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prof. Hassan Hashimi, Ph.D.

head of the Laboratory of Eukaryotic Cell Architecture

Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia
Branišovská 31, 37005 České Budějovice
Building D, first floor,
Door number D 01 016
 
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ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6678-1618

prof. Hassan Hashimi, Ph.D.

Head of the Laboratory of Eukaryotic Cell Architecture (LECA)


Research & pedagogical history

since 2026
Group leader
since 2026
Professor

Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

since 2025
Member of Panel 303 ‘Cell, Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Regeneration and Reproduction’

Czech Science Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic

since 2024
Principle Investigator of Working Group

at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Protists, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

since 2021
Member and head of the Molecular and Cell Biology Module

Integrative biology Doctoral Study Program CommitteeFaculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech RepublicFaculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

2017
Habilitated Associate Professor (i.e. docent)

Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

2012-2024
Research Scientist

Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Protists, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

2009-2016
Assistant professor

Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

2009-2011
Post Doctoral Researcher

Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Protists, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

Education

2005-2009
Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

2004-2005
Mgr. in Cell and Developmental Biology

(Červený diplom) Faculty of Biology, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

1990-1995
B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA

Conferences and Seminars

Invited talks (reverse chronological order):
September 2025
XXVIII Biochemistry Congress of the Czech and Slovak Societies for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Prague, Czech Republic

‘Euglenazoans Bend the Rules of How the MICOS Complex Shapes Mitochondria’

June 2025
Swiss Trypanosomatid Meeting 2025, Schloss Münchenwiler, Switzerland

‘My trek with André: The search for Mic60 in Euglenozoa’

May 2025
International Rhodobacter Symposium 2025, Wagenigen, The Netherlands

‘Introcytoplasmic-membrane development in alphaproteobacteria involves the homolog of the mitochondrial crista-developing protein Mic60’

November 2023
Gymnázium Jírovcova, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

‘How a meme started: the origin of mitochondria’ (Popularization seminar)

October 2023
Czech BioImaging Imaging Principles of Life, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic

‘Volumetric electron microscopy demonstrates a giant virus-encoded protein remodels mitochondria’ (Conference presentation)

May 2023
Imaging Centre, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

‘The evolutionary history of the ancient mitochondrial membrane sculptor Mitofilin: from alphaproteobacteria to trypanosomes’ (Seminar)

January 2023
Institute of Human Genetics, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

‘The evolutionary history of the ancient mitochondrial membrane sculptor Mitofilin: from alphaproteobacteria to trypanosomes’ (Seminar)

October 2022
Algatech, Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Třeboň, Czech Republic

‘The structure and function of the crista-developing Mic60 protein are largely conserved in alphaproteobacteria’ (Seminar)

August 2022
International Society of Endocytobiology Symposium, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

‘The structure and function of the crista-developing Mic60 protein are largely conserved in alphaproteobacteria’ (Conference presentation)

March 2021
Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Online

‘Exploring the diversity of mitochondrial cristae’ (Seminar)

February 2021
Board of Directors Meeting, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

‘The evolutionary cell biology of mitochondrial cristae’ (Mini-symposium)

June 2020
International Society of Evolutionary Protsitology Series on Protist Genomics, Diversity and Evolution, Online

‘What does a reassessment of crista diversity in eukaryotes say about human mitochondria?’ (Seminar)

May 2019
Department of Parasitology, Charles University, Prague Czech Republic)

‘The trypanosome MICOS complex: a step toward a holistic view of mitochondrial cristae diversity’ (Seminar)

May 2017
Gymnázium Jírovcova, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

‘Factors involved in building the cristae of mitochondria’ (Popularization seminar)

October 2016
University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, České Budějovice, Czech Republic)

‘How the history of trypanosome RNA editing research shows the process of getting the mechanism behind a biological process after its initial observation’ PEDAGOGICAL HABILITATION LECTURE (oral presentation)

November 2015
39th Annual Advances in Molecular Biology and Genetics, Prague Czech Republic

‘It’s not just about U: RNA editing in trypanosomes’ (Seminar)

October 2014
Department of Parasitology, Charles University , Prague Czech Republic

‘It’s not just about U: RNA editing in trypanosomes’ (Seminar)

June 2014
Marie Curie ITN RNPnet 2nd Summer School, Montpellier France

‘The Biochemical Characterization of RNA Editing’ (Seminar)

