Department of Plant Biology

Introduction

Address: 7624 Pécs, Ifjúság str 6. Mailing address: 7604. Pécs Pf. 266.

Telephone: (72) 503 600/24428
http://www.facebook.com/plantbiol

Head of department: Dr. Éva Hideg, full professor

The Department of Plant Biology was established on September 1, 2013, with the accession of three lecturers from the Department of Plant Systematics and Geobotany to the former Department of Plant Physiology.

Education

The staff of our department teaches the following subjects in BSc training:

Plant physiology lecture
Plant physiology practice
Plant knowledge practice
Plant biotechnology
Plant taxonomy lecture
Plant taxonomy practice
Plant anatomy lecture
Plant anatomy practice
Statistics practice

The staff of our department teaches the following subjects in MSc training:

Biophysics lecture
Biophysics practice
Biotechnology
Evolutionary phylogenetics
Photosynthesis
Molecular plant taxonomy
Molecular cell biology
Plant development and stress physiology lecture
Plant development and stress physiology seminar and practice
Ecophysiology lecture
Ecophysiology practice
Vegetation and production site evaluation seminar and practice

Research

In connection with our research work, we work with several international and domestic partners.

Our Hungarian partners:

Szeged Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Research Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Vácrátót)
NAIK Viticulture and Enology Research Institute Kecskemét Research Station
NYME Institute of Botany and Nature Conservation (Sopron)

Our most important foreign partners:

Åke Strid (Örebro University, Sweden)
Brigitte Mauch-Mani (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Bruce I. Reisch (Cornell University, Geneva, NY, USA)
Elmar Robbrecht (National Botanic Garden, Belgium)
Lennart Andersson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Marcel Jansen (University College Cork, Ireland)
Martin Pour Nikfardjam (State Research Institute for Viticulture and Pomiculture, Weinsberg, Germany)
Susanne Neugart and Monika Schreiner (Institut für Gemüse- und Zierpflanzenbau, Grossbeeren, Germany)
Philip Dix (Maynooth University, Ireland)
Ole Seberg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

In addition, the staff of our department are founding members of the UV4Plants Association international organization.