Istvan Prazsak
University of Szeged, Hungary
Biography
Istvan Prazsak, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Szeged, Hungary, Department of Medical Biology. He earned MsC in biology and environmental sciences in 2005. He worked as a pre-doctorate researcher at the Department of Genetics, University of Szeged, Hungary, where his research interest covered phylogenetics of arthropod taxa, including Chelicerata. He described a new species of ladybird spiders. From 2010 he joined to the 3G Genomics research group at the Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged and focused on the recombinant gene technology and later on transcriptomics of Herpesviruses. From 2018 he has been a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Interdisciplinary Medicine, University of Szeged and Faculty of Medicine under the supervision of Prof Zsolt Boldogkoi and Dr Dora Tombacz. He earned PhD in 2021, entitled: “The Long Read Sequencing of the Varicella-Zoster Virus and Vaccinia Virus Transcriptome”.
Abstract
Abstract : Multiplatform, integrative approach to assess varicella zoster virus transcriptome