November 2013
37th Annual Advances in Molecular Biology and Genetics, Prague Czech Republic

‘RNA editing: from obscurity to ubiquity’ (Seminar)

November 2012
16th American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Meeting, Altanta, USA

‘A mitochondrial cation/proton antiporter is essential in both life stages of Trypanosoma brucei brucei and the akinetoplastic Trypanonsoma brucei evansi’ (Conference presentation)

November 2010
34th Annual Advances in Molecular Biology and Genetics , Prague Czech Republic

‘RNA editing: from obscurity to ubiquity’ (Seminar)

November 2009
33rd Annual Advances in Molecular Biology and Genetics , Prague Czech Republic

‘Will this bug be a beast? Justifying Trypanosoma brucei as a model system’ (Seminar)

September 2009
The Mitochondrion of Trypanosoma brucei enters the post-proteomic era symposium, Třešt´,Czech Republic)

‘The putative mitochondrial RNA binding complex 1 of Trypanosoma brucei’ (Conference Presentation)

June 2006
COST B-22 Expert Meeting, Cell Organelles of Protazoan Parasites: From Basic Science to Drug Targets, Prague Czech Republic

‘RNA editing accessory factors in Trypanosoma brucei’ (Conference Presentation)

Conference Presentations (notable poster presentation included; reverse chronological order):
April 2026
Protistology Open, Prague, Czech Republic

‘MICOS coordinates election transport chain biogenesis and membrane elaboration during crista maturation’

September 2025
British Society for Parasitology Trypanosomiasis and Leishmaniasis Seminar 2025, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

‘Filling in the missing pieces of the trypanosomal cytochrome c reductase complex: Overlooked microprotein subunits are revealed by complexome profiling’

June 2025
International Congress of Protistology 2025, Seoul, South Korea

‘Euglenazoans bend the rules of how the MICOS complex shapes mitochondria’

May 2024
Czech-Slovak Bioenergetic Conference, Telč, Czech Republic

‘Cryptic mitofilin proteins bend the rules of how MICOS acts on mitochondria in trypanosomes’ (Oral presentation)

April 2017
25th Cytoskeletal Club, Vranovská Ves, Czech Republic

‘TbPH1: a kinetoplastid-specific pleckstrin homology domain containing kinesin-like protein’ (Oral Presentation)

April 2014
British Society for Parasitology Spring Meeting, Cambridge, UK

‘The dynamics of mitochondrial RNA binding complex in Trypanosoma brucei and its petite mutant under optimized immobilization conditions’ (Oral presentation)

September 2012
Molecular Parasitology Meeting, Woods Hole, USA

‘A mitochondrial cation/proton antiporter is essential in both life stages of Trypanosoma brucei brucei and the akinetoplastic Trypanonsoma brucei evansi’ (Oral presentation) - Awarded best talk

April 2012
British Society for Parasitology Spring Meeting, , Glasgow, UK

‘Functional characterization of a putative mitochondrial cation/proton antiporter in both life stages of Trypanosoma brucei brucei and the akinetoplastic Trypanonsoma brucei evansi’ (Oral presentation)

October 2009
RNA club, Brno Czech Republic

‘The putative mitochondrial RNA binding complex 1 of Trypanosoma brucei’ (Oral presentation)

April 2004
34th Jírovec’s Protistological Days, Peklo, Czech Republic

‘Is TbRGG1 really involved in RNA editing in the mitochondrion of Trypansoma brucei?’ (Oral presentation)

October 2003
RNA club, Prague, Czech Republic

‘Functional analysis of guide RNA-binding proteins involved in mitochondrial RNA editing in Trypanosoma brucei (Oral presentation)

Awards

2025
Important paper from the Biology Centre, CAS

  

2024
Excellent grant evaluation (i.e. Top 20% grants)

 Czech Science Foundation (CSF)

2022
Czech-BioImaging Open Access Project

‘Observation of mitochondrial cristae in three dimensions by semi-automated segmentation of highly contrasted membranes’ (78.5 K CZK)

2022
Top cited article in the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology for 2011-2012

   

2018
Best result for 2018

Scientific Board of the Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences    

2013
Burroughs Wellcome Fund-ASTMH Talk Award

Molecular Parasitology Meeting XXIII, Woods Hole, USA

2011
Best poster presentation

8th International Conference on Mitochondrial Physiology and Pathology, September 2011, Bordeaux France

