Centre of Biosciences SAS
Topic
Sterol metabolism in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae under stress conditions
PhD. program
Biochemistry
Year of admission
2024
Name of the supervisor
Mgr. Martin Valachovič, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava
Annotation
Sterols are essential membrane lipids that organisms either synthesize or utilize from the environment. Different organisms prefer specific sterol molecules, thus it is requisite to discriminate between the structures so that incompatible sterols are excluded from membranes. Using the model organism S. cerevisiae, we are looking for mechanisms monitoring the quality of sterols in cells.