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Mrs. Ancuta-Maria Ivan

PhD

Technology Development Engineer III - INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU OPTOELECTRONICA INOE 2000 INCD FILIALA INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI PENTRU INSTRUMENTATIE ANALITICA CLUJ NAPOCA

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Ancuta Ivan is an experienced Technology Development Engineer within the Technology Transfer Center CENTI from Transylvania, Romania. She has a BSc in Agriculture & Mountain science, a MSc in Agricultural exploitation and Agritourism in mountain area & a PhD in Agronomy. Skilled in PR & Communications, Technology Brokerage and Innovation Management, Ancuta has a strong business development and international relations experience by working within Enterprise Europe Network since 2008.

Web of Science ResearcherID: LRV-0010-2024

Curriculum Vitae (20/10/2025)

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Biofungicides and unconventional treatment methods for cereal seeds used to control the main toxigenic fungi with impact on the quality in sustainable agriculture context Call name: Joint Applied Research Projects - PCCA 2013 - call
PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1857 2014 - 2017

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTE AGRICOLE SI MEDICINA VETERINARA CLUJ-NAPOCA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTE AGRICOLE SI MEDICINA VETERINARA CLUJ-NAPOCA (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU OPTOELECTRONICA INOE 2000 INCD FILIALA INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI PENTRU INSTRUMENTATIE ANALITICA CLUJ NAPOCA (RO); STATIUNEA DE CERCETARE -DEZVOLTARE AGRICOLA TURDA (RO); MINESA INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI SI PROIECTARI MINIERE SA (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU OPTOELECTRONICA INOE 2000 INCD FILIALA INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI PENTRU INSTRUMENTATIE ANALITICA CLUJ NAPOCA (RO)

Project website: http://www.bionec.eu

Abstract:

In agriculture it is currently pursuit the growth of the quality by increasing biological protection in order to eliminate toxic and polluting chemical pesticides. In an attempt to reduce the use of chemicals to control main plant pathogens had been developed safer alternative that does not have negative consequences on the environment, humans and on animals and that is part of the sustainable agriculture concept, this involving the rational and integrated control of plant diseases.

Due to the fact that in our country the cereal seeds are chemically treated and there aren’t any biological products for the control of seed diseases by developing and implementing a biological product this project responds to the urgent need of existence on the market of a commercial product to be used especially by farmers who want the creation or conversion to organic farming system (sustainable). Also because biological products are applied only preventive their effectiveness increase only when they are combined with a conventional fungicide. To improve the efficiency of the biological product without conventional fungicide application in the obtaining technology of BIONEC in addition to plant extracts will be introduced also mycorrhizal fungi of the genus Glomus that are recognized for their role to induce in plants an increased resistance to pathogens, an more easily overcoming of the stress conditions (drought, solar radiation) as well as achieving cultures with high efficiency of production.

The research project BIONEC aims to obtain an unconventional biofungicides for the treatment of cereals kernels used in the control of main toxigenic fungi, a protocol to achieve unconventional biofungicides cereals seed treatment used to combat the major toxigenic fungi, an appropriate method application of this type of treatment, with impact on quality and to study the behaviour and influence on wheat diseases.

Because most of biofungicides tests were performed in vitro or in greenhouses and there are not known the effects of treatment products applied to the seeds, on the plant throughout the growing season, in this project will tested also the effectiveness of seed treatment with the biological product, in field conditions. This will be quantified by the presence or absence of foliar and ear diseases as well as the quality of the production obtained.

At the finalization of the BIONEC project the expected results are the obtaining of a biological product to combat diseases of wheat seed that will be placed in the integrated control of cereal diseases scheme, for obtaining higher agricultural productions with higher quality parameters, the replacing chemicals used in plant protection especially for the seed manufacturers or farmers that want to transition from traditional agriculture to sustainable agriculture.

Intelligent Systems for Recurrence and Progression Prediction in Superficial Bladder Cancer based on Artificial Intelligence and Microarray Data: tumor mRNA and plasma microRNA Call name: Joint Applied Research Projects - PCCA-2011 call, Type 1
PN-II-PT-PCCA-2011-3.1-1221 2012 - 2016

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: SOLUTIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS SAIA

Project partners: SOLUTIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS SAIA (RO); UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE (U.M.F) Cluj-Napoca (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU OPTOELECTRONICA INOE 2000 INCD (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU OPTOELECTRONICA INOE 2000 INCD (RO)

Project website: http://www.saia.ro/?p=17

Abstract:

IntelUro will develop the most accurate (95%-100%) intelligent predictive systems for superficial bladder cancer recurrence and progression. For a new patient, these systems will take as inputs the level of tumor mRNA or plasma microRNA (non-invasive) biomarkers discovered by us, and will predict if the patient will evolve toward recurrence/progression or not. Thus, the therapy could be personalized for the benefit of the patient with a dramatic decrease of the management costs. UMF Cluj (P1) will perform the complex clinical and pathological investigations of the patients, and the microarray experiments. SAIA (CO), will implement a software platform for data collection and integration with data available from other international centers, and will develop a bioinformatics methodology and workflow, combining statistical and advanced artificial intelligence techniques, for knowledge discovery in this multicenter database. ICIA (P3) will collaborate with SAIA in various stages of the development and implementation of the integrated bioinformatics platform. SAIA and UMF will collaborate in interpreting the clinical and biological meaning of intermediary and final results, like the specific alterations of signaling pathways discovered or the clinical decision support offered by some predictions. As in any project combining high throughput data with artificial intelligence, the number of microarray samples and the computational power are important, but costly. IntelUro is carefully designed to satisfy the financial and time constraints and reach the best published results, by properly combining the human resources and facilities of the 3 partners with the project budget. The project will be carried out with the highest possible ethical standards, complying with all EU and national regulations.

Development of novel stereoselective biocatalysts for economic synthesis of chiral building blocks Call name: Joint Applied Research Projects - PCCA-2011 call, Type 1
PN-II-PT-PCCA-2011-3.1-1268 2012 - 2016

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO); UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICĂ "GHEORGHE ASACHI" IAŞI (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU OPTOELECTRONICA INOE 2000 INCD (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU OPTOELECTRONICA INOE 2000 INCD (RO)

Project website: http://chem.ubbcluj.ro/~mtosa

Abstract:

Novel lipases with usual and opposite selectivity (anti-Kauzlauskas’ rule) immobilized in different forms, encapsulated whole cell ketoreductase systems with various stereoselectivity as "off-the-self" tools will be developed and different chiral building blocks will be prepared. We are planning to test 5-8 different immobilization techniques that may influence and enhance the productivity, stability, enantiomer selectivity of the applied biocatalyst.The application of enzyme immobilization technologies makes the bioconversation economically feasible and comparable to the synthetic solutions therefore increases the economical benefits. Finally, we plan to develop KITs containing several lipases immobilized in different forms. Development of the so called off-the-shelf products would change the habitual approach of synthetic chemists since the use of such a biocatalyst is easier than a synthetic chemical reaction with the required specifity and selectivity. These enzymes and enzyme products might be superior in synthetic biotransformations over the commercialized thermophilic fungal lipases with respest to the degree of enantiomer selectivity or direction/degree of enantiotopic selectivity.

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