Education and qualification

2011	Prof.	Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno
2004	Doc.	Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno
1997	Ph.D.	Department of Microbiology, Masaryk University, Brno
1993	MSc.	Department of Microbiology, Masaryk University, Brno

Employment

2003-now

Loschmidt Laboratories, Department of Experimental Biology and Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Research interests

protein design and evolution; metabolic engineering; fundamental enzymology; biocatalysis; molecular biotechnology

Teaching                     

Bioinformatics; Protein Design and Engineering; Structure and Function of Proteins; Structural Biochemistry; Professional English for Molecular Biologists; Introduction to the study of Special Biology; Summer School of Protein Engineering

Editorial boards

2009-now	Microbial Biotechnology, Member of Editorial Board (Blackwell Publishing, USA)
2008-now	Current Opinion in Biotechnology, Member of Editorial Board (Elsevier, The Netherlands)
2005-now	Biotechnology Journal, Member of Editorial Board (Wiley-VCH, Germany)
2003-2008	Central European Journal of Chemistry, Editor, Biological Chemistry and Biochemistry (Central European Science Journals, Poland)
2003-2008	FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Editor (Federation of European Microbiological Societies, Elsevier, The Netherlands)
2001-2003	Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Member of Editorial Board, (SETAC Press, USA)

Scientific boards

2013-now	Institute of Computer Science, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
2012-now	Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
2010-now	Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
2010-now	Centre for Applied Microbiology and Immunology in Veterinary Medicine, Research Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Czech Republic
2009-now	Department of Experimental Biology, Masaryk University, Czech Republi
2006-now	European Federation of Biotechnology, Section on Applied Biocatalysis, European Union
2002-2006	Research Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Brno, Czech Republic

Awards

1. European Molecular Biology Organization and Howard Hughes Medical Institute EMBO/HHMI Scientist 2003
2. Award of the Czech Chemical Society

Alfred Bader Prize for Bioorganic Chemistry 2002

1. Award of the Czech Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

BIOTECH 1998

1. Award of the Czechoslovak Microbiological Society

Young Czech and Slovak Microbiologist of the Year 97

Stages abroad

July 2011	Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington (Seattle, USA)
September 2004	International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (Warsaw, PL)
August 1997	Umea University (Umea, S)
June 1997	The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA)
June-July 1996	University of Groningen (Groningen, NL)
September 1994	University of Kent at Canterbury (Canterbury, UK)
January 1994	University of Tennessee (Knoxville, USA)
February 1993	University of Utrecht (Utrecht, NL)

Recent key publications

Gora, A., Brezovsky, J., Damborsky, J., 2013, Chemical Reviews 113: 5871-5923.

Koudelakova, T., Chaloupkova, R., Brezovsky, J., Prokop, Z., Sebestova, E., Hesseler, M., Khabiri, M., Plevaka, M., Kulik, D., Kuta Smatanova, I., Rezacova, P., Ettrich, R., Bornscheuer, U. T., Damborsky, J., 2013, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 52: 1959-1963.

Chovancova, E., Pavelka, A., Benes, P., Strnad, O., Brezovsky, J., Kozlikova, B., Gora, A., Sustr, V., Klvana, M., Medek, P., Biedermannova, L., Sochor, J., Damborsky, J., 2012, PLoS Computational Biology 8: e1002708.

Prokop, Z., Sato, Y., Brezovsky, J., Mozga, T., Chaloupkova, R., Koudelakova, T., Jerabek, P., Stepankova, V., Natsume, R., Leeuwen, J. G. E., Janssen, D. B., Florian, J., Nagata, Y., Senda, T., Damborsky, J., 2010, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 49: 6111-6115.

Pavlova, M., Klvana, M., Chaloupkova, R., Banas, P., Otyepka, M., Wade, R., Nagata, Y., Damborsky, J., 2009, Nature Chemical Biology 5: 727-733.

Damborsky, J., Brezovsky, J., 2009, Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 13: 26-34.