In the middle of September, Konrad Jazgar defended his thesis “Biochemical study of human Elongator complex” at the FBBB. The thesis concerned the tRNA binding capabilities of human Elongator subcomplex 123 and the creation of a new construct encoding human Elongator subcomplex 456.
During his master’s studies, Konrad studied in Heidelberg, where he also did a 6 month internship at German Cancer Research Center. His work there was concerning designing a novel computational tool to fine-tune the selection of the best sgRNAs for the CRISPR:Cas9 method.
After finishing his faculty courses, in the scope of the Fulbright scholarship, he moved to the United States, for a one-year research internship at UT Southwestern in Dallas. During his stay, he was partaking in the work of solving the structure of ephrin receptor A2 and its binding partners using cryo-EM.