Beáta G. Vértessy#
| Membership Number: | 5575 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Homepage(s): | http://biostruct.org/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1288-2982 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - present Head of Department of Applied Biotechnology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- 2011 - present Full Professor Department of Applied Biotechnology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- 2010 - 2012 Deputy Director, Institute of Enzymology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2001 - present Group Leader and Scientific Research Advisor (university equivalent: Full Professor), Institute of Enzymology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1999 - 2000 Researcher, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, USA
- 1994 - 1999 Senior Researcher, Institute of Enzymology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1992 - 1994 Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow, Univ Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
- 1987 - 1989, 1989 - 1992 Junior Researcher and then Researcher, Institute of Enzymology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1986 - 1987 MSc/PhD student, Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, USA, 1987: MSc with honors
- 1984 - 1987 PhD student, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Fields of Scholarship
- Infectious microorganisms (Mycobacterium, Plasmodium, Staphylococcus)
- Genome integrity: the role of dUTPases in preventive DNA repair
- Enzyme families catalyzing phosphate transfer by nucleophilic attack on the alpha-phosphorus: dUTPases and cytidylyltransferases
- Structural biology (X-ray crystallography and solution methods)
- Nucleotide pool imbalance and its physiological consequences
- Uracil in DNA: double role for uracil moieties within genomic DNA
- Nucleo-cytoplasmic trafficking: cell cycle dependent NLS-adjacent phosphorylation
Honours and Awards
- 2019, 2020 Best Lecturer Award, BME Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2019, 2020 (based on secret ballot voting and opinions of BSc and MSc students)
- 2016 Tankó Béla Award (award of the Hungarian Biochemical Society for outstanding research)
- 2015 Gold Master Medal of Hungarian Scientific Students' Associations, 2015 (for best supervisor of undergraduate research students)
- 2012 UNESCO-L’Oréal Award, Hungary, Women in Science
- 2007 Wellcome Trust Award (instrumental), UK
- 2005 Howard Hughes International Research Scholar (Howard Hughes Medical Institutes, USA)
- 2000 Howard Hughes International Research Scholar (Howard Hughes Medical Institutes, USA)
- 2000 Scientia Europaea Award (Institute de France (French Academy of Sciences) and Aventis)
- 1998 Bolyai János Research Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1992 Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral award, AvH Stiftung, Germany
