Rahel Park
Rahel Park
Post-doctoral Research
Rahel Park is a post-doctoral researcher with particular interest in the gut microbiota. She started doing research in Tallinn, at Neurobiology laboratory (Prof. T. Timmusk) and continued with PhD studies in Leuven, at Systems biology laboratory (Prof. K. Vestrepen). Her thesis was focused on the intricate world of house fly microbiota. She joined the team of Prof. Frisoni in 2022 and is now unraveling the potential links between gut microbiome and a neurological disorder called idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus.
Doctoral Thesis
Rahel Park; Microbiota profiling of the house fly, Musca Domestica; 2020
Scientific Articles
Rahel Park, Maria C. Dzialo, Stijn Spaepen, Donat Nsabimana, Kim Gielens, Herman Devriese, Sam Crauwels, Raul Y. Tito, Jeroen Raes, Bart Lievens, Kevin J. Verstrepen. Microbial communities of the house fly Musca domestica vary with geographical location and habitat . Microbiome, 2019;7:147.
Rahel Park, Maria C. Dzialo, Donat Nsabimana, Bart Lievens, Kevin J. Verstrepen. Apibacter Muscae sp. nov.: a novel bacterial species isolated from house flies. 2018, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2019;69:3586–92.
Maria C. Dzialo, Rahel Park, Jan Steensels, Bart Lievens, and Kevin J. Verstrepen. Physiology, ecology and
industrial applications of aroma formation in yeast. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2017;41 Supp1:S95–128.
Jaana Tammiku-Taul, Rahel Park, Kaur Jaanson, Kristi Luberg, Dimitar A. Dobchev, Dzmitry Kananovich, Artur Noole, Merle Mandel, Allen Kaasik, Margus Lopp, Tõnis Timmusk, Mati Karelson. Indole-like Trk receptor antagonists. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2016;121:541–52.
Kristi Luberg, Rahel Park, Elina Aleksejeva, and Tõnis Timmusk. Novel transcripts reveal a complex structure of the human TRKA gene and imply the presence of multiple protein isoforms. BMC Neuroscience, 2015;16:78.