Date of birth: 27. 6. 1978
Nationality: Czech
URL for web site: https://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/basler/
ORCID: 0000-0001-5414-2088
Education
| 2007 | PhD Institute of Microbiology, CAS, Prague, Czech Republic Supervisor: Peter Šebo, Ph.D. |
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| 2002 | Master Institute of Microbiology, CAS, Prague, Czech Republic Supervisor: Peter Šebo, Ph.D. |
Current position
| 2018 – | Associate Professor (tenured) Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland |
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Previous positions
| 2013 – 2018 | Assistant Professor (tenure track) Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland |
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| 2007 – 2013 | Postdoctoral Fellow Dep. of Microbiology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA Supervisor: John Mekalanos, Ph.D. |
Fellowship and awards
| 2023 | EMBO Membership |
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| 2019 | Sanofi - Institut Pasteur - International Junior Award |
| 2018 | EMBO Gold Medal |
| 2018 | Friedrich Miescher Award |
| 2015 | EMBO Young Investigator |
| 2009 – 2010 | EMBO long-term fellowship |
Supervision of graduate students and postdoctral fellows
| 2013 – | Total 11 PostDocs / 14 PhDs / 20 Masters - Biozentrum, University of Basel |
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Teaching activities
| 2022 – | How to be a scientist – yearly, two weeks long course for first year PhD students |
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| 2020 – | Blokkurse Nanowissenschaften – two students per year, 3 weeks long research project |
| 2014 – | Makromoleküle, Grundlagen der Genetik und Gen-Expression – lecture course, second year bachelor |
| 2016 – | Einführung in die Biologie – first year bachelor |
| 2014 – | Microbiology and Immunology – practical course, third year bachelor |
Organisation of scientific meetings
| 2019 | The European Workshop on Bacterial Protein Toxins - ETOX19 in Davos, Switzerland – about 150 participants, responsible for the program, funding and venue (co-organising with Prof. Christoph Dehio) |
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Institutional responsibilities
| 2021 – | Member of the SIB Training Committee |
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| 2019 – | Head of the PhD program at the Biozentrum, University of Basel |
| 2015 – | Member of the International PhD program selection committee |
| 2014 – | Member of at least three PhD advisory committees per year |
Reviewing activities
| Regular or sporadic reviewing since 2013: Nature, Cell, PNAS, EMBO Journal, Molecular Microbiology, Cell Host & Microbe, Nature Microbiology, PLoS Pathogen, PLoS ONE, ISME J, FEBS Letters, BMC Microbiology, Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, Cell Reports, mBio, Journal of Bacteriology, BioAssays, Frontiers in Microbiology, JoVE | |
| Reviewing for funding agencies since 2013: European Research Council (ERC - EU), Medical Research Council (MRC – UK), Czech Science Foundation (CSF – Czech Republic), Israel Science Foundation (ISF – Israel), Welcome Trust (UK), EMBO long-term fellowships (EU), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF – Switzerland), L'Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR – France) |
Publications
| Peer-reviewed publications: 55 - H-index: 36 Google Scholar, citations: 7174 - scholar.google.com/citations Web of Science, citations: 4674 - www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/1576545 |
Oral contributions to international conferences (2019-2024)
| 2024 | New Horizons in Membrane Biology – Frankfurt, Germany GRC - Bacterial Cell Surfaces, University of Southern Maine, USA Cellular Microbiology - University of Sheffield, UK |
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| 2023 | ETOX – Scotland ASM – Huston Prague – 70 year, UOCHB |
| 2022 | Gordon research conferences, Southbridge, USA Transporter Colloquium, Marburg, Germany |
| 2021 | The 16th international EUREKA! symposium 2021 – on-line The BioTech 2020 – on-line |
| 2020 | ASCB/EMBO meeting – on-line T6SympoZoom – on-line |
| 2019 | Bacterial Morphogenesis, Survival and Virulence, Cape Town, South Africa Great Cell Wall, Paris, France EMBO/FEBS Advanced course: “The New Microbiology”, Spetses, Greece EMBO Yong Scientists Forum, Prague, Czech Republic EMBO Gold Medal Winners Conference, Singapore |