Éva Kondorosi#
| Email: | eva.kondorosi 'at' gmail.com |
| Membership Number: | 2875 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Username: | ekondorosi |
| Elected: | 2010 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000-2013 Group leader, Institut des Sciences du Végétal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- 1997-2012 Founder and Director of Bay Zoltán Foundation for Applied Research
- since 1996 Scientific advisor at the Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
- 1982-1996 Senior Scientist at the Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
- 1976-1982 Research associate at the Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
- 1989-2000 Group leader of Institut des Sciences Végétales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- 1987-1989 Max Planck Institut für Züchtungsforschung Köln, Germany, project leader
Fields of Scholarship
- Microbial genetics
- Molecular biology
- Biochemistry
- Plant-microbe interactions
- Symbiotic nitrogen fixation
- Identification
- Function and regulation of bacterial and plant genes controlling nodule development
- Plant cell cycle regulation
- Control of endoreduplication cycles, targeted proteolysis by the anaphase promoting complex APC-CCS52 ubiquitin ligase enzyme complexes
- Plant controlled differentiation of bacteria
- Function of symbiotic antimicrobial plant peptides
Honours and Awards
- Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1985)
- Corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2010)
- Member of EMBO (2006)
- Member of the Academia Europaea (2010)
- Széchenyi prize given by the Hungarian state for outstanding scientific contribution (2012)
- Award of the the International Society of Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (2012)
