Jozef Gecz 39th Annual Lorne Genome Conference 2018

Jozef Gecz

Jozef Gécz, PhD is a NH&MRC Senior Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Human Genetics at the Department of Paediatrics, University of Adelaide. Dr. Gécz established and currently heads the Neurogenetics Research Program at the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia. Dr. Gécz has completed his studies at the Comenius University and PhD at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovakia under the supervision of Dr. Ferak and subsequently trained for two years with Prof. M. Fontes in Marseille, France as an INSERM postdoctoral fellow. In 1994 he joined the group of Professor G. Sutherland in Adelaide where he so far discovered or contributed to the discovery of numerous (>200) genes for various forms of X-chromosome linked intellectual disability, epilepsy, autism and cerebral palsy (e.g. FMR2, ARX, CDKL5, PHF6, PCDH19, ZSWIM6, GPKOW, etc). Dr. Gécz published in excess of 277 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Gécz is an active member of various professional societies (ASHG, ESHG, HGSA, HUGO, ASMR) and national and international committees. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Science of RCPA. The main research interest of Dr. Gecz’s group is gene identification and molecular/functional characterisation in a broad range of childhood onset neurological disabilities.