Anikó Mentes

research fellow

PhD (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2020)

Biography:

Anikó Mentes obtained her Ph.D. in Microbiology from Eötvös Loránd University in 2020, where her research concentrated on conducting a comprehensive comparative analysis of unique shallow lakes in the Carpathian Basin. Employing a multidisciplinary approach, she integrated molecular techniques, cultivation-based methods, and bioinformatic and taxonomic tools to investigate the microbiological aspects of these ecosystems.

Following her Ph.D., Anikó transitioned from laboratory-based microbiology to the field of bioinformatics. She began her journey as an Assistant Research Fellow at the Protein Structure Research Group, Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELRN / RCNS HAS), where her focus was on analyzing interactions of disordered proteins.

Currently, Anikó holds a research fellow position at the Department of Physics of Complex Systems at Eötvös Loránd University. Her primary research area revolves around the analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic data. In this role, she contributes to the investigation of genomic characteristics and mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Links to associated scientific database profiles:

• Publications in MTMT
• Publications in ORCID

Selected publications of recent years:

1. Kilim, O., Mentes, A., Pál, B., Csabai, I., & Gellért, Á. (2023). SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain deep mutational AlphaFold2 structures. Scientific Data, 10(1), 134.
2. Mentes, A., Papp, K., Visontai, D., Stéger, J., Csabai, I., Medgyes-Horváth, A., & Pipek, O. A. (2022). Identification of mutations in SARS-CoV-2 PCR primer regions. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 18651.
3. Magyar, C., Mentes, A., Cserző, M., & Simon, I. (2021). Origin of Increased Solvent Accessibility of Peptide Bonds in Mutual Synergetic Folding Proteins. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(24), 13404.
4. Mentes, A., Szabó, A., Somogyi, B., Vajna, B., Tugyi, N., Csitári, B., ... & Felföldi, T. (2018). Differences in planktonic microbial communities associated with three types of macrophyte stands in a shallow lake. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 94(2), fix164.
5. Felföldi, T., Márton, Z., Szabó, A., Mentes, A., Bóka, K., Márialigeti, K., ... & Tóth, E. (2019). Siculibacillus lacustris gen. nov., sp. nov., a new rosette-forming bacterium isolated from a freshwater crater lake (Lake St. Ana, Romania). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 69(6), 1731-1736.