Imrich Barak
Institute of Molecular Biology
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Biography
Education and training 1984 – MSc in chemistry, Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Bratislava 1991 – PhD in molecular biology, Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences 2002 – DrSc in microbiology, Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences Work experience 2008 – present - Director of Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences 1996 – present - Head of Department of Microbial Genetics, Institute of Molecular Biology, SAS 2002 - visiting scientist from Royal Society in Oxford University UK 1999, 2001 - visiting scientist of York University UK 1994, 1995, 1996 - visiting scientist at University of Georgia, Athens, USA 1991-1993 postdoctoral fellow at Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, USA 1984-1991 Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Research Interest
His main research focus is on Molecular biology of cell differentiation and cell division, microbiology, structural biology, genome wide gene expression, DNA chips and biomolecular recognition.
