Dr Monika Gullerova

Staines Research Fellow
monica.gullerova@path.ox.ac.uk
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I am Staines Medical Research Fellow at Exeter since October 2009. I did my undergraduate studies in molecular biology at the Natural Sciences Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. My undergraduate thesis “Testing of gene therapy with retroviral vector expressing bacterial cytosine deaminase gene” has been done at the Institute of Experimental Oncology of Slovak Academy of Science and won the Dean Prize for the best undergraduate thesis. I obtained PhD degree from Medical University of Vienna in Austria. I did research on an RNA recognition motif containing cyclophilin, which plays a role at the interplay of transcription and pre-mRNA processing. Since 2006, I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Nick Proudfoot’s lab at Sir William Dunn School of Pathology.

My main research interest is in transcription termination. In particular, how is regulated transcription termination of convergent genes. I am also interested in RNAi and it’s role gene expression regulation. Part of my work I have done in Mitsuhiro Yanagida’s lab at Kyoto University and in Danesh Moazed’s lab at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University.

I am also co-supervisor of system biology graduate student.

I was awarded: The best young scientist of Slovak Republic in 2008 and I am the president of the Oxford and Cambridge Alumni Society of Slovak Republic.

Teaching experiences:

  • Supervision of undergraduate student, Vienna University Oxford international college:

    • A level students

  • Lincoln college:

    • 3rd year biochemistry students, Gene expression tutorial Supervision of graduate student, University of Oxford

System biology doctoral training center:

  • Supervision of Margarita Schlackow, PhD student

    • Title of Project : Mathematical modelling and experimental verification of interactions between the RNA polymerase and cohesin complex in transcription

  • Supervision of Supervision of Struan Murray

    • Title of Project : Comparative analysis of DNA sequences: an application to identification of polyA sites in S. pombe (fission yeast)

List of Publications and Presentations