Erzsébet Ligeti - Curriculum Vitae#

Name: Erzsébet Ligeti
Citizenship: Hungarian
Institution: Department of Physiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest

Degrees:

• 1974: M.D. "summa cum laude" at the Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest
• 1981: "Candidate of Medical Sciences" (= Ph.D. in physiology)
• 1990: "Doctor of Medical Sciences" (= habilitation)

Positions:

• 1974-1980: Research Fellow in the Experimental Research Department of Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest
• 1980-1989: Assistant Professor in the Physiology Department of Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest
• 1989-1993: Associate Professor in the same Department
• 1993- : Full Professor of Physiology in the same Department

Teaching activity:

• 1974- : in charge of lab-courses in physiology for 2nd year medical students
• 1981- : lecture courses in physiology for medical students
  
  • instructing medical and Ph.D. students to obtain their degrees
    
  • participant in medical students' oral exams
    
• 1993-: leading teacher in the Ph.D. program on Cellular and Molecular Physiology

PhD students:

Dr. Katalin Suszták (1997)
Dr. Jutta Wölfl (1997)
Dr. Krisztina Káldi (1998)
Dr. Miklós Geiszt (1998)
Dr. Katalin Szászi (1999)
Dr. Attila Mócsai (1999)
Dr. Botond Bánfi (2002)
Dr. Gergely Molnár (2002)

Visiting positions:

• 1981: 3 months in the Neurochemical Laboratory of the University of Dundee (head: David G. Nicholls), working on ion transport in synaptosomes
• 1983-84: Visiting Scintist for 15 months in the Biochemical Laboratory of the Nuclear Center in Grenoble (head: Pierre V. Vignais), working on mitochondrial phosphate transport
• 1987: Visiting Scintist for 3 months in the same lab in Grenoble working on neutrophil granulocytes
• 1988: Visiting Scintist for 6 months in Grenoble working on the NADPH oxidase of granulocytes
• 1991: Humboldt-fellow for 11 months in the Pharmacology Department of the University of Heidelberg (head: K.H.Jakobs), working on G-proteins of granulocytes
• 1994: Visiting Scientist for 3 months in the Boston Biomedical Research Institute (Dr. Hartmut Wohlrab), working on mutagenesis of the mitochondrial phosphate transport protein
• 1998: Humboldt fellow for 3 months in the Biochemistry Center of Heidelberg University
• 2001: Visiting Scientist in the Cancer Center of MGH/Harvard, Boston, USA
• 2002: Visiting Scientist in the Cancer Center of MGH/Harvard, Boston, USA

General Research Interests:

ion transport processes across biological membranes
regulation of the biological functions of granulocytes
physiological functions of small GTPases


Specific topics studied:

mitochondrial cation transport
mitochondrial phosphate transport protein
relation of ion transport and transmitter release in synaptosomes
regulation of the NADPH oxidase of neutrophil granulocytes
role of GTP binding proteins in neutrophil functions
coupling of the NADPH oxidase and H+-transport in granulocytes
regulation of GTPase activating proteins


Courses organized

• 1989: FEBS Advanced (laboratory) Course on "Biochemistry of Membrane Transport", Budapest
• 1993: FEBS Advanced (lecture) Course on "Biochemistry of Membrane Transport", Hungary
• 1995: ICRO Advanced (laboratory) Course on "Biochemistry of Membrane Transport"

Research collaborations:

• 1996-98: K.H. Krause, University of Geneva, supported by Swiss Nationalfond
• 1997-99: D. Roos, CLB Amsterdam, supported by NWO-OTKA
• 2000-2002: M.C. Dagher, CENG Grenoble, Hungarian-French Research Agreement
• 2001-2002: J.S.Settleman, Harvard University, Hungarian-American Joint Fund
• 2002-2004: M.J.Rabiet, CENG Grenoble, Hungarian-French Research Agreement
• 2002-2003: J.S.Settleman, Harvard University, Hungarian-American Joint Fund
• 2004-2006: J.S.Settleman, Harvard University, Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award

Awards:

• 1996: Academic Prize from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for research on phagocytes
• 1997: Széchenyi Professors' Award
• 2002: Ipolyi Arnold Award
• 2003: member of the Academia Europaea
• 2003: Szentágothai János Award

Languages: fluent in English, German, French