Prof. Tamás Müller’s work contributes to questions of understanding how it is possible for spermatozoa to maintain their fertility for a long time in the ovaries of externally fertilized female fish, and how this property can be used to improve fish propagation.

Ágnes Belák is an associate professor at the Department of Food Microbiology, Hygiene and Safety, at Institute of Food Science and Technology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

His theoretical work examines how internal fertilization or internal gametic association and ‘placenta formation’ in fish could have developed in terms of evolutionary biology. His empirical work has assessed these theories in settings ranging from literature data synthesis to own experimental results in externally fertilized fish.

Across his research, he uses an own developed new fish propagation method.

Her research focuses on the antimicrobial resistance of bacteria; inhibition of food-borne pathogens with antagonistic bacteria isolated from the processing environment; the effect of high-energy radiation on the degradation of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance of pathogenic bacteria; and the typical spoilage microbiota of foods and extracellular enzyme production of dominant microbes. Her expertise lies in the fact that she has extensive experience in the field of isolation, identification and typing of microorganisms found in food and in the environment, primarily using molecular biological methods. Ágnes Belák’s work contributes to questions of how microbes isolated from food and food raw materials, and their enzymes can be used in the valorisation of wastes. Across her research, she uses microbiological and nucleic acid based molecular biological methods.His results play a significant role in the development of practical fish breeding technology, as well as in ex situ and field in situ conservation works. During his research work conducted in a team, 7 intellectual products were created.

He made significant contributions in the fields of fish propagation technology and endangered/ threatened fish conservation.

She authored and co-authored more than 20 research articles in high-impact scientific journals. Ágnes Belák has collaborated with research groups in Austria, Slovenia, Italy and South Africa, and she has successfully applied for a few research grants nationally and internationally.

He has authored and co-authored 90 research articles in high-impact scientific journals.
Prof. Müller has collaborated with several research groups across Europe and worldwide, and he has successfully applied for 10 research grants nationally and internationally.