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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 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

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