20. The Scientific Conference of PhD Students of the Comenius University Faculty of Medicine was attended by several of our PhD students. In the Molecular and Experimental Medicine section, the 1st place went to Nikola Tóthová with the topic Immunomodulatory Effects of Physical Activity in a Mouse Model of Bacterial Pneumonia and the 2nd place to Emma Skybová with the topic Selective Role of Toll-like Receptor 9 in Cognitive Functions. Congratulations!
Other PhD students presented the following topics:
Paulína Belvončíková – Role of gut microbiota and fecal microbial transplantation in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis
Petronela Sušienková – Sleep behaviour and neuromorphology of brain structures in an animal model of autism spectrum disorders
Emil Bečka – Differences in signaling between sterile and infectious inflammation
Filip Baran – Effect of Toll-like receptor 9 deficiency and sex on survival of adult C57BL/6 mice with abdominally induced polymicrobial sepsis
In parallel, a 63. Faculty Conference of Student Scientific Professional Activities, which was attended by Dominika Stoláriková, a medical student, who presented the topic entitled – Rapid diagnosis of uropathogens and their microbial resistance using nanopore sequencing – a proof-of-concept report.