Marie Pangrácová

scientist, research and development specialist

Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS

Prague, the Czech Republic, Europe

Social insects, termites, Isoptera, kings and queens, longevity, reproduction, ageing, telomere maintenance, telomerase, endocrine signalling pathway, gene expression, proteine extraction. LAB TECHNIQUES: DNA,RNA, proteine isolation, fractional isolation from cells, blotting - short, Wester, Southern, TRF Assay, RT-PCR, work with antibodies, ELISA, BCA, Bradford assay

I test the hypothesis that the longevity of reproductives in the termite species Prorhinotermes simplex is linked with the activation of the telomerase enzyme complex. I work in a lab and I test the antibodies anti TERT on fractions of cells from various termites phenotypes, now.

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