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Robert Markus

Senior Technician, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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Biography

Work experience

  • 2014 - present , Senior Imaging Technician, Super Resolution Microscopy, School of Life Sciences, Univ. of Nottingham
  • 2011 - 2014 Postdoctoral researcher, Stockholm University, Sweden
  • 2006 - 2010 Young Investigator Fellow, BRC-Szeged, Hungarian Academy of Science

Education

  • 2006 PhD, University of Szeged, Hungary
  • 2001 MSc Biology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania

Additional training & Workshops

  • ATP - associate teachers program - completed, UoN

Microscopy related meetings workshops

  • Frontiers of BioImaging Workshops, UK
  • MMC of Royal Microscopical Society, UK
  • Super Resolution Imaging Workshops, Leeds, UK
  • Elyra Super Resolution Meetings, UK
  • Advanced Super resolution Course, Jena Germany (2016)
  • Microscopy Workshops & Demos
  • Super-resolution workshop, Edinburgh, UK (2014)
  • Super-resolution workshop, SciLifeLab, Sweden (2014)

Other

  • awarded images at Nikon Small World, Royal Microscopical society, EMBO coverpage

Expertise Summary

Microscopy techniques: Super resolution SIM, STORM, PALM, Advanced fluorescence: FRAP, FRET, TIRF, Confocal microscopy, two photon microscopy, wide field fluorescence, live cell imaging, bright field: Polarisation, DIC, Phase Contrast, histology sections, macroscopy, low magnification reproduction techniques, micro studio lightning techniques, image processing and analysis

Other technical skills and experience: FACS (cell sorter), immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, Western Blot, Immune precipitation, Infection assays (bacterial, nematodes, parasitoid wasps), cell lab techniques, drosophila genetics, nematode maintenance, stem cells, plant histology.

Other: photography, videography, image and movie editing

Teaching Summary

One to one teaching : training users to use confocal, super resolution microscopes, image processing and analysis, figure preparation Courses& Seminars on microscopy for Undergraduate and… read more

Research Summary

2014-present

  • Optimization of super resolution microscopy in a multi user environment
  • Development and design of test samples for super resolution microscopy
  • Development of high resolution mounting media in collaboration with Citifluor, in order to improve SIM and STORM microscopy

Recent Publications

  • SHERMAN HG, JOVANOVIC C, ABUAWAD A, KIM DH, COLLINS H, DIXON JE, CAVANAGH R, MARKUS R, STOLNIK S and RAWSON FJ, 2019. Biochimica et biophysica acta. Bioenergetics. (In Press.)
  • WOODHAMS, STEPHEN G., MARKUS, ROBERT, GOWLER, PETER R.W., SELF, TIMOTHY J. and CHAPMAN, VICTORIA, 2019. Pain. Articles in Press,
  • DE MELO N, MCGINLAY S, MARKUS R, MACRI-PELLIZZERI L, SYMONDS ME, AHMED I and SOTTILE V, 2019. Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland). 4(3),
  • WILLSON BJ, KOV脕CS K, WILDING-STEELE T, MARKUS R, WINZER K and MINTON NP, 2016. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 9, 109
  • One to one teaching : training users to use confocal, super resolution microscopes, image processing and analysis, figure preparation
  • Courses& Seminars on microscopy for Undergraduate and Doctoral Training Program students

Past Research

2011-2014

  • Insect pathogens, naturally occurring infection systems (Entomopathogenic nematode infections of Drosophila)
  • Analysis of RNA sequencing data of RAS induced salivary gland tumours in Drosophila and investigation of cellular immune response towards tumours (microscopy approach)
  • Ecological immunology - design, develop methods to investigate cellular immune response of leaf beetles, across Sweden, towards parasitoid wasps.

