Clarkson University is fostering international collaboration on proteomics research as it hosts three visitors from Romania in its Biochemistry and Proteomics Laboratories this summer.
Led by Professor of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science Costel C. Darie, the group will learn proteomics and apply it in various fields, from analysis of various commercial nuts to biotechnological products and biomarker discovery. The visitors, Dr. Silivia Ienciu, Mara Moldovanu and Ioana Adumitresei, are from three different universities in Romania.
Dr. Ienciu is a Medical Doctor (MD) working at the nephrology section of the County Emergency Clinical Hospital from Timisoara, Romania. Her work focuses on mass spectrometry-based investigation of serum and urine from patients with chronic kidney disease. Dr. Ienciu came to Darie’s Lab to learn proteomics and apply it to biomarker discovery for chronic kidney disease.
Moldovanu is an undergraduate student at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania, working on her degree in Engineering, Industrial Biotechnology. Moldovanu’s focus during her time in Darie’s Lab is proteomics and its applications in biotechnology.
Adumitresei is an MD student at the Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Iași, Romania. Adumitresei is visiting to learn proteomics and its applications on plant seed proteomes. She also plans to apply proteomics in biomarker discovery.
A fourth lab visitor, a high school student, Nina Hukovic, who is rejoining Darie’s Lab for the summer. Nina is a sophomore in Morristown Central High School and she is interested in pursuing a career in the medical field. She previously worked in Darie’s lab on biomarker discovery for breast cancer detection this past semester, and learned proteomics.
“It is great to have such visitors,” said Whitham, a graduate student in Darie Lab. I met two of the three Romanian visitors in my two trips to Romania. I met Ioana last year, when I was an Erasmus+ exchange student in Iasi, Romania and Dr. Ienciu when I was an invited speaker at the Diaspora Conference in Timisoara, Romania. All four of them will present their work at the Research and Project Showcase (RAPS) conference. I am happy to strengthen such collaborations.”
