She specializes in lactic acid bacteria for biotechnology and medicine, including probiotics and synbiotics. Her expertise covers microbial diversity, dynamics across ecological niches, and probiotic mechanisms.
She is a senior researcher specializing in the interactions between probiotics and pathogenic microorganisms. Her research focuses on how external factors influence microbiome dynamics.
Ileana Stoica focuses on microorganisms with xenodegradative potential and leads studies on their genetic enhancement for biotechnological applications. She is involved in constructing shuttle vectors for bio-industrial processes and improving microbial strains through molecular cloning techniques.
Ortansa Csutak is a senior researcher with almost 30 years of experience in microbial genetics and biotechnology. She is interested in developing studies concerning the specific genetic regulation and metabolic pathways involved in bioremediation, synthesis of biocompounds (biosurfactants, biofuels, lipids, lipases) and biocontrol.
Viorica Maria Corbu is a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in the physiological and taxonomic study of yeasts and fungi. She focuses on the genetic and metabolic characterization of microbial strains for producing biocompounds for industry, biomedicine, and environmental protection.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Researcher ID S-7557-2017
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Scopus ID 57221411955
Professor Mariana Carmen Chifiriuc, has extensive experience in evaluating the interactions between nanoparticles, nanostructured hybrid materials, and microbial cells. Her work includes over 60 publications, more than 10 research projects, and two M-Eranet initiatives. She is currently leading a multi-national blended intensive program on Drug Design and Development.
Associate Professor Lia Mara Ditu, has expertise in evaluating how nanoparticles and nanostructured hybrid systems interact with planktonic and adherent microbial cells. Her work includes investigating infection processes and virulence regulation, assessing the anti-pathogenic effects of newly synthesized compounds, and optimizing testing methodologies.
Associate Professor and Senior Researcher with a PhD in Biology (2013), specializing in plasma inactivation of microbial biofilms and antimicrobial nanomaterials.
Gratiela Gradisteanu - Senior Researcher - Experience in host-pathogen interaction, the intestinal microbiome in metabolic diseases, the role of innate immunity in enteric infections, anti-viral immunity, point-of-care molecular diagnosis, immunomodulation, the characterization of new compounds and biomaterials from the point of view of antimicrobial activity and biocompatibility
eliza oprea
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Associate Professor with experience in the separation of antimicrobial agents from natural matrices, new chemical antimicrobial strategies based on the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the antimicrobial activity of some terpenes and phenolic compounds and study of their influence on the expression of some virulence genes, on the ability of microorganisms to adhere to the inert substrate and determination of their antioxidant activity.
irina gheorghe
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Irina Gheorghe Associate Professor - Main research focuses: i) The biodiversity and antagonistic activity of stone/woods degrading fungi; iii) Evaluation of novel antimicrobial strategies against biodeteriogenic microorganisms and iii) The background on the antimicrobial resistance in bacterial rods, mediated by mobile genetic elements; Mapping PCR; Whole genome sequencing - assembling, annotation; phylogenetic relationships)
carmen curutiu
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Carmen Curutiu – Lecturer and Senior Researcher
Specializing in the study of microbial biofilms and their implications in human pathology, ecology, and applied microbiology. Focus areas include the development of innovative experimental models for biofilm analysis, evaluation of biofilm susceptibility to various natural and synthetic compounds, and the assessment of novel biomaterials with anti-biofilm properties.
ilda barbu
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Lecturer Ilda Barbu is expert in molecular epidemiology of antibiotic resistance in clinically significant enteric gram-negative bacilli. Skilled in characterizing antibiotic resistance in strains from various environments using advanced sequencing methods and bioinformatics platforms to identify genetic factors related to resistance and conduct studies in epidemiology and molecular phylogeny.
florica marinescu
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Florica Marinescu - Senior Researcher - Expertise: classical microbiology techniques, studies on antibiotic resistance and virulence.
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