MEMBERS

Project Director

Google scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=F9CoNrkAAAAJ&hl=en

Expertise: plant physiology and molecular biology, including qPCR, oxidative stress, E. coli, site directed mutagenesis, metal quantification, plant analysis.

e-mail: dorina.podar@ubbcluj.ro

Statistics specialist

Google scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1RYJF5UAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Expertise: 16 years of experience in mathematics, R, statistical analysis, entomologist.

e-mail: zoltan.laszlo@ubbcluj.ro

Resonance Raman spectroscopy specialist

Google scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-YfEuzkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Expertise: resonance Raman spectroscopy (RRS), a powerful molecular technique enabling sensitive and selective detection of carotenoids in photosynthetic micro – or macroorganisms.

e-mail: simona.pinzaru@ubbcluj.ro

(Bio)analytical chemist, specialist in (bio)analytical methods, including enzymatic assays

Google scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cA3He4QAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Expertise: recombinant protein characterization and instrumental analysis, hands-on in protein handling and treatment (electrophoresis, gel filtration, affinity chromatography), direct and mediated electrochemistry of redox proteins, transition metals and free radical studies using Electron Resonance Spectroscopy.

e-mail: augustin.mot@ubbcluj.ro

Computational biology for plants specialist

Google scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aky3SLsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Expertise: bioinformatics analysis of genomic and transcriptomic data of plants, RNAseq, and subsequent analysis of the generated data.

She acquired the skill during her PhD at Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology and at Plant Physiology and Biophysics Department at University of Wurzburg, under Prof. Dr. Jörg Schulz supervision.

e-mail: anda.iosip@ubbcluj.ro

Micromycetes specialist

Google scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=h6Dh_egAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

Expertise: working on fungi (including Fusarium oxysporum) under Prof. Marcel Pârvu supervision, and under Assoc. Prof. Dorina Podar for her undergraduate, dissertation and her PhD, training on Fusarium transcriptomic, genomic, generation of knock-out mutants in Prof. Antonio di Pietro, Department of Genetics, University of Cordoba.

e-mail: lorena.vacar@ubbcluj.ro

Plants and microorganisms metabarcoding specialist

Google scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wjaoM8gAAAAJ&hl=en

Expertise: working on plants and microorganism diversity, training under Dr. Roey Angel, at the Soil Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, worked with Dorina Podar for her undergraduate and dissertation. She gained further experience as a DBU Fellow (sept 2020 – sept 2021) in Prof. Ute Krämer, Ruhr University, Germany with whom she will still work for transcriptomic analysis.

email: dana.tiodar@ubbcluj.ro

Plant cultivation and investigation

Google scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7n-8nmwAAAAJ&hl=ro

Expertise: plant cultivation, enzymes, metal analysis, plant molecular techniques, qPCR.

e-mail: mihaela.galean@ubbcluj.ro

Technical support for plant cultivation and samples preparation

Google scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8hC5H-YAAAAJ&hl=ro

Expertise: working on plants providing support for plant growth, nucleic acid extraction and sample preparation for transcriptomics.

e-mail: zoltan.balazs@ubbcluj.ro