Results

Publications

    Books

  • “On the Footsteps of Giants”, Romanian Academy Publishing House, Bucharest, 2017.
  • “Antarctica. A place beyond time”, Iris Maria Tușa, funded by the MARIS Association, Arad 2017.
    Scientific articles

  • Baricz, A., Teban, A., Chiriac, C., Szekeres, E., Farkas, A., Nica, M., Dascălu, A., Oprișan, C., Lavin, P., Coman, C. 2018. Investigating the potential use of an Antarctic variant of Janthinobacterium lividumfor tackling antimicrobial resistance in a One Health approach. Scientific Reports, under review.
  • Chiriac, C., Baricz, A., Coman, C. 2018. Draft genome sequence of Janthinobacterium sp. strain ROICE36, a putative secondary metabolite-synthesizing bacterium isolated from Antarctic snow. Genome Announcements 6 (15), e01553-17.
  • Nica, M., Dascălu, A., Oprișan, C., Kosa, A., Codreanu, D., Florescu, S., Coman, C. Testing of a pigmented extract (violacein) obtained from the Antarctic isolated Janthinobacterium lividum strain on MDR clinical isolates, at the “Dr. V. Babeş” Clinic Hospital of Infectious and Tropical Diseases Bucharest (SVB). Volume of the National Conference with International Participation “Problems of Infectious Pathology at Borders”, Galati, Romania, pp. 107-109.
  • Chiriac, C., Baricz, A., Coman, C. 2017. Draft genome sequence of Janthinobacterium sp. strain ROICE36, isolated from snow samples collected from the King George Island, Antarctica. Proceedings of the 6th Aquatic Biodiversity International Conference, Sibiu, Romania.
    International conferences (poster / oral presentations)

