CURRICULUM VITAE

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Gábor Péter

National Collection of Agricultural and Industrial Microorganisms

Institute of Food Science and Technology

Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Somlói út 14-16, H-1118 Budapest, Hungary

Phone/fax: (36-1)-305-7322

Email: peter.gabor@uni-mate.hu

 

Education

University of Horticulture and Food Science, Budapest, Hungary  Microbiology   Ph.D.   1998

University of Agricultural Sciences Gödöllõ, Hungary          Agricultural Sciences M.Sc.  1987

 

Professional appointments

 

June 2011- present                            Head of National Collection of Agricultural and Industrial Microorganisms (NCAIM), Corvinus University of Budapest, from January 2016 Szent István University, from February 2021 Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences

 

November 2003 – present                 Senior staff scientist

National Collection of Agricultural and Industrial Microorganisms (NCAIM), Corvinus University of Budapest

 

October 1998 - November 2003        Staff scientist

National Collection of Agricultural and Industrial Microorganisms (NCAIM), Corvinus University of Budapest

 

December 1987 - October 1998        Scientist

National Collection of Agricultural and Industrial Microorganisms (NCAIM), Corvinus University of Budapest

 

June 1987 - December 1987             Scientist

Department of Microbiology, University of Agricultural Science, Gödöllő, Hungary

 

Responsibilities

 

  • Head of NCAIM
  • Responsible curator of of NCAIM, including the coordination of culture preservation and maintenance
  • Involved in NCAIM administration, database management, and the overall running of the Collection
  • Consulting and mentoring of graduate students and industrial engineers

 

Research interests

 

  • Yeast taxonomy, ecology and biodiversity
  • Microbial strain preservation and maintenance

 

Membership in professional associations and other professional activities

 

  • Member of the Hungarian Society for Microbiology
  • Member of the International Commissin on Yeasts (2008-)
  • Editor
    • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (2009-)

 

  • Ad hoc reviewer for the journals

 

  • Acta alimentaria
  • Annals of Microbiology
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • Applied Soil Ecology
  • Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry
  • Canadian Journal of Microbiology
  • Current Microbiology
  • Diversity
  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • FEMS Yeast Research
  • Folia microbiologica
  • Food Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Fungal Ecology
  • International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
  • International Journal of Food Microbiology
  • Journal of Applied Microbiology
  • Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology
  • Journal of General and Applied Microbiology
  • Microbial Ecology
  • Microbial Genomics
  • Mycological Research
  • Pedobiologia
  • Plos One
  • Polar Biology
  • Yeast

 

Professional awards, fellowships, attended courses

 

  • “Isolation and taxonomic investigation of methanol assimilating yeasts”, Bolyai János Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 2003-2006
  • “The application of fatty acid analysis in yeast taxonomy”, International Mycological Institute (IMI), Egham, UK, 1 week, December 1998
  • "Development of detection systems for specific spoilage yeasts", Portuguese Yeast Culture Collection (PYCC), New University of Lisbon, Portugal, FEMS Research Fellowship, July - August 1998
  • “16th Annual Workshop of Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology”, Kansas State University. July 1996
  • "Identification of Aspergillus and Penicillium species", International Mycological Institute (IMI), London, UK, November 1990
  • "Yeast taxonomy: identification, molecular methods and data base management", Gulbenkian Institute, Oeiras, Portugal, August 1990

 

 

Publications

 

Cumulative IF: 109,307

Independent citations: 584

H-Index: 17

 

Book chapters and editing

 

Rosa, C.A.; Péter, G. (Eds.) (2006): Biodiversity and Ecophysiology of Yeasts. Springer Verlag. Berlin. pp.: 580.

Péter, G. (2011) Kuraishia Y. Yamada, Maeda & Mikata. In: Kurtzman, C.P., Fell J.W., Boekhout, T. (eds.) The Yeasts, A Taxonomic Study, Fifth Edition. Elsevier. Amsterdam. pp: 503-506

Péter, G., Takashima, M.; Čadež N. (2017) Yeast Habitats: Different but Global. In: Buzzini, P.; Lachance, MA.; Yurkov, A. (eds) Yeasts in Natural Ecosystems: Ecology. Springer, Cham. pp: 39-71

Péter G., Nagy E.S., Dlauchy D. (2019) Systematics, Diversity and Ecology of the Genus Yarrowia and the Methanol-Assimilating Yeasts. In: Sibirny A. (eds) Non-conventional Yeasts: from Basic Research to Application. Springer, Cham. pp: 297-339

 

Research papers

 

Péter, G. & Deák, T. (1991): On the false positive urease activity of Yarrowia lipolytica. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 60: 55-59.

