Angela is an internationally recognized researcher working in cereal genomics and grain allergy. She received her PhD in Cereal chemistry from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2002. Before moving to Murdoch University, Australia in 2016, Angela held a Head of Department position at the Centre of Agricultural Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She joined to the Proteomics group at the School of Science, ECU in 2019. During the last ten years her research focus is on the use of computational biology tools and ‘big data’ to understand genetic and environmental impacts on cereal grain development programs and grain allergy. She is actively involved in the gene annotation work of the bread wheat reference genome released in 2018.
Professional Memberships
- 2018: Member of the Australian Grain Science Association
- 2015 - 2016: Member of the Board of Directors of the Pannonian Plant Biotechnology Association, Hungary
- 2014 - 2016: Member of the Agricultural Reviewer Board of the Hungarian National Scientific Found
- 2014: Expert Working Group on Wheat Quality for Processing and Health, International Wheat Initiative
- 2014: Leader of the Allergy sub-group of the Expert Working Group on Wheat Quality for Processing and Health, International Wheat Initiative
- 2013 - 2016: Member of the Pannonian Plant Biotechnology Association, Hungary
- 2005: Member of the Agricultural Biotechnology Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Awards and Recognition
National and International Awards
- 2014: AACCI Texture Technologies Quality Research Award
- 2013 - 2014: Janos Szentagothai Fellowship of the European Union and the Government of Hungary
- 2005 - 2008: Janos Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 2003: NSW Agricultural Genomics Centre Conference presentation award
- 2001: Young Scientist Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Research Areas and Interests
- Genomic characterization of immune-responsive proteins in cereal grains with a major focus on food allergies and coeliac disease;
- Effect of environmental changes on allergen content and composition;
- Genomic analysis and functional characterization of cereal prolamin-superfamily proteins;
- Grain transcriptomics and proteomics;
- Seed development programs and regulatory mechanisms of seed storage protein expression under various nutritional and stress conditions;
- Bioinformatics;
- Dough rheology, kernel hardness and cereal quality.