Levente Karaffa - ODT Personal data sheet


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personal data approved: 2023. XII. 06.

Personal data

name	Levente Karaffa
name of institution	University of Debrecen
doctoral school	DE Kálmán Kerpely Doctoral School (Academic staff member Az oktató a doktori iskola doktoranduszai számára oktat tantárgyat, és/vagy a doktori iskola megszavazta, hogy doktoranduszok számára kutatási témát írjon ki. ) DE Doctoral School of Chemistry (Academic staff member Az oktató a doktori iskola doktoranduszai számára oktat tantárgyat, és/vagy a doktori iskola megszavazta, hogy doktoranduszok számára kutatási témát írjon ki. ) DE Pál Juhász-Nagy Doctoral School of Biology and Environmental Sciences (Core member) BME George A. Olah Doctoral School of Chemistry and Chemical Technology (discipline) Habilitation Comittee and Doctoral Council (external member)
the share of work in the different doctoral schools.	DE Kálmán Kerpely Doctoral School 9% DE Doctoral School of Chemistry 20% DE Pál Juhász-Nagy Doctoral School of Biology and Environmental Sciences 70% BME GAODSCC (discipline) Habilitation Comittee and Doctoral Council (external member) 1%
accreditation statement submitted to:	University of Debrecen

Contact details
E-mail address	karaffa.leventescience.unideb.hu
phone number	+36 52 512-900/62488
	own web page

Academic title
scientific degree, title	Ph.D.
year degree was obtained	1997
discipline to which degree belongs	theoretical medicine
institution granting the degree	Debrecen Medical School
scientific degree, title	Habilitation
year degree was obtained	2006
discipline to which degree belongs	biology
institution granting the degree	University of Debrecen
scientific degree, title	DSc
year degree was obtained	2017
discipline to which degree belongs	biology
institution granting the degree	HAS

Employment
1997 -	University of Debrecen university professor or researcher

Thesis topic supervisor

number of doctoral students supervised until now

6.5

number of students who fulfilled course requirements

3.5

students who obtained their degrees:

	István Sándor Kolláth	PhD	2022	KDI-DE
	László Kulcsár	PhD	2019	PJDSBES
	Ágota Vasasné Jónás	PhD	2016	PJDSBES
	Norbert Ág	PhD	2016	PJDSBES
(50%)	Assadollahi Mojtaba	PhD	2013	PJDSBES
(50%)	Kálmán Zoltán Váczy	PhD	2009	PJDSBES
(50%)	Erzsébet Fekete	PhD	2004	PJDSBES

completed course requirement:

	Alexandra Márton	(PhD)	2023/08	PJDSBES
	Balázs Fejes	(PhD)	2021/08	PJDSBES

present PhD students:

	István Bakondi-Kovács	(PhD)	(2025/01)	PJDSBES
	Vivien Bíró	(PhD)	(2024/01)	PJDSBES

Thesis topic proposals

Research
research area	Fungal physiology and biotechnology
research field in which current research is conducted	biology

Publications

2023

Flipphi Michel, Márton Alexandra, Bíró Vivien, Ág Norbert, Sándor Erzsébet, Fekete Erzsébet, Karaffa Levente: Mutations in the Second Alternative Oxidase Gene: A New Approach to Group Aspergillus niger Strains, JOURNAL OF FUNGI 9: (5) 570
type of document: Journal paper/Article
language: English
URL

2022

FEKETE E., BÍRÓ V., MÁRTON A., BAKONDI-KOVÁCS I., NÉMETH Z., SÁNDOR E., KOVÁCS B., FÁBIÁN I., KUBICEK C.P., TSANG A., KARAFFA L.: Bioreactor as the root cause of the "manganese effect" during Aspergillus niger citric acid fermentations, FRONTIERS IN BIOENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY 10: 935902
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 1
language: English
URL

2021

Erzsébet Sándor, István S. Kolláth, Erzsébet Fekete, Vivien Bíró, Michel Flipphi, Béla Kovács, Christian P. Kubicek, Levente Karaffa: Carbon-source dependent interplay of copper and manganese ions modulates the morphology and itaconic acid production in Aspergillus terreus, FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY 12: 680420
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 8
language: English
URL

2020

FEJES B, OUEDRAOGO J-P, FEKETE E, SÁNDOR E, FLIPPHI M, SOÓS Á, MOLNÁR ÁP, KOVÁCS B, KUBICEK CP, TSANG A, KARAFFA L: The effects of external Mn2+ concentration on hyphal morphology and citric acid production are mediated primarily by the NRAMP-family transporter DmtA in Aspergillus niger, MICROBIAL CELL FACTORIES 19: p. 17.
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 8
language: English
URL

2019

Kolláth IS, MOLNÁR ÁP, SOÓS Á, FEKETE E, SÁNDOR E, KOVÁCS B, KUBICEK CP, KARAFFA L: Manganese deficiency is required for high itaconic acid production from D-xylose in Aspergillus terreus, FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY 10: 1589
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 11
language: English
URL

2017

FEKETE E, FLIPPHI M, ÁG N, KAVALECZ N, CERQUEIRA G, SCAZZOCCHIO C, KARAFFA L: A mechanism for a single nucleotide intron shift, NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH 45: (15) pp. 9085-9092.
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 6
language: English
URL

2015

KARAFFA L, DIAZ R, PAPP B, FEKETE E, SÁNDOR E, KUBICEK C P: A deficiency of manganese ions in the presence of high sugar concentrations is the critical parameter for achieving high yields of itaconic acid by Aspergillus terreus, APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY 99: (19) pp. 7937-7944.
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 71
language: English
URL

2008

FEKETE E, SEIBOTH B, KUBICEK C P, SZENTIRMAI A, KARAFFA L: Lack of aldose-1 epimerase in Hypocrea jecorina (anamorph Trichoderma reesei): a key to cellulase gene expression on lactose., PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 105: pp. 7141-7146.
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 29
language: English
URL

2006

KARAFFA L, FEKETE E, GAMAUF C, SZENTIRMAI A, KUBICEK C P, SEIBOTH B: D-Galactose induces cellulase gene expression in Hypocrea jecorina at low growth rates., MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 152: pp. 1507-1514.
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 65
language: English
URL

2003

KARAFFA L, KUBICEK C P: Aspergillus niger citric acid accumulation: do we understand this well-working black box?, APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY 61: (3) pp. 189-196.
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 248
language: English
URL

Number of independent citations to these publications:

447

Scientometric data

list of publications and citations

number of scientific publications that meet accreditation criteria:

423

number of scientific publications:

230

monographs and professional books:

monographs/books in which chapters/sections were contributed:

number of independent citations to scientific publications and creative works:

2524

further relevant information regarding accreditation (in Hungarian)

Post-doc tanulmányok: TU Wien, Ausztria; TU Hamburg-Harburg, Németország; The University of Birmingham, Anglia; Tel Aviv University, Izrael. Szerkesztőbizottsági tagság: Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2007-2012), BMC Biotechnology (2015-2020), The Journal of Antibiotics (2010-), Fungal Biology and Biotechnology (2014-), Fungal Genetics and Biology (2022-). A Debreceni Egyetem Publikációs Díja (2009). A Magyar Mikrobiológiai Társaság Manninger Rezső Emlékérme (2016). (to be translated)