David Prangishvili#
| Membership Number: | 4799 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://research.pasteur.fr/en/member/david-prangishvili |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - present Professor, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- 2004 - 2017 Chef de Laboratoire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- 1999 - 2004 Principal research director, Department of Microbiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
- 1992 - 1999 Research associate, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
- 1984 - 1992 Head of the Department of Molecular Biology of Archaebacteria, Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, ex-USSR
- 1977 - 1984 Research associate, Institute of Physiology, Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, ex-USSR
- 1971 - 1977 Research associate, Institute of Molecular Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, ex-USSR
Fields of Scholarship
- Life in extreme environments
- DNA replication in hyperthermophilic Archaea
- Transcription regulation in hyperthermophilic Archaea
- Diversity of viruses of Archaea
- Structure of viruses of Archaea, molecular basis of virion assembly and mechanisms of extreme thermostability
- Virus-host interactions in Archaea
- Environmental impact of viruses of Achaea
- Origin and evolution of viruses
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Member of the European Academy of Microbiology
- 2015 Visiting professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- 2011 Foreign Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, Georgia
- 1983, 1992-1993 Alexander von Humboldt – Fellowship, Germany
- 1979 Prize for Science and Technology, USSR Counsel of Ministers, ex-USSR
