Peter Nagy

Peter Nagy

Peter Nagy

Professor

Faculty
221 Plant Science Building Lexington, KY 40546-0312

Last Revised: Sep 6th, 2024

Professional Biography

Professor


Focus

Research

  • Virus replication: We use Tombus viruses, small model RNA viruses of plants, to identify the viral and host players in replication and to unravel the mechanism of virus replication.
  • Virus recombination: To understand the mechanism of virus evolution

Teaching

  • PPA 671: Advanced Plant Virology

Employment Highlights

  • Professor, University of Kentucky, 2007 to present
  • Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, 2003-2007
  • Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, 1999-2003
  • Research Associate, University of Massachusetts, 1996-1998
  • Research Associate, Northern Illinois Universtiy, 1990-1995
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bari, Italy, 1990 

Awards, Recognition, Service

2008 to present

  • Prestigious Paper Award, UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, 2016
  • Bobby Pass Excellence in Grantmanship Award, 2013
  • Smith fellow lecturer, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2011
  • Breakthrough paper on virus replication (Wang, and Nagy, P. D.) was selected in the “SPOTLIGHT” by Journal of Virology, the leading journal in the field of virology, 2009

 

Education

Ph.D., Plant Protection, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Plant Protection, Budapest, 1990
B.Sc. and M.S., Plant Protection, Agricultural University of Keszthely, Hungary, 1985

Contact Information

201F Plant Science Building 1405 Veterans Drive Lexington, KY 40546-0312

(859) 257-7445