Viktor Farkas
PhD

Mail address: Email: Tel: Fax:

H-1518 Budapest 112, P.O. Box 32, Hungary viktor at chem.elte.hu +36-1-372-2500 /1630, 1730 +36-1-372-2620

Short CV:

• Komló (Hungary), 14^th August 1977

• Hungarian

• Research fellow, HAS-ELU Protein Modelling Group

• Ph.D. Eötvös University, School of Chemistry, Synthetic chemistry, material science and biomolecular program, Laboratory for chiroptical structure analysis, 2007
• MSc in chemistry Eötvös University, (specialization in drug research), 2001

• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven fellowship;
  Interdisciplinary Research Center, K.U.L. Campus Kortrijk, Belgium, 4 months between 2002-2006

• Hungarian Research Fund (OTKA PD 71817, principal investigator) "Chiral crown ethers and their complexes, chiroptical spectroscopy and chromatography" 2008-2010
• Hungarian Research Fund (OTKA K 49792, investigator) "Application of circular dichroism, Fourier-transform infrared and vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopy in the investigation of peptides, proteins and supramolecular complexes" 2005-2009
• Gedeon Richter Ltd., research grant (2005. 01. 01.- 06. 30.);
• Foundation for the Hungarian Peptide and Protein Research, research grant (2005. 07. 01.- 12. 31.)

• Conformational analysis of peptides and proteins
• Binding of metal ions and organic compounds to supramolecular complexes
• Development of chiral HPLC columns, HPLC of peptides, optical spectroscopy (ECD, VCD, FTIR)

• Hungarian Chemists' Conference, Poster Award, 2003
• Publication Award of the Lajos Kisfaludy Foundation, 2004

• French (fluent)
• English (conversational level)

• Péter Huszthy, Viktor Farkas, Tünde Tóth, György Székely, Miklós Hollósi:
  Synthesis and preliminary studies on novel enantiopure crown ethers containing an alkyl diarylphosphinate or a proton-ionizable diarylphosphinic acid unit
  Tetrahedron (2008) 64(43): 10107-10115
  [abstract]
  
  
• Viktor Farkas, Tünde Tóth, György Orosz, Péter Huszthy, Miklós Hollósi:
  Enantioseparation of protonated primary aralkylamines and amino acids containing an aromatic moiety on a pyridino-crown ether based new chiral stationary phase
  Tetrahedron: Asymmetry (2006) 17(12): 1883-1889
  [abstract]
  
  
• Viktor Farkas, Elemér Vass, Ignace Hanssens, Zsuzsa Majer, Miklós Hollósi:
  Cyclic peptide models of the Ca2+-binding loop of a-lactalbumin.
  Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry (2005) 13(17): 5310-5320
  [abstract]
  
  
• Viktor Farkas, Luca Szalay, Elemér Vass, Miklós Hollósi, György Horváth, Péter Huszthy:
  Probing the discriminating power of chiral crown hosts by CD spectroscopy
  Chirality (2003) 15(S1): 65-73.
  [abstract]
  
  

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• Websites design:
  • Protein Modelling Group (http://www.chem.elte.hu/departments/protmod/eng/index_eng.htm)
  • Laboratory for chiroptical structure analysis (http://www.chem.elte.hu/departments/kiro)
  
  
• Greatest Hits in this month: :)
  • O.S.I.: Blood
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  • Fates Warning: Parallels
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  • Pain of Salvation: Road Salt One
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  • Dreyelands: Rooms of Revelation | myspace: http://www.myspace.com/dreyelands
  • Queensryche: Empire
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• Forthcoming concerts: Living Colour (Azfeszt, Nyírbátor); Spock's Beard (A38, Budapest); Pain of Salvation (A38, Budapest); Joe Satriani Arena, Budapest