Peter Tompa
Short biography
Current positions
- Group leader at the Cell Cycle Research Dept. of the Hungarian Oncology Institute, Budapest
- Group leader at VIB and professor at VUB, 2011-2024 (now emeritus professor)
Past positions
- Co-founder and Chair of SAB at New Equilibrium Biosciences
- Director of VIB-VUB CSB, 2011-2015
- Deputy director of Inst. Enzymology, Hungary, 2007-2009
- Group leader at Inst. Enzymology, Hungary, 2006-2011
- Postdoc at ECUST Uni. (China), Weizmann Inst. (Israel), St. Jude Children's Hosp. (US), Tokyo Uni. (Japan)
Education and diplomas
- DSc at Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 2006
- PhD in Enzymology at ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary, 1991
- MSc in Chemistry at ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary, 1985
Research projects
Ongoing research projects:
- Experimental analysis of intrinsically disordered proteins driving diseases
- Dynamics of biomolecular condensates of intrinsically disordered proteins
- In vitro study of the kinetics of biomolecular liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS)
- Developing machine learning algorithms to investigate ALS condensates formed by LLPS
- Harnessing animal glues for biotechnological applications by recombinant gene technology
- Proteomics systems biology data integration to contrast the healthy and pathogenic cellular regulation of pathways
- Biocuration for IDP-related databases
Completed research projects:
- Systematic analysis of IDPs & linear motif-mediated IDP complexes
- Novel purification strategies for IDPs
- Structural & functional study on ERD (Early Response to Dehydration) plant proteins
- Regulated protein degradation in the ubiquitin-proteasome system
- Structure-based modulation of the calpastatin-calpain interaction