Associate Professor Jozef Gécz, PhD

Laboratory Head, Neurogenetics Research Program

Jozef Gécz is a NH&MRC Senior Research Fellow and affiliate Associated Professor at the Department of Paediatrics, University of Adelaide . In 2001 he established, and currently heads the Neurogenetics laboratory within the Department of Genetic Medicine.

His main interests are in the identification and characterisation of genes involved in X-chromosome associated pathology, intellectual disability in particular and as such understanding the molecular basis of learning, memory and cognition. Jozef identified or was involved in the identification and characterisation of more than 20 genes implicated in various syndromic and non-syndromic forms of X-linked mental retardation. Among these are ATRX, FMR2 (FRAXE associated gene), FMR3 (2 nd FRAXE associated gene), RSK2, GRIA3, STK9 (novel Rett syndrome gene), KLF8, FGF13, FAM11A (FRAXF associated gene), ARX, PHF6, NHS, PQBP1, FITSJ1 as well as the gene SEDL for a form of X-linked bone dysplasia.

He is an author or a co-author on more than 90 peer reviewed publications with over SCI 600 citations.

Jozef studied human molecular genetics in Czechoslovakia at the Comenius University in Bratislava from 1981-1986. He completed his PhD at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in 1991. His first post-doctoral study, supported by INSERM fellowship, was in Marseille , France within Prof. Michel Fontes' INSERM unit at the Faculty of Medicine. He joined the Department of Genetics Medicine (former Department of Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics), WCH in June 1994.

Phone (08) 8161 6339

E-mail jozef.gecz@adelaide.edu.au

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