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1 CURRICULUM VITAE: László M. Szabados Date of birth: February 19, 1955 Place of birth: Hódmezövásárhely, Hungary Present position: Group leader Present address: Insitute of Plant Biology Biological Research Center Temesvári krt Szeged, Hungary mail: BRC, H-6701 Szeged, P.O.Box 521, Hungary phone: fax: website: Marital status: divorced, 2 children Education: Faculty of Sciences, József Attila University of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary: Biologist Degree (M.Sc.): International Training Course; B.R.C., Szeged, Hungary 1982 Doctor degree (Ph.D) in Biology, József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary, 1995 CS (Kandidatus) degree, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2010 Ds.C. degree (MTA doktora), Hungarian Academy of Sciences Languages: Hungarian (native), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), German (fluent). Employment and research experience: : PhD student; Institute of Genetics, BRC, Szeged, Hungary; Isolation culture and fusion of plant protoplasts, chromosome isolation and transfer : Research associate, Sugarbeet Research Institute, Sopronhorpács, Hungary; Development of tissue culture methods for sugarbeet. 1983: Invited lecturer; Universidad de la Republica, Facultad de Agronomia, Montevideo, Uruguay; Development of tissue culture methods for potato : Postdoctoral fellow, Biotechnology Research Unit, CIAT, Cali, Colombia; Protoplasts culture, and transformation of cassava, Stylosanthes and bean : Postdoctoral fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung; Abt. Schell, Köln, F.R.Germany; Regulation of the leghemoglobin gene expression of Sesbania rostrata; genetic transformation of legumes : Research Associate, Institute of Plant Biology, BRC, Szeged, Hungary; T-DNA insertion mutagenesis in Arabidopsis to date: Senior Research Associate, group leader; Institute of Plant Biology, BRC, Szeged, Hungary; Gene tagging in Arabidopsis, regulation of salt and drought resistance, stress-related signal transduction. Temporal assignments and fellowships: 1997: Max-Planck fellowship, Max-Planck-Institut für Züchtungsforschung; Abt. Schell, Köln, F.R.Germany (6 months)

2 : Manager and Senior Scientists of the Arabidopsis Functional Genomics Program in the BRC, Szeged, supported by Vitality Biotechnologies Inc., (18 months) : Senior HAESF fellowship, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA (10 months), 2008: Invited lecturer, University Paris Marie Curie, PARIS, France (1 month) : Consultant of Bayer Cropscience, Ghent, Belgium. 2013: Lecturer, University of Rio Cuarto, Rio Cuarto, Argentina (3 weeks). Teaching experience : Universidad de la Republica, Facultad de Agronomia; Montevideo, Uruguay, Postgraduate course on plant tissue culture, cell genetics to date: Biological Research Center, International Training Course, lecturer on plant molecular biology, and genetics to date: University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary, Course on Arabidopsis genomics, plant transformation Diplome and Master thesis: 1986: Luz Marina Tello 1986: Rodrigo Hoyos 1987: Ricardo Acuna 1995: Raphael Ciosk 1995: Edit Ábrahám 1998: Gábor Rigó 2003: István Gazsó 2004: Szilvia Banga 2004: Gábor Merényi 2005: Éva Kiss 2005: Éva Borsos 2010: Cecilia Ruibal 2011: Balázs Czerődi 2012: János Urbancsok Ph.D. thesis: 2002: Fusun Inci 2004: Feyza Selcuk 2004: Edit Ábrahám 2006: Cristina Popescu 2007: Gyöngyi Székely 2008: Laura Zsigmond 2010: Csaba Papdi 2014: Gábor Rigó ITC students ( one-year International Training Course in the BRC, Szeged, Hungary): 1991: Luz Marina Tello 1992: Katalin Barabás 1992: Yaideep Mathur 1992: Csaba Máthé 1997: Fusun Inci 1998: Inga Krasovskaja 2000: Gyöngyi Székely 2001: Feyza Selcuk

