HOMEPAGE Attila SZENTIRMAI

Duty: Professor Emeritus  University of Debrecen Faculty of Sciences and Technology Department of Biochemical Engineering Postal address: H-4010 Debrecen P.O.B:64  Office address: 4010 Debrecen Egyetem-tér 1 Kémia D-210  Phone: (52) 512-900/22730 Fax: (52) 533-677  E mail: szentirmai@tigris.unideb.hu Magyarul

Teaching activities: His initial academic appointment was as full professor of Microbiology at Kossuth L. University of Sciences (1985). The Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology was formally established by his work with the aim to deliver lectures in the field of general microbiology for undergraduate students, and also different master courses for selected students.and distributed number of lecture noted about Fundamentals of Overproduction of Primary and Secondary Metabolites and short courses about Phages. Chemical and Biological Characterization of Antibiotics. Microbial Transformations of Natural Compounds for example Steroids. He was superviser of number of doctoral thesis.

Research activities (keywords) Scientific activity on basic research during the past decade.

Microbial physiology of procaryotic and eucaryotic microbes. (Mycobactereium phlei, Bacillus macerans, Penicillium chrysogenum, Acremonium chrysogenum, Aspergillus nidulans, Hypocrea jecorina) Physiology of Archaebacteria. Catabolic repression and overproduction of metabolites. Physiological base of interaction between symbiotic partners (Enterobacter and Nematoda). One area is the study of overproduction of primary and secondary metabolites. How is their production influenced by gene regulation, translational and physiological regulation? The other area covers the microbiological trans-formation of organic compounds. The third area is the physiological interaction between nematodes and their symbiotic enterobacters.

Scientific activity:on basic research during the past decade: Microbial physiology of procaryotic and eucaryotic microbes. (Mycobactereium phlei, Bacillus macerans, Penicillium chrysogenum, Acremonium chrysogenum, Aspergillus nidulans). Catabolic repression and overproduction of metabolites. One area is the study of overproduction of primary and secondary metabolites. How is their production influenced by gene, or translational and physiological regulation?

Membership of professional societies:Hungarian Biochemical Society – Hungarian Society for Microbiology – Society of Industrial Microbiology (USA) – New York Academy of Sciences

Selected publications/patents: Number of papers in referred journals: 88 Impact factor: 160< Ppatents: 25.

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