David Prangishvili - CV

Date/Place of birth: November  24, 1948 – Tbilisi, Georgia, ex-USSR
Citizenship: German

Education / training

 INSTITUTION and LOCATION

DEGREE

YEAR(s)

FIELD OF STUDIES

Tbilisi State University, Georgia,  ex-USSR

Graduated with honours

1966 -1970

Physics, Biophysics (Dipl.)

 

Institute of Molecular Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Candidate of Sciences (PhD/Doctor equivalent)

1976

Molecular Biology

Institute of Molecular Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Doctor of Sciences, (TenuredProfessor/ Habilitation equivalent)

1989

 

Molecular Biology

 

Université Paris-Sud XI, Orsay, France

Habilitation à Diriger
des Recherches

2004

Sciences de la Vie

Appointments / carreer

1971 - 1977 : Research associate, Institute of Molecular Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow

1977 - 1984 : Research associate, Institute of Physiology, Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia

1984 - 1992 : Head of the Department of Molecular Biology of Archaebacteria, Institute of Molecular Biology and and Biophysics, Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia

1992  - 1999 : Research associate, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

1999  -  2004 : Principal research director, Department of Microbiology – Archaea Centre,      University of Regensburg, Germany

2004  - present : Chef de Laboratoire, Institut Pasteur, Paris

 

Honours and awards

Foreign Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (elected in 2011)
Prize for Science and Technology, 1979, USSR Counsel of Ministers
Alexander von Humboldt – Fellowship, Germany, 1992, 1999-2001

Professional activities

- Associate Editor of Research in Microbiology (Editor-in-chief in 2007-2010)

- Member of the Editorial Board of Environmental Microbiology (Co-editor of special issue "Environmental viruses" in 2009)

- Member of the Editorial Board of Archaea

- Elected Member of the Executive Committee of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (since 2008)

- Main organizer of the bilateral USSR-German symposium “Archaebacteria”, Tbilisi, October 1990

- Co-organizer of the symposium „Extremophiles“ at the 3rd Congress of European Microbiologists FEMS 2009, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 2009

- Co-organizer of the 1st International Congress „Viruses of Microbes“, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, June 2010

 

Summary of research activity

125 Academic Publications, including 92 original papers 32 book chapters, reviews and 1 book.

2 International  Patents: “Thermostable DNA polymerase of the archaeal ampullavirus ABV and its applications” and “Homomultimeric structure by assembly of SIRV2-P98 protein”.