Dr Katja Horvay - Researcher Profile

Biography

Dr Katja Horvay is a Research Fellow in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology. She joined Dr. Helen Abud's laboratory in 2007. Her current research focuses on understanding how the intestinal stem cell niche is organised and regulated.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Georg-August University in Gottingen

Year awarded: 2005

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN BIOLOGY

Institution: Georg- August University in Gottingen

Year awarded: 2001

Publications

Journal Articles

Horvay, K., Casagranda, F., Gany, A., Hime, G.R., Abud, H.E., 2010, Wnt signaling regulates Snai1 expression and cellular localization in the mouse intestinal epithelial stem cell niche, Stem Cells and Development [P], vol 20, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Publishers, USA, pp. 737-745.

Horvay, K., Claussen, M., Katzer, M., Landgrebe, J., Pieler, T., 2006, Xenopus Dead end mRNA is a localized maternal determinant that serves a conserved function in germ cell development, Developmental Biology [P], vol 291, issue 1, Academic Press, USA, pp. 1-11.

Claussen, M., Horvay, K., Pieler, T., 2004, Evidence for overlapping, but not identical, protein machineries operating in vegetal RNA localization along early and late pathways in Xenopus oocytes, Development [P], vol 131, issue 17, The Company of Biologists Ltd, UK, pp. 4263-4273.

Kuhlmann, M., Horvay, K., Strathmann, A., Heinekamp, T., Fischer, U., Bottner, S., Droge-Laser, W., 2003, The alpha-helical D1 domain of the tobacco bZIP transcription factor BZI-1 interacts with the ankyrin-repeat protein ANK1 and is important for BZI-1 function, both in auxin signaling and pathogen response, Journal Of Biological Chemistry [P], vol 278, issue 10, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc., USA, pp. 8786-8794.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The role of Snai1 in regulating the maintenance and proliferation of intestinal stem cells.

Supervisors:

Abud, H (Main), Horvay, K (Associate).