Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
Mgr. Zdenko Levarski, PhD.
Document type:
Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:
Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:
Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Levarski
I.2 - Name
Zdenko
I.3 - Degrees
Mgr., PhD
I.4 - Year of birth
1986
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Ilkovičova 6, 842 15 Bratislava
I.7 - Position
researcher
I.8 - E-mail address
zdenko.levarski@uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/22266?do=filterForm-submit&name=Zdenko&surname=Levarski&sort=surname&employment_state=yes&filter=Vyh%C4%BEada%C5%A5
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
molecular biology, biotechnology
I.11 - ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9824-9140

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences
II.b - Year
2008
II.c - Study field and programme
biotechnology
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences
II.b - Year
2010
II.c - Study field and programme
Molecular biology
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences
II.b - Year
2014
II.c - Study field and programme
biotechnology
II.4 - Associate professor
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses
V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
3
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
3
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
14
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
13
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.5.a - Name of the course V.5.b - Study programme V.5.c - Degree V.5.d - Field of study
Regulation of Gene Expression Biological chemistry I. Biology
Molecular Biology Biological chemistry I. Biology
Bioetika Biology I. Biology
Legislatíva a biologická bezpečnosť biotechnológií Molecular biology II. Biology
Agrobiotechnológie a environmentálne biotechnológie biotechnology II. Biotechnology

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations
VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
153
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
118
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
8
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
4
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
69
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
59
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
56
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
53
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
0
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
0
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

Levarski, Z., Soltysova, A., Krahulec, J., Stuchlik, S., and Turna, J. (2014) High-level expression and purification of recombinant human growth hormone produced in soluble form in Escherichia coli. Protein expression and purification 100, 40-47

2

Jaffe, S., Strutton, B., Levarski, Z., Pandhal, J., and Wright, P.C. (2014): Escherichia coli as a glycoprotein production host: recent developments and challenges, Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 30, 205-210

3

Mahesh Madyagol, Hend Al-Alami, Zdenko Levarski, Hana Drahovská, Ján Turňa, Stanislav Stuchlík (2011): Gene replacement techniques for Escherichia coli genome modification, Folia Microbiologica, vol. 56, No 3, 253 – 263. 

4

Kormanová, Rybecká, S., Levarski, Z., Struhárňanská, E., Levarská, L., Blaško, J., Turňa, J., Stuchlík, S. Comparison of simple expression procedures in novel expression host Vibrio natriegens and established Escherichia coli system (2020) Journal of Biotechnology, 321, pp. 57-67. 

5

Struhárňanská, E., Chovanová, M., Rybecká, S., Mikulášová, M., Levarski, Z., Zámocký, M., Stuchlík, S., Turňa, J. Evaluation of thermostable catalase-peroxidase AfKatG supplementation on toxicity of residual hydrogen peroxide in cultivation media of lactic acid bacteria from starter cultures (2019) General Physiology and Biophysics, 38 (5), pp. 455-460. 

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
1

Kormanová, Rybecká, S., Levarski, Z., Struhárňanská, E., Levarská, L., Blaško, J., Turňa, J., Stuchlík, S. Comparison of simple expression procedures in novel expression host Vibrio natriegens and established Escherichia coli system (2020) Journal of Biotechnology, 321, pp. 57-67. 

2

Struhárňanská, E., Chovanová, M., Rybecká, S., Mikulášová, M., Levarski, Z., Zámocký, M., Stuchlík, S., Turňa, J. Evaluation of thermostable catalase-peroxidase AfKatG supplementation on toxicity of residual hydrogen peroxide in cultivation media of lactic acid bacteria from starter cultures (2019) General Physiology and Biophysics, 38 (5), pp. 455-460. 

3

Zdenko Levarski, Milan Fraňo, Stanislava Bírová, Eva Struhárňanská, Jaroslav Blaško, Robert Kubinec, Pavol Koiš, Ján Turňa and Stanislav Stuchlík (2018): Small scale biotransformation of food additive trans-2-hexenal to trans-2-hexenol by recombinant alcohol dehydrogenase and formate dehydrogenase produced in Escherichia coli, Journal of Food and Nutrition Research, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 201–207. 

4

Stanislava Bírová, Zdenko Levarski, Ivana Vidličková, Silvia Pastoreková, Ján Turňa and Stanislav Stuchlík (2017): Purification of small-size acidic proteoglycan-like domain of carbonic anhydrase IX fused with thioredoxine expressed in Escherichia coli for structural characterization, Biologia 72/11: 1240–1246

5

Pecimonova M, Polak E, Csicsay F, Reblova K, Stojiljkovic M, Levarski Z, Skultety L, Kadasi L, and Soltysova A. (2017): Functional and structural characterisation of 5 missense mutations of the phenylalanine hydroxylase, Gen. Physiol. Biophys. 36, 361–371

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
1

State the output and the corresponding citation.

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
1

VEGA 1/0710/18 N-glykozylácia rekombinantných proteínov v bakteriálnom expresnom systéme (zodpovedný riešiteľ)

2

APVV-17-0333 Výskum a vývoj efektívnych procesov prípravy vanilínu a iných prírodných aróm s využitím oxidačného a protektívneho účinku rekombinantnej katalázy a peroxidázy (spoluriešiteľ)

3

APVV-17-0570 Mechanizmus pozičnej signalizácie v rastlinách – pochopenie DEK1 dráhy (spoluriešiteľ)

4

ITMS2014: 313011V446 Integratívna stratégia v rozvoji personalizovanej medicíny vybraných zhubných nádorových ochorení a jej vplyv na kvalitu života (člen kolektívu)

5

ITMS kód projektu: 26240220086 Univerzitný vedecký park Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave (člen kolektívu)

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

IX. - Other relevant facts