Curriculum Vitae of Pál Omos

Birth: October 14, 1951, Szeged, Hungary

Nationality: Hungarian

Education:1970-1975 Jozsef Attila University Szeged, Physics

Affiliation: 1975 -  present

Institute of Biophysics,

Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

6701 Szeged, P.O.Box 521, Hungary

 Title: 1994 - present: director

Long scientific visit:   between 1979 and 1991 altogether 6 years at the

                                    Physics Department, University of Illinois, Urbana, Il USA

Academic achievements:

Degrees:         1975 MS.(physics): Photoelectric effects on polymer model membranes

                 1982 Ph.D.(physics): The motion of protons in Bacteriorhodopsin during proton pumping

                 1992 D. Sc.(physics): The inhomogeneous nature of the spectra and structures of Myoglobin and Bacteriorhodopsin

                 1998 Corresponding Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

                 2004 Ordinary Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Professional honours and positions:

Hungarian Biophysical Society: President 

Eötvös Loránd Physical Society:Member

International Union of Pure and Applied Physics: 2002-2006 Vice President

IUPAP Commission on Biological Physics (C6) 1996-2006 Member, 1999-2002 Secretary

2002-2006 chair

American Physical Society: Member

Chairman of the first IUPAP Conference on Biological Physics, 1994, Szeged

Research area:

Biological energy conversion, protein dynamics.

Light energy conversion by Bacteriorhodopsin  

Structural dynamics of proteins (mostly based on studies on myoglobin and

bacteriorhodopsin)

Optoelectronic application of  chromoproteins.

Single particle observation/manipulation, nanobiotechnology.

Selected publications of Pál Ormos:

Ormos P., Dancsházy Zs. és Karvaly B.: Mechanism of generation and regulation of photopotential by bacteriorhodopsin in bimolecular lipid membrane; BBA 503 304-315 (1978)

Keszthelyi L. és Ormos P.: Electric signals associated with the photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin; FEBS Lett. 109 189-193 (1980)

Ormos P., Reinisch L. és Keszthelyi L.: Fast electric response signals in the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle; BBA 722 471-479 (1983)

Ormos P., Braunstein D., Frauenfelder H., Hong M., Lin S-L., Sauke T. és Young R.: Orientation of carbon monoxide and structure-function relationship in carbonmonoxy- mioglobin; Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 85 8492-8496 (1988)

Ormos P., Ansari A., Braunstein D., Cowen B., Frauenfelder H., Hong M.K., Iben I.E.T., Sauke T.B. és Young R.D.: Inhomogeneous broadening in spectral bands of  carbonmonoximioglobin: The connection between spectral and functional heterogeneity; Biophys. J. 57 191-199 (1990)

Ormos P.: Infrared spectroscopic demonstration of a conformational change in bacteriorhodopsin involved in proton pumping Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 88 473-477 (1991)

Száraz S., Oesterhelt D. and Ormos P.: pH induced structural changes in Bacteriorhodopsin studied by Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy, Biophys. J. 67 1706-1712 (1994)

P. Ormos, S. Száraz, A. Cupane and U. Nienhaus: Structural factors controlling ligand binding to myoglobin: a kinetic hole-burning study, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95 6762-6767 (1998)

A. Dér, L. Oroszi, Á. Kulcsár, L. Zimányi, R. Tóth-Boconádi, L. Keszthelyi, W. Stoeckenius and P. Ormos: Interpretation of the spatial charge displacements in bacteriorhodopsin in terms of structural changes during the photocycle, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96 2776-2781 (1999)

Sass H., Büldt G., Gessenich G., Hehn D., Schlezinger R., Berendzen J.and Ormos P. Essential structural alterations for proton translocation in the M state of wild-type bacteriorodopsin, Nature 406 649-653 (2000)

P. Galajda and P. Ormos: Complex micromachines produced and driven by light, Applied Physics Letters, 78 249-251 (2001)

Galajda P. and Ormos P.: Rotors produced and driven in laser tweezers with reversed direction of rotation, Applied. Phys. Lett.80 4653-4656 (2002)

P. Ormos, L. Fábián, L. Oroszi,  E. K. Wolff, J. J. Ramsden, A. Dér   Protein-based integrated optical switching and modulation Applied Phys. Lett. 80 4060-4062 (2002)

L. Oroszi, P. Galajda, H. Kirei, S. Bottka and P. Ormos: Direct measurement of torque in the optical trap and its application to dsDNA, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 058301 (2006)