Curriculum vitae
Guillem Pascual-Aznar, MSc., Ph.D.
ORCID: 0000-0002-5777-6251
Appointment
Posdoctoral Fellow
Affiliation
Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Algatech Centre, Novohradská 237 - Opatovický mlýn, 379 81 Třeboň, CZ
Education and academic qualification
- Jul 2021, Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
- Jun 2012, MSc. in Medical Biotechnology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Jun 2011, Bachelor in Biotechnology in the Rovira and Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain
Overview of employment
- 2021 - now, Posdoctoral fellow, Institute of Microbiology CAS, Algatech Centre, Třeboň, CZ
- Oct 2014 – Jul 2021, Ph.D. student, Institute of Microbiology CAS, Algatech Centre, Třebon, CZ
Stays abroad
2017 - Two-month internship in the laboratory of Prof. Neil Hunter, Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK
Research interest and current research work
Guillem Pascual-Aznar´s (GPA) work focuses on the biogenesis and repair of photosystem II (PSII) using as a model organism the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803. The work is centred on the study of auxiliary (assembly) protein factors facilitating PSII assembly/repair, which have been found to be connected to PSII intermediates but that are not present in the mature complex. GPA has participated in characterization of factors such as Ycf48 (Yu et al., 2018) and RubA (Kiss et al., 2019), as well as in the first studies on Psb35 (Pascual-Aznar et al., 2021) and Psb34 (Rahimzadeh-Karvansara et al., 2022) proteins. GPA is currently working on an uncharacterized protein potentially involved in the repair of PSII.
Teaching
- December 2015 - now, Practicum “Gene and Protein Engineering”
- May 2024, Practicum “Advanced Methods of Molecular Biology”
- Starting February 2025, Lecturer at “Cell Structure and Function” at the Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
- Starting 2025 or 2026, Lecturer at “Excerpts from Plant Cell Biology” at the Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
Non-scientific skills and other activities
I enjoy joking around and despise conflict (although I am perfectly aware that disputes do not necessarily improve via humour). Thus, I consider myself a team-oriented person. I also enjoy discussions with my colleagues and I especially love teaching and I take any chance to do so. In my free time, I enjoy sports such as volleyball, “nohejbal” and football (basically sports ended in -ball). I can be found in the pub relishing a Czech beer in the company of some essay/novel.
I am also the unofficial etymologist (i.e. I bother my co-workers with the evolution of words).