Tornai-Lehoczki, J., Péter, G., Dlauchy, D. & Deák, T. (1996): Some remarks on "A taxonomic key for the genus Saccharomyces" (Vaughan Martini and Martini, (1993), Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 69: 229-233.

Fung, D.Y.C., Deák, T., Vasavada, P.C. and Péter, G. (1996): Evaluation of Candida isolation medium in food hygiene in Hungary. J. Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiol. 4: 279-284.

Péter, G., Tornai-Lehoczki, J. & Deák, T. (1997): Candida novakii, sp. nov. a new anamorphic yeast species of ascomycetous affinity. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 71: 375-378.

Mani, K., Péter, G. and Deák, T. (1997): Identification of industrial yeast strains of Indian origin. Acta Alimentaria 24: 393-401.

Deák, T., Beuchat, L.R., Guerzoni, M.E., Lillie, A., Péter, G., Rohm, H., Schnürer, F., Tabajdi, P.V., Westphal, S. (1998): A collaborative study on media for the enumeration of yeasts in foods. Int. J. Food Microbiol. 43: 91-95.

Dlauchy, D., Tornai-Lehoczki, J. & Péter, G. (1999): Restriction Enzyme Analysis of PCR Amplified rDNA as a Taxonomic Tool in Yeast Identification. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 22: 445-453.

Péter, G., Tornai-Lehoczki, J., Dlauchy, D. & Vitányi, G. (2000): Pichia sporocuriosa sp. nov., a new yeast isolated from rambutan. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 77: 37-42.

Péter, G. and Reichart O. (2001): The effect of growth phase, cryoprotectants and freezing rates on the survival of selected micro-organisms during freezing and thawing. Acta Alimentaria 30: 89-97.

Zagorc, T., Maráz, A., Cadez, N., Jemec, K.P., Péter, G., Resnik, M. Nemanic, J., Raspor, P. (2001): Indigenous wine killer yeasts and their application as starter culture in wine fermentation. Food Microbiology 18: 441-451.

Dlauchy, D.; Tornai-Lehoczki, J.; Fülöp L. & Péter, G. (2003): Pichia (Komagataella) pseudopastoris sp. nov., a new yeast species from Hungary. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 83: 327-332.

Péter, G.; Tornai-Lehoczki, J.; Fülöp L. & Dlauchy, D. (2003): Six new methanol assimilating yeast species from wood material. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 84: 147-159.

Tornai-Lehoczki, J.; Péter, G. and Dlauchy, D. (2003): CHROMagar Candida medium as a practical tool for the differentiation and presumptive identification of yeast species isolated from salads. Int. J. Food Microbiol. 86: 189-200.

Viljoen, BC.; Lourens-Hattingh, A.; Ikalafeng, B.; Péter, G.; (2003): Temperature abuse initiating yeast growth in yoghurt. Food Research International. 36: 193-197.

Péter, G.; Dlauchy, D.; Vasdinyei, R.; Tornai-Lehoczki, J.; Deák, T. (2004): Candida galli sp. nov., a new yeast from poultry. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 86: 105-110.

Péter, G.; Tornai-Lehoczki, J.; Suzuki, M. and Dlauchy, D. (2005): Metschnikowia viticola sp. nov., a new yeast species from grape. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 87: 155-160.

Péter, G.; Dlauchy, D.; Tornai-Lehoczki, J. & Kurtzman, C.P. (2005): Kuraishia molischiana sp. nov., the teleomorph of Candida molischiana. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 88: 241-247.

Péter, G. ; Dlauchy, D.;  and Tornai-Lehoczki, J. (2006): Candida floccosa sp. nov., a novel methanol-assimilating yeast species. International Journal of systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 56: 2015-2018.

Péter, G. ; Tornai-Lehoczki, J. Shin, K.-S. & Dlauchy, D. (2007): Ogataea thermophila sp. nov., the teleomorph of Candida thermophila. FEMS Yeast Research. 7: 494-496.

Péter, G. ; Tornai-Lehoczki, J. and Dlauchy, D. (2007): Ogataea allantospora sp. nov., an ascomycetous yeast species from phylloplane. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 92: 443–448.

