PI
Martina Gáliková, PhD
Martina is a geneticist investigating regulations of energy metabolism. She obtained her undergraduate and graduate education in Biology at the Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia, 2004-2009). She continued in the Genetics studies at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna (Austria, 2009-2013), where she received her PhD in 2014. Subsequently, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen (Germany, 2013-2017) and afterwards at the Stockholm University (Sweden, 2017-2019). Currently, she works as a PI at the Institute of Zoology at the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovakia).
Students
Diana Knoblochová
Diana is a Bc. student in Biology at the Comenius University in Bratislava. Together with our collaborator, Dr. Peter Klepsatel, she is investigating the effects of larval diet on various life history traits of adult Drosophila.
Thesis title: Programming of Drosophila metabolism and aging by larval diet.
Natália Ušáková
Natália is a Bc. student in Biology at the Comenius University in Bratislava.
Thesis title: Neuroendocrine regulation of thirst and hunger in Drosophila.
Collaborators
Dr. Peter Klepsatel
Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences. Link: http://zoo.sav.sk/Drosophila
RNDr. Dušan Žitňan,DrSc.
Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences. Link: http://zoo.sav.sk/en/about-us/departments/dept-of-molecular-physiology/
Prof. Dr. Heinrich Dircksen
Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Sweden. Link: https://www.su.se/english/profiles/hdirc-1.183269
