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Events organized under the auspices of the Doctoral School of Integrative Biology and with the active involvement of PhD supervisors and PhD students
2026
- 4–6 March 2026 – Open Course (CFCIDFR): Introduction to Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics
Instructor: Dr. Gábor Sramkó (University of Debrecen, Hungary).
Venue: Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.
2025
- 6, 11–12 November 2025 – Open Course (CFCIDFR): From Sequencing to Diagnosis – Analysis and Interpretation of Genomic Variants in Mendelian Diseases
Instructors: Dr. Anna Benet-Pagès; Dr. Andreas Laner (Medical Genetics Center, Munich, Germany); Mădălina Giurgiu, PhD Candidate (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany).
Venue: Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.
- 20 October 2025 – Lecture by Dr. Mircea Ivan (Indiana University, USA)
Title: Integration of Large Genomic Datasets in Pursuit of Biological Knowledge
Venue: Club Hall, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.
- 28 March 2025 – UBB Master of Science Day
Venue: Casa Universitarilor, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.
- 12 February 2025 – Outreach Event: YMS Series – Microbiome and Ancient Genomes Research
Speakers: Prof. Horia Banciu; Dr. habil. Ioana Meleg – Babeș-Bolyai University.
Format: Online.
2024
- 14–16 February 2024 – Open Course (CFCIDFR): Taxonomic Annotation of Sequences Using Community-wide Microbial Genomics
Instructors: Prof. Ramon Roselló-Móra; Dr. Tomeu Viver; Esteban Bustos-Caparrós (IMEDEA, Esporles, Spain).
Venue: Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University.
- 14 February 2024 – Lecture by Prof. Ramon Roselló-Móra (IMEDEA, Esporles, Spain)
Title: Prokaryote Taxonomy in the Genomic Era and the Reasons to Create the SeqCode
Venue: Sala Nova, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University.
2023
- 27–29 November 2023 – Open Course (CFCIDFR): Plotting Literacy for Genomics – From Raw Data to Graphics and Vice Versa
Instructors: Dr. Dorin-Mirel Popescu – QIAGEN; Andrei Alexsson – QIAGEN.
Venue: Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University.
- 23–25 October 2023 – Open Course (CFCIDFR): Practical Course in Pathogen Genomics – From Data Analysis to Interpretation
Instructors: Dr. Monica Abrudan (University of Oxford, United Kingdom); Dr. Marius Surleac (National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Matei Balș”, Bucharest, Romania).
Venue: Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University.
- 8–9 March 2023 – Open Course (CFCIDFR): Introductory Course in Genomics – De Novo Sequencing, Assembly and Downstream Analyses
Instructor: Prof. Jean-François Flot (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium).
Venue: Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University.
- 24 February 2023 – Lecture by Scott Tighe (University of Vermont, USA)
Title: The Extreme Microbiome Project (XMP) and Advanced Technical Considerations for Studying Extreme Environments
Venue: Sala Nova, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University.
2022
- 7 July 2022 – Lecture by Prof. Horia Banciu – Babeș-Bolyai University
Title: Open Science: What Does It Mean for the Natural and Life Sciences?
Format: Online.
- 11 April 2022 – Lecture by Dr. Mina Bizić (Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany)
Title: A Paradigm Shift in Methanogenesis Research – Introducing Oxic Methane Production
Lecture by Dr. Danny Ionescu (Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany), Title: A Detective Story into the Genomics of the Giant Bacterium Achromatium, Venue: Sala Nova, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.
