Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Hungary
Éva Várallyay graduated as a biology and chemistry teacher in 1990 and ever since she has been working at the Agricultural Biotechnology Research Institute (now the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences) in Gödöllő, Hungary.
After finishing her PhD in biochemistry, she worked in Virology, and later in Plant Development Biology groups where she investigated the molecular mechanism of RNAi during virus infection.
In 2013 her group, Genomics Research Group at the Institute of Plant Protection, Department of Plant Pathology, MATE, was launched. They successfully adapted high-throughput sequencing of small RNAs to investigate virus infection in woody plants. Using this method, they determined the viromes of vineyards, grapevine rootstock plantations, and fruit tree orchards. Currently, they are characterizing possible VSR activity of recently described viruses, multiple infections on woody plants, and possible virus reservoir role of weeds growing at the edges of crop fields.
Besides research, she supervised four PhD, 22 MSc, and 4 BSc degrees, including 6 foreign students.
International symposium comprehensively covering key topics in virology