2010
RNA Society Travel Fellowship

to attend RNA Society Meeting June 2010 in Seattle, USA

Publications

  • Hashimi H. (2025) Cell biology: A new dynamin superfamily protein remodels mitochondrial dynamics Current Biology 35: R218-R221.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.069
  • Hashimi H., Gahura O., Pánek T. (2025) Bringing together but staying apart: decisive differences in animal and fungal mitochondrial inner membrane fusion Biological Reviews 100: 920-935.
    DOI: 10.1111/brv.13168
  • Sheikh S., Turpin Knotková B., Benz C., Eliáš M., Bílý T., Bondar A., Tesařová M., Stříbrná E., Heller J., Meinecke M., Hashimi H. (2025) The core MICOS complex subunit Mic60 has been substituted by two cryptic mitofilin-containing proteins in Euglenozoa. Molecular Biology and Evolution 42: msaf289.
    DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaf289
  • Lukeš J., Speijer D., Panicucci Zíková A., Alfonzo J., Hashimi H., Field M. (2023) Trypanosomes as a magnifying glass for cell and molecular biology Trends in Parasitology 39: 902–912.
    DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2023.08.004
  • Muñoz-Gómez S.A., Cadena L., Gardiner A.T., Leger M.M., Sheikh S., Connell L.B., Bílý T., Kopejtka K., Beatty T., Koblížek M., Roger A., Slamovits C.H., Lukeš J., Hashimi H. (2023) Intracytoplasmic-membrane development in alphaproteobacteria involves the homolog of the mitochondrial crista-developing protein Mic60 Current Biology 33: 1099 - 1111. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.02.059
  • Sheikh S., Pánek T., Gahura O., Týč J., Záhonová K., Lukeš J., Eliáš M., Hashimi H. (2023) A novel group of dynamin-related proteins shared by eukaryotes and giant viruses is able to remodel mitochondria from within the matrix Molecular Biology and Evolution 40: msad134. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msad134
  • Benz C., Muller N., Kaltenbrunner S., Váchová H. , Vancová M., Lukeš J., Varga V., Hashimi H. (2022) Kinetoplastid-specific X2-family kinesins interact with a kinesin-like pleckstrin homology domain protein that localizes to the trypanosomal microtubule quartet Molecular Microbiology 118: 155–174. DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14958
  • Kaurov I., Heller J., Deisenhammer S., Potěšil D., Zdráhal Z., Hashimi H. (2022) The essential cysteines in the CIPC motif of the thioredoxin-like Trypanosoma brucei MICOS subunit TbMic20 do not form an intramolecular disulfide bridge in vivo Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 248: 111463. DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2022.111463
  • Bílý T., Sheikh S., Mallet A., Bastin P., Pérez-Morga D., Lukeš J., Hashimi H. (2021) Ultrastructural Changes of the Mitochondrion During the Life Cycle of Trypanosoma brucei. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 68: e12846. DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12846
  • Cadena L., Gahura O., Panicucci B., Panicucci Zíková A., Hashimi H. (2021) Mitochondrial Contact Site and Cristae Organization System and F1FO-ATP Synthase Crosstalk Is a Fundamental Property of Mitochondrial Cristae mSphere 16: e0032721. DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00327-21
  • Durante I., Butenko A., Rašková V., Charyyeva A., Svobodová M., Yurchenko V., Hashimi H., Lukeš J. (2020) Large-Scale Phylogenetic Analysis of Trypanosomatid Adenylate Cyclases Reveals Associations with Extracellular Lifestyle and Host-Pathogen Interplay Genome Biology and Evolution 12: 2403–2416. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa226
  • Pánek T., Eliáš M., Vancová M., Lukeš J., Hashimi H. (2020) Returning to the Fold for Lessons in Mitochondrial Crista Diversity and Evolution Current Biology 30: R575–R588. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.053
