Bianka Ágoston
PhD Student, MSc

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1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A 1518 Budapest 112, Pf.: 32 <bianka> at <chem.elte.hu> Room 427/A +36-1-372-2500 / 1408 +36-1-372-2620

Short CV:

• Budapest, 11^th April 1982.

• ELTE TTK PhD. School of Chemistry, 2006-
• MSc. in chemistry, Universität Wien 2000-2006.

• Hungarian (native)
• German (native)
• English (fluent)
• French (basic level)

• Intrinsically Disordered proteins (IDPs) and chaperones, such as ERD14 (Early Response to Dehydration 14). Relationship of their structure/unstructure to their chaporon function, analysed by NMR as well as various biochemical techniques.

• 2006- a Protein NMR and Quantum Chemistry Group ELTE, Budapest (PhD student)
• 2005-2006: a Biomolecular Structural Chemistry Group Vienna Unversity (Master thesis)
• 2004: short research project at the NMR group of the Australian National University
• 2003: International Summer School on Solid State NMR, Niederöblarn, Austria.

• Kovács D., Rakács M., Ágoston B., Lenkey K., Semrad K., Schroeder R., Tompa P.: "Janus chaperones: assistance of both RNA- and protein-folding by ribosomal proteins"
  FEBS Lett (2009) 583: 88-92
  [abstract]
  
• Kovács D., Ágoston B., Tompa P.: "Disordered plant LEA proteins as molecular chaperones"
  Plant Signaling and Behavior (2008) 3: 710-713
  [abstract]
  
• Mohammed-Ziegler I., Tánczos I., Hórvölgyi Z., Ágoston B.: "Water-repellent acylated and silylated wood samples and their surface analytical characterization"
  Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects (2008) 319: 204-212
  [abstract]
  
• Tollinger M., Kloiber K., Ágoston B., Dorigoni C., Lichtenecker R., Schmid W., Konrat R.: "An Isolated Helix Persists in a Sparsely Populated Form of KIX under Native Conditions"
  Biochemistry (2006) 45: 8885-8893
  [abstract]
  

• Poster: Ágoston B., Tompa P., Perczel A.: "Structure-Function Relationship of Intrinsically Disordered Chaperones: Dehydrin ERD14", Magnetic Moments in Central Europe, 2009.02.11-15, Otocec, Slovenia.
• Poster: Ágoston B., Tompa P., Perczel A.: "Structural Background of the Chaperone Function of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins", 4th Central European Conference: Chemistry Towards Biology, 2008.09.08-11, Dobogókö, Hungary.
• Oral Presentation: Ágoston B., Kloiber K., Tollinger M., Konrat R.: "Fehérje Metil Csoportok Dinamikai Jellemzése NMR Spektroszkópiával", MTA-Peptidkémiai Munkabizottsági Ülés, 2007.06.05-07, Balatonszemes, Hungary.
• Poster: Ágoston B., Perczel A., Tompa P.: "A Riboszomális Fehérjék Szerkezet-Funkció Összefüggései", Centenáriumi Vegyészkonferencia, 2007.05.29-06.01, Sopron, Hungary.
• Poster: Ágoston B., Kloiber K., Tollinger M., Konrat R.: "A Protein Folding Study Performed by NMR Relaxation Dispersion Experiments", Frontiers of Biomolecular NMR, 2006.06.30 07.01, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Poster: Ágoston B., Kloiber K., Tollinger M., Konrat R.: "Fehérje Molekulák Dinamika Vizsgálata NMR-el" (Investigation of protein dynamics by NMR), Tavaszi Szél (Annual meeting of Hungarian graduate students), 2006.05.04-07, Kaposvár, Hungary ISBN 963 229 773 3, p. 276.
• Poster: Kloiber K., Ágoston B., Tollinger M., Konrat R.: "Relaxation of ¹H Multipolar Order and ¹³C Single Quantum Coherence in Protein Methyl Groups: Methodology and Application to Protein Folding", 7. Igler NMR-Tage, 2006.02.12-15, Obergurgl, Austria.