Gabriella Szűcsné Varga, PhD

Last modified: 26. October 2022

WORKPLACES 

2021 –                  senior research fellow
Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences Institute for Viticulture and Enology Research Station Kecskemét

2014 –  2021       associate member
NARIC (National Agricultural Research and Innovation Center) Research Institute for Viticulture and Enology Reserch Station Kecskemét

2005 – 2014        associate member
Research Institute for Viticulture and Enology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, from 2008 Corvinus University of Budapest Institute for Viticulture and Enology, Research Station Kecskemét
     
2002 – 2004        junior member
Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

 

EDUCATION 

2002 – 2007     Plant Science Ph.D. Course, sub-program Plant Breeding Through Methods of Genetics and Biotechnology 
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding 
Szent István University, Gödöllő

1997 – 2002    Masters course in Genetics and Plant Breeding
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding 
Szent István University, Gödöllő    

 

Degrees

2007             Ph.D. degree
Szent István University, Gödöllő
Ph.D. thesis title: Proteins associated with early basal resistance and their use to identify the respective bacterial elicitors

2002             M. Sc. degree
Szent István University, Gödöllő
Master thesis title: Micropopogation and transformation of cauliflower

 

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

2017             Study Tour to Georgia, SRCA (Tbilisi) Scientific-Research Center of Agriculture

2011             Study Tour, University of Verona, Department of Biotechnology: Early transcriptional responses to different Agrobacterium strains in grapevine leaves

2007             COST 858 Training School Grapevine Transformation Technologies, Neustadt, Germany

2007             Short Term Scientific Mission in Julius Kühn Institut, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof, Siebeldingen: Genetic analysis of resistance background of traditional Hungarian grapevine cultivars

2006             Course: The role of detection, identification and conservation of    microorganisms in quality-control of food-microbiology  

 

RESEARCH FIELD

• Identification and examination of proteins and genes involved in basal resistance of plants. (PAMP-triggered immunity) in tobacco as model plant and in grapevine.
• Clonal selection of new grapevine varieties. Evaluation of vine and table grapes.
• Preserve and maintenance, analysis and expansion of grapevine varieties and clones in ex situ gene bank.

 

Language skill

• English language:    intermediate 
• Russian language:    advanced