  • Eichenberger C., Oeljeklaus S., Bruggisser J., Mani J. , Haenni B. , Kaurov I., Niemann M. , Zuber B. , Lukeš J., Hashimi H., Warscheid B., Schimanski B., Schneider A. (2019) The highly diverged trypanosomal MICOS complex is organized in a nonessential integral membrane and an essential peripheral module Molecular Microbiology 12: 1731–1743. DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14389
  • Hashimi H. (2019) A parasite’s take on the evolutionary cell biology of MICOS PLOS Pathogens 15: e1008166. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008166
  • Maslov D., Opperdoes F.R., Kostygov A., Hashimi H., Lukeš J., Yurchenko V. (2019) Recent advances in trypanosomatid research: genome organization, expression, metabolism, taxonomy and evolution. Parasitology 146: 1–27. DOI: 10.1017/S0031182018000951
  • Faktorová D., Bär A., Hashimi H., McKenney K., Horák A., Schnaufer A., Rubio M., Alfonzo J., Lukeš J. (2018) TbUTP10, a protein involved in early stages of pre-18S rRNA processing in Trypanosoma brucei Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 225: 84–93. DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2018.09.003
  • Kaurov I., Vancová M., Schimanski B., Cadena L.R., Heller J., Bílý T., Potěšil D., Eichenberger C., Bruce H., Oeljeklaus S., Warscheid B., Zdráhal Z., Schneider A., Lukeš J., Hashimi H. (2018) The diverged trypanosome MICOS complex as a hub for mitochondrial cristae shaping and protein import Current Biology 28: 3393–3407. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.09.008
  • Lukeš J., Butenko A., Hashimi H., Maslov D., Votýpka_LBMP J., Yurchenko V. (2018) Trypanosomatids Are Much More than Just Trypanosomes: Clues from the Expanded Family Tree Trends in Parasitology 34: 466-480.. DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2018.03.002
  • Benz C., Stříbrná E., Hashimi H., Lukeš J. (2017) Dynamin-like proteins in Trypanosoma brucei: A division of labour between two paralogs? PLoS ONE 12: e0177200. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177200
  • Dixit S., Müller-McNicoll M., David V., Zarnack K., Ule J., Hashimi H., Lukeš J. (2017) Differential Binding of Mitochondrial Transcripts by MRB8170 and MRB4160 Regulates Distinct Editing Fates of Mitochondrial mRNA in Trypanosomes mBio 8: e02288-16. DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02288-1
  • Hashimi H., Kaltenbrunner S., Zíková A., Lukeš J. (2016) Trypanosome Mitochondrial Translation and Tetracycline: No Sweat about Tet PLoS Pathogens 12: e1005492. DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005492
  • Read L., Lukeš J., Hashimi H. (2016) Trypanosome RNA editing: the complexity of getting U in and taking U out. Wiley Interdiscip Reviews RNA 7: 33-51. DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1313
  • David V., Flegontov P., Gerasimov E.S., Tanifuji G., Hashimi H., Logacheva M., Maruyama S., Onodera N., Gray M., Archibald J., Lukeš J. (2015) Gene loss and error-prone RNA editing in the mitochondrion of Perkinsela, an endosymbiotic kinetoplastid mBio 6: e01498-15. DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01498-15
  • Huang Z., Faktorová D., Křížová A., Kafková L., Read L., Lukeš J., Hashimi H. (2015) Integrity of the core mitochondrial RNA-binding complex 1 is vital for trypanosome RNA editing RNA 21: 2088-2102. DOI: 10.1261/rna.052340.115
  • Verner Z., Basu S., Benz C., Dixit S., Dobáková E., Faktorová D., Hashimi H., Horáková E., Huang Z., Paris Z., Pena P., Ridlon L., Týč J., Wildridge D., Zíková A., Lukeš J. (2015) The malleable mitochondrion of Trypanosoma brucei Internation Review of Cell and Molecular Biology 315: 73-151. DOI: 10.1016/bs.ircmb.2014.11.001
  • Huang Z., Kaltenbrunner S., Šimková E., Staněk D., Lukeš J., Hashimi H. (2014) The dynamics of mitochondrial RNA-binding protein complex in Trypanosoma brucei and its petite mutant under optimized immobilization conditions Eukaryotic Cell 13: 1232-1240. DOI: 10.1128/EC.00149-14
