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CV - Dr. Zoltán Bánki

Personal Details

Date of birth: March 26, 1972 in Budapest, Hungary
Nationality:
Hungarian
Marital Status:
married / 2 children
Institute of Virology
Innsbruck Medical University
Peter-Mayr-Straße 4b
6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Telephone:
0043-512-9003-71722
Fax:
0043-512-9003-73701
E-Mail:
zoltan.banki@i-med.ac.at

Research interest

Selected publications

Education

11/2002
Ph.D. in Virology and Immunology at the Leopold-Franzens-University, Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

1999 - 2002
Study of PhD at the Leopold-Franzens-University in Innsbruck Supervisors: Professor Manfred P. Dierich and Dr. Laco Kacani, Title of Thesis: Modulation of antigen presenting cell functions by soluble factors induced during immune response.

07/1999
M.Sc. in Biology at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

1994 - 1999
Study of Biology at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

1986 - 1990 High School in Budapest, Hungary

Professional positions

since 09/2013
University Assistant at the Division of Virology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria.

09/2013- 08/2014
Postdoctoral position in Professor Paul Klenerman’s group at the Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, NDM, University of Oxford, UK.

08/ 2010- 08/2013
Postdoctoral position in Professor Heribert Stoiber’s group at the Division of Virology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria.

01/2008 - 02/2008
Visiting scientist at the Laboratory of Persistent Viral diseases, Retroviral Immunology Section, NIAID, Hamilton, MT, USA

07/2007 - 2010
University Assistant at the Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria

2004 - 2007
Postdoctoral position at the Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria

2002-2003
Postdoctoral position at the Institute of Hygiene and Social Medicine, Leopold-Franzens-University, Innsbruck, Austria in a research project supported by a grant from FWF (PI: Professor Manfred P. Dierich, P14661).
Title of the project: Complement-dependent deposition of HIV in lymphoid tissues.

Fellowships

09/2013-08/2014
Erwin Schrödinger postdoctoral fellowship in Professor Paul Klenerman’s group at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK supported by FWF (J3484). Title of the project: Memory T cell inflation in CMV infection.

Grants

since 03/2016
Co-applicant in a research project of Professor Stoiber supported by a grant from FWF (Project Nr.: I2550): “Complement and regulatory T cells

09/2009-12/2012
PI in a research project supported by a grant from FWF (Project Nr.: P21508): “Improving antigen presentation of dendritic cells by targeting antigens to complement- and/or Fcγ-receptors”

07/2007-06/2009
PI in a research project supported by a grant from MFI (Medizinische Forschungsförderung Innsbruck, Project Nr.: MFI 6400): “Role of complement for the induction of T cell responses upon retroviral infection”

Awards

09/2013-08/2014
Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship at the Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, EMD, NDM, University of Oxford

1999
3rd price in Section Molecularbiology at the XXIV. OTDK Congress, Debrecen, Hungary

Work Experience

08/2014
“Animal Management and Welfare Course, Mouse, Modules 1-3” at the University of Oxford, UK (FELASA accredited, FELASA B, Maus)

03/2008
“Basic training on flow cytometry with FACSCantoTM II” at the Becton Dickinson GmBH, Heidelberg, Germany

04/2006
"15th special-training on experimental working with laboratory animals" at the Central Animal Facility, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria

Carrier-related activies

since 2016
Member of the Editorial Board of World Journal of Virology

2012-2014 Member of the Editorial Board of ISRN AIDS

acting as a reviewer PLoS Pathogens, PLoS One, Journal of Immunology, Journal of Virology, AIDS

Memberships in scientific societies

  • Austrian Society for Allergology and Immunology (ÖGAI)
    Hungarian Society for Immunology (MIT)

International cooperation partners

since 2014
Professor Paul Klenerman ath the Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK

since 2012
Professor Admar Verschoor at the Institute for Systemic Inflammation, University of Lübeck, Germany

since 2007
Prof. Ulf Dittmer at the Institute of Virology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany