Selected completed projects

International grants:

Exploring the molecular determinants and functional role of T-type channel dimerization
Program: SAV-18-22
Principal investigator: Ľubica Lacinová
Duration 2018 – 2020
Novel interaction partners of the Cav2.2 channel
Program: DAAD/SAV
Principal investigator: Ľubica Lacinová
Duration 2016 – 2017
CavNet L-type calcium channels in health and disease
Program: MRTN-CT-2006-035367
6RP-Marie Curie Research Training Network
Coordinator: Hearing Research Centre Tübingen, Eberhards-Karls-University,Tübingen,Germany
Principal investigator at IMPG SAS: Ľubica Lacinová
Duration 2006 -2010
Role of L-type and T-type Ca2+ channels in neuronal excitability
Program: Volkswagen grant
Principal Investigator: Franz Hofmann, Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, Munich,Germany
International Collaborator: Ľubica Lacinová
Duration 2002 – 2004
Coupled gating between intracellular calcium release channels
Program: NIH FIRCA R03 TW 00949
Principal Investigator: Andrew R. Marks, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
International Collaborators: Karol Ondriaš, Marta Gaburjáková
Duration: 1998 – 2005

Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV):

Prenatal and postnatal effects of δ and μ opioid receptor ligands on the hippocampal development and function
Program: APVV-15-0388
Principal Investigator: Ľubica Lacinová
Duration: 2016 – 2020
Functional analysis of newly identified DNA variants in genes responsible for cystic fibrosis and fenylketonuria 
Program: APVV-0240-12
Principal investigator: Ľudevít Kadáši (BMC ICTR SAS)
Principal investigator at CBs IMPG SAS: Ľubica Lacinová
Duration: 2013 – 2016
Calcium channels in neuronal excitability
Program: APVV-0212-10
Principal Investigator: Ľubica Lacinová
Duration: 2011 – 2014

Grant Agency for Science (VEGA):

Vzťah mikroarchitektúry mitochondriálnej siete a jej funkčného spriahnutia v kardiomyocytoch
Program: VEGA 2/0090/18
Principal Investigator: Zuzana Ševčíková Tomášková
Duration: 2018 – 2021
Investigation of the mechanism of action of novel putative antidepressant drugs: pyridoindole derivatives and trace amine-associated receptor-1 (TAAR1) ligands
Program: VEGA 2/0046/18
Principal Investigator: Eliyahu Dremencov
Duration: 2018 – 2021
Regulation of the cardiac ryanodine receptor phosphorylated by protein kinase A
Program: VEGA 2/0011/18
Principal Investigator: Jana Gaburjáková
Duration: 2018 – 2020
Luminal regulation of the cardiac ryanodine receptor and its molecular mechanisms
Program: VEGA 2/0086/17
Principal Investigator: Marta Gaburjáková
Duration: 2017 – 2019
Novel pathways of N-type (CaV2.2) calcium channels regulation
Program: VEGA 2/0107/16
Principal Investigator: Ľubica Lacinová
Duration: 2016 – 2018
Effects of stress, induced by immune challenge during the gestation in rats, on maternal care behaviour and on hippocampal neuronal excitability in the offsprings
Program: VEGA 2/0024/15
Principal Investigator: Eliyahu Dremencov
Duration: 2015 – 2017
The role of physiologically relevant metal ions Mg2+ and Zn2+ in the luminal regulation of the cardiac ryanodine receptor
Program: VEGA 2/0006/15
Principal Investigator: Jana Gaburjáková
Duration: 2015 – 2017
The role of calsequestrin in luminal regulation of the cardiac ryanodine receptor
Program: VEGA 2/0003/14
Principal Investigator: Marta Gaburjáková
Duration: 2014 – 2016
Principle of gating of voltage-dependent calcium channels
Program: VEGA 2/0044/13
Principal Investigator: Ľubica Lacinová
Duration: 2013 – 2015
Competition between Ca2+ and other cation for luminally located binding site on the cardiac ryanodine receptor and its effect on the receptor regulation
Program: VEGA 2/0102/12
Principal Investigator: Jana Gaburjáková
Duration: 2012 – 2014
Determinants of coupled gating among cardiac ryanodine receptors
Program: VEGA 2/0033/11
Principal Investigator: Marta Gaburjáková
Duration: 2011 – 2013
Modulation and function of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors (IP3R) in neuronal structures of central nervous system (CNS) in normal and pathological conditions
Program: VEGA 2/0097/11
Principal Investigator: Michaela Pavlovičová
Duration: 2011 – 2013
Regulation of the gating of the T-type calcium channel
Program: VEGA 2/0195/10
Principal Investigator: Ľubica Lacinová
Duration: 2010 – 2012

Other grants

Role of neurosecretory neurons and calcium signalling in depression and addictive behaviour: Assessment by in-vivo electrophysiology
Program: Štipendium SAV
Principal Investigator: Eliyahu Dremencov
Duration: 2013 – 2017
Biopysical principles of voltage dependent ion channels regulation in health and disease
Program: KEGA 3/7389/09
Kordinátor projektu: Farmaceutická fakulta UK, Bratislava, Slovenská republika
Spoluriešiteľka: Ľubica Lacinová
Duration: 2009 – 2011
BIOMEMBRANES: Education program for PhD students and young scientists from biological and biomedical sciences
Program: Projekt ESF
Principal Investigator: Ivan Hapala (ÚBGŽ SAV)
Vedúca projektu za ÚMFG SAV: Ľubica Lacinová
Duration: 2006 – 2008
Biomembranes: structure and dynamics of biological membranes related to the cell functions
Program: VVCE-0064-07
Principal Investigator: Ivan Hapala (ÚBGŽ SAV)
Vedúca projektu za ÚMFG SAV: Ľubica Lacinová
Duration: 2008 – 2001