Ferenc Olasz

Biography

Ferenc Olasz is currently working as director at Agricultural Biotechnology Center. Workplaces 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 Center 1989: group leader 2011: director of Institute of Genetics 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 Long term study trips: 1992 four months Biozentrum of University of Basel; Switzerland invited by Prof. Werner Arber 1997-2001 every year 3-5 months in Basel; Switzerland as invited professor invited by Profs. Werner Arber and Thomas Bickle 2004 (3 months) Inst. of Toxicology and Genetics Forschungszentrum, Karlsruhe, Germany invited by Dr Uwe Straehle Scientific publication data Total no. of impact factors: 130.967 No. of refereed publications: 36 No. of patents: 3 No. of citations (without self reference): 295 Scientific interest 1981-1987: Bacteriophage life cycle; repair mechanisms; genetic regulation; general and site-specific recombination 1987- bacterial genomics; IS and mobile elements; transposition; evolution, site-specific recombination; host-pathogen interaction, pathogenity islands, antibiotic resistance

Research Interest

 Plant biotechnology, genetics,