Bachelor’s Thesis Defense at the Faculty of Science, Comenius University in Bratislava

We would like to congratulate eight of our students on successfully defending their bachelor’s theses at various departments of the Faculty of Science of Comenius University in Bratislava. Namely:

Department of Animal Physiology and Ethology:

Dominika Fedorová under the supervision of Doctor Kristína Macáková – ’’The role of sex hormones in rheumatoid arthritis’’

Flóra Takács under the supervision of Doctor Veronika Borbélyová – ’’An innovative ethological approach to measuring social behavior of laboratory rodents’’

Nina Valová under the supervision of Doctor Alexandra Gaál Kovalčíková – ’’Extracellular DNA as a biomarker of kidney damage: Impact on tubular and glomerular cell function’’

Department of Genetics:

Annamária Sekeráková under the supervision of Doctor Kristína Macáková – ‘’The role of mitochondria in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis’’

Paulína Mondelová under the supervision of Associate Professor Roman Gardlík – ‘’The influence of endogenous factors on the characteristics of extracellular DNA’’

René Pribula under the supervision of Associate Professor Barbora Vlková – ‘’The role of nucleic acids and proteins in autoimmunity’’

Department of Molecular Biology:

Monika Gáborová under the supervision of Doctor Kristína Macáková – ‘’Extracellular Traps Formation in Immune Cells: NETosis and METosis’’

Lenka Chudadová under the supervision of Doctor Barbora Gromová – ‘’The importance of extracellular DNA as a molecule of sterile inflammation in liver pathologies’’

Big congratulations!