  • Ammerman M., Tomasello D., Faktorová D., Kafková L., Hashimi H., Lukeš J., Read L. (2013) A Core MRB1 Complex Component Is Indispensable for RNA Editing in Insect and Human Infective Stages of Trypanosoma brucei PLoS ONE 8: e78015. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078015
  • Cristodero M., Mani J., Oeljeklaus S., Aeberhard L., Hashimi H., Ramrath D., Lukeš J., Warscheid B., Schneider A. (2013) Mitochondrial translation factors of Trypanosoma brucei: Elongation factor-Tu has a unique subdomain that is essential for its function Molecular microbiology 90: 744-755. DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12397
  • Hashimi H., Mcdonald L., Lukeš J., Stříbrná E. (2013) Trypanosome Letm1 Protein Is Essential for Mitochondrial Potassium Homeostasis Journal of Biological Chemistry 288: 26914-26925.
  • Hashimi H., Zimmer S., Ammerman M., Read L., Lukeš J. (2013) Dual core processing: MRB1 is an emerging kinetoplast RNA editing complex Trends in Parasitology 29: 91-99. DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2012.11.005
  • Ammerman M., Downey K., Hashimi H., Fisk J., Tomasello D., Kafkova L., Faktorová D., King T., Lukeš J., Read L. (2012) Architecture of the trypanosome RNA editing accessory complex MRB1. Nucleic Acids Research 40: 5637-5650. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks211
  • Kafková L., Ammerman M., Faktorová D., Fisk J., Zimmer S., Sobotka R., Read L., Lukeš J., Hashimi H. (2012) Functional characterization of two paralogs that are novel RNA binding proteins influencing mitochondrial transcripts of Trypanosoma brucei RNA 18: 1-16.
  • Ammerman M., Hashimi H., Novotná L., Číčová Z., Mcevoy S., Lukeš J., Read L. (2011) MRB3010 is a core component of the MRB1 complex that facilitates an early step of the kinetoplastid RNA editing process. RNA 17: 865–877. DOI: 10.1261/rna.2446311
  • Paris Z., Hashimi H., Lun S., Alfonzo J., Lukeš J. (2011) Futile import of tRNAs and proteins into the mitochondrion of Trypanosoma brucei evansi. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 176: 116–120. DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.12.010
  • Hashimi H., Benkovičová V., Čermáková P., Lai D., Horváth A., Lukeš J. (2010) The assembly of F1FO-ATP synthase is disrupted upon interference of RNA editing in Trypanosoma brucei. International Journal for Parasitology 40: 45–54. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2009.07.005
  • Lukeš J., Hashimi H., Verner Z., Číčová Z. (2010) The remarkable mitochondrion of trypanosomes and related flagellates. In: W. de Souza (Ed.), Structures and Organelles in Pathogenic Protists. Microbiology Monographs 17. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 228–252.
  • Hashimi H., Číčová Z., Novotná L., Wen Y., Lukeš J. (2009) Kinetoplastid guide RNA biogenesis is dependent on subunits of the mitochondrial RNA binding complex 1 and mitochondrial RNA polymerase. RNA 15: 588-599. DOI: 10.1261/rna.1411809
  • Hashimi H., Zíková A., Panigrahi A., Stuart K., Lukeš J. (2008) TbRGG1, an essential protein involved in kinetoplastid RNA metabolism that is associated with a novel multiprotein complex. RNA 14: 970-980. DOI: 10.1261/rna.888808
  • Lai D., Hashimi H., Lun Z., Ayala F., Lukeš J. (2008) Adaptations of Trypanosoma brucei to gradual loss of kinetoplast DNA: Trypanosoma equiperdum and Trypanosoma evansi are petite mutants of T. brucei. PNAS 105: 1999-2004. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711799105
  • Lukeš J., Hashimi H., Zíková A. (2005) Unexplained complexity of the mitochondrial genome and transcriptome in kinetoplastid flagellates. Current Genetics 48: 277-299. DOI: 10.1007/s00294-005-0027-0

