Acta Biologica Tomus XXXVI. Fasciculi 1-4. [antikvár]

Acta Biol. Szeged. 36. pp. 3 - 4 (1990) OBITUARY András Frankó died under tragic circumstances in Greece on 15th of August 1990. He was born in 1947 to a traditional family of pharmacists. He finished his studies at Attila József University in Szeged, and began his scientific career in the Limnological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Tihany. There he dealt with the algal population of Lake Balaton. In the mid-1970s he returned to Szeged, and continued his scientific work at the Department of Microbiology of Attila József University, as an employee of the CHINOIN Pharmaceutical Company. His early research interest focused on applied aspects of microbiology, namely the efficacy and applicability of new antibactarial and antifungal compounds. He prepared his Ph.D. Thesis from the results of these experiments, and defended it in 1981. More recently he also performed electrofusion and genetic transformation experiments with different filamentous fungi, such as Aspergilli and Fusaria. He took an active part in the education of the students by holding practical exercises and tutorials, and supervising their work for these submitted for doctoral degrees.