Everything you wanted to know about
- the credit system
- the ETR
- the strange Hungarian educational administration habits (I swear I didn't write this!)
... but until now you had no one to ask.
Friday (May 11, 2007) at 18.00 in Lecture room 1 (yes, after the Anatomy test)
(Hope you have seen our notice about this on the notice boards...)
- don’t forget to bring back your gradebook to the RO as soon as your last exam is over, but not later than August 31
- start of the semester: September 03 – 07 (matriculation week)
- start of instruction period: September 10
- start of 6th year: August 06, matriculation: until July 06
- expected time for making your semester active / passive: from middle of August
- expected time for registering for subjects: September 03, 8.00 o’clock to September 07, 12.00 o’clock
- expected deadline for paying tuition fees: end of the first week in the instruction period (September 14). Don’t forget the confirmation letter from the bank!
An official letter will be released after the meeting of the Faculty Council (sometime at the beginning of June, as we expect)
Nursing Skills Practice (Summer practice in Hospital Care) – general medicine students
When to complete: until the 3rd year (this is a prerequisite for Internal Medicine Propedeutics)
Where to complete: whereever you want (even in your home country)
What to do: bring this filled-in form to the RO until the end of the exam period (an entry will be made to your gradebook to page 52)
Medical Communication Skills Summer Practice – general medicine students
When to complete: after the first year (this is not a prerequisite at the moment – so before the 6th year)
Where to complete: whereever you want (even in your home country)
What to do: take the completed forms to Prof. Lajos Nagy (head of the Family Medicine Institute in the former Military Hospital), he will sign your gradebook
Dental Assistant Summer Practice – dentistry students
When to complete: after the first year
Where to complete: whereever you want (even in your home country)
What to do: take the completed forms to Prof. Gyula SZABÓ (head of the Dentistry Clinic), he will sign your gradebook
Internal Medicine Summer Practice – general medicine students
When to complete: after the third year (prerequisite for 6th year Internal Medicine)
Where to complete: whereever you want (even in your home country)
What to do: bring this filled-in form to the RO until the end of the exam period (an entry will be made to your gradebook to page 52)
Surgery Summer Practice – general medicine students
When to complete: after the fourth year (prerequisite for 6th year Surgery-Traumatology)
Where to complete: whereever you want (even in your home country)
What to do: bring this filled-in form to the RO until the end of the exam period (an entry will be made to your gradebook to page 52)
The forms and descriptions will be available for download on the website of the UP MS soon.
- To highlight the most important items the RO created an extract from this letter. This extract is also attached to this e-mail. We must emphasize: reading only the extract won’t be enough. (Extract_of_Exam_Period_060702.pdf)
- Both letters can be found on our notice board and will be shortly available also on the electronic notice board on the website of the UP MS.
surgeryquestions
The Department of
Neurosurgery, University Medical Center of Pécs is
advertising a doctoral
candidate position for 3 years,
starting at the June 1 2007.
The
position
is sponsored by the European
Commission 6th
Framework
Programme on Research, Technological Development and
Demonstration’s „Marie Curie Actions: Research
Training Networks (RTN) within the context of
„AQUA(GLYCERO)PORINS” program
proposal.
The position is
advertised not
for Hungarian citizens!
Applications are
expected from the Hungarian minorities living outside
Hungary or from students graduated at the English or
German programs of Hungarian universities. Knowledge
of Hungarian is preferred but not a
prerequisite.
Research
topic
The discovery of the
aquaporins was awarded with the Chemistry Nobel Prize
2003 to P. Agre. Eleven aquaporins and
aquaglyceroporins (combined referred to as
aqua(glycero)porins) have been described in mammals.
Aqua(glycero)porins are represented in all classes of
organisms, suggesting universal importance.
Aquaporins transport water and aquaglyceroporins
transport glycerol with high velocity and
specificity. Mammalian AQP1, 2, 4, 5, and 8 are
aquaporins, AQP3, 7, 9 and 10 are aquaglyceroporins.
AQP6 is an intracellular aquaporin able to conduct
ions. The physiological roles of aquaporins are known
to different degrees of detail.
AQP1
is required for production of cerebrospinal fluid in
the human brain. AQP4 is an aquaporin of the
brain-blood barrier and involved in brain swelling.
Central to the understanding of the role and
importance of aqua(glycero)porins is their regulation
at the level of gene expression (e.g. AQP9),
trafficking (AQP2), gating (AQP6), or combinations
thereof.
Aquaporins
are targets for drugs. For instance, blockers of
brain AQP4 would diminish fatal brain swelling upon
stroke! Integrated knowledge of the physiological
roles of all aquaporins will elucidate further
targets for treatments. Specific aquaporin blockers
are presently not available.
Project
objectives
The mechanisms that
control aqua(glycero)porin function are crucial for
our understanding of the physiological role of
aqua(glycero)porins and for drug target
identification and drug development. This study
stresses in particular the physiological roles,
molecular and physiological control mechanisms and
atomic structures of aquaporins AQP1 and
AQP4.
Research
method
Regulation of
AQP4 using clinical samples and rodent
models: Clinical
investigation of head trauma and stroke patients
using clinical MR scanners, measuring brain water
content in vivo by T1 map, localized proton
spectroscopy and diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) for
monitoring brain edema in patients. Use of rodent
brain edema models and applying the MRI methodology
mentioned above, using a 9.4T experimental MR
spectroscope and scanner. Cellular localisation of
aquaporin-1 and -4 and other proteins on human
pathological and experimental specimens by
immunocytochemistry. Semiquantitative analysis of
mRNA and protein expression by Northern and Western
blotting, etc.
For detailed
information, please, turn to Professor T.
Dóczi, tamas.doczi@aok.pte.hu
or to
Dr. Z. Vajda, vajdus@t-online.hu
