Curriculum Vitae of dr. László G.-Tóth

Personal information

First name: László
Surname: Dr. G.-Tóth
Date of Birth: 26. 05. 1954
Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
Citizenship: Hungarian

Permanent Address: H-8229 Csopak, Szent Donát u. 5, Hungary.
Phone: (36) 87 446 326
Office Address, mailing address: Balaton Limnological Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-8237 Tihany, Hungary.
Phone: (36)87-448-244;
Fax: (36)87-448-006;
E-mail: Gtoth@tres.blki.hu
Position: senior scientific research worker
Marital Status: married, two children
Name of wife: Prof. Dr. Judit Padisák

Education

• 2003, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest): Doctor in Science (D.Sc.);
• 1989, Hungarian Committee of Scientific Qualificaions (Budapest), Candidate for the Biological Sciences (Ph. D.) No.: 12.825;
• 1980, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), Doctor Rerum Naturalium, No.: D-2.390/1979;
• 1974-1979, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), certified biologist;
• 1968-1972, Árpád Grammar School (Budapest), final examination;

Work Experience in Hungary

• 2003-, scientific advisor, Balaton Limnological Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Tihany);
• 1990-2003, senior scientific research worker, Balaton Limnological Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Tihany);
• 1982-1990, scientific research worker, Balaton Limnological Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Tihany);
• 1980-1982, assistant scientific research worker, Balaton Limnological Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Tihany);

Field of scientific activity

• selective feeding of freshwater and marine crustacean plankton (see G.-Tóth 1984, 1992; G.-Tóth and Zánkai 1985; G.-Tóth et al. 1986, 1987, 1988; Drits et al. 1991; G.-Tóth and Kato 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001a,b in the attached list of publications);
• respiration and respiratory electron transport system activity of freshwater and marine crustacean plankton (see G.-Tóth 1991, 1992a,b; G.-Tóth and Drits 1991; G.-Tóth et al. 1995, 1996, 1997 in the attached list of publications);
• embryonic and larval respiration and respiratory electron transport system activity of fish (see G.-Tóth et al. 1995a,b,c in the attached list of publications);
• respiratory electron transport system activity of plankton, sediment and biofilm (see G.-Tóth 1993; G.-Tóth et al. 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 in the attached list of publications);
• estimation of the carbon and energy flux of the plankton, sediment and biofilm from respiration and respiratory enzyme activity (see: G.-Tóth et al. 1994 in the attached list of publications);
• studies of the impacts of some environmental pollutants and acidification on the respiration, metabolism and development of freshwater and marine planktonic organisms and fish (see: G.-Tóth and Zlinszky 1989; G.-Tóth et al. 1995a,b,c; Szabó et al. 1995 in the attached list of publications);
• studies of the significance and degree of the postmortem enzymatic activity in the decomposition of the corps of the dead organisms and the impact of the pH of the environment on that alternative process of decomposition (see G.-Tóth and Zlinszky 1989; G.-Tóth et al. 1994, in the attached list of publications);
• studies of phylogenetic origin and recent function of deep-sea hydrothermal vent microbial communities (see: Fujikura et al. 2001a,b; G.-Tóth 2001 in the attached list of publications);

Projects

• 2000-2004, Role of the planktonic and benthic crustaceans in the elimination of the phytoplankton in Lake Balaton- Supported by OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Found, Budapest);
• 2000-2001, Role of the planktonic and benthic crustaceans in the elimination of the phytoplankton in Lake BalatonSupported by MEH (The Balaton Committee of the Office of the Prime Minister of Hungary);
• 2000-2001, Feeding, metabolism of zooplankton, systematics and biology. - Project management from Hungarian side of the joint project of the Balaton Limnological Reserch Institute, Tihany, Hungary, and the Karola Starmacha Hydrobiological Institute, Yagellow University, Krakow, Poland);
• 1999, The role of the crustacean communities in the elimination of the phytoplankton and in the nutrition of fish in Lake Balaton).-Supported by MEH (The Balaton Committee of the Office of the Prime Minister of Hungary);
• 1996-2004, The structural aspects of zooplankton community in lentic ecosystems (Lake Balaton, Danube Delta).- Project management from Hungarian side of the joint project of the Balaton Limnological Reserch Institute, Tihany, Hungary, and the Biological Institute of the Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest);
• 1996-1998, Study of the impacts of human pollution agents on the embryonic development of fish species living in Lake Balaton. - Supported by MEH (The Balaton Committee of the Office of the Prime Minister of Hungary);
• 1995-1999, Study of the influence of the euthrophication on the matter-energy flux of the zooplankton and the Amphipoda Corophium curvispinum in Lake Balaton. - Supported by MEH (The Balaton Committee of the Office of the Prime Minister of Hungary);
• 1995-1999, The energy flux and nutrient regeneration of the planktonic and benthic crustaceans in Lake Balaton. - Supported by OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Found, Budapest);
• 1993-, Study of the impact of the environmental factors on the respiration and respiratory electron transport system-activity of embryos and early larval stages of fish. - OMFB-APAPE Intergovernmental Project, France-Hungary;
• 1991-1995, Studies on the energy transfer and energy loss along the limnetic food web in Lake Balaton (Hungary) and Lake La Caldera (Spain). - Supported by OTKA (Hungarian Scientific Research Found, Budapest) and CEU (The Central European University, Prague & Budapest);
• 1990 - 1991, Enzyme kinetical studies on the self-purification capacity of lacustrine ecosystems in Hungary (Lake Balaton, Lake Hidvég, peat bogs). - Project for young researchers, The Hungarian Academy of Sciences;
• 1982 - 1990, Ph.D. Theme "Feeding of the dominant planktonic crustaceans living in Lake Balaton", Tihany, Hungary (superviser: Prof. J. E. Ponyi);
• 1979 - 1980, Univ. Dr. theme "The use of dialyzing sacks in estimation of production of bacterioplankton and phytoplankon in Lake Balaton", Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary (supervisers: Prof. P. Juhász-Nagy and Prof. J. E. Ponyi);

