UCM
Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
 prof. Ing. Štefan Janeček, DrSc.
Email:
 stefan.janecek@ucm.sk
Homepage:
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Fakulta/Univerzita:
FPV UCM - Faculty of Natural Sciences
Pracovisko:
UBB - Ústav biológie a biotechnológie

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Janeček
I.2 - Name
Štefan
I.3 - Degrees
prof. Ing., DrSc.
I.4 - Year of birth
1966
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Námestie J. Herdu 577/2, 917 01 Trnava
I.7 - Position
Professor
I.8 - E-mail address
stefan.janecek@ucm.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/14371
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
3.Biology
I.11 - ORCID iD
0000-0003-1530-9855

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, Slovak Technical University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
1987
II.c - Study field and programme
Fermentation chemistry and bioengineering
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Chemical Technology, Slovak Technical University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
1989
II.c - Study field and programme
Fermentation chemistry and bioengineering
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Chemical Technology, Slovak Technical University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
1993
II.c - Study field and programme
Fermentation chemistry and technology
II.4 - Associate professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2015
II.c - Study field and programme
Molecular biology
II.5 - Professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
University of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava
II.b - Year
2021
II.c - Study field and programme
Molecular biology
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Scientifc Board of the Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2002
II.c - Study field and programme
Molecular biology

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
Innternal aspirant (PhD-student) Department of Biochemical Technology, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak Technical University in Bratislava 1989-1992
Specialist, researcher, independent researcher, senior researcher Institute of Ecobiology SAS, Institute of Microbiology SAS, Institute of Molecular Biology SAS in Bratislava 1993-present
Pedagogical worker, associate professor, professor, guarantor / co-guarantor Department of Biotechnologies, Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava 2001-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
Molecular biology databases Applied biology I. 3. Biology
Bioinformatics Applied biology I. 3. Biology
Advanced bioinformatics Applied biology II. 3. Biology
Protein design Applied biology II. 3. Biology
Functional analysis of proteins and modelling Molekular biology III. 3. 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.2.a - Name of the study programme V.2.b - Degree V.2.c - Field of study
Applied biology I. 3. Biology
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.3.a - Name of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure V.3.b - Study field to which it is assigned
Molecular Biology 3. Biology
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)
1
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
2
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
10
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
19
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
7
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
107
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
18
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
97
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
16
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
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
3000
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
1200
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
18
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
11
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs

Janeček Š.* (1994) Sequence similarities and evolutionary relationships of microbial, plant and animal α-amylases. European Journal of Biochemistry 224: 519-524.

Janeček Š.*, Svensson B. & Henrissat B. (1997) Domain evolution in the α-amylase family. Journal of Molecular Evolution 45: 322-331.

Oslancová A. & Janeček Š.* (2002) Oligo-1,6-glucosidase and neopullulanase enzyme subfamilies from the alpha-amylase family defined by the fifth conserved sequence region. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 59: 1945-1959.

Blesák K. & Janeček Š.* (2012) Sequence fingerprints of enzyme specificities from the glycoside hydrolase family GH57. Extremophiles 16: 497-506.

Janeček Š.*, Svensson B. & MacGregor E.A. (2014) α-Amylase – an enzyme specificity found in various families of glycoside hydrolases. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 71: 1149-1170.

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

Mareček, F., Janeček, Š.: A Novel Subfamily GH13_46 of the α-Amylase Family GH13 Represented by the Cyclomaltodextrinase from Flavobacterium sp. No. 92. Molecules, 2022, 27 (24), 8735.

Mareček, F., Terrapon, N., Janeček, Š: Two newly established and mutually related subfamilies GH13_48 and GH13_49 of the alfa-amylase family GH13. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2024, 108, 1, 415.

Janeček, Š., Brumer, H., Henrissat, B. (2023). News, trends, and challenges in Carbohydrate-Active enZymes. Biologia, 2023, 78(7), pp. 1739–1740

Janeček, Š. (2023). Advances in Amylases—What’s Going on? Molecules, 2023, 28(21), 7268

Janíčková Z. & Janeček Š.* (2020) Fungal α-amylases from three GH13 subfamilies: their sequence-structural features and evolutionary relationships. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 159: 763-772.

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

Janeček Š.: Eur. J. Biochem. 1994, 224: 519-524. - Da Lage JL, Renard E, Chartois F, Lemeunier F, CariouML: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE USA 1998, 95, 6848-6853.

Janeček Š., Svensson B. & Henrissat B.: J. Mol. Evol. 1997, 45: 322-331. - Syson K, Stevenson CEM, Rejzek M, Fairhurst SA, Nair A, Bruton CJ, Field RA, Chater KF, Lawson DM, Bornemann S: JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY 2011, 286, 38298-38310.

Oslancová A. & Janeček Š.: Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 2002, 59: 1945-1959. - Moller MS, Fredslund F, Majumder A, Nakai H, Poulsen JCN, Lo Leggio L, Svensson B, Abou Hachem M: JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY 2012, 194, 4249-4259.

Blesák K. & Janeček Š.: Extremophiles 2012, 16: 497-506. - Suzuki E; Suzuki R: CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES 2016, 73, 2643-2660.

Janeček, Š., Svensson B. & MacGregor E.A.: Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 2014, 71: 1149-1170. - Cerqueira FM; Photenhauer AL; Pollet RM; Brown HA; Koropatkin NM: TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY 2020, 28, 95-108.

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

VEGA - 2/0146/17 - 2017-2020: "Evolution of amylolytic enzymes." Principal researcher.

VEGA – 2/0146/21 – 202-2024: "Amylolytic enzymes - thousands of sequences, hundreds of structures, dozens of specificities - and what about evolution ...? Principal researcher

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
Person responsible for SP Applied Biology (Bc.) Faculty of Natural Sciences, UCM in Trnava 2019-present
Person responsible for OHIK Molecular Biology Faculty of Natural Sciences, UCM in Trnava 2019-present
Guarantor of the PhD-study in the field of Chemistry (Biochemistry) on SAS Institute of Molecular Biology, SAS in Bratislava 2019-present
Chairman of the Standing Committee for Doctoral Dissertations in the Field of Molecular Biology Slovak Commission for Scientific Degrees 2021-present
Managing Editor of the journal "Biologia", section Cellular and Molecular Biology Springer 1995-present
Associate Editor of the journal "3Biotech" Springer 2017-present
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Amylase" DeGruyter 2017-present

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
2025-01-16