3 2003: Cristina Popescu 2006: Mary Prathiba Joseph 2011: Afwa Thameur Membership: European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB) International Association of Plant Biotechnology (IAPB) American Society of Plant Biologist (ASPB) Collaborations: Csaba Koncz, Max-Planck-Institute für Züchtungsforschung, Köln, Germany, Arnould Savouré, University of Paris Marie-Curie, Paris, France Aviah Zilberstein, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Sabina Vidal, University of Montevideo, Uruguay Doris Rentsch, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland Jiang-Kang Zhu, University of California, Riverside, California, USA,, University of Novi-Sad, Novi-Sad, Serbia, László Erdei, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary Publication record ( ) Scientific publications: 59 Patents: 2 Cumulative impact factor: 162,106 Citations (SCI, independent/all): 1587 / 1773 Hirsch index: 23 Selected Publications 1. Szabados L, Charrier B, Kondorosi A, de Bruijn FJ, Ratet P (1995) New plant promoter and enhancer testing vectors. Molecular Breeding 1: Strichov N, Ábrahám E, Ökrész L, Blickling S, Zilberstein A, Schell J, Koncz C, Szabados L (1997) Differential expression of two P5CS genes controlling proline accumulation during salt-stress is regulated by ABA1, ABI1 and AXR2 in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 12: Bhalerao RP, Salchert K, Bakó L, Ökrész L, Szabados L, Muranaka T, Machida Y, Schell J, Koncz C (1999) Regulatory interaction of PRL1 WD protein with Arabidopsis SNF1-like protein kinases. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA. 96: Szabados L, Kovács I, Oberschall A, Ábrahám E, Kerekes I, Zsigmond L, Nagy R, Alvarado M, Krasovskaja I, Gál M, Berente A, Rédei GP, Ben-Haim A, Koncz C (2002) Distibution of 1000 sequenced T-DNA tags in the Arabidopsis genome. Plant J. 32: Alvarado M, Zsigmond L, Kovács I, Cséplö Á, Koncz Cs, Szabados L (2004) Luciferase gene trapping in Arabidopsis: tagging of stress-responsive genes. Plant Physiol. 134:1-10.

4 6. Fabro G, Kovács I, Pavet, V, Szabados L, Alvarez, ME (2004) Proline accumulation and AtP5CS2 gene activation are induced by plant-pathogen incompatible interactions in Arabidopsis. Mol Plant Micr Interaction 17: Farkas I, Dombrádi V, Miskei M, Szabados L, Koncz Cs. (2007) Arabidopsis PPP family of serine/threonine phosphatases. Trends Plant Sci. 12: Székely Gy, Ábrahám E, Cséplő Á, Rigó G, Zsigmond L, Csiszár J, Ayaydin F, Strizhov N, Jásik J, Schmelzer E, Koncz Cs, Szabados L (2008) Duplicated P5CS genes of Arabidopsis play distinct roles in stress regulation and developmental control of proline biosynthessis. Plant J. 53: Zsigmond L, Rigó G, SzékelyGy, Ötvös K, Szarka A, Darula Zs, MedzihradszkyKF, Koncz Cs, Koncz Zs, Szabados L (2008) Arabidopsis PPR40 connects abiotic stress responses to mitochondrial electron transport. Plant Physiol. 146: Papdi Cs, Ábrahám E, Joseph MP, Popescu C, Koncz Cs, Szabados L (2008) Functional identification of Arabidopsis stress regulatory genes using the Controlled cdna Overexpression System, COS. Plant Physiol. 147: Szabados L, Savouré A (2010) Proline: a multifunctional amino acid. Trends Plant Sci 15: Lehmann S, Funck D, Szabados L, Rentsch D (2010) Proline metabolism and transport in plant development. Amino Acids 39: Henriques R, Magyar Z, Monardes A, Khan S, ZalejskiC, Orellana J, Szabados L, de la Torre C, Koncz Cs, Bögre L (2010) Arabidopsis S6 Kinase mutants display chromosome instability and altered RBR1-E2F pathway activity. EMBO J. 29: Zsigmond L, Szepesi Á, Tari I, KirályA, Szabados L (2012) Overexpression of the mitochondrial PPR40 gene improves salt tolerance in Arabidopsis. Plant Sci 182: Rigó G, Tietz O, Ayaydin F, Zsigmond L, Kovács H, Páy A, Salchert K, Szabados L, Palme K, Koncz Cs, Cséplö Á (2013) Inactivation of plasmamembrane localized CDPK-related kinase 5 decelerates PIN2 exocytosis and root gravitropic response. Plant Cell 25: Ruibal C, Castro A, Carballo V, Szabados L, Vidal S (2013) Recovery from heat, salt and osmotic stress in Physcomitrella patens requires a functional small heat shock protein PpHsp16.4. BMC Plant Biol 13: Coego A, Brizuela E, Castillejo P, Ruíz S, Koncz Cs, del Pozo JC, Piñeiro M, Jarillo JA, Paz-Ares J, León J and the TRANSPLANTA Consortium (2014) The TRANSPLANTA Collection of Arabidopsis Lines: A resource for Functional Analysis of Transcription Factors based on their conditional overexpression. Plant J. (in press).

5 Patents 1. Szabados L, Zsigmond L, Koncz Cs: Improvement of stress tolerance in higher plants. Patent Application No.: P , date: 31/08/ Szabados L, Koncz C, Ábrahám E, Papdi C, Joseph MP (2008) Controlled cdna Overexpression System in Arabidopsis, Hungarian Patent No.: P ,