dr. Zsákai Annamária assoc. professor

2006 -  PhD, Department of Biological Anthropology, Eotvos Lorand University

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2019–              Assoc. Professor, Department of Biological Anthropology, Eotvos Lorand
                        University, Budapest, Hungary
2009–2019      Assist. Professor, Department of Biological Anthropology, Eotvos Lorand
                        University, Budapest, Hungary
2001–2009      Assist. Lecturer, Department of Biological Anthropology, Eotvos Lorand
                        University, Budapest, Hungary

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• auxology, pattern of human growth and development
• methods for assessing body composition and body shape
• variations in human physique and body composition by age
• methods of constructing growth charts
• risk factors of body structure anomalies, life style, nutrition, physical activity
• body development of chronically ill children
• ageing and menopause

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2017–2018      Beres Foundation Grant (Development of a new method for estimating vitamin D supply at the epidemiological level)

2014–2017      Bolyai Research Scholarship of Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2011–2015      K83966 grant of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (Changes in body structure by reproductive ageing in menopausal women)

2004               Scholarship of the Hungarian Scholarship Board (2004), Laboratory of Anthropogenetics, Brussel, Belgium

2002               Scholarship of the Peregrinatio Fund (2002), Laboratory of Anthropogenetics, Brussel, Belgium

2000               Erasmus scholarship (2000) Free University of Brussel (VUB), Laboratory of Anthropogenetics, Brussel, Belgium

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 World Congress on Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases, Paris, France (2019), 46th European Calcified Tissue Society Congress, Budapest, Hungary (2019),  International Anthropological Congress of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Humpolec, Cuech Republic (2019)
21st EAA Congress, Odense, Denmark (2018)
36th Anthropology and Health Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia (2017)

20th EAA Congress, Zagreb, Croatia (2016)
22nd World Congress on Controversies in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Infertility, Budapest, Hungary (2015), Obesity SCOPE School 2014, London UK, XIXth Congress of the Spanish Association of Physical Anthropology, Madrid, Spain (2015)
19th EAA Congress, Moscow, Russia (2014)
10th International Meeting of the German Society of Anthropology, Bolzano, Italy (2013)
18th EAA Congress, Ankara, Turkey (2012)
21st Workshop of European Childhood Obesity Group, Pécs, Hungary (2011)
7th EAA Congress, Poznan, Poland (2010)
2nd Central European Congress on Obesity Congress, Budapest, Hungary (2009)
11th International Congress of Auxology, Tokyo, Japan (2007)
15th EAA Congress, Budapest, Hungary (2006)
XXVIIe Colloque du Groupement des Anthropologistes de Langue Francaise, France (2005), 6. Kongress der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, München, Germany (2005)
14th EAA Congress, Komotini, Greece (2004), X. Congress of Auxology, Firenze, Italy (2004)
International Anthropological Congress, Prague, Czech Republic (2003)
13th EAA, Zagreb, Croatia (2002)
12th EAA Congress, Cambridge, UK (2000)
IVth International Congress of Ales Hrdlicka, Praha – Humpolec, Czech Republic (1999)
11th EAA Congress, Jena, Germany (1998)

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2018–  member of the Committee on Anthropology, Section of Biological Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2017–  member of the European Association for Population Studies
2017–  member of the Editorial Board of Women’s Health Care Journal
2016–  member of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Science
2015– Editor of Anthropologiai Kozlemenyek (Budapest, Hungary)
2014– member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Anthropology
2013– member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Anatomy, Section of Physical Anthropology
2011–2015  technical Editor of Anthropologiai Kozlemenyek (Budapest, Hungary)
2011– member of the Editorial Board of Anthropologiai Kozlemenyek (Budapest, Hungary)
2010– member of leadership of the Human biological Section of Hungarian Biological Association
2010– General Secretary of the European Anthropological Association
2010– member of the European Anthropological Association Council
2006– member of the Public Body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2006– member of the European Anthropological Association Board
1999– member of the European Anthropological Association
1998– member of Human biological Section of Hungarian Biological Association

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Zsákai, A., Sipos, R., Takács-Vellai, K., Szabó, A., Bodzsár, É.B. (2017) The relationship between reproductive and biochemical ageing in menopausal transition. Experimental Gerontology, 98: 162–168. Impakt faktor: 3,34

Szmodis, M., Zsákai, A., Bosnyák, E., Protzner, A., Trájer, E., Farkas, A., Tóth, M. (2017) Reference data for ultrasound bone characteristics in Hungarian children aged 7–19 years. Annals of Human Biology, 44(8): 704-714. Impakt faktor: 1,24

Zsákai, A., Karkus, Zs., Utczás, K., Biri, B., Sievert, L.L., Bodzsár, É.B. (2016) Body fatness and endogenous sexual hormones in the menopausal transition. Maturitas, 87, 18–26. Impakt faktor: 3,12

Utczás, K., Muzsnai, Á., Cameron, N., Zsákai, A., Bodzsár, É.B. (2016) A comparison of skeletal maturity assessed by radiological and ultrasonic methods. American Journal of Human Biology, 29(4): e22966. Impakt faktor: 1,88

Zsákai, A., Karkus, Zs., Utczás, K., Bodzsár, É. (2015) Body structure and physical self-evaluation in early adolescence. Journal of Early Adolescence, 0272431615602757. Impakt faktor: 1,41

Bodzsár, É., Zsákai, A. (2014) Recent trends in childhood obesity and overweight recently in the transition countries of Eastern and Central Europe. Annals of Human Biology, 41(3): 263–270. Impakt faktor: 1,27

Fancsalszky, L., Monostori, E., Farkas, Zs., Pourkarimi, E., Masoudi, N., Hargitai, B., Herak Bosnar, M., Dezeljin, M., Zsákai, A., Vellai, T., Mehta, A., Takács-Vellai, K. (2014) ndk-1/nm23-H1/H2 regulates cell migration and apoptotic engulfment in C. elegans. PlosOne, 9(3): e92687. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0092687. Impakt faktor: 3,53

Joubert, K., Molnár, D., Gyenis, Gy., Zsákai, A. (2013) The relationship between neonatal developmental status and postnatal nutritional status in Hungarian children. Annals of Human Biology, 40(5): 435–443. Impakt faktor: 1,15

Bodzsár, É., Zsákai, A. (2012) Magyar gyermekek és serdülők testfejlettségi állapota - Országos Növekedésvizsgálat 2003-2006 – Body developmental status of Hungarian children and adolescents, Hungarian National Growth Study 2003-2006. Plantin Press, Budapest. (http://antropologia.elte.hu/onv_e.html). pp. 240.

Zsákai, A., Bodzsár, É. (2012) The 2nd Hungarian National Growth Study (2003–2006), Annals of Human Biology, 39(6): 516–525. Impakt faktor: 1,48

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