Personal Data
Born on May 17, 1967 in Bratislava (Czechoslovakia)
Current Position
Professor of Biochemistry
Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences,
Department of Biochemistry
Mlynska dolina CH-1, Ilkovicova 6
842 15 Bratislava 4
Slovak Republic
Phone: 421.2.90149.402, -507, -532, -536
e-mail: jozef.nosek@uniba.sk
url: http://www.biocenter.sk/jn.html
Academic Degrees
- 2008 Professor of Biochemistry
- 2006 DSc in Molecular Biology
- 2000 Associate Professor of Biochemistry
- 1994 PhD in Genetics (Supervisor: Prof. Ladislav Kovac)
- 1990 MSc in Genetics and Molecular Biology (Supervisor: Prof. Ladislav Kovac)
Previous Positions
- 2000-2010: Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Bratislava
- 1995-2000: Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Bratislava
- 1994-1995: Research Associate, Department of Genetics, Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Bratislava
- 1992-1994: Research Associate, Department of Molecular Biology, Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Bratislava
- 1990-1992: PhD training, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Bratislava
Scientific Visits and Sabbaticals
- 2002-2003 (October-January), 2003 (October): Visiting scientist, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, University of Paris XI, Orsay, France (Lab Director: Prof. Monique Bolotin-Fukuhara) Study of mitochondrial telomere mutants and the construction of synthetic rho(-) genomes in yeast mitochondria
- 1992-1994, 1995 (July-August), 1996-1997: Visiting scientist, Institute Curie, Orsay, France (Lab Director: Prof. Hiroshi Fukuhara) Research on the structure and replication of linear mitochondrial genomes in yeasts, Analysis of mitochondrial telomere-binding proteins
Research Projects and Publications
Fellowships
- 2014 Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) Invited Speaker Meeting Grant
- 2014 Travel Grant, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 2012 Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) Invited Speaker Meeting Grant
- 2010 Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) Invited Speaker Meeting Grant
- 2002 Short Term Fellowship, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
- 1996 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ministry of Education and Research of the French Government
- 1993 Research Training Fellowship, Commission of the European Communities (Community’s Action for Cooperation in Science and Technology with Central and Eastern European Countries)
- 1992 Research Training Fellowship, University of Paris XI, Orsay, France
Awards
- 2017 The Silver Medal of the Comenius University in Bratislava for the excellent research team “Bioinformatics and functional analysis of biological systems (INFO-BIO-FUN)” (team member)
- 2015 The Medal of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava for outstanding research achievements in 2014
- 2012 Plaque of Appreciation from the Philippine Society for Microbiology Inc. (PSM)
- 2006-2010 Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar
- 2001-2005 Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar
- 2001 Outstanding Junior Scientist Award (Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava)
- 2000 Award of the Czechoslovak Microbiological Society for Junior Czech and Slovak Microbiologist
- 2000 Junior Researcher of the Year 1999 in the Slovak Republic
- 1999 Outstanding Junior Scientist Award (Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava)
- 1990 The Medal of the Rector of the Comenius University in Bratislava for Excellent Study Achievements
Professional memberships
- 2021-present: Učená spoločnosť Slovenska (UčSS)
- 2017-present: American Society for Microbiology
- 2015-present: Honorary Member of the Hungarian Microbiological Society
- 2010-present: Slovak Academic Society (SAS)
- 2007-present: Scientific board of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava
- 2006-2010: Workgroup for Biology of the Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV)
- 2004-2006: Workgroup for Biology of the Slovak Agency for Science and Technology (APVT)
- 2004-2016: Genetic Society of America
- 1998-present: Gregor Mendel Genetic Society
- 1994-present: Czechoslovak Society for Microbiology
Other activities
- Ad hoc reviewer in following international journals: Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, BioEssays, BMC Genomics, Central European Journal of Biology, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Current Genetics, FEMS Yeast Research, Gene, Genome Biology and Evolution, Microbiology Resource Announcements, Mitochondrion, Molecular Genetics and Genomics, Mycoses, Mycopathologia, Neoplasma, Nucleic Acids Research, PLoS One, Physiological Research, Protist, RNA, Yeast