Memberships

• The Hungarian Society of the Natural Sciences;
• The Hungarian Society of the Hidrology;
• The Hungarian Society of the Cell Biolology;
• Mem. of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Plankton Research (Oxford, England);
• Mem. of the Editorial Board of the journal of Limnetica (Granada, Spain);
• Management Committee on Marine Pollution (MCMP), European Commission (Bruxelles, Belgium)

Publications

• Author (book): Négy hónap az Óceánon. Four Months Research on the Ocean. Gondolat, Budapest, 1989: 1 - 298. (in Hungarian; a rewiev of the book you may find attached in the end of the attached list of the scientific publications);
• Coeditor of 4 scientific books;
• Contributor of 78 scientific publications;

Avocations

• to study and collect antique colour Japanese woodblock prints (Ukiyo-e);
• to collect antique scientific books;

Travel and work experience abroad

• 2003 October, Bruxelles (Belgium): 5th Meeting of the Management Committee on Marine Pollution (MCMP), European Commission;
• 2002 December, Koge, Copenhagen (Denmark): Conference on the development of an European Strategy for the protection and conservation of the marine environment. - Commission of the European Communities, 3 days;
• 2002 June, Investigations of hydrothermal vent ecosystems at the at the Kuroshima and Hatoma Knolls in the Okinawa Trough, southern part of Japan.- Shinkai-Natsushima cruise (JAMSTEC), 4 weeks;
• 2002, Shizuoka (Japan), Shizuoka University, Institute of Geosciences, deep-sea research division, laboratory of Prof. K. Kato, invitation from the university, 6 weeks;
• 2001 October, Investigations of paleolimnological characteristics of the Japan Sea. - Tansei Maru cruise, Ocean Research Institute (ORI), Tokyo University, Japan, 3 weeks;
• 2001 May, Investigations of hydrothermal vent ecosystems at the at the Dai-yon (No. 4) Yonaguni Knoll and the the Hatoma Knoll in the Okinawa Trough, southern part of Japan.- Shinkai-Natsushima cruise (JAMSTEC), 3 weeks;
• 2001-2002, Shizuoka (Japan), Shizuoka University, Institute of Geosciences, deep-sea research division, laboratory of Prof. K. Kato, visiting professorship from the The Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS), 10 months;
• 2000, Matsumoto (Japan), Shinshu University, School of Allied Medical Sciences, laboratory of Prof. K. Kato, preliminary DNA hybridization experiments on protozoans and rotifers of Lake Kizaki, two weeks;
• 1999, Monte Carlo (Monaco), Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Musée de Oceanographique, laboratory, visit, scientific consultation;
• 1999, Karlsruhe, Germany, IUBS Symposium on biomonitoring, 5 days;
• 1999, Granada, Spain, Consultation in the laboratory of Prof. L. Crus-Pizarro, University of Granada, two weeks;
• 1999, Enzymes in the environments, International symposium, Granada, Spain, 6 days;
• 1998, Kinneret Symposium "Limnology 2000", Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Kibuc Ginnosar, Israel, 5 days;
• 1998, XXVII Congress of the Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL), University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 7 days;
• 1998, Melbourne (Australia), 3rd International Larval Biology Meeting, University of Melbourne; Ocean Discovery Center, 12 days;
• 1997, Berlin (Germany), guest researcher, 3 months, Gewässerekologie und Binnenfischerei im Forschungsverbund, laboratory of Dr. Rita Adrian;
• Rennes (France), University of Rennes, Laboratory of Cell Biology, laboratory of Prof. D.J. Webb, 4 weeks;
• Galway (Ireland), The International Symposium of the Society of the Fish Biology of the British Islands, 7 days;
• 1994 - 1996, Matsumoto (Japan), Shinshu University, School of Allied Medical Sciences, laboratory of Prof. K. Kato, Postdoctoral Fellowship from The Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS), two years;
• 1994, Granada (Spain), Univesity of Granada, Department of Animal Biology, laboratory of Prof. L. Cruz-Pizarro, visiting professorship, 6 weeks;
• 1994, Rennes (France), University of Rennes, Laboratory of Cell Biology, laboratory of Prof. D. J. Webb, visiting fellowship, 6 weeks;
• 1993, Monte Carlo (Monaco), Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Musée de Oceanographique, laboratory of dr. D. Allemand and Prof. J. Jaubert, 3 days, seminar;
