Horia Banciu

Universitatea Babes-Bolyai , Cluj-Napoca, .

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Pagina web a instituţiei: http://bioge.ubbcluj.ro/grant/banciu_horia/
Pagina web personala: http://bioge.ubbcluj.ro/grant/banciu_horia/

Nascut(a) in: 1974

Interese: biofizica, biochimie, microbiologia si biotehnologia mediului

Detalii:
2004 - Doctorat in Biologie/Biotehnologie microbiana la Departamentul de Biotehnologie, Universitatea Tehnica din Delft, Olanda;
2006 - 2012 - Sef de lucrari, titular al cursurilor de Biofizica si Biologie Celulara pentru Chimisti la Departamentul de Biologie, Universitatea Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
2012 - Prezent - Conferentiar, titular al disciplinelor de Biofizica si Biochimia Acizilor Nucleici la Departamentul de Biologie, Universitatea Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Interese stiintifice: fiziologia si adaptarile biochimice ale procariotelor extremofile, diversitatea comunitatilor de microorganisme din mediile naturale, izolare si caracterizare de proteine.

Details:
2004 - PhD in Biology/Microbial Biotechnology at Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands;
2006-2012 - Lecturer in Biophysics and Cell Biology (for Chemistry Students) at Department of Biology, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2012- Present - Associate Professor in Biophysics and Biochemistry of Nucleic Acids at Department of Biology, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Research interests: physiology and biochemistry of extremophilic prokaryotes, diversity of microbial communities in natural habitats, protein isolation and characterization.

Publicații selectate:

* Geelhoed JS, Sorokin DY, Epping E, Tourova TP, Banciu HL, Muyzer G, Stams AJ, van Loosdrecht MC, Microbial sulfide oxidation in the oxic-anoxic transition zone of freshwater sediment: involvement of lithoautotrophic Magnetospirillum strain J10, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 70 (1), 2009.

* Baricz A, Coman C, Andrei A-Ş, Muntean V, Keresztes ZG, Păusan M, Alexe M, Banciu HL., Spatial and temporal distribution of archaeal diversity in meromictic, hypersaline Ocnei Lake (Transylvanian Basin, Romania), Extremophiles, 18 (2), 2014.

* Andrei A-Ş, Banciu HL, Oren A., Living with salt: metabolic and phylogenetic diversity of archaea inhabiting saline ecosystems, FEMS Microbiology Letters, 330 (1), 2012.

* Sorokin DY, Banciu H, Robertson LA, Kuenen JG, Muntyan MS, Muyzer G., Halophilic and Haloalkaliphilic Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacteria, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, E. Rosenberg, EF DeLong, S Lory, E Stackebrandt, F Thompson, The Prokaryotes (4th Edition): Prokaryotic Physiology and Biochemistry, 2013.

* Banciu HL, Sorokin DY, Adaptation in Haloalkaliphiles and Natronophilic Bacteria, Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht, J. Seckbach, A. Oren and H. Stan-Lotter, Polyextremophiles: Life Under Multiple Forms of Stress, 2013.

* Sorokin, D.Y., Banciu, H., Robertson, L.A., Kuenen, J.G, Haloalkaliphilic Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacteria, Springer-Verlag, New York, Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, K.-H., Stackebrandt, E, The Prokaryotes: A Handbook on the Biology of Bacteria – 3rd Edition, 1, 2006.

* Banciu HL., Physiology of alkaliphilic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from soda lakes, Optima Grafische Communicatie BV, Rotterdam, 2004.

* Takaichi, S., Maoka, T., Akimoto, N., Sorokin, D.Y., Banciu, H., Kuenen, J.G, Two novel yellow pigments natronochrome and chloronatronochrome from the natrono(alkali)philic sulfur-oxidizing bacterium Thioalkalivibrio versutus ALJ 15, Tetrahedron Lett, 45 (45), 2004.

* Banciu, H.L., Sorokin, D.Y., Tourova, T.P., Galinski, E.A., Muntyan, M.S., Kuenen, J.G., Muyzer, G, Influence of salts and pH on growth and activity of a novel facultatively alkaliphilic, extremely salt-tolerant, obligately chemolithoautotrophic sufur-oxidizing Gammaproteobacterium Thioalkalibacter halophilus gen. nov., sp. nov. from South-Western Siber, Extremophiles, 12 (3), 2008.

* Banciu, H, Sorokin, D.Y., Rijpstra, W.I., Sinninghe Damste, J.S., Galinski, E.A., Takaichi, S., Muyzer, G., Kuenen, J.G, Fatty acid, compatible solute and pigment composition of obligately chemolithoautotrophic alkaliphilic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from soda lakes, FEMS Microbiol Lett, 243 (1), 2005.

* Banciu, H., Sorokin, D.Y., Muyzer, G., Kleerebezem, R., Galinski, E.A., Kuenen, J.G, Thialkalivibrio halophilus sp. nov., a novel obligately chemolithoautotrophic, facultatively alkaliphilic, and extremely salt-tolerant, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium from a hypersaline alkaline lake, Extremophiles, 8 (4), 2004.

* Banciu, H., Sorokin, D.Y., Kleerebezem, R., Muyzer, G., Galinski, E.A., Kuenen, J.G, Growth kinetics of haloalkaliphilic sulfur-oxidizing bacterium Thioalkalivibrio versutus strain ALJ 15 in continuous culture , Extremophiles, 8 (3), 2004.

* Sorokin, D.Y., Banciu, H., van Loosdrecht, M.C.M., Kuenen, J.G, Growth physiology and competitive interaction of obligately chemolithoautotrophic, haloalkaliphilic, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from soda lakes, Extremophiles, 7 (3), 2003.

* Hicks, D.B., Wang, Z., Wei, Y., Kent, R., Guffanti, A.A., Banciu, H., Bechhofer, D.H. and Krulwich, T.A , A newly discovered tenth atp gene and the conserved atpI gene of a Bacillus atp operon have a role in Mg2+ uptake, Proc. Natl Acad Sci USA, 100 (18), 2003.