2001-2011

  • Immunology, Innate immunity, and blood cell development in Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila ananassae (PhD years and Young investigator fellowship), Szeged, Hungary
  • Discovery of new hematopoietic tissue and discovery of multinucleated giant blood cells in D ananassae.
  • Discovery of new phagocytosis receptor family (Nimrod genes)
  • SHERMAN HG, JOVANOVIC C, ABUAWAD A, KIM DH, COLLINS H, DIXON JE, CAVANAGH R, MARKUS R, STOLNIK S and RAWSON FJ, 2019. Biochimica et biophysica acta. Bioenergetics. (In Press.)
  • WOODHAMS, STEPHEN G., MARKUS, ROBERT, GOWLER, PETER R.W., SELF, TIMOTHY J. and CHAPMAN, VICTORIA, 2019. Pain. Articles in Press,
  • DE MELO N, MCGINLAY S, MARKUS R, MACRI-PELLIZZERI L, SYMONDS ME, AHMED I and SOTTILE V, 2019. Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland). 4(3),
  • WILLSON BJ, KOV脕CS K, WILDING-STEELE T, MARKUS R, WINZER K and MINTON NP, 2016. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 9, 109
  • 2016. The Journal of animal ecology. (In Press.)
  • DUNAJOV脕 L, CASH E, MARKUS R, ROCHETTE S, TOWNLEY AR and WHEATLEY SP, 2016. Journal of cell science. 129(14), 2707-12
  • M脕RKUS R, LERNER Z, HONTI V, CSORD脕S G, ZS脕MBOKI J, CINEGE G, P脕RDUCZ 脕, LUKACSOVICH T, KURUCZ 脡 and AND脫 I, 2015. Journal of innate immunity. 7(4), 340-53
  • FORS L, MARKUS R, THEOPOLD U and HAMB脛CK PA, 2014. PloS one. 9(9), e108795
  • HAULING T, KRAUTZ R, MARKUS R, VOLKENHOFF A, KUCEROVA L and THEOPOLD U, 2014. Biology open. 3(4), 250-60
  • KARI B, ZS脕MBOKI J, HONTI V, CSORD脕S G, M脕RKUS R, AND脫 I and KURUCZ 脡, 2013. Journal of immunological methods. 398-399, 76-82
  • AREFIN B, KUCEROVA L, DOBES P, MARKUS R, STRNAD H, WANG Z, HYRSL P, ZUROVEC M and THEOPOLD U, 2013. Journal of innate immunity. 6(2), 192-204
  • LIPINSZKI Z, KLEMENT E, HUNYADI-GULYAS E, MEDZIHRADSZKY KF, M脕RKUS R, P脕L M, DE脕K P and UDVARDY A, 2013. The Biochemical journal. 454(3), 571-83
  • HONTI V, CSORD脕S G, KURUCZ 脡, M脕RKUS R and AND脫 I, 2013. Developmental and comparative immunology. 42(1), 47-56
  • DOBES P, WANG Z, MARKUS R, THEOPOLD U and HYRSL P, 2012. Fly. 6(2), 75-9
  • HONTI V, CSORD脕S G, M脕RKUS R, KURUCZ E, JANKOVICS F and AND脫 I, 2010. Molecular immunology. 47(11-12), 1997-2004
  • HONTI V, KURUCZ E, CSORD脕S G, LAURINYECZ B, M脕RKUS R and AND脫 I, 2009. Immunology letters. 126(1-2), 83-4
  • M脕RKUS R, LAURINYECZ B, KURUCZ E, HONTI V, BAJUSZ I, SIPOS B, SOMOGYI K, KRONHAMN J, HULTMARK D and AND脫 I, 2009. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106(12), 4805-9
  • KURUCZ E, M脕RKUS R, ZS脕MBOKI J, FOLKL-MEDZIHRADSZKY K, DARULA Z, VILMOS P, UDVARDY A, KRAUSZ I, LUKACSOVICH T, GATEFF E, ZETTERVALL CJ, HULTMARK D and AND脫 I, 2007. Current biology : CB. 17(7), 649-54
  • RUS F, KURUCZ E, M脕RKUS R, SINENKO SA, LAURINYECZ B, PATAKI C, GAUSZ J, HEGEDUS Z, UDVARDY A, HULTMARK D and AND脫 I, 2006. Gene expression patterns : GEP. 6(8), 928-34
  • M脕RKUS R, KURUCZ E, RUS F and AND脫 I, 2005. Immunology letters. 101(1), 108-11
  • SOAVE M, GOULDING J, MARKUS R, HILL SJ and STODDART LA, Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2041, 163-181

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