Advanced Hydrobiology and Biomonitoring
Laboratory Head: Assoc. Prof. Dr. habil. KeresztesLujza
- Assessment of inland water biodiversity in the Carpathian Mountains using classical and molecular methods;
- Philogeography and integrative taxonomy of some groups of aquatic organisms;
- Evaluation of the ecological integrity and biological quality of inland waters based on bioindicator taxa;
- Application of advanced genetic methods (barcoding, metabarcoding, e-DNA) in re-evaluating the biological quality of inland waters;
- Socio-ecological implications in the management of natural areas.
KERESZTES Lujza
Assoc. Prof. Univ. Dr. Habil.
Head of the Laboratory of Advanced Hidrobiology and Biomonitoring
Interests:
- Integrative investigation of the Biodiversity of Aquatic Insects in the Carpathian area
- Aquatic Diptera: taxonomy, phylogeography, biogeography, faunistics
- Bioassessment of freshwaters based on macrozoobenthos as bioindicators, combine morphology and molecular tools
- Conservation Biogeography
email: lujza.keresztes@ubbcluj.ro
Members:
LÁSZLÓ Zoltán
Assoc. Prof. Dr.
Interests:
•Landscape and community ecology of rose gall, black locust seed predator, solitary bee and dragonfly communities
•Taxonomy and ecology of Chalcidoidea, with special emphasis on those parasitizing rose galls and bruchids in black locust crops
•Molecular bases of rose plant gall formation
email: zoltan.laszlo@ubbcluj.ro
DÉNES Avar-Lehel
PhD., Postdoctoral researcher
Interests:
•Molecular taxonomy
•Phylogeography and phylogenetics
Email: avar.denes@ubbcluj.ro
Sanda IEPURE
Assoc. Prof. Dr.
Interests:
- Groundwater ecology
- Biospeleology – Evolutionary biogeography and speciation in subterranean realm, cave fauna monitoring
- Hyporheic zone ecohydrology
- Paleoenvironmental reconstructions using non-marine fossil ostracods Taxonomy and systematics of crustaceans cyclopoids (Copepoda) and Ostracoda
Email: sanda.iepure@ubbcluj.ro
PAP, Zsolt
CSII Dr. Zsolt PAP
Interests:
- Ecotoxicology of nanoparticles: morphology, surface chemistry
- Influence of nanoparticles on soil quality, dynamic interaction between soil-water-nanoparticles
- Developing nanoparticle-based materials involved in organic material decomposition
- Transforming CO2 into usable products/energy sources
- Chemistry of not-dissolvable nanostructures in water and its ecological impact
E-mail: zsolt.pap@ubbcluj.ro
TEREC Andrei-Bogdan
PhD Student
Doctoral School of Integrative Biology
e-mail:andrei.terec@ubbcluj.ro
JANCSÓ Boróka-Zsuzsánna
PhD Student
Doctoral School of Integrative Biology
E-mail: boroka.janczo@ubbcluj.ro