Péter, G. ; Tornai-Lehoczki, J. and Dlauchy, D. (2008): Ogataea nitratoaversa sp. nov., a methylotrophic yeast species from temperate forest habitats. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 94:217–222.

Péter, G. ; Tornai-Lehoczki, J. and Dlauchy, D. (2009): Candida ogatae sp. nov., an anamorphic member of the Kuraishia clade. FEMS Yeast Research. 9: 328-333.

Péter, G. ; Tornai-Lehoczki, J. and Dlauchy, D. (2009): Trichomonascus apis sp. nov., a heterothallic yeast species from honeycomb. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 59: 1550 - 1554

Péter, G. ; Tornai-Lehoczki, J. and Dlauchy, D. (2009): Ogataea populialbae sp.nov., a yeast species from white poplar. FEMS Yeast Research. 9: 936-941

Péter, G. ; Tornai-Lehoczki, J. and Dlauchy, D. (2010): Ogataea pignaliae sp. nov., the teleomorph of Candida pignaliae. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 60: 2496 - 2500

Péter, G. ; Dlauchy, D. ; Tornai-Lehoczki, J. ; Suzuki, M. and Kurtzman, C.P. (2011): Spencermartinsiella europaea gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Trichomonascaceae. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 61: 993-1000

Dlauchy, D.; Tornai-Lehoczki, J.; Sedláček, I.; Audy, M. and Péter, G. (2011) Debaryomyces psychrosporus sp. nov., a yeast species from a Venezuelan cave. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 99: 619-628

Péter, G.; Dlauchy, D.; Szűcs E and Tornai-Lehoczki, J. (2011) Enrichment in methanol-containing broth – a simple method for the isolation of Saccharomyces from grapes. Acta Alimentaria. 40: 376–384

Péter, G. ; Dlauchy, D. ; Tornai-Lehoczki, J. ; Gouliamova, D. and Kurtzman, C.P. (2011): Ogataea saltuana sp. nov., a novel methanol-assimilating yeast species. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 100: 375-383

Čadež, N.; Raspor, P.; Turchetti, B.; Cardinali, G.; Ciafardini, G.; Veneziani, G.; Péter, G. (2012) Candida adriatica sp. nov. and Candida molendinolei sp. nov., two novel yeast species isolated from olive oil and its by-products. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 62: 2296-2302

Valente, P.; Boekhout, T.; Landell, M.F.; Crestani, J.; Pagnocca, F.C.; Sette, L.D.; Passarini, M.R.Z.; Rosa, C.A.; Brandao, L.R.; Pimenta, R.S.; Ribeiro, J.R.; Garcia, K.M.; Lee, C-F.; Suh, S-O.; Péter, G.; Dlauchy, D.; Fell, J.W.; Scorzetti, G.; Theelen, B.; Vainstein, M.H. (2012) Bandoniozyma gen. nov., a genus of fermentative and non-fermentative tremellaceous yeast species. PLoS ONE 7(10): e46060. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046060

Dlauchy, D.; Lee, C-F and Péter, G. (2012) Spencermartinsiella ligniputridi sp. nov., a yeast species recovered from rotten wood. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 62: 2799 - 2804

Péter, G.; Dlauchy, D.; Price, N.P.J. and Kurtzman, C.P. (2012) Diddensiella caesifluorescens gen. nov., sp. nov., a riboflavin producing yeast species of the family Trichomonascaceae. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 62: 3081–3087

Deák, T. and Péter G. (2013) Developments in yeast taxonomy. Acta Alimentaria. 42: 55-68

Cadez, N.; Dlauchy, D.; Raspor, P. and Péter, G. (2013) Ogataea kolombanensis sp. nov., Ogataea histrianica sp. nov. and Ogataea deakii sp. nov.,three novel yeast species from plant sources. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63: 3115-3123

Nagy, E.; Niss, M.; Dlauchy, D.; Arneborg, N.; Nielsen, D.S. and Péter, G. (2013) Yarrowia divulgata f.a., sp. nov., a yeast species from animal-related and marine sources. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63: 4818–4823

Nagy, E.; Dlauchy, D.; Medeiros A.O.; Péter, G.; Rosa, C.A. (2014) Yarrowia porcina sp. nov. and Yarrowia bubula f.a. sp. nov., two yeast species from meat and river sediment. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 105: 697–707

