Guenther Daum

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Curriculum vitae

Guenther Daum
Born on 27th Nov. 1951 in Graz, Austria
Austrian citizen
Married, 3 children

 

Education and Career History

1957-1961 Elementary School (Volksschule) in Koeflach, Austria
1961-1969 High School (Gymnasium) in Graz and Koeflach, Austria
1969-1970 Military Service in the Austrian Army
1970-1975 Studies of Technical Chemistry at the University of Technology, Graz, Austria
1975 Diploma Thesis at the Institute of Biochemistry at the University of Technology, Graz, Austria, under the guidance of Prof. F. Paltauf
Subject of the Diploma Thesis: "Influence of myo-inositol on growth of Saccharomyces carlsbergensis ATCC 9080. Metabolism of inositol-containing compounds"

Assistant at the Institute of Biochemistry at the University of Technology, Graz, Austria

1975-1978 Doctoral Thesis at the Institute of Biochemistry at the University of Technology, Graz, Austria, under the guidance of Prof. F. Paltauf
Subject of the Doctoral Thesis: "Lipid metabolism in inositol deficient yeast"
1978-1980 Assistant at the Institute of Biochemistry at the University of Technology, Graz, Austria
1980-1981 Post-doctoral studies at the Biocenter Basel, Switzerland, in the group of Prof. G. Schatz
EMBO Long-term Fellowship
Studies on the import of proteins into mitochondria of the yeast
1982-1986  Assistant at the Institute of Biochemistry at the University of Technology, Graz, Austria
1985 "Habilitation" in Biochemistry ("Biogenesis of cellular membranes") and appointment as Docent
1986-1987 Sabbatical visitor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, in the group of Prof. R. Schekman
Max-Kade Fellowship
Studies on the secretory pathway in yeast
1987  Assistant Professor and tenure at the Institute of Biochemistry at the University of Technology, Graz, Austria
1995-dato Associate Professor at the Institute of Biochemistry at the University of Technology, Graz, Austria
2001-2003 Head of the Institute of Biochemistry at the University of Technology, Graz, Austria

Career-related Activities

1988-1990 Secretary of the Austrian Biochemical Society
1991-1995 Local representative of the Austrian Biochemical Society in Graz
1995-1997 Sub-coordinator in the EU project EUROFAN (Function analysis of yeast genes)
1995-dato Chairman of the Yeast Lipid Conference
2000-2003 Coordinator AUSTROFAN-Cell Structures (Function analysis of yeast genes)
2000-dato Project Reviewer for the Academy of Sciences, Finland; Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, UK; National Science Foundation, USA; Earth & Life Sciences Council, The Netherlands; Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Germany
1990-dato Reviewer for various international scientific journals, e.g., Biochim. Biophys. Acta, Biochem. J., EMBO J., FEBS Lett., Eur. J. Biochem., J. Bacteriol., J. Biol. Chem., Mol. Biol. Cell, Yeast; Associate Editor of FEMS Yeast Research
2003–dato Coordinator of the Key Research Area Life Science Technology at the TU Graz, Austria
2005-dato Board member of the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF)
2005-dato Member of the Editoral Board of The Journal of Biological Chemistry
2005-dato Associate Editor of FEMS Yeast Research
2005-2009 Vice President of the International Conference on the Bioscience of Lipids (ICBL)
2007-2009 Vice President of the Austrian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2007-dato Director of the Doctoral School of Molecular Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, TU Graz

Awards

1975 Unilever Award
1980 EMBO Fellowship

1986

Max Kade Fellowship

Memberships

Austrian Society of Molecular Biosciences and Biotechnology (ÖGMBT)
Austrian Chemical Society
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fettforschung (German Society of Lipid Research)