Andrea Bodor
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My favorite example of chemistry in everyday life is coffee brewing methods and outcomes … I recharge my batteries by enjoying a salty or thermal bath, Budapest is fabulous in this respect …“ Find out more about Andrea Bodor in her Introducing … Profile.
Andrea Bodor
The author presented on this page has published her first article as a submitting corresponding author in Angewandte Chemie:
“Selective 1Hα NMR Methods Reveal Functionally Relevant Proline cis/trans Isomers in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Characterization of Minor Forms, Effects of Phosphorylation, and Occurrence in Proteome”: F. Sebák, P. Ecsédi, W. Bermel, B. Luy, L. Nyitray, A. Bodor, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, doi.org/10.1002/anie.20210836; Angew. Chem. 2021, 133, doi.org/10.1002/ange.20210836.
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Position:
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Associate Professor
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Education:
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1990–1995 Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj/Kolozsvár (Romania)
2000 PhD with Imre Tóth, Debrecen University (Hungary)
2002 PhD with Julius Glaser, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, (Sweden)
2006–2007 Postdoc with Astrid Gräslund and Lena Mäler, Stockholm University (Sweden)
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Research:
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NMR spectroscopy, biochemistry, analytical chemistry
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Hobbies:
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Swimming, reading biographies, movies
The biggest challenge facing my generation of scientists is to find the golden route between doing and promoting real science.
My favorite example of chemistry in everyday life is coffee brewing methods and outcomes.
I chose chemistry as a career because it is colorful and many-faceted.
The most important factor in the choice of my current research topic was the nice blend between chemistry, biology and math, physics.
A key experience in my career was as a first year PhD student, setting up a DANTE sequence to study ligand exchange on an Aspect 360 spectrometer.
The biggest change in my scientific working environment in the past 10 years has been building up my research group.
When I want to treat myself to something, I eat a Dobos cake.
I recharge my batteries by enjoying a salty or thermal bath, Budapest is fabulous in this respect.
In a spare hour I read.
My biggest motivation is to transfer my knowledge and experience to my students.
Guaranteed to make me laugh is the witty black humor.
My motto is “Learn to walk before you run.”
The most important qualities of a role model are honesty and perseverance.
My favorite book is “Laterna Magica” by Ingmar Bergman.
My favorite quote is “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
Behind the Science
It has been some years since I was wondering about the nature of minor peaks appearing because of prolines and in how far they are important in IDPs function. To give a good answer, we had to find the proper method and a good biological target. The results we achieved by testing the new NMR pulse sequences on p53TAD are the joint effort of different professions: chemists, biologists, physicists, and pharmacists. And all of us were very much surprised by the sensitivity we reached and that we managed to prove that phosphorylation can really affect cis/trans proline equilibrium, thereby eventually providing a tool for monitoring regulation.