  • POLAR 2018 – XXXV SCAR Biennial Meetings – Open Science Conference, Davos, Switzerland, June 15-26, 2018, ”Ice Microbiome: From Antarctic Glaciers to Alpine Ice Caves”, Cristina Purcarea, Corina Itcus, Constantin Marin, Soon Gyu Hong, Victoria I. Paun, Aurel Persoiu, Paris Lavin, Traian Brad, Alexandra Hillebrand-Voiculescu, Denisa Pascu, Cristian Coman, Iris Tusa, Manuela E. Sidoroff, oral presentation.
  • POLAR 2018 – XXXV SCAR Biennial Meetings – Open Science Conference, Davos, Switzerland, June 15-26, 2018,”Effects of environmental conditions from Antarctica on the human RBCs viability”, Iris Tușa, Corina Ițcuș, Daniela Bratosin, poster presentation.
  • POLAR 2018 – XXXV SCAR Biennial Meetings – Open Science Conference, Davos, Switzerland, June 15-26, 2018, ”Bacterial Community Structure in Glacier Ice and Subglacial Streams, Antarctica”, Corina Itcus, Constantin Marin, Soon Gyu Hong, Paris Lavin, Cristian Coman, Iris Tușa, Manuela E. Sidoroff, Cristina Purcarea, poster presentation.
  • 7th International Conference on Polar & Alpine (PAM 2017), Nuuk, Greenland, September 8-12, 2017, “Microbial diversity of glacier ice and subglacial streams from King George Island”, Ițcuș C, Marin C, Hong, SG, Lavin P, Coman C, Tușa I, Sidoroff ME, Purcărea C, oral presentation.
  • The 6th Aquatic Biodiversity International Conference, 2017, „Draft genome sequence of Janthinobacterium sp. strain ROICE36, isolated from snow samples collected from the King George Island, Antarctica”, Chirac C, Baricz A, Coman C., oral presentation.
  • XXIIth SCAR Biology Symposium, Leuven, Belgium July 10-14, 2017, “Environment dependent distribution of glacier and subglacial microbial communities from King George Island (NW Antarctica)”,Ițcuș C, Hong SG, Marin C, Coman C, Tușa I, Sidoroff ME, Purcarea C., poster presentation.
  • The General Assembly of the European Geological Sciences, Vienna, April 23-28, 2017, “Interactions between surface waters in King George Island, Antarctica – a stable isotope perspective”, Perșoiu, A., Bădăluță, C., poster presentation.
  • First APECS Balkan Meeting, Kardzhali, Bulgaria, October, 1-2, 2016, ”Microbial diversity of glacial habitats from King George Island (NW Antarctica)” Corina Itcus., oral presentation.
  • APECS World Summit 2015 “The Future of Polar Research”, Sofia, Bulgaria, June, 6-8, 2015, Participation Corina Iţcuş, founding member of APECS Romania, oral presentation.
  • The International Conference IUBMB “STANDARD” – Modern Biotechnologies in Sustainable Development of the Danube Delta, Murighiol, Tulcea, Romania May 31 – June 2, 2016, ”Bacterial diversity in glaciers from King George Island”, C. Iţcuş, C. Marin, C. Coman, I.M. Tuşa, M.E. Sidoroff, C. Purcărea, poster presentation.
  • XXXIVth SCAR Biennial Meetings – Open Science Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia August 20 – 30, 2016, ”Microbial community structure in different snow types from King George Island, Antarctica”, Coman Cristian. Cecilia Chiriac, Corina Ițcuș, Cristina Purcărea, Nicolae Dragoș, Knut Rudi, Sorin Marius Avramescu, Irina Fierascu, Lucian Barbu-Tudoran, Iris Tușa, Manuela E. Sidoroff, oral presentation.
  • XXXIVth SCAR Biennial Meetings – Open Science Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia August 20 – 30, 2016,”Influence of ecological conditions from Antarctica on human erytrocytes viability. Preliminary raport”, Iris Tuşa, Manuela Sidoroff, Daniela Bratosin, poster presentation.
  • XXXIVth SCAR Biennial Meetings – Open Science Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia August 20 – 30, 2016, ”Spatial diversity of glacier ice bacteria from King George Island (NW Antarctica)”, Cristian Coman, Constantin Marin, Tue Kjærgaard Nielsen, Lars Hansen, Iris Tușa, Manuela E. Sidoroff, Cristina Purcarea, poster presentation.
  • International Symposium Young Researchers in BioSciences, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, July 22-26, 2015, ”Screening of bacterial diversity on glaciers from King George Island, Antarctica.” Ițcuș C., Coman C., Tușa I.M., Sidoroff E.M., Purcarea C., poster presentation.
    Dissemination in the press

  • Interview with Dr. Manuela Sidoroff, Dr. Cristina Purcarea, Dr. Cristian Coman, PhD. Corina Iţcuş “ROICE 2015 Romanians Reconquered Antarctica”, Science and Technology Magazine, issue 45, April 2015.
    Dissemination in the online

  • AGERPRES article “Three Romanian researchers participated in a scientific expedition in Antarctica” www.agerpres.ro, February 27, 2015.
  • The article “Ministry of Education sends a Scientific Expedition to Antarctica”, Economica.net, www.economica.net, January 27, 2015.
  • Press realise “ROICE 2015, Romanian Governmental Scientific Expedition in Antarctica”, Ministry of Ministry of Education and Scientific Research, www.researchgov.ro, January 29, 2015.
  • Press Release “ROICE 2015 Returns Home”, the National Institute for Research and Development of Biological Sciences, www.incdsb.ro, February 27, 2015.
  • Press Release “Cooperation of Romania with the Republic of Korea in Antarctica reflected in the PRESS CONFERENCE – ROICE 2015 RETURNS HOME”, CNCA, www.acad.ro, 2015.
    Television and Radio

