Jordan Kolarov’s Curriculum vitae

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Born on January 14, 1943, in Sofia, Bulgaria, wife Nadia, sons Peter and Pavel


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:: +421-2-60296-539

Fax:       +421-2-60296-452

E-mail:  kolarov@fns.uniba.sk


Academic degrees:

  1. •MSc. in Chemistry, Comenius University (1968)

  2. •PhD. in Biochemistry, Comenius University (Supervisor: Prof. L. Kovac)

  3. •Associate Professor of Biochemistry

  4. •DSc. in Molecular Biology

  5. •Professor of Biochemistry


Previous Positions:

  1. •1972-1974: Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry, Comenius University, Bratislava

  2. •1974-1979: Established Researcher, Cancer Research Institute, Bratislava

  3. •1980-1988: Senior Scientist, Cancer Research Institute, Bratislava,

  4. •1988-1989: Visiting Professor, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, NJ, USA

  5. •1990-1993: Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University

  6. •1993-present: Full Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University

  7. •1995-2000: International Research Scholar of Howard Hughes Medical Institute


Scientific Visits and Sabbaticals:

  1. •1973-1974 Visiting scientists, Institute fur Physiol. Chemie und Physik. Biochemie der Universitat Munchen

  2. •1979, 1982: Visiting Scientist, Department of Biochemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, University of Stockholm

  3. •1985: Laboratoire d’Enzymologie, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvaine-la-Neuve, Belgium

  4. •1988-1989: Visiting Professor, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, NJ, USA 


Fellowships:

  1. •1974:  EMBO  Science Fellowship

  2. •1985:  UICC Yamagiva-Yoshida Fellowship

  3. •1985:  FEBS Short Term Fellowship


Awards:

  1. •1982  Diploma #8 for Scientific Discovery “Essential Role of Intramitochondrial ATP”  (shared with J. Subik and L. Kovac)

  2. •1995-2000: Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar

  3. •2008: Professor Frantisek Patocka Gold Medal of the Czechoslovak Microbiological Society


Scientific interests:

yeast molecular and cell biology; mitochondrial physiology and biogenesis; membrane transport;  ADP/ATP carriers; regulation of gene expression by oxygen; apoptosis; aging.