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CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal
Name: Jurij Piškur, male
Born: 28th October, 1960 in Celje (Republic of Slovenia)
Marital status: de facto married with Judita Gartner, having two children: Jan (born 1984) and Jure (born 1997)
Citizenship: Republic of Slovenia
Home address: Örnvägen 25, S-227 32 Lund Väster
or job:
from August, 2004: Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 35, S-22362 Lund, Sweden, e-mail: Jure.Piskur(at)cob.lu.se , phone: +46 46 222 8373
Education
1979-1985
under-graduate studies at Department of Biology and partially at Department of Chemistry, University of Ljubljana (final research project at Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Stockholm):
B.Sc. in Biology (1985);
1986 – 1988
post-graduate studies at Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra on yeast mitochondrial genetics and molecular biology: Ph.D. in molecular genetics (1989);
1987-1988
undergraduate (non-degree) studies of Scandinavian languages and literature at the Australian National University;
Academic positions
1988-1991
Post doctoral fellow at the Department of Yeast Genetic, Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen: yeast molecular biology, over-expression of heterologous short peptides, secretion pathway;
1991-1996
Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics at Department of Genetics, University of Copenhagen: molecular biology, genetics and biochemistry of the fruit fly, yeast genetics,
metabolism of nucleic acids precursors, enzymology, mitochondrial genetics, biodiversity; leader of a research group of ca. five people;
1996 –
Associate Professor of Eukaryote Molecular Biology, BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark (½ teaching, ½ research position): various model organisms (yeast, fruit fly,
Arabidopsis, human cell cultures, bacteria, etc.), metabolism of nucleic acids precursors, enzymology, gene-therapy, anti-cancer chemotherapy, comparative genomics, yeast biodiversity,
molecular evolution, gene duplications; leader of a research group of 10 – 15 people (including technicians undergraduate and postgraduate research students, postdocs, visiting researchers);
2004-
Professor of Molecular Genetics, Department of Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University, similar topics as above, plus: experimental evolution, pathogenic bacteria and yeast,
leader of a group of app. 15-20 people.
High-lights of my carier
- main discoveries
A novel enzyme: multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase (EC 2.7.1.145) from the fruit fly (from 1997): now a model to understand biochemistry, molecular biology,
activation of anti-cancer drugs, novel suicide gene for cancer gene-therapy and applied aspects of similar enzymes, and it was introduced into industrial production by Roche;
Establishment, development and popularisation of novel yeast model organisms, S. kluyveri and S. castellii (from 1994)and Dekkera/Brettanomyces bruxellensis (from 2002);
Development of hypotheses on un-even evolution of duplicated genes and on yeast evolution (from 1994).
So far over 100 peer-reviewed articles have been published (including Nature, Nature Structure, EMBO J, PNAS, J Mol Biol, J Biol Chem, TIG, TIBS, Genetics, etc), five patent
applications filed and two books co-authored (www.worldscibooks.com/lifesci/6620.html).
- administrative
Head of Molecular and Cell Biology at BioCentrum-DTU, app. 20 members (including students, technicians, assoc. professors and visitors) from 2002-2004; from 2005 deputy member and
from 2008 member of the Board of Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University.
- education
Development of new under-graduate courses (practical and theoretical) in advanced eukaryote molecular biology and genetics, yeast molecular biology, genetics, biotechnology and innovations
(at the Technical University of Denmark and now at the Lund University);
Supervision of EU Erasmus/Sokrates research project undergraduates from France, Spain, Italy, Slovakia, Germany, Slovenia, Poland, Turkey, etc.
Main or co-supervisor of Ph.D. students: S. Smole (University of Ljubljana, 1995), R.F. Petersen (KU, Copenhagen, 1998), Z. Gojkovic (KU, 2000), K. Møller (Technical University of Denmark, 2001),
R.B. Langkjær (DTU, 2002), B. Bramsted (DTU, 2003), A.K. Jørgensen (DTU, 2003), G. Andersen (DTU, 2006), M. Sandrini (DTU-2006), S. Polakova (LU, 2008, Licentiate); presently supervisor of four
LU students all working in my lab at COB, LU. So far, daily supervisor of over a dozen of visiting Ph.D. students during their (at least 3 months) stay in my laboratory: from Lexington (US),
London (Canada), Marburg (Germany), Bratislava (Slovakia), Lviv and Kiev (Ukraine), Milan and Pavia (Italy), Sevilla (Spain), Stockholm and Uppsala (Sweden), Ljubljana and Piran (Slovenia),
Zagreb (Croatia), etc.
- applied/industry
Co-founder of three biotech companies: Jubile kinase (1999) and Jubi kinase (2003), see: www.jubilekinase.com ,
and ZGene (2001), see: www.zgene.dk, focusing on different aspects of deoxyribonucleoside
kinases (gene therapy, synthesis of anti-cancer drugs and other pyrimidine/purine analogs, drugs and biocides activators), five patents or patent applications.
Collaborative research with several industrial partners, such as Carlsberg, Roche Diagnostics, Novo, Neurosearch, NsGene, Adorkem, Inbev, etc.
- public
Ad hoc advisor and representative of the Slovenian Minister of Foreign Affairs, D. Rupel, in Denmark, during the Slovenian Struggle for Independence, 1991 – 1993.
Active member of grass-root organisations working on legalisation of an alternative military service and the corresponding human rights in European countries, 1989-1996.
In spring 2005 elected as a member of Kgl. Fysiografiska Sällskapet in Lund.
In 2005, evaluator of the Swedish Research Council (VR) for Biodiversity, and from 2008 for Cell and Molecular Biology (NT-K).
In 2005-2006, Evaluator of EU’s 6th frame grant applications.
In 2006, the organizer of the International Congress on Arginine and Pyrimidines (ICAP 2006).
In 2007 appointed as a deputy member of the Board of Cancer Fonden, Sweden.
In 2007 appointed as a member of the board of LU’s Centre for the Middle East studies.
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