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!!Gergely Maróti PhD
AFFILIATION: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Biological Research Center\\
LINK TO WEBPAGE: [http://www.brc.hu/biochem_microbial_genomics.php]\\
FIELD OF SCHOLARSHIP: Biology 
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__BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:__
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PhD in Biology (2005), University of Szeged, Hungary\\
Title of thesis: Insights into the assembly of NiFe hydrogenases\\
Post-Doctoral position at the J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA. Member of the Synthetic Biology & Bioenergy Team led by the Nobel-Laureate Hamilton O. Smith.\\
Associate Professor at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Biological Research Center since 2012. More than 70 international publications in the field of microbiology.
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__DETAILS OF RESEARCH:__
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Symbiotic interactions range from very tight (e.g. organelle endosymbioses) to diffuse associations (e.g. co-localization) with a broad spectrum in between (e.g. predation, parasitism, commensalism, mutualism). These interactions involve elaborate communication between the partners at the cellular level. Our major goal is the discovery of the potential of selected living interactions as specific sources of useful biomolecules and metabolites (e.g. antimicrobial peptides -AMPs-, biofuels, biomaterials, etc.). Microbial associations of various levels are analyzed in details and interrogated for the presence of such products.
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__THREE KEY PUBLICATION REFERENCES:__
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Farkas A., Maróti G., Kereszt A. and Kondorosi É. (2017) Comparative analysis of the bacterial membrane disruption effect of two natural plant antimicrobial peptides. ''Frontiers in Microbiology'' 8:51, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00051
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Lakatos G., Deák Zs., Vass I., Rétfalvi T., Rozgonyi Sz., Rákhely G., Ördög V., Kondorosi É. and Maróti G. (2014) Bacterial symbionts enhance photo-fermentative hydrogen evolution of ''Chlamydomonas'' algae. ''Green Chemistry'' 16 (11), 4716 - 4727. doi:10.1039/C4GC00745J
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Farkas A., Maróti G., Dürgő H., Györgypál Z., Lima R.M., Medzihradszky K.F., Kereszt A., Mergaert P. and Kondorosi É. (2014) The ''Medicago truncatula'' symbiotic peptide NCR247 contributes to bacteroid differentiation through multiple mechanisms. ''PNAS'' 111:5183-88
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