Balázs Vajna

Introduction / Short CV:

PhD: 2011

Habilitation: 2021

Research area:

Microbiological background of Pleurotus and Agaricus production

Role of bacterial-fungal interactions in bioremediation

Fungal communities of semiarid sandy grasslands

Teaching activities:

MSc

• Biometry, advanced biostatistics L+PR
• Chapters from classical and molecular microbiology
• Environmental microbiology PR
• Classical and molecular methods in microbiology PR
• Bacterial taxonomy and virus diagnostic PR
• Applied mycology PR

PhD

• Introduction to prokaryotic taxonomy

Supervision:

• Krisztina Hódosi (PhD, co-supervisor Lukas Y. Wick): The growth and bioremediating capabilities of Pleurotus ostreatus in soil
• Csaba Maller (PhD): Analysis of the microbial and ecological background of the biodegradation capabilities of Pleurotus ostreatus
• Zsuzsanna Neer (PhD, co-supervisor Tamás Felföldi): Cellular analysis of algal toxin-induced physiological responses in a rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) gill epithelial (RTgill-W1) cell line
• Renáta Bánfi (PhD, after absolutory, co-supervisor Károly Márialigeti): Bacterium-fungus interactions in an oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) model system

Selected publications:

Ujszegi, J., Boros, Z., Fodor, A., Vajna B & Hettyey A 2023. Metabolites of Xenorhabdus bacteria are potent candidates for mitigating amphibian chytridiomycosis. AMB Expr 13, 88 (2023). DOI: 10.1186/s13568-023-01585-0

Abbaszade Gorkhmaz, Marwene Toumi, Rózsa Farkas, Balázs Vajna, Gergely Krett, Péter Dobosy, Csaba Szabó, Erika Tóth. 2023. Exploring the relationship between metal(loid) contamination rate, physicochemical conditions, and microbial community dynamics in industrially contaminated urban soils, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 897, 166094. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166094

Bánfi, R., Pohner, Zs., Szabó, A., Herczeg, G., Kovács, G.M., Nagy, A., Márialigeti, K., Vajna, B. 2021. Succession and potential role of bacterial communities during Pleurotus ostreatus production, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 97, fiab125, DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiab125

Knapp, D.G., Lázár, A., Molnár, A., Vajna, B., Karácsony, Z., Váczy, K.Z., Kovács, G.M. 2021. Above-ground parts of white grapevine Vitis vinifera cv. Furmint share core members of the fungal microbiome. Environmental Microbiology Report. 13, 509-520. DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12950

Kéki, Zs., Makk, J., Barkács, K., Vajna, B., Palatinszky, M., Márialigeti, K., Tóth, E. 2019. Critical point analysis and biocide treatment in a microbiologically contaminated water purification system of a power plant. Springer Nature Applied Sciences. 1:820 doi: 10.1007/s42452-019-0740-9

Deveau, A., Bonito, G., Uehling, J., Paoletti, M., Becker, M., Bindschedler, S., Hacquard, S., Hervé, V., Labbé, J., Lastovetsky, O.A., Mieszkin, S., Millet, L.J., Vajna, B., Junier, P., Bonfante, P., Krom, B.P., Olsson, S., van Elsas, J.D., Wick, L.Y. 2018. Bacterial - Fungal Interactions: ecology, mechanisms and challenges. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 42, 335-352. doi: 10.1093/femsre/fuy008

Mentes, A., Szabó, A., Somogyi, B., Vajna, B., Tugyi, N., Csitári, B., Vörös, L., Felföldi, T. 2018. Differences in planktonic microbial communities associated with three types of macrophyte stands in a shallow lake. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 94, fix164, doi: 10.1093/femsec/fix164

Bánfi, R., Pohner, Zs., Kovács, J., Luzics, Sz., Nagy, A., Dudás, M., Tanos, P., Márialigeti, K., Vajna, B. 2015. Characterisation of the large-scale production process of oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) with the analysis of succession and spatial heterogeneity of lignocellulolytic enzyme activities. Fungal Biology, 119, 1354-1363. doi: 10.1016/j.funbio.2015.10.003

Vajna, B., Szili, D., Nagy, A., Márialigeti, K. 2012. An improved sequence aided T-RFLP analysis of bacterial succession during oyster mushroom substrate preparation. Microbial Ecology, 64, 702-713. doi: 10.1007/s00248-012-0063-5

Vajna, B., Kanizsai, Sz., Kéki, Zs., Márialigeti, K., Schumann, P., Tóth, E.M. 2012. Thermus composti sp. nov., isolated from oyster mushroom compost. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 62, 1486-1490. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.030866-0

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