Ferenc György Olasz PhD

Career

1980 - 1981 ''New Life'' Cooperative in Kocsord:

• Position: biologist.

1981 - 1989 József Attila University Department of Genetics

• 1981: research associate (Ph.D. student)
• 1985: assistant
• 1986: assistant professor

1987 - 1989 Biozentrum of University of Basel

• Position: postdoc

1989 - Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (ABC)

• 1989: group leader
• 1989-1996 Deputy director of the Department of Genetics
• 2011: director of Institute of Genetics
• 2015: director of ABC

Long term Ph.D. research training:

• 1987-1989 two years city: Basel; country: Switzerland
• Biozentrum of University of Basel Department for Microbiology
• Research fields: molecular biology, IS elements, transposition
  Supervisor: Prof. Werner Arber

Role in scientific community

• 1987 - Hungarian Society for Genetics
• 1990 - 1996 Committee of Genetics of the Hung. Academy of Sciences
• 1994 - American Society for Microbiology
• 1996 - 2001 Swiss Society for Microbiology
• 1998 - Hungarian Society for Biochemistry
• 2007 - Hungarian Society for Microbiology
• 2007 - Member of the Public Body of the Hung. Academy of Sciences
• 2009 - Committee of Agricultural Biotechnology of the Hung. Academy ofSciences
• 2011 - Editor of the journal Comparative and Functional Genomics

Scientific interest

• 1981-1987: Bacteriophage life cycle; repair mechanisms; genetic regulation; general and site-specific recombination
• 1987, bacterial genomics and metagenomics; IS and mobile elements; transposition; evolution, site-specific, recombination; genomics of bacteria, host-pathogen interaction, pathogenity islands, antibiotic resistance, probiotics, yeast.

Member of PhD schools:

• SZIE Doctoral School of Biological Sciences GödöllőHungary
• ELTE Doctoral School of Biology Budapest Hungary
• PE Festetics Doctoral School Keszthely Hungary