INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH CLUJ-NAPOCA
GENERAL INFORMATION
Brief presentation
The Institute of Biological Research in Cluj-Napoca was founded in 1958
as Biological Research Centre, part of the research network of the Romanian
Academy of Sciences. Its leadership and first director was prof. dr. Emil
Pop, member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences.
At present, the Institute of Biological Research in Cluj-Napoca, branch
of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, is part of the Romanian
Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation under the patronage of the
Ministry of National Education.
Representative personalities:
Directory board: dr. Gh. Coldea, director; dr. M. Keul, scientific
director; dr. V. V. Pop, scientific secretary; dr. C. Deliu and dr.
Iuliana Popovici as heads of departments.
No of researchers: 60.
Type and field of activity: Basic research of plant and animal
taxonomy, ecology and physiology.
Research interest in key words: Aquaculture, Biochemistry, Biological
resources, Biotechnology, Botany, Cell biology, Microbiology, Physiology,
Zoology, Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecology, Ecosystems, Ecotoxicolgy,
Environmental monitoring, Impact assessment, Radiation protection.
Main objectives:
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Biodiversity and conservation of national genetic fund (Studies
of flora and fauna, taxonomy, corology and biogeography, phytosociology
and palinology, genetical diversity, molecular biology).
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Structure, functioning and restoration of ecologic systems (ecology
of animal and plant communities up to ecosystem level, ecotoxicology, ambiental
enzimology).
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Fundamental processes of the living at cell and organism level (animal
and plant physiology, comparative endocrinology and morphology, histology,
hystochemistry, biochemistry and imunobiology).
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Founding and promoting biotechnologies (intensive algal culture,
cell and tissue culture, enzimologic studies for rehabilitation of therapeutic
muds and technogenic soils)
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Part-time or associate teaching activities, MS thesis and PhD thesis
supervising in cooperation with the Faculty of Biology, at the Universities
of Cluj, Oradea and Arad.
Main recent representative projects:
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Romanian plant communities;
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Romanian Cryptogamic Flora;
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Faunistic and zoogeografic researches in the Carpathians;
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Photobiologic control of eucariot plant physiologic processes, in normal
and stress condition.
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Endocrine-immunitary relationships in mammals and birds.
© Institute of Biological Research
Cluj-Napoca, 1999
Last modified: 19-May-1999
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