ILDIKO' SZABO'
Title: Professore ordinario
SSD: BIO/10 - Biochemistry
Address: VIA U. BASSI, 58/B - PADOVA
Phone: 0498276324
E-mail: ildiko.szabo@unipd.it
Teaching in current academic year
Course | Degree |
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BIOENERGETICS | Molecular Biology |
ADVANCED BIOCHEMISTRY | Molecular Biology |
Curriculum
Affiliation: Dept. of Biology Position: Full Professor at the Department of Biology of the University of Padova, Italy (http://www.bio.unipd.it/iicg/) Education and academic career: 07/1988 M.Sc. in Biology and Chemistry - Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest, Hungary 1989-1994 Ph.D. student at the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Padova 1992 Short-term EMBO fellow at Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland 10/1994 Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Pathology, University of Padova, Italy 1995-1996: EMBO postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Physiology of the University of Tuebingen 1997-1998: Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Padova 1998-2004: Assistant Professor in Biochemistry, at the Department of Biology of the University of Padova Since 01/2005 Associate Professor in Biochemistry at the Department of Biology of the University of Padova Since 01/2017 Full Professor in Biochemistry at the Department of Biology, Univ.Padova Since 2012: Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports of NPG Since 2013: Associate Member of the Iontrac International Training Network 2014: Co-Editor of a Special Issue of Cell Calcium 2014: Associate Member of the Institute of Neuroscience (CNR) 2015: Vice-Chair of a new Gordon Conference on Intracellular Ion Channels and Transporters, Bentley, USA 2016: Co-Chair of the International Biophysics School on Photosynthesis, Venice, Italy 2017: Chair Gordon Conference on Intracellular Ion Channels and Transporters, Vermont, USA Awards: 1995-1996: EMBO long-term fellowship 2000: CNR Young Investigator Grant 2002: selected as EMBO Young Investigator. From 2005: selected and acting as expert evaluator for Marie-Curie fellowships of EEC. 2011: selected as member of Top Italian Scientists (H factor>30) 2014: habilitation for Full Professorship in Biochemistry and in Plant Physiology International collaborations: E. Gulbins (Essen, Germany), N. Uozumi (Tohuku, Japan), F. Lang (Tuebingen, Germany), KG. Chandy (Irvine, USA), H. Kalthoff (Kiel, Germany) G. Finazzi (Grenoble, France), R. Wagner (Osnabrueck, Germany), E. Szegezdi (Galway, Ireland), T. Shikanai (Kyoto, Japan), C. Spetea (Gothenburg, Sweden), C. Chang (Berkeley, USA). Grants as coordinator: National grants of the Italian Ministry (2007, 2009, 2011), Young Investigator Grant of the CNR (2000) EMBO Young Investigator Grant (2003), University of Padova Grants (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014), Italian Association for Cancer Research (2007, 2011, 2014, 2017). Human Frontiers Science Program (2015). Publications: Co-author of 138 peer-reviewed papers. Total citation: 12437 (Google Scholar). H factor: 50
Curriculum in PDF: English CV
Articles published in the last 5 years
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A novel mitochondrial Kv1.3-caveolin axis controls cell survival and apoptosis
ELIFE2021Capera J, Pérez-Verdaguer M, Peruzzo R, Martinez-Pinna J, Morales A, Leanza L, Szabo I, Felipe A -
Defining the molecular mechanisms of the mitochondrial permeability transition through genetic manipulation of F-ATP synthase
NAT COMMUN2021Carrer A, Tommasin L, Å ileikytÄ— J, Ciscato F, Filadi R, Urbani A, Forte M, Rasola A, Szabo I, Carraro M, Bernardi P -
Exploiting pyocyanin to treat mitochondrial disease due to respiratory complex III dysfunction
NAT COMMUN2021Peruzzo R, Corrà S, Costa R, Brischigliaro M, Varanita T, Biasutto L, Rampazzo C, Ghezzi D, Leanza L, Zoratti M, Zeviani M, C De Pittà C, Viscomi, Costa R, Szabò I -
Mitochondrial dysfunction interferes with neural crest specification through the FoxD3 transcription factor
PHARMACOL RES2021Costa R, Muccioli S, Brillo V, Bachmann V, Szabo I, Leanza L -
Mitochondrial K+ channels and their implications for disease mechanisms
PHARMACOL THERAPEUT2021Checchetto V, Leanza L, De Stefani D, Rizzuto R, Gulbins E, Szabo I
Research area
Proposals for thesis
The study of ion channel function in relation to stress in plants and to tumor progression in animals. The used techniques comprise those of biochemistry, biophyisics, molecular biology, cell biology and in vivo experiments.