Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
doc. RNDr. Tomáš Szemes, 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
Szemes
I.2 - Name
Tomáš
I.3 - Degrees
Assoc. Prof. RNDr., PhD.
I.4 - Year of birth
1980
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Ilkovičova 6, 842 15 Bratislava
I.7 - Position
assistant professor
I.8 - E-mail address
tomas.szemes@uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/4468
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
Biology
I.11 - ORCID iD
0000-0002-0900-2534

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
2001
II.c - Study field and programme
Biology, Molecular Biolology
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
2003
II.c - Study field and programme
Biology, Molecular Biolology
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
2010
II.c - Study field and programme
Biology, Molecular Biolology
II.4 - Associate professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences
II.b - Year
2022
II.c - Study field and programme
Biology, Molecular Biolology
II.5 - Professor
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
assistant professor Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences 2006-2021
Research Scientist Comenius University in Bratislava, Science Park 2016-2021
Chief Scientific Officer Geneton s.r.o. 2011-2021
Associate Professor Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences 2022 - present
Researcher Comenius University in Bratislava, Science Park 2022- present

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
Informatics for biologists Biology and Medical Biology I. Biology
Massively parallel sequencing and data analysis Molecular Biology II. Biology
Pokročilé metódy molekulárnej biológie Molecular Biology II. Biology
Bioinformatics I. Biology
Problem solving and computation in molecular biology Molecular Biology II. Biology
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)
0
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
2
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
5
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
12
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
16
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
7
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
Marketing and economics of biotechnology companies Molecular Biology II. Biology

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
215
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
95
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
129
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
65
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
2859
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
2065
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
2103
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
1602
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
7
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
6
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

Misova I, Pitelova A, Budis J, Gazdarica J, Sedlackova T, Jordakova A, Benko Z, Smondrkova M, Mayerova N, Pichlerova K, Strieskova L, Prevorovsky M, Gregan J, Cipak L, Szemes T, Polakova SB.

Repression of a large number of genes requires interplay between homologous recombination and HIRA.

Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 Feb 26;49(4):1914-1934. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab027.

2

Alm E, Broberg EK, Connor T, Hodcroft EB, Komissarov AB, Maurer-Stroh S, Melidou A, Neher RA, O'Toole Á, Pereyaslov D; WHO European Region sequencing laboratories and GISAID EpiCoV group; WHO European Region sequencing laboratories and GISAID EpiCoV group*.

Geographical and temporal distribution of SARS-CoV-2 clades in the WHO European Region, January to June 2020.

Euro Surveill. 2020 Aug;25(32):2001410. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.32.2001410.

3

Budis J, Gazdarica J, Radvanszky J, Szucs G, Kucharik M, Strieskova L, Gazdaricova I, Harsanyova M, Duris F, Minarik G, Sekelska M, Nagy B, Turna J, Szemes T. Combining count- and length-based z-scores leads to improved predictions in non-invasive prenatal testing. Bioinformatics. 2019 Apr

15;35(8):1284-1291. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty806.

4

Pös O., Radvanszky J., Buglyó G., Pös Z., Rusnakova D., Nagy B., Szemes T.

DNA copy number variation: Main characteristics, evolutionary significance, and pathological aspects

(2021) Biomedical Journal, 44 (5), pp. 548 - 559.

5

Pös O., Biró O., Szemes T., Nagy B.

Circulating cell-free nucleic acids: Characteristics and applications

(2018) European Journal of Human Genetics, 26 (7), pp. 937 - 945

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

Misova I, Pitelova A, Budis J, Gazdarica J, Sedlackova T, Jordakova A, Benko Z, Smondrkova M, Mayerova N, Pichlerova K, Strieskova L, Prevorovsky M, Gregan

J, Cipak L, Szemes T, Polakova SB. Repression of a large number of genes requires interplay between homologous recombination and HIRA. Nucleic Acids Res.

2021 Feb 26;49(4):1914-1934. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab027.

2

Sládeček T., Gažiová M., Kucharík M., Zaťková A., Pös Z., Pös O., Krampl W., Tomková E., Hýblová M., Minárik G., Radvánszky J., Budiš J., Szemes T.

Combination of expert guidelines-based and machine learning-based approaches leads to superior accuracy of automated prediction of clinical effect of copy number variations

(2023) npj Scientific Reports, 13 (1), art. no. 10531

3

Styk J., Pös Z., Pös O., Radvanszky J., Turnova E.H., Buglyó G., Klimova D., Budis J., Repiska V., Nagy B., Szemes T.

Microsatellite instability assessment is instrumental for Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine: status quo and outlook

(2023) EPMA Journal, 14 (1), pp. 143 - 165.

