Szabad, Janos

Biologist, geneticist

He was born in 1945. He worked at the Genetics Institute of the Biology Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) in Szeged between 1971 and 1973. From 1993 he has been head of department and university professor of the Medical Biology Institute, Faculty of General Medicine of Szeged University. He teaches cell biology and molecular genetics to medical students and molecular cell biology to post-graduate students. He supervises the professional work of post-graduate students. He is head of the academic research group studying maternal influence and embryo genesis. He has spent considerable periods in leading research groups in Switzerland, the USA and Germany. With his colleagues he is hoping to understand the role of influential maternal genes in the life of offspring through the methods of genetics, molecular and cell biology. They conduct experiments with the model species of fruit flies. He has received the award of the Academy and the Széchenyi Professors' Scholarship. He is a member of the Organisation of European Molecular Biology.

Maternal Inheritance, Maternal Effect