Helena Novická (maiden Dugasová), Mgr.

dugasovaAddress

  • Institute of Parasitology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Hlinkova 3, 04001 Košice, Slovakia

E-mail

  • dugasova( at )saske.sk

Phone

  • +421-55-633 14 12

Technical Skills

  • Mouse handling - collecting blood; drug administration- per os, subcutaneously, intramuscularly, intraperitoneally; dissection
  • Ascaris suum, Echinococus multilocularis - parasite isolation (eggs, protoscoleces) and preparation of infectious cultures
  • Techniques to obtain immune cells – isolation of peripheral lymphocytes by density gradient, isolation of macrophages by peritoneal lavage, splenocytes by spleen homogenization, isolation of small intestinal intraepithelial and lamina propria lymphocytes
  • Methods – Lymphocyte proliferation by MTT test, protein detection, in vitro production of superoxide anion by macrophages, phenotyping of immune cells by monoclonal antibodies for flow cytometry, indirect ELISA, capture ELISA
Education and training
2017 – 2019   University study at the Faculty of Science, University of P. J. Šafárik, Košice,  Slovakia;
Degree Mgr. (equivalent of MSc.) awarded by the Faculty of Science, UPJŠ; specialization : Cell and molecular biology and genetics
2014 – 2017   University study at the Faculty of Science, University of P. J. Šafárik, Košice,  Slovakia;
Degree Bc. (equivalent of BSc.) awarded by the Faculty of Science, UPJŠ; specialization :  Biology
2009 – 2013   Secondary grammar school  - Gymnázium Antona Prídavka Sabinov, Slovakia