• Granada (Spain), Univesity of Granada, Department of Animal Biology, laboratory of Prof. L. Cruz-Pizarro, visiting professorship, 6 weeks;
• Innsbruck (Austria), University of Innsbruck, Institute of Zoology and Limnology, laboratory of Prof. R. Psenner, Training Course on Respirometry, one week;
• 1992, Granada (Spain), Univesity of Granada, Department of Animal Biology, laboratory of Prof. L. Cruz-Pizarro, visiting professorship, 6 weeks;
• Barcelona, XXV. Congress of the International Society of the Limnology, 8 days;
• Marseille (France), 8th Congress of the European Ecology, 5 days;
• 1991 - 1992, Rennes (France), I.N.R.A. Laboratoire de Physiologie des Poissons, University of Rennes I., laboratory of Prof. D.J. Webb, Postdoctoral Fellowship from the French Government, 9 months;
• 1991, Barcelona (Spain), CSIC Institute for Marine Sciences, laboratories of Prof. C. Pedrós-Alió and Prof. M. Alcaraz, in the frame of the Conventional Exchange Programme between The Hung. Acad. Sci. and The CSIC, 2 weeks;
• 1990, Helsinki (Finland), Symposium "The dynamics and use of the lacustrine ecosystems", 8 days;
• 1989, Munich (Germany), XXIV. Congress of the International Society of the Limnology, 8 days;
• Kyoto (Japan), 5th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, 11 days;
• 1988, The Bedford Institute for Oceanology (BIO), Dalhousie, at Prof. Longhurst, and Dr. J. Kerekes; Canada Centre for Inland Waters (CCIW), Hamilton, at Dr. J. Barica; Freshwater Institute, Fisheries and Oceans, Winnipeg, at Dr. Ph. Chang (Canada), 3 weeks, invitation from the Canadian Wildlife Service and CCIW, seminars;
• 1987, Yerevan, Sevan (Armenia), Lake Sevan Hydrobiological Station of The Armenian Academy of Sciences, laboratory of Dr. K. Djandjaradjan, realized in the frame of the Conventional Exchange Programme between The Hung. Acad. Sci. and The Armenian Acad. of Sci., 4 weeks;
• 1986, Gdynia (Poland), 22nd European Marine Biology Symposium, 7 days;
• 1985 - 1986, shipboard research work, the 43rd cruise of the r/v. “Akademik Kurchatov”, Scotia Sea, Brendsfield Strait, King George Island (Antarctica), Benguella Upwelling (South-West Africa Coast), invitation from the P.S. Shirshov Institute for Oceanology, Russian Acad. of Sci., Moscow, 4 months;
• 1984, Moscow (Russia), Severtsov Institute for Evolutionary Morphology and Animal Ecology, laboratory of Prof. A. Svehnikov, realized in the frame of the Conventional Exchange Programme between The Hung. Acad. Sci. and The Russian Acad. of Sci., 3 months;
• 1983, Moscow (Russia), Severtsov Institute for Evolutionary Morphology and Animal Ecology, Russian Acad. of Sci., laboratory of Prof. A. Svehnikov, realized in the frame of the Conventional Exchange Programme between The Hung. Acad. Sci. and The Russian Acad. of Sci., 3 months;
• 1982, Lyon (France) XXII. Congress of the International Society of the Limnology, 7 days;
• 1981, Illmitz (Austria), Neusiedlerseetagung, 3 days; Mondsee, Limnological Institute of the Austrian Acad. of Sci., at Dr. M. Dokulil, invitations, seminars;
• 1980, Russia, P.P. Shirshov Institute for Oceanology of the Russian Acad. of Sci., laboratory of Prof. S. Drits (Moscow); Research Institute for Inland Waters, Russian Acad. of Sci, laboratory of Dr. I. Susheyna (Borok); Zoological Museum, Department of Prof. G.G. Winberg (St.Petersburg), realized in the frame of the Conventional Exchange Programme between The Hung. Acad. Sci. and The Russian Acad. of Sci., one month;
• 1979, Smolenice (Slovakia), 3rd International Symposium of Hydromicrobiology, 3 days;
• 1977, Irkutsk, Listvyanka (Siberia, Russia), Lake Baykal Hydrobiological Institute of The Siberian Acad. of Sci., Irkutsk Governmental University, Lake Baykal Hydrobiologoical Station, student study trip, 3 weeks;

Other references

• L.G.Toth (L.G.Tóth); G.-Toth,L. (G.-Tóth,L.); Toth,L.G. (Tóth,L.G.) in international computer network author reference systems; ASFA; Current Contents;
• Who is who in the Hungarian Cell Biology, Hungarian Cell biology Society, Budapest, 1995;
• Hungarians of the Close XX. Century, Babits Hungarian-American Publishing House, Szekszárd, 1996;
• Ki Kicsoda 2000, Greger Biográf, Who is Who 2000, Greger Biograph, Budapest, Hungary, 2000;
• Who's Who in the World. Marquis, N. J., 1996.1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003;