I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname

Procházková

I.2 - Name

Katarína

I.3 - Degrees

Mgr., PhD.

I.4 - Year of birth

1983

I.5 - Name of the workplace

Department of Genetics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences

I.6 - Address of the workplace

Ilkovičova 6, 842 15 Bratislava

I.7 - Position

research fellow

I.8 - E-mail address

katarina.prochazkova@uniba.sk

I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff

https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/5808

I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university

Biology

I.11 - ORCID iD

0000-0003-4147-6577

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 Bratislav, Faculty of Natural Science

II.b - Year

2004

II.c - Study field and programme

Biology

II.2 - Second degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University in Bratislav, Faculty of Natural Science

II.b - Year

2006

II.c - Study field and programme

Biology, Genetics

II.3 - Third degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University in Bratislav, Faculty of Natural Science

II.b - Year

2010

II.c - Study field and programme

Genetics

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
Research fellow	Comenius University in Bratislav, Faculty of Natural Science	2011-present

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

IV.a - Activity description, course name, other	IV.b - Name of the institution	IV.c - Year
Summer school in bioinformatics	Faculty of mathematics physics and informatics	2011
2nd StruBioMol Workshop: Isolation, Characterization and Crystallization of Proteins	Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 21, Bratislava, Slovakia	2022
Challenging conversations and effective communication	Academy of Critical Thinking	2025

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
Genetics 1	Biology	I.	Biology
Bachelor Thesis in Genetics	Biology	I.	Biology
Advanced laboratory practicals in genetics 1	Genetics	II.	Biology
Pre-diploma practice	Genetics	II.	Biology
Diploma thesis (1) & (2)	Genetics	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)

V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)

V.4.2 - Number of defended theses

V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)

V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)

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
Principles of work with scientific literature	Biology	I.	Biology
Elective practice in genetics	Biology	I.	Biology
Methods in Molecular and Cellular Biology	Biochemistry	I.	Chemistry
Diploma thesis practicals (1) & (2)	Genetics	II.	Biology
Selected topics from genetics	Genetics	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

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.a - Overall

165

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

165

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level

VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs

Regina Sepšiová, Katarína Procházková, Filip Červenák, Denis Majerčík, Kateřina Hanáková, Erika Lattová, Mona Hajikazemi, Zbyněk Zdráhal, Sofia Virágová, Zuzana Brzáčová, Katrin Paeschke, Jozef Nosek, Ľubomír Tomáška, Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase in yeasts: characterization and involvement in telomere maintenance, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 53, Issue 17, 23 September 2025, gkaf837, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf837

Červenák F, Virágová S, Sopkovičová M, Kodada D, Galla E, Sepšiová R, Procházková K, Tomáška Ľ. Runaway evolution of telomeres in ascomycetous yeasts was accompanied by the replacement of ancestral telomeric proteins. Nucleic Acids Res. 2025 Sep 5;53(17):gkaf906. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf906. PMID: 40973456; PMCID: PMC12449055.

Vozáriková V, Kunová N, Bauer JA, Frankovský J, Kotrasová V, Procházková K, Džugasová V, Kutejová E, Pevala V, Nosek J, Tomáška Ľ. Mitochondrial HMG-Box Containing Proteins: From Biochemical Properties to the Roles in Human Diseases. Biomolecules. 2020 Aug 16;10(8):1193. doi: 10.3390/biom10081193. PMID: 32824374; PMCID: PMC7463775.

Jan Frankovsky, Barbora Keresztesová, Jana Bellová, Nina Kunová, Nikola Čanigová, Katerina Hanakova, Jacob A. Bauer, Gabriela Ondrovičová, Veronika Lukáčová, Barbara Siváková, Zbynek Zdrahal, Vladimír Pevala, Katarína Procházková, Jozef Nosek, Peter Baráth, Eva Kutejova, Lubomir Tomaska,The yeast mitochondrial succinylome: Implications for regulation of mitochondrial nucleoids, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Volume 297, Issue 4, 2021, 101155, ISSN 0021-9258, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101155.

Jurikova K, Gajarsky M, Hajikazemi M, Nosek J, Prochazkova K, Paeschke K, Trantirek L, Tomaska L. Role of folding kinetics of secondary structures in telomeric G-overhangs in the regulation of telomere maintenance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem. 2020 Jul 3;295(27):8958-8971. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA120.012914. Epub 2020 May 8. PMID: 32385108; PMCID: PMC7335780.

