Nikola Vrskova, MD
Student
Laboratory of Neuroglial Interactions
Department of Physiology, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University
Scientific background
I`ve been interested in science since high school, when I started working on the project for the Student`s Professional Activities on the topic of Deoxyribozyme conformation analysis using computer simulations at the Faculty of Science of Palacký University in Olomouc. In 2019, I was presenting this project at the Beijing Youth Science Creation Competition, where I was awarded 1st place. In addition to that, I briefly worked in the Biomolecular Spectroscopy group at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of Czech Academy of Sciences as part of the Open Science CAS project.
During my university years, I participated in a half-year internship at the Laboratory of Recombination and DNA Repair at Masaryk University in Brno, where I studied the role of the OGG1 protein in DNA repair mechanisms using the methods of molecular biology. Since 2022, I have been a member of the Neuroglial Interactions group at the Department of Physiology, Second Faculty of Medicine.
Research interests
Currently I focus mainly on electrophysiology and the processing of recordings from long-term EEG monitoring as part of a project focused on the effect of epileptic activity on myelination in the FCD type II mouse model. In the future, I intend to focus on the mechanisms of etiopatogenesis of focal cortical dysplasia type I.
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