Anton Gartner

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Anton Gartner
Born(1967-07-07)July 7, 1967
Vienna, Austria
Nationality Austrian
Alma mater University of Vienna
Scientific career
Fields C. elegans genetics, genome stability
InstitutionsInstitute for General Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, University of Dundee, Institute for Basic Science, UNIST
Theses
  • Identification of plant cell-cycle genes (1989)
  • Studies on the pheromone dependent MAP kinase pathway in S. cerevisiae (1994)
Doctoral advisors Gustav Ammerer, Kim Nasmyth
Other academic advisorsHeribert Hirt, Michael Hengartner
Website Center for Genomic Integrity

Anton Gartner (born July 7, 1967) is a geneticist and biologist utilizing the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) as a model system He is a distinguished professor at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in Korea and is one of the two associate directors of the IBS Center for Genomic Integrity located on the UNIST campus.

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Education

Anton completed Gymnasium in Neusiedl and then majored in genetics in the University of Vienna, Austria where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. His master thesis was titled Identification of plant cell-cycle genes and was overseen by Professor Heribert Hirt from the Institute for Microbiology and Genetics. His Ph.D. was completed at the Research Institute for Molecular Pathology under Professors Gustav Ammerer and Kim Nasmyth. He continued his Ph.D. project at the Institute for General Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, University of Vienna. His thesis was focused on basic mechanisms of signal transduction using budding yeast as a model system. After the completion of his Ph.D. program, Gartner fulfilled his national service as a Zivildienst working as a nurse in a unit for internal medicine at the Rudolfsspital hospital (de) in Vienna.

Career

Staying at the University of Vienna, Anton worked as a postdoctoral scientist and teaching assistant at the Institute for General Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology until early 1997. His second postdoc position was in the Laboratory of Michael Hengartner, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, New York, where he started working on C. elegans. His final postdoc was in a visiting capacity in the lab of Michael Glotzer at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology. Moving to Germany, Anton worked as a junior group leader in the Department of Cell Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry. [1] [2] In 2004, he moved to the University of Dundee, as a lecturer, then reader, [3] and finally professor at the College of Life Sciences's Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression. . In Dundee he was funded by Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Career Development and Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Awards. His research continued to foxus around C. elegans, [4] [5] particularly apoptosis, genome stability and DNA repair.

In 2019, he became a distinguished professor at UNIST and an associate director at the Institute for Basic Science Center for Genomic Integrity. [6] [7]

Honors and awards

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  4. ↑ "Professor Anton Gartner: C. elegans genetics as a model to study basic biological problems". School of Life Sciences. University of Dundee. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  5. ↑ "Anton Gartner: Professor of Genetics". Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression. University of Dundee. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  6. ↑ "Anton Gartner Group: Cellular Fail-Safe Mechanisms (CFSM)". Center for Genomic Integrity. Institute for Basic Science . Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  7. ↑ "The C. elegans group". Gartner Lab (in Korean). University of Dundee. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  8. ↑ Bailly, Aymeric; Gartner, Anton (2011). DeWeese, Theodore L.; Laiho, Marikki (eds.). Molecular Determinants of Radiation Response. Springer. p. 118. ISBN   978-1-4419-8044-1.
  9. ↑ "Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship". School of Life Sciences. University of Dundee. 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
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