Where to find me
Zamestnanci,Department of Biology and Ecology
- Office: 109
- Phone: 048 446 7109
- Email: matej.vesteg@umb.sk
Professional characteristics
Lectures
Diversity and Phylogeny of Protists, Algae and Fungi
Diversity and Phylogeny of Algae and Fungi
Environmental Microbiology and Ecology of Microbial Communities
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics
Microbiology
Molecular Biology
Molecular Ecology
Education:
2003 Bc., study field - Biology, programme - Molecular Biology (Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology)
2005 Mgr., study field - Biology, programme - Molecular Biology (Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology)
2010 PhD., study field - Genetics, programme - Genetics (Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology)
2021 doc., field - Molecular Biology (University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Faculty of Natural Sciences)
Professional career
2010 - 2014 Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Genetics: Scientist, scholary assistent
2012 - 2014 University of Ostrava, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology and Ecology: Academician, scholary assistent
2015 - present day Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Biology and Ecology: University teacher
Current research projects
Grant of the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Slovak republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences VEGA 1/0694/21: "The influence of intra- and extracellular factors on motility and metabolisms of euglenoid flagellates"
ORCID:
Matej Vesteg (0000-0002-5055-2482) (orcid.org)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5055-2482
List of selected publications
- Lukáčová A, Lihanová D, Beck T, Alberty R, Vešelényiová D, Krajčovič J, Vesteg M (2023) The influence of phenol on the growth, morphology and cell division of Euglena gracilis. Life (Basel) 13(8):1734
- Lihanová D, Lukáčová A, Beck T, Jedlička A, Vešelényiová D, Krajčovič J, Vesteg M (2023). Versatile biotechnological applications of Euglena gracilis. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 39: 133
- Lukáčová A, Beck T, Koptašiková L, Benda A, Tomečková L, Trniková M, Lihanová D, Steiner JM, Krajčovič J, Vesteg M (2022) Euglena gracilis can grow in the mixed culture containing Cladosporium westerdijkiae, Lysinibacillus boronitolerans and Pseudobacillus badius without the addition of vitamins B1 and B12. J Biotechnol 351: 50-59
- Lukáčová A, Beck T, Trnková K, Trniková M, Krajčovič J, Vesteg M (2022) Discrimination of Euglena gracilis strains Z and bacillaris by MALDI-TOF MS. J Appl Microbiol 133: 930-942
- Lukáčová A, Vesteg M (2022) Multiple independent losses of photosynthetic ability in eukaryotic evolution and the metabolism of non-photosynthetic plastids. (Mnohonásobné nezávislé straty schopnosti fotosyntézy v evolúcii eukaryotov a metabolizmus nefotosyntetických plastidov.) Chem listy 116: 316-323
- Vešelényiová D, Hutárová L, Lukáčová A, Schneiderová M, Vesteg M, Krajčovič J (2022) Calpains in cyanobacteria and the origin of calpains. Sci Rep 12: 13872
- Kleiner FH, Vesteg M, Steiner JM (2021) An ancient glaucophyte c6-like cytochrome related to higher plant cytochrome c6A is imported into muroplasts. J Cell Sci 134: jcs255901
- Vesteg M, Hadariová L, Horváth A, Estrano CE, Schwartzbach SD, Krajčovič J (2019): Comparative molecular cell biology of phototrophic euglenids and parasitic trypanosomatids sheds light on the ancestor of Euglenozoa. Biol Rev Camb Phil Soc 94: 1701-1721
