Research interests

• Structure, maintenance and evolution of telomeres
• Molecular biology and genetics of non-conventional yeast species
• Regulation of cellular ion homeostasis
• Organellar biogenesis and inheritance
• Morphogenesis of eukaryotic cells
• Cell signalling

Recent publications (2020–2024)

Books

1. Tomáška, Ľ. (2022). Didaktické minútky: Zápisník amatérskeho učiteľa. Samizdat. Mill Valley Publishing House. [ukážka]

Journal articles

1. Brejová, B., Vozáriková, V., Agarský, I., Derková, H., Fedor, M., Harmanová, D., Kis, L., Korman, A., Pašen, M., Brázdovič, F., Vinař, T., Nosek, J., & Tomáška, Ľ. (2023). y-mtPTM: Yeast mitochondrial post-translational modification database. Genetics 224(3): iyad087.
2. Červenák, F., Sepšiová, R., Peška, V., Nosek, J., & Tomáška, Ľ. (2023). Primary scientific literature represents an essential source of telomeric repeat sequences. Microbiology Spectrum 11(4): e0123023.
3. Tomáška, Ľ. (2022). Let‘s bring games into university classrooms. EMBO Reports: e55730.
4. Juríková, K., Sepšiová, R., Ševčovičová, A., Tomáška, Ľ., & Džugasová, V. (2022). Implementing CRISPR-Cas9 yeast practicals into biology curricula. The CRISPR Journal 5(2): 181-186.
5. Cillingová, A., Tóth, R., Mojáková, A., Zeman, I., Vrzoňová, R., Siváková, B., Baráth, P., Neboháčová, M., Klepcová, Z., Brázdovič, F., Lichancová, H., Hodorová, V., Brejová, B., Vinař, T., Mutalová, S., Vozáriková, V., Mutti, G., Tomáška, Ľ., Gácser, A., Gabaldón, T., & Nosek, J. (2022) Transcriptome and proteome profiling reveals complex adaptations of Candida parapsilosis cells assimilating hydroxyaromatic carbon sources. PLoS Genetics 18(3): e1009815.
6. Frankovský, J., Keresztesová, B., Bellová, J., Kunová, N., Čanigová, N., Hanáková, K., Bauer, J.A., Ondrovičová, G., Lukáčová, V., Siváková, B., Zdrahal, Z., Pevala, V., Procházková, K., Nosek, J., Baráth, P., Kutejová, E., & Tomáška, Ľ. (2021) The yeast mitochondrial succinylome: Implications for regulation of mitochondrial nucleoids. Journal of Biological Chemistry 297: 101155.
7. Červenák, F. Sepšiová, R., Nosek, J., & Tomáška, Ľ. (2021). Step by step evolution of yeast telomeres. Genome Biology & Evolution 13(2): evaa268.
8. Frankovský, J., Vozáriková, V., Nosek, J., & Tomáška, Ľ. (2021). Mitochondrial protein phosphorylation in yeast revisited. Mitochondrion 57: 148-162.
9. Vrzoňová, R., Toth, R., Siváková, B., Moťovská, A., Gaplovská-Kyselá, K., Baráth, P., Tomáška, Ľ., Gácser, A., Gabaldón, T., Nosek, J., & Neboháčová, M. (2021). OCT1 - a yeast mitochondrial thiolase involved in the 3-oxoadipate pathway. FEMS Yeast Research 21(5): foab03.
10. Brzáčová, Z., Peťková, M., Veljačiková, K., Zajíčková, T., & Tomáška, Ľ. (2021). Reconstruction of human genome evolution in yeast: An educational primer for use with “systematic humanization of the yeast cytoskeleton discerns functionally replaceable from divergent human genes“. Genetics 292: iyab118.
11. Tomáška, Ľ., Cesare, A.J., AlTurki, T.M. & Griffith, J.D. (2020) Twenty years of t-loops: A case study for the importance of collaboration in molecular biology. DNA Repair 94: 102901.
12. Vozáriková, V., Kunová, N., Bauer, J.A., Frankovský, J., Kotrasová, V., Procházková, K., Džugasová, V., Kutejová, E., Pevala, V., Nosek, J., & Tomáška, Ľ. (2020) Mitochondrial HMG-box containing proteins: From biochemical properties to the roles in human diseases. Biomolecules 10:1193.
13. Juríková, K., Gajarský, M., Hajikazemi, M., Nosek, J., Procházková, K., Paeschke, K., Trantírek, L., & Tomáška, Ľ. (2020) Role of folding kinetics of secondary structures in telomeric G-overhangs in the regulation of telomere maintenance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Biological Chemistry 295(27): 8958–8971.
14. Tomáška, Ľ. & Nosek, J. (2020) Co-evolution in the Jungle: From Leafcutter Ant Colonies to Chromosomal Ends. Journal of Molecular Evolution 88: 293-318.