. Antioxidants (Basel) 9:E845.

Dugmonits KN, Chakraborty P, Hollandi R, Zahorán S, Pankotai-Bodó G, Horváth P, Orvos H, Hermesz E (2019) Maternal Smoking Highly Affects the Function, Membrane Integrity, and Rheological Properties in Fetal Red Blood Cells. Oxid Med Cell Longev 2019:1509798.

2019. Anikó Faragó
PhD student

Dunai A, Spohn R, Farkas Z, Lázár V, Györkei Á, Apjok G, Boross G, Szappanos B, Grézal G, Faragó A, Bodai L, Papp B, Pál C (2019) Rapid decline of bacterial drug-resistance in an antibiotic-free environment through phenotypic reversion. Elife 8:e47088.

Faragó A, Zsindely N, Bodai L (2019) Mutant huntingtin disturbs circadian clock gene expression and sleep patterns in Drosophila. Sci Rep 9:7174.

Spohn R, Daruka L, Lázár V, Martins A, Vidovics F, Grézal G, Méhi O, Kintses B, Számel M, Jangir PK, Csörgő B, Györkei Á, Bódi Z, Faragó A, Bodai L, Földesi I, Kata D, Maróti G, Pap B, Wirth R, Papp B, Pál C (2019) Integrated evolutionary analysis reveals antimicrobial peptides with limited resistance. Nat Commun 10:4538.

2018. Dr. Nóra Zsindely
staff scientist

Song W, Zsindely N, Faragó A, Marsh JL, Bodai L (2018) Systematic genetic interaction studies identify histone demethylase Utx as potential target for ameliorating Huntington’s disease. Hum Mol Genet 27:649–666.

Varga J, Dér NP, Zsindely N, Bodai L (2020) Green tea infusion alleviates neurodegeneration induced by mutant Huntingtin in Drosophila. Nutr Neurosci 23:183–189.

Zsindely N, Bodai L (2018) Histone methylation in Huntington’s disease: are bivalent promoters the critical targets? Neural Regen Res 13:1191–1192.






Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Szeged
2013-2023.