Zotchev Sergey B.

Sergey B. Zotchev

University Professor

room 2F144
tel +43-1-4277-55296
email sergey.zotchev@univie.ac.at

2023-2027
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Deciphering biosynthesis of bioactive meroterpenoid
2022-2026
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
New bioactive natural products via forced evolution
2020-2025
Research platform MetaBac, (University of Vienna)
Secondary Metabolomes of Bacterial Communities
2019-2023
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Novel bacterial metabolites via synthetic biology
2018-2019
PRIZE 2017
Viennamycin antibiotics
Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft mbH, project for prototype development
2018-2021
Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Stress-induced antibiotic production in bacteria
2017-2018
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna
Microbial communities in marine sediments: preliminary analyses of diversity and secondary metabolite biosynthesis potential
2014-2018
EU-FP7
STREPSYNTH: Rewiring the Streptomyces cell factory for cost-effective production of biomolecules

1985-1991
PhD
State Scientific Center for Biotechnology NIIGenetika, Russia
1991-1993
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoc Fellow
at the Department of Molecular Genetics, Osnabrück University, Germany
1993-1995
Postdoctoral Research Associate
School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, USA
1995-1996
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
1996-2001
Research Scientist
Department of Biotechnology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU, Norway
2001-2005
Associate Professor
Department of Biotechnology, NTNU, Norway
2005-2015
Professor
Department of Biotechnology, NTNU, Norway
2011-2012
Visiting Professor
Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center, Joint Bioenergy Institute, UC Berkeley, USA
since Sept 2015
Professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Vienna