Dr. Gülsah Pekgöz

all regulatory activities required for maintaining the USA and Canada licenses of recombinant Factor VIII (blood-clotting protein - Nuwiq)

o Research topic: Functional insights into inner kinetochore assembly in budding yeast; chromosome segregation; kinetochore assembly o Design experiments and evaluating their results o Establishment and optimization of protocols o Collaborations with colleagues from the same group and different research units o Co-first author of a paper in a top-ranking scientific journal (Current Biology) o Selected talk at the “Gordon Research Conference on Centromere Biology”, 2016, USA

o Teaching students some aspects of molecular biology, genetics and microbiology o Supervising students to conduct assigned experiments in practical lectures of molecular biology, genetics and microbiology

o Research topic: Generation of a superior photosynthetic bacteria strain for enhanced biohydrogen production o Optimization of molecular biology tools to introduce genetic modification in the non-conventional hydrogen-producing microorganism o First author of a paper in “International Journal of Hydrogen Energy” o Selected talk at the “18th World Hydrogen Energy Conference”, 2010-Essen-Germany

o Visiting researcher in 6th Framework European Union project “Hyvolution” o Participant of certified “International Training Course on Selected Topics of Modern Biology” o Scholarships from "Hungarian Academy of Sciences" and “Hyvolution”