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

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

Novel subfamily of mitochondrial HMG box-containing proteins: functional analysis of Gcf1p from Candida albicans. Visacka K, Gerhold JM, Petrovicova J, Kinsky S, Jõers P, Nosek J, Sedman J, Tomaska L. Microbiology (Reading). 2009 Apr;155(Pt 4):1226-1240. Cited in: Hamaji, T. - Kawai-Toyooka, H. - Toyoda, A. - Minakuchi, Y. - Suzuki, M. - Fujiyama, A. - Nozaki, H. - Smith, D.R.: Genome Biology and Evolution, Vol. 9, No. 4, 2017, s. 993-999.

Mitochondrial nucleoids from the yeast Candida parapsilosis: expansion of the repertoire of proteins associated with mitochondrial DNA. Miyakawa I, Okamuro A, Kinsky S, Visacka K, Tomaska L, Nosek J. Microbiology (Reading). 2009 May;155(Pt 5):1558-1568. Cited in: Chakraborty, A. - Lyonnais, S. - Battistini, F. - Hospital, A. - Medici, G. - Prohens, R. - Orozco, M. - Vilardell, J. - Sola, M.: Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 45, No. 2, 2017, s. 951-967

Replication intermediates of the linear mitochondrial DNA of Candida parapsilosis suggest a common recombination based mechanism for yeast mitochondria. Gerhold JM, Sedman T, Visacka K, Slezakova J, Tomaska L, Nosek J, Sedman J. J Biol Chem. 2014 Aug 15;289(33):22659-22670. Cited in: Ramachandran, A. - Nandakumar, D. - Deshpande, A.P. - Lucas, T.P. - R-Bhojappa, R. - Tang, G.-Q. - Raney, K. - Yin, Y.W. - Patel, S.S.: Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 291, No. 32, 2016, s. 16828-16839.

Sepsiova R, Necasova I, Willcox S, Prochazkova K, Gorilak P, Nosek J, Hofr C, Griffith JD, Tomaska L. Evolution of Telomeres in Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Its Possible Relationship to the Diversification of Telomere Binding Proteins. PLoS One. 2016 Apr 21;11(4):e0154225. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154225. PMID: 27101289; PMCID: PMC4839565.

Synergism of the two Myb domains of Tay1 protein results in high affinity binding to telomeres. Visacka K, Hofr C, Willcox S, Necasova I, Pavlouskova J, Sepsiova R, Wimmerova M, Simonicova L, Nosek J, Fajkus J, Griffith JD, Tomaska L. J Biol Chem. 2012 Sep 14;287(38):32206-15. Cited in: Peska, V. - Garcia, S.: Frontiers in Plant Science, Vol. 11, February, 2020, Art. No. 117.

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

APVV-23-0056 - Identification of unifying molecular principles of telomere maintenance. Slovak Research and Development Agency. [07/2024-06/2028; participating investigator]

VEGA 1/0031/24 - Mitochondria as signalling centers of eukaryotic cells . Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic. [01/2024-12/2027; participating investigator]

KEGA 012UK-4/2025 Innovation of courses within the study program Genetics aimed at improving students' practical skills and study internationalization [01/2025-12/2027; participating investigator]

APVV-19-0068 - Exploring yest biodiversity for uncovering novel mechamisms of telomere maintenance of eukaryotoc chromosomes. Slovak Research and Development Agency. [07/2020-06/2024; participating investigator]

VEGA 1/0061/20 - Post-translational and epigenetic modifications as means of regulation of mitochondrial functions. Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic. [01/2020-12/2023; participating investigator]

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

VII.a - Activity, position	VII.b - Name of the institution, board	VII.c - Duration
Member of the society	Gregor Mendel Genetic Society	2018-present

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

VIII.a - Name of the institution	VIII.b - Address of the institution	VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay)	VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
Institute of Molecular and Cell biology, University of Tartu, Estonia	Riia 23, 23b-134, 51010, Tartu, Estonia	2007 (03-06); 2009 (03-04, 10-12); 2010 (02-04)	visiting scientist
Chromatin Molecular Complexes, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ-62500, Czech Republic	Kamenice 753/5, Brno, 625 00, Czech Republic	2013 (03)	visiting scientist

IX. - Other relevant facts

Date of last update

2026-03-23

Name and surname:	Mgr. Katarína Procházková, 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