Cadez, N.; Fülöp, L.; Dlauchy, D.; Péter, G. (2015) Zygosaccharomyces favi sp. nov., an obligate osmophilic yeast species from bee bread and honey. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 107: 645–654

Morais, C.G.; Lara, C.A.; Oliveira, E.S.; Péter, G.; Dlauchy, D. & Rosa, C.A. (2016) Spencermartinsiella silvicola sp. nov., a yeast species isolated from rotting wood. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 66: 604-608

Haddadderafshi, N.; Pósa, TB.; Péter, G.; Gáspár, L.; Ladányi, M.; Hrotkó, K.; Lukács, N.; Halász, K. (2016) Characterization of community structure of culturable endophytic fungi in sweet cherry composite trees and their growth retarding effect against pathogens. Acta Biologica Hungarica 67: 269–285

James, S.A.; Bond, C.J.; Stanley, R; Ravella, S.R.; Peter, G.; Dlauchy, D.; Roberts, I.A. (2016) Apiotrichum terrigenum sp. nov., a novel soil-associated yeast found in both the UK and mainland Europe. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 66: 5046-5050

Péter, G.; Dlauchy, D.; Tóbiás A., Fülöp L.; Podgorsek M.; Cadez, N. (2017) Brettanomyces acidodurans sp. nov., a new acetic acid producing yeast species from olive oil. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 110: 657-664

Yurkov, A.M; Dlauchy, D; Péter, G. (2017) Meyerozyma amylolytica sp. nov. from temperate deciduous trees and the transfer of five Candida species to the genus Meyerozyma. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 67: 3977-3981; doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.002232

Čadež, N.; Dlauchy D.; Tóbiás, A.; Péter, G. (2017) Kuraishia mediterranea sp. nov., a methanol-assimilating yeast species from olive oil and its sediment. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 67: 4846-4850; doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.002392

Brysch-Herzberg, M.; Tobias, A.; Seidel, M.; Wittmann, R.; Wohlmann, E.; Fischer, R.; Dlauchy, D.; Peter, G. (2019) Schizosaccharomyces osmophilus sp. nov., an osmophilic fission yeast occurring in bee bread of different solitary bee species, FEMS Yeast Research, doi: 10.1093/femsyr/foz038

Péter, G.; Mounier, J.; Garnier, L.; Soós, D.; Dlauchy, D. (2019) Cutaneotrichosporon suis sp. nov., a lipolytic yeast species from food and food-related environment. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.003485

Brysch-Herzberg, M.; Groenewald, M.; Dlauchy, D.; Seidel, M.; Péter, G. (2020) Hyphopichia lachancei, f.a., sp. nov., a yeast species from diverse origins. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 113: 773–778; doi: 10.1007/s10482-020-01387-5

Čadež, N.; Drumonde-Neves, J.; Sipiczki, M.; Dlauchy, D.; Lima, T.; Pais, C.; Schuller, D.; Franco-Duarte, R.; Lachance, MA.; Péter, G. (2020) Starmerella vitis f.a., sp. nov., a yeast species isolated from flowers and grapes. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 113: 1289–1298; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-020-01438-x

Brysch-Herzberg, M.; Dlauchy, D.; Seidel, M.; Péter, G. (2021) Cyberlindnera sylvatica sp. nov., a yeast species isolated from forest habitats. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 71, doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004477

Čadež, N.; Dlauchy, D.; Tome, M.; Péter, G. (2021) Novakomyces olei sp. nov., the first member of a novel Taphrinomycotina lineage. Microorganisms 2021, 9, 301; doi: 10.3390/microorganisms9020301

Yurkov, A.; Alves, A.; Bai, FY. et al. (2021) Nomenclatural issues concerning cultured yeasts and other fungi: why it is important to avoid unneeded name changes. IMA Fungus 12, 18 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43008-021-00067-x

Péter, G. (2022) Biodiversity of Zygosaccharomyces species in food systems. Acta Alimentaria DOI: 10.1556/066.2021.00142

Sakpuntoon, V.; Péter, G.; Groenewald, M.; Dlauchy, D.; Limtong, S.; Srisuk, N. (2022) Description of Crinitomyces reliqui gen. nov., sp. nov. and reassignment of Trichosporiella flavificans and Candida ghanaensis to the genus Crinitomyces. Journal of Fungi 8(3), 224; https://doi.org/10.3390/jof8030224