- Záhonová K, Füssy Z, Birčák E, Novák Vanclová AMG, Klimeš V, Vesteg M, Krajčovič J, Oborník M, Eliá šM (2018). Peculiar features of the plastids of the colourless alga Euglena longa and photosynthetic euglenophytes unveiled by transcriptome analyses. Sci Rep 8: 17012
- Trnková K, Kotrbancová M, Špaleková M, Fulová M, Boledovičová J, Vesteg M (2018) MALDI-TOF MS analysis as a useful tool for an identification of Legionella pneumophila, a facultatively pathogenic bacterium interacting with free-living amoebae: A case study from water supply system of hospitals in Bratislava (Slovakia). Exp Parasitol 184: 79-102
- Hadariová L, Vesteg M, Hampl V, Krajčovič J (2018) Reductive evolution of chloroplasts in non-photosynthetic plants, algae and protists. Curr Genet 64: 365-387
- Krchňáková Z, Krajčovič J, Vesteg M (2017) On the possibility of an early evolutionary origin for the spliced leader trans-splicing. J Mol Evol 85: 37-45
- Hadariová L, Vesteg M, Birčák E, Schwartzbach SD, Krajčovič J (2017) An intact plastid genome is essential for the survival of colorless Euglena longa but not Euglena gracilis. Curr Genet 63: 331-341
- Krajčovič J, Vesteg M, Schwartzbach SD (2015) Euglenoid flagellates: A multifaceted biotechnology platform. J Biotechnol 202: 135-145
- Krnáčová K, VinarčíkováM, RýdlováI, Krajčovič J, Vesteg M, Horváth A (2015) Characterization of oxidative phosphorylation enzymes in Euglena gracilis and its white mutant strain WgmZOflL. FEBS Lett 589: 687-694
- Záhonová K, Hadariová L, Vacula R, Yurchenko V, Eliáš M, Krajčovič J, Vesteg M (2014) A small portion of plastid transcripts is polyadenylated in the flagellate Euglena gracilis. FEBS Lett 588: 783-788
- Krnáčová K, Vesteg M, HamplV, Vlček Č, HorváthA (2012) Euglena gracilis and trypanosomatids possess common patterns in predicted mitochondrial targeting presequences. J Mol Evol 75: 119-129
- Mateášiková-Kováčová B, Vesteg M, Drahovská H, Záhonová K, Vacula R, Krajčovič J (2012) Nucleus-encoded mRNAs for chloroplast proteins GapA, PetA a PsbO are trans-spliced in the flagellate Euglena gracilis irrespective of light and plastid function. J Eukaryot Microbiol 59: 651-653
- Vesteg M, Šándorová Z, Krajčovič J (2012) Selective forces for the origin of spliceosomes. J Mol Evol 74: 226-231
- Vesteg M, Krajčovič J (2011) The falsifiability of the models for the origin of eukaryotes. Curr Genet 57: 367-390
- Vesteg M, Vacula R, Steiner JM, Mateášiková B, Löffelhardt W, Brejová B, Krajčovič J (2010) A possible role for short introns in the acquisition of stroma-targeting peptides in the flagellate Euglena gracilis. DNA Res 17: 223-231
- Vesteg M, Vacula R, Krajčovič J (2009) On the origin of chloroplasts, import mechanisms of chloroplast-targeted proteins, and loss of photosynthetic ability. Folia Microbiol 54: 303-321
- Vesteg M, Vacula R, Burey S, Löffelhardt W, Drahovská H, Martin W, Krajčovič J (2009) Expression of nucleus-encoded genes for chloroplast proteins in the flagellate Euglena gracilis. J Eukaryot Microbiol 56: 159-166
- Vesteg M, Krajčovič J (2008) On the origin of eukaryotic cytoskeleton. Riv Biol 101: 47-56
- Vesteg M, Krajčovič J (2008) Origin of eukaryotic cells as a symbiosis of parasitic α-proteobacteria in the periplasm of two-membrane-bounded sexual pre-karyotes. Commun Integr Biol 1:104-113
- Vesteg M, Krajčovič J (2007) On the origin of meiosis and sex. Riv Biol 100: 147-161
- Vesteg M, Krajčovič J, Ebringer L (2006) On the origin of eukaryotes and their endomembranes. Riv Biol 99: 445-466