David Prangishvili - CV

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

Education / training

 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                                   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 (Associate professor), Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Honours and awards

Foreign Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (elected in 2011)

Prize for Science and Technology, USSR Counsel of Ministers, 1979

Alexander von Humboldt – Fellowship, Germany, 1992, 1999-2001

Professional activites

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

Associate Editor of Virology Journal (since 2012)

Member of the Editorial Board of Environmental Microbiology (since 2011)

Member of the Editorial Board of Archaea (since 2010)

Guest editor of Virology special issue “Viruses of Microbes”, 2012

Guest editor of Environmental Microbiology special issue "Environmental viruses", 2009

Elected Member of the Executive Committee of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, 2008

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

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

Gothenburg, Sweden, June 2009

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

Summary of research activity

136 Academic Publications:

99 original papers, 36 book chapters and reviews, and 1 book

2 International  Patents:

“Thermostable DNA polymerase of the archaeal ampullavirus ABV and its application”. “Homomultimeric structure by assembly of SIRV2-P98 protein”.