Zoltan Takacs

The native form of this personal name is Takács Zoltán. This article uses the Western name order.

Zoltán Takács is a Hungarian-born toxinologist and tropical adventurer specializing in venomous snakes and snake venoms. He is a National Geographic Society Emerging Explorer.[1][2]

Takacs holds a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Columbia University.[1] As a faculty at the University of Chicago[3] he co-invented the designer toxin technology, which creates a large number of animal toxin variants and screens for those that bind to a potential drug target.[4][5] His other main research area is why cobras and sea snakes are resistant to their own venom.[6][7]

At Columbia University, Takacs served as an Earth Institute Fellow,[8] and is a recipient of the National Geographic Society's Research and Exploration grant. He has been featured on the National Geographic Channel and on the PBS/NOVA series in several snake documentaries.[9][10] Takacs has traveled to 133 countries,[11] is an aircraft pilot, scuba diver, and wildlife photographer.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Zoltan Takacs, Herpetologist". National Geographic. 2013-05-13. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 26, 2010. Retrieved June 13, 2010.
  3. ↑ "Snake researcher Zoltan Takacs named National Geographic 'Emerging Explorer'". News.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
  4. ↑ "A designer ligand specific for Kv1.3 channels from a scorpion neurotoxin-based library". Pnas.org. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
  5. ↑ "US2008013385 IDENTIFICATION OF TOXIN LIGANDS". Wipo.int. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
  6. ↑ "Cobra (Naja spp. ) Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Exhibits Resistance to Erabu Sea Snake (Laticauda semifasciata) Short-Chain α-Neurotoxin - Springer". Springerlink.com. 2004-05-01. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
  7. ↑ Zoltan Takacs, Kirk C. Wilhelmsen and Steve Sorota (2001-06-01). "Snake α-Neurotoxin Binding Site on the Egyptian Cobra (Naja haje) Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Is Conserved". Mbe.oxfordjournals.org. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
  8. ↑ "Former EI Fellows". The Earth Institute - Columbia University. 2012-11-15. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
  9. 1 2 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1340079/bio
  10. ↑ "NOVA 124; Venom: Nature's Killer". Pbs.org. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
  11. ↑ Toxin pioneer. National Geographic Traveler, July–August, 2010 (Vol. 27, No. 5) p. 47.

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