  • Interview, Dr. Cristian Coman at TEDx Cluj-Napoca, Romania, February 2016.
  • Planet Radio. Scientific Universe with Mihaela Ghiță, PhD. Corina Iţcuş, Dr. Cristina Purcărea, March 2015.
  • Interview at the Radio Romania Actualities and the Radio Romania Cultural, Dr. Manuela Sidoroff, PhD. Corina Iţcuş, Dr. Cristina Purcărea, February 2015.
  • Press conference “ROICE RETURNS HOME”, February 27, 2015, TV conference, broadcast by TVR 1 “Following Emil Racovitza. Scientific Expedition of Romanian Research in Antarctica”, and DIGI 24″ Expedition among Penguins. Three Romanian researchers in Antarctica “.
    Participations in international events

  • Dr. Manuela Elisabeta Sidoroff; the 41st Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM XLI) and the 21st Meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP XXI), Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 13-18, 2018, where was presented IP 32 rev. “Diversity, resilience and applicative potential of microcosm from Antarctic icy habitats”.
  • Dr. Manuela Elisabeta Sidoroff; the 40th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM XL) and the 20th Meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP XX), Beijing, China, May 22 – June 01, 2017 where was presented IP 06 “Cooperation between Romania and Korea in the Antarctic during 2015 and 2017”.
  • Dr. Manuela Elisabeta Sidoroff; The General Assembly of COMNAP, which took place from 25 to 28 August 2015, Tromso, Norway.
  • Dr. Manuela Elisabeta Sidoroff; the 38th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM XXXVIII) and the 18th Meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP XVIII), Sofia, Bulgaria, July, 01 – 10, 2015, where was presented IP 91 “Cooperation in Antarctica between Romania and the Republic of Korea”.
  • The project team participated at the formation of the international working groups:
    • Networking of Ecosystem Sciences in South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula – coordinators Dr. Soon Gyu Hong (KOPRI) and Dr. Angelica Casanova-Katny (INACH).
      There was created a new group: Linking the Antarctic Peninsula Science (LAPES). The targets of the working group are: biodiversity studies, the evolution and functioning of ecosystems on the King George Island, the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula; increasing international collaborations; introduction of the national Antarctic research programs.
    • AnT-ERA: Antarctic Thresholds – Ecosystem Resilience and Adaptation – coordinators Charles LEE (U of Waikato, NZ) and Chun Wie Chong (International Medical U, Malaysia), Jeff Bowman – Earth Observatory, USA.
      One of the targets of this working group is to create a new working group called “Resilience and adaptation of ecosystems”.
  • Based on the results of samplings collected from Antarctica, as well as the accumulated expertise, was obtained funding from the Ministry of Research and Innovation for further studies, as follows:
    • Demonstrative experimental project PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2016-0116 “Novel aldehyde dehydrogenase from Antarctic bacterium as a highly efficient catalyst for low temperature biosensing and biotechnologies – COLDSENSOR” (2017-2018) – Project Director – Dr. Cristina Purcărea. Project study: Cloning, expression and purification of aldehyde dehydrogenase from the Flavobacterium PL02 psychrophilic bacterium isolated from Antarctica. Measurement of thermostability and kinetic parameters at different temperatures. Purification and expression in E. Coli. Project goal: Obtaining a catalyst to be used in biosensing and biotechnology.
    • Demonstrative experimental project PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2016-1170 “Antarctic bacteria against human pathogens: a quest for new antimicrobial compounds – AntarcticPharma” (2017-2018) – Project Director – Dr. Cristian Coman. Project study: Bacterial strain characterized from point of view as biotechnological applications (cultivation, genomics, etc.). Project goal: Obtaining a bacterial extract with antimicrobial effect (antibiotic).
    Education and dissemination

  • “The Different School” Week, held between January and February 2018.
  • The Conference “ROICE Expeditions in Antarctica” – took place on November 16, 2017, at UBB – Faculty of Biology and Geology.
  • “The Different School” Week, happened from 28 October to 5 November 2017.
  • “The Different School” Week, April 18 – 22, 2016.
  • Session of CNCA – ANTARCTIC DAY 2015, with the theme “Know and Protect Antarctica!” which took place from November 26 to December 24, 2015.