Member Profile
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Rawan Abukhairan
Country of origin: Palestine Currently in: Hungary, Budapest General field of specialization: Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology-
Degrees
2017 Master Chemical Sciences2013 Undergraduate Biological Systems and Organisms -
Current Research Activities
Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology
Interaction of Intrinsically Disordered Regions (IDR) of Histone-methyl transferases (HMTs) with long non-coding RNAs (LncRNAs), and their liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) behaviour.
Publications resulting from Research:
Szabó, B.; Murvai, N.; Abukhairan, R.; Schád, É.; Kardos, J.; Szeder, B.; Buday, L.; Tantos, Á. Disordered
Regions of Mixed Lineage Leukemia 4 (MLL4) Protein Are Capable of RNA Binding. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2018,
19, 3478
Mészáros, B.; Erd˝os, G.; Szabó, B.; Schád, É.; Tantos, Á.; Abukhairan, R.; Horváth, T.; Murvai, N.; Kovács, O.P.;
Kovács, M.; et al. PhaSePro: the database of proteins driving liquid-liquid phase separation. Nucleic Acids Res.
2019.
Current profession
Current professional activities type:Higher Education StudyPhD student (Molecular Biology) - Research Assistant
Workshop and Conference Attended
2019 Hungary, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) 1st George Olah Conference2019 Hungary, Eger Hungarian Molecular Life Sciences Conference 20192020 Italy, Brixen (D2) Disorder in Disorders: pathogenic mechanisms of Intrinsically Disordered ProteinsAffiliations
Research Centre for Natural Sciences, HAS - Institute of EnzymologyPresentation given
2019Interaction of MLL4 with long non-coding RNAsHungary, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)Event: 1st George Olah conference -
Other Awards
Sep 2020Varga Jozsef Foundation Presentation PrizeBest presentation prize at 1st George Olah Conference