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As a PhD student, I began working with Prof. Béla Novák, and I learned virtually everything about the theoretical biology approach from him. The years I spent in his group at Oxford truly showed me how to combine theoretical biology techniques with molecular biology methods.
Later, I tried to apply this knowledge when I began studying autophagy induction at Semmelweis University. Although autophagy is traditionally classified as a cell-death mechanism, many scientific results have revealed that autophagy has an essential role in cellular survival upon various stress events (such as starvation or bacterial infection).
Our goal is to identify the essential regulatory motifs of autophagy control network and to explore their roles in cellular stress-induced life-and-death decision directly focusing on the inter- and intra-molecular-crosstalks of the system. By discovering the dynamics of the key feedback loops using both molecular and theoretical biological techniques, we try to understand how autophagy-dependent cellular survival can be extended.
