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Martin Kucej

Martin Kucej

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Member since: June 07, 2001

Martin Kucej is a PostDoc Fellow at the Department of Molecular Biology, Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Texas. His scientific interests include cancer biology, cell cycle and mitochondrial biogenesis. He is the founder of BioBanner.org portal and the author of I, Librarian software.

Current address

Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
6000 Harry Hines Blvd
Dallas, TX
United States

Education

PhD. in Biochemistry
Comenius University Bratislava
1997 — 2004
MSc. in Chemistry and Biochemistry
Comenius University Bratislava
1992 — 1997

Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow
Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
2004 — 2010
Assistant Professor
Comenius University Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2002 — 2004
visiting scientist
Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2000 — 2001

Skills

  • laboratory techniques of molecular biology and genetics
  • PHP, SQL, and HTML

Activities

  • Member of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Associated Director of Bioinformatics Organization

Interests

  • cell cycle
  • mitochondrial biogenesis
  • jazz and blues
  • RPG

References

Kucej M, Zou H. (2010) DNA-dependent cohesin cleavage by separase. Nucleus.

Sun Y, Kucej M, Fan H-Y, Yu H, Sun Q-Y, Zou H. (2009) Separase is recruited to mitotic chromosomes to dissolve sister chromatid cohesion in a DNA-dependent manner. Cell.

Kucej M, Kucejova B, Subramanian R, Chen XJ, Butow RA. (2008) Mitochondrial nucleoids undergo remodeling in response to metabolic cues. Journal of Cell Science.

Kucej M, Butow RA. (2007) Evolutionary tinkering with mitochondrial nucleoids. Trends in Cell Biology.

Kucejova B, Kucej M, Petrezselyova S, Abelovska L, Tomaska L. (2005) A screen for nigericin-resistant yeast mutants revealed genes controlling mitochondrial volume and mitochondrial cation homeostasis. Genetics.

Other

Kucej M, Foury F. (2003) Iron toxicity protection by truncated Ras2 GTPase in yeast strain lacking frataxin. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.

Kucej M, Kosa P, Adamikova L, Nosek J. (2002) Isolation of genes coding for Ade2 and Ura3 homologues from the multinuclear yeast Dipodascus magnusii. Current Genetics.

Foury F, Kucej M. (2002) Yeast mitochondrial biogenesis: a model system for humans? Current Opinions in Chemical Biology.

Forum comments (10)

I, Librarian: bibliography manager
Re: PDF sometimes does not upload - SOLVED!
Submitted by Martin Kucej ; posted on Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Re: Automating PDF Uploading?
Submitted by Martin Kucej ; posted on Tuesday, April 7, 2009
PDF sometimes does not upload - SOLVED!
Submitted by Martin Kucej ; posted on Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Editing categories
Submitted by Martin Kucej ; posted on Sunday, December 28, 2003
directory to store pdfs
Submitted by Martin Kucej ; posted on Monday, October 27, 2003
Editing categories
Submitted by Martin Kucej ; posted on Monday, October 13, 2003
Development plans?
Submitted by Martin Kucej ; posted on Monday, October 13, 2003
News & Commentary
the sum of all fears
Submitted by Martin Kucej ; posted on Saturday, July 13, 2002
Incyte
Submitted by Martin Kucej ; posted on Thursday, May 16, 2002
Incyte
Submitted by Martin Kucej ; posted on Thursday, May 16, 2002

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