4

Pös O., Radvanszky J., Buglyó G., Pös Z., Rusnakova D., Nagy B., Szemes T.

DNA copy number variation: Main characteristics, evolutionary significance, and pathological aspects

(2021) Biomedical Journal, 44 (5), pp. 548 - 559.

5

Horti-Oravecz K., Bozsik A., Pócza T., Vereczkey I., Strausz T., Tóth E., Sedlackova T., Rusnakova D., Szemes T., Likó I., Oláh E., Butz H., Patócs A., Papp J., Grolmusz V.K.

Whole genome sequencing completes the molecular genetic testing workflow of patients with Lynch syndrome

(2025) npj Genomic Medicine, 10 (1), art. no. 5

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

Adrees, M., Ali, S., Rizwan, M., Zia-ur-Rehman, M., Ibrahim, M., Abbas, F., Farid, M., Qayyum, M.F., Irshad, M.K. Mechanisms of silicon-mediated alleviation of heavy metal toxicity in plants: A review (2015) Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 119, pp. 186-197. Cited 715 times.

2

Mouliere, F., Chandrananda, D., Piskorz, A.M., Moore, E.K., Morris, J., Ahlborn, L.B., Mair, R., Goranova, T., Marass, F., Heider, K., Wan, J.C.M., Supernat, A., Hudecova, I., Gounaris, I., Ros, S., Jimenez-Linan, M., Garcia-Corbacho, J., Patel, K., Østrup, O., Murphy, S., Eldridge, M.D., Gale, D., Stewart, G.D., Burge, J., Cooper, W.N., Van Der Heijden, M.S., Massie, C.E., Watts, C., Corrie, P., Pacey, S., Brindle, K.M., Baird, R.D., Mau-Sørensen, M., Parkinson, C.A., Smith, C.G., Brenton, J.D., Rosenfeld, N. Enhanced detection of circulating tumor DNA by fragment size analysis (2018) Science Translational Medicine, 10 (466), . Cited 682 times.

3

Søreide, K., Sandvik, O.M., Søreide, J.A., Giljaca, V., Jureckova, A., Bulusu, V.R. Global epidemiology of gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST): A systematic review of population-based cohort studies (2016) Cancer Epidemiology, 40, pp. 39-46. Cited 541 times.

4

Singh, S., Singh, S.K., Chowdhury, I., Singh, R. Understanding the mechanism of bacterial biofilms resistance to antimicrobial agents (2017) Open Microbiology Journal, 11, pp. 53-62. Cited 520 times.

5

Montalbán-López M., Scott T.A., Ramesh S., Rahman I.R., Van Heel A.J., Viel J.H., Bandarian V., Dittmann E., Genilloud O., Goto Y., Grande Burgos M.J., Hill C., Kim S., Koehnke J., Latham J.A., Link A.J., Martínez B., Nair S.K., Nicolet Y., Rebuffat S., Sahl H.-G., Sareen D., Schmidt E.W., Schmitt L., Severinov K., Süssmuth R.D., Truman A.W., Wang H., Weng J.-K., Van Wezel G.P., Zhang Q., Zhong J., Piel J., Mitchell D.A., Kuipers O.P., Van Der Donk W.A.

New developments in RiPP discovery, enzymology and engineering

(2021) Natural Product Reports, 38 (1), pp. 130 - 239, Cited 441 times.

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

Horizon Europe/FORGENOM II - Fostering Excellence in Advanced Genomics and Proteomics Research at Comenius University in Bratislava (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02-01 - Twinning Bottom-Up) - since 2024 - Principal Investigator of coordinator

2

H2020/PANGAIA - Pan-genome Graph Algorithms and Data Integration (MSCA-RISE-2019 - Research and Innovation Staff Exchange) - since 2020 - Principal Investigator of coordinator

3

OPVaI-VA/DP/2018 - Dlhodobý strategický výskum a vývoj zameraný na výskyt Lynchovho syndrómu v populácii SR a možnosti prevencie nádorov spojených s týmto syndrómom - 2020-2023 - Principal Investigator of coordinator

4

APVV-VV-21-0296/INCAM - Identifikácia nových biomarkerov spojených s relapsom metastatického kolorektálneho karcinómu po metastasektómii - since 2021 - Principal Investigator of coordinator

5

APVV-PP-COVID-20-0051/NecroCov - Analýza príčin úmrtia pacientov a optimalizácia diferenciálnej diagnostiky v súvislosti s infekciou SARS-CoV-2 v Slovenskej republike - since 2020 - Principal Investigator of coordinator

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
2025-02-28