Publication metrics

Collated from Web of Science on 31 March 2026:
Total publications: 44
Hirsh index: 21
Total citating articles (excluding self-citations): 1071
Total citations (excluding self-citations): 1617
Collated from Google Scholar on 31 March 2026:
Hirsh index: 24
i10-index (# articles with ≥10 citations): 34
Total citations: 2698

Supervised and successfully defended students

Ph.D (Doctoral) theses (reverse chronological order):
2023
Shaghayegh Sheikh - ‘Factors involved in Trypanosoma brucei mitochondrial morphology’
  • 2023: Dissertation was awarded the ‘Dean’s prize for excellent results’
  • 2021: Best talk prize at the 50th Jírovec's Protozoological Days in Nové Hrady
  • 2019-2021: Grant Agency of the University of South Bohemia awarded grant
  • Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Sweden
2019
Iosif Kaurov - ‘Biology of the Mitochondrial Contact Site and Cristae Organizing System in Trypanosomatids’
  • 2019-2021: Grant Agency of the University of South Bohemia awarded grant
  • Current position: South Bohemian Museum, Natural Science Department, České Budějovice
2015
Zhenqui Huang - ‘The dynamics of the MRP1/2 complex and the function of intact MRB1 core for RNA editing in Trypanosoma brucei’
  • Subsequent positions:
    • 2016-2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, Arizona State University, USA,
    • 2018-2022: Research Associate, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, New York, USA,
  • Current position: Senior Scientist, Merck, New Jersey, USA

Magister (Diploma) theses (reverse chronological order):
2021
Lawrence Rudy Cadena ‘The Mitochondrial Contact Site and Cristae Organization System and F1FO-ATP Synthase Crosstalk is a Fundamental Property of Mitochondrial Cristae’
  • Current position: Doctoral Student, Institute of Microbial Cell Biology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
2017
Sabine Kaltenbrunner ‘Characterization of TbPH1, a kinetoplastid specific pleckstrin homology domain containing kinesin like protein’
  • Current position: Technical Assistant, Department of Hematology and Internal Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
2012
Lucie Kafková ‘Functional characterization of two paralogs that are novel RNA binding proteins influencing mitochondrial transcripts of Trypanosoma brucei’
  • 2012: Awarded Dean’s prize for best magister (diploma) thesis
  • 2011: Best talk prize, RNA club, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Subsequent positions:
    • 2012-2018: Doctoral Student, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA
    • 2018-2023: Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford University, UK.
  • Current position: Project Manager, WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network, Infectious Diseases Data Observatory, Oxford, UK
2010
Lucie Novotná ‘Functional analysis of subunit MRB3010 of the mitochondrial RNA binding complex 1 in Trypanosoma brucei’
  • Current position: Postdoctoral researcher, Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, USA
2009
Zdeňka Čičová ‘Functional analysis of subunits of the mitochondrial RNA binding complex 1 in T. brucei’.
  • Subsequent positions:
    • 2012-2016: Doctoral Student, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, Biocenter, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
    • 2017-2020: Study Director, Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing Munich, Germany
  • Current position: Team leader, Dynamic Biosensors, Munich Germany

Bachelor theses (reverse chronological order):
2024
Tereza Wagner ‘Investigation of MICOS in two life cycle stages of Trypanosoma brucei’.
  • Awarded dean’s prize for excellent results
  • Current position: Magister student, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
2019
Nora Müller ‘The novel kinetoplastid kinesin TbKIFx and its partner TbPH1 are associated with specific cytoskeletal structures of Trypanosoma brucei’
  • Awarded dean’s prize for excellent results
  • Current position: Magister student, Institute of Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
2018
Lawrence Rudy Cadena ‘Insights into the Evolutionary Conserved Mitochondrial Contact Site and Cristae Organization System in Trypanosoma brucei Through RNA Interference’
2014
Adéla Křižová ‘Functional Analysis of Protein MRB8620 of the Mitochondrial RNA binding Complex 1 of Trypanosoma brucei’
  • Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
2014
Jiří Ťapal ‘Funkční analýza proteinu TbFis1 u Trypanosomy brucei.’
2014
Sabine Kaltenbrunner ‘The Localization of the Mitochondrial Proteins MRP1, KREL2 and LSU1 of Trypanosoma brucei’
2010
Lucie Hanzálková .’Functional analysis of two subunits of the putative Mitochondrial RNA Binding Complex 1 in Trypansoma brucei’
2008
Lucie Novotná ‘Investigation and of function and composition of the novel mitochondrial complex MRB1 in Trypanosoma brucei’

Erasmus Work Placement Exchange theses (reverse chronological order):
2016
Hannah Bruce ’Analysis of Conserved MICOS Complex Components in Trypanosoma brucei’ University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • Subsequent positions:
    • 2018-2020: Advanced Research Assistant, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.
    • 2020-?: Production Scientist, Abercorn Sinclair, Edinburgh, UK.
2010
Lindsay Mary McDonald ‘Functional analysis of mitochondrial protein LetM1 in Trypanosoma brucei brucei and akinetoplastic Trypanosoma brucei evansi’ University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.
  • Subsequent positions:
    • 2012-2015: Doctoral Student, Institute for Immunology and Infection Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
    • 2016-?: Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
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