Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
Ing. Pavol Sulo, CSc.
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
Sulo
I.2 - Name
Pavol
I.3 - Degrees
Dr. PhD
I.4 - Year of birth
1957
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Department of Biochemistry
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Comenius University Faculty of Natural Sciences Ilkovicova ulica 6, CH1-227 84215 Bratislava Slovakia
I.7 - Position
Research scientist group leader
I.8 - E-mail address
pavol.sulo@uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/4466
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Biochemistry
I.11 - ORCID iD
orcid 0000-0003-1845-9031

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Chemical Technology STU
II.b - Year
1981
II.c - Study field and programme
Fermentation chemistry and technology
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Chemical Technology STU
II.b - Year
1981
II.c - Study field and programme
Fermentation chemistry and technology
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Natural Sciences, J.E. Purkyně v Brne
II.b - Year
1987
II.c - Study field and programme
Biochemistry
II.4 - Associate professor
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
Researcher Research Institute LIKO, Bratislava 1981
PhD student Institute of Animal Physiology, SAV, Ivánka pri Dunaji 1982-1986
Research scientist Institute of Biotechnology STU and Department of Biochemical Technology Faculty of Chemical Technology STU, Bratislava 1986– 1991
postdoc Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA 1991-1993
postdoc Institut fur Microbiologie, und Genetik Universität Wien, Viedeň, Rakúsko 1994-1995
Researcher Department of Molecular Biology, Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, 1996-1997
research scientits, group leader Department of Biochemistry, Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences 1998- up to date

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.1.a - Name of the profile course V.1.b - Study programme V.1.c - Degree V.1.d - Field of study
Methods in Biochemistry Chemistry 1 Biochemistry
Applied biochemistry and biotechnology Chemistry 2 Biochemistry
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)
1
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
1
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
0
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
46
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
41
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
10
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

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
143
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
31
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
47
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
8
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
892
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
302
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
909
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
274
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
5
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
0
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

Morales, M. J., Dang, Y. L., Lou, Y. C., Sulo, P., Martin, N. C. (1992) A 105-kDa protein is required for

yeast mitochondrial RNase P activity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89, 9875-9879

2

Sulo, P., Martin, N. C. (1993) Isolation and Characterization of LIP5: A Lipoate Biosynthetic Locus of

S.cerevisiae. J. Biol. Chem. 268, 17634-17639

3

Marinoni, G., Manuel, M., Petersen, R. F., Hvidtfeldt, J., Sulo, P., Piškur, J. (1999) Horizontal Transfer of

Genetic Material among Sacharomyces Yeasts. J. Bacteriol. 181, 6488-6496


4

Merico, A, Sulo, P., Piskur, J., Compagno C. (2007) Fermentative lifestyle in yeasts belonging to the

Saccharomyces complex. FEBS J. 274, 976-989

5

Špírek M., Poláková S., Jatzová K., Sulo, P. (2015) Post-zygotic sterility and cytonuclear compatibility

limits in S. cerevisiae xenomitochondrial cybrids. Frontiers in Genetics, 5, 454

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

Sulo P, Szabóová D, Bielik P, Poláková S, Šoltys K, Jatzová K, Szemes T. The evolutionary history of

Saccharomyces species inferred from completed mitochondrial genomes and revision in the ‘yeast mitochondrial

genetic code’. DNA Research, 2017, 24(6), 571–583


2

Sulo P, Šipková B. DNA diagnostics for reliable and universal identification of Helicobacter pylori. World J Gastroenterol 2021; 27(41): 7100-7112

3

Šeligová, B., Lukáč, Ľ., Bábelová, M., Vávrová, S. a Sulo, P. (2020) Diagnostic reliability of nested PCR depends on

the primer design and threshold abundance of Helicobacter pylori in biopsy, stool, and saliva samples. Helicobacter.

25:1-13. https ://doi.org/10.1111/hel.12680

4

Bágeľová Poláková, S., Lichtner, Ž., Szemes, T. Smolejova, M., Sulo, P. Mitochondrial DNA duplication,

recombination, and introgression during interspecific hybridization. Sci Rep 11, 12726 (2021).

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92125-y

5

Smolejová M, Cihová I, Sulo P. Reliable and Sensitive Nested PCR for the Detec tion of Chlamydia in Sputum.

Mikroorganizmus. 2021; 9(5):935. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9050935

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

Greig, D; Louis, EJ; Borts, RH; Travisano, M: Hybrid speciation in experimental populations of yeast: SCIENCE, 298 (5599): 1773-1775 NOV 29 2002 ISSN: 0036-8075

2

Guo, DW; Hazbun, TR; Xu, XJ; Ng, SL; Fields, S; Kuo, MH: A tethered catalysis, two-hybrid system to identify protein-protein interactions requiring post-translational modifications NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY, 22 (7): 888-892 JUL 2004 ISSN: 1087-0156

3

Dujon, B. Yeast evolutionary genomics. NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS, 11 (7): 512-524 JUL 2010 ISSN: 1471-0056


4

Wolfe, K: Evolutionary biology - Speciation reversal NATURE, 422 (6927): 25-26 MAR 6 2003 ISSN: 0028-0836

5

Delneri, D; Colson, I; Grammenoudi, S; Roberts, IN; Louis, EJ; Oliver, SG Engineering evolution to study speciation in yeasts NATURE, 422 (6927): 68-72 MAR 6 2003 ISSN: 0028-0836

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

Principal investigator: "Interactions of mitochondria and nuclei in the process of speciation" VEGA 1/0048/16 (2016-2020)

2

Principal investigator: "Interactions of mitochondrial genomes" VEGA 1/0013/20 (2021-2023)

3

Researcher: APVV grant PP-COVID-20-0051 (2020-2021)

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

Date of last update
2023-08-02