Prof. Dr. Franc Gubenšek

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Jozef Stefan Institute
Jamova 39
SI-1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
tel.: +386 1 477 32 50
fax: +386 1 477 39 84

email: franc.gubensek{afna}ijs.si

University Education:
Dept. Chemistry and Chem.Technol. Univ. Ljubljana B. Sc. 1961 physical chemistry
Dept. Chemistry and Chem.Technol. Univ. Ljubljana Ph.D. 1965 physical chemistry
University of Arizona, Dept. Chemistry,Tucson, Az. USA: 1. VII.1967 - 30. IX. 1968 Post doctoral fellow with prof J. A. Rupley, protein biochemistry.

Employment:
Since 1961 Department of Radiobiology, now Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, "J. Stefan" Institute, Ljubljana, Presently: scientific councillor. (Part time since 1997).
since 1997 Chair of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana

Positions and appointments:
Member of: Slovenian Biochemical Society, Slovenian Biophysical Society, Genetics Society of Slovenia, Slovenian Immunological Society, International Society for Radiobiology, International Society on Toxinology, The Biochemical Society.
since 1982 Member of the Editorial Council of Toxicon
since 1992 Member of the Editorial Council of Acta Chimica Slovenica
Occasional referee for Acta Pharmaceutica, Croatica Chemica Acta, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Trends in Biochemical Sciences and Trends in genetics.
1989 President of the Slovenian Biochemical Society
1989-1996 President of the European Section of the International Society on Toxinology.
1990 Member of the Scientific council of Internationatial Society on Toxinology.
1997-2000 President of the International Society on Toxinology.
since 1998 Member of European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
1992 National coordinator for research in Biochemistry and molecular biology
since 1992 Member of Board of governors of the J. Stefan Institute, since 1997 chairmen.
1995 Member of the Senate of the School of Environmental Sciences, Nova Gorica
1996 Member of the European Science Foundation Standing Committee for Life and Environmetal Sciences.
since 1997 Member of the Scientific Council of the Jožef Stefan Institute.
1993 Coordinator of Biochemistry and molecular biology at Ministry of Science and technology.
1997 President of the Scientific council for natural sciences and mathematics at Ministry of Science and technology.

Teaching:
since 1986 Full professor of biochemistry
Teaching: Biochemistry, Structure of proteins, Enzymology and Molecular biology.
1979 - 1986 Professor of biochemistry
1974 1976 Assistant professor of biochemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of Ljubljana
1971 - 1976 Teaching biochemistry at College of Nursery in Ljubljana

Academic Awards and Fellowships:
1961, 1982 and 1991 Boris Kidric Foundation award
1992 Honourable visiting professor at Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, P.R. China
1996 Recognition of Croatian Biochemical Society
1997 Slovenian State award for achievements in molecular biology
2003 Associate member of SAZU (Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts), since June 2003

Interest and publications:
Structure and function of proteins, protein engineering, monoclonal antibodies, presynaptic neurotoxins, transposable DNA elements, molecular evolution.
About 130 papers, most in international journals and 14 patent applications.

Patent:
J. Kos, D. Bencina, D. Dovc, F. Gubensek: Synthetic peptides of M. gallisepticum, antibodies thereto, their preparations and use. UK Patent GB 2 314 560 B. Patent published 29. IX. 1999.

Organization of the scientific meetings:
SYMPOSIA OF THE EUROPEAN SECTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY ON TOXINOLOGY (EIST)
Portoroz, Yugoslavia, September 1977 Organizer: F.Gubensek
Porec, Yugoslavia, September 1989 Organizer: F.Gubensek
Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia June 19-23 2004 Organizer: F.Gubensek

EMBO Lecture Course: "New Developments in Genomics for Biomedicine"
Hotel Kokra, Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia, April 9.-13., 2003
Organizer: F. Gubensek

Bibliography: COBISS or PubMed