Scientific Programme

Room 88, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Arany Janos str. 11, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA

5th of December 2011

08.00-09.15    Registration

09.15-09.30    Opening ceremony – Cornelia Majdik, Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

09.30-10.00    Simion Astilean - SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCES FOR SENSING, IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY IN BIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICINE
Faculty of Physics, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

10.00-10.15   Eva Fischer-Fodor(1), Natalia Miklášova(2), Ludovic Tibor Krausz(3),Roman Mikláš(2), Daniela Moldovan(4), Corina Tatomir(1), Piroska Virag(1), Maria Perde Schrepler(1), Luminiţa Silaghi Dumitrescu(5), Ferdinand Devinsky(2) – NOVEL CURCUMIN-PD COMPLEXES ANTICANCER POTENTIAL AS RESULT OF THEIR DUAL ACTION: INHIBITION OF TUMOR GROWTH AND CAPACITY OF ANTITUMORAL IMMUNE RESPONSE ENHANCEMENT
1. I. Chiricuta Cancer Institute- Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 2. Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. 3. "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy ClujNapoca, Romania. 4. Regional Blood Transfusion Center, Cluj napoca, Romania. 5. Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

10.15-10.30   Gabriela Garban, Adina  Negrea, Nina Holban, Ildiko-Angelica Szoke, Mitroi Elisabeta-Mihaela – SOME  ASPECTS  CONCERNING  THE  ROMANIAN MARKET  OF  FORTIFIED  FOODS  WITH MINERAL  ELEMENTS
Laboratory of Environment and Nutrition, Institute of Public Health, Timişoara, Romania

10.30-10.45   Denisa Hathazi – HEMOGLOBIN-BASED BLOOD SUBSTITUTE CANDIDATES PREPARED AT THE BABES-BOLYAI UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

10.45-11.00    Coffee break

11.00-11.30   Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu – HIGH-VALENT REACTIVITY IN SUPEROXIDE REDUCTASE, BLEOMYCIN AND PORPHYRAZINES: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

11.30-11.45    Augustin Mot – ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A NEW LACCASE
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

11.45-12.00    Dorina Podar†,‡ Dale Sanders‡,* Octavian Popescu† - METAL BINDING AND RECOGNITION SITES IN A FAMILY OF CATION TRANSPORTERS IN PLANTS
† Faculty of Biology-Geology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania. *The John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK, ‡ Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK

12.00--13.30   Lunch – Pyramid Restaurant

13.30-13.45    Emese Gal, Balasz Brem, Luiza Gaina, Castelia Cristea And Luminita
Silaghi-Dumitrescu - METAL COMPLEXES OF PHENOTHIAZINE-FUNCTIONALIZED PORPHYRINS.
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

13.45-14.00    Cristina Bischin – PT-BASED DRUGS VS. METALLOPROTEINS
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

14.00-14.15    Dorneanu Sorin-Aurel, Mureşan Liana-Maria, Popescu Ionel Cătălin - THE INFLUENCE OF CENTRAL METALLIC ION ON THE ELECTROCHEMICAL BEHAVIOR OF NEW N-METHYL-PHENOTHIAZINE SUBSTITUTED PORPHYRINIC COMPOUNDS WITH POTENTIAL ANTITUMORAL ACTIVITY
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

14.15-14.30    Arpad Csog, Cornelia Majdik – RECENT RESULTS IN BIOREMEDIATION AT THE BABES-BOLYAI UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

14.30-14.45    Reka Barabas –NEW PERSPECTIVES IN APATITE RESEARCH
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

14.45-15.00    Mariann Arkosi – EN ROUTE TO HEMERYTHRIN-BASED BLOOD SUBSTITUTES
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

15.00-15.15    Garban Zeno, Hădărugă Nicoleta-Gabriela,  Garban Gabriela, Hădărugă Daniel, Ghibu George-Daniel, Baltă Cornel - PECULIARITIES OF THE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP IN CASE OF PLATINUM COMPOUNDS :  THEORETICAL AND APPLICATIVE ASPECTS
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Food Processing Technology, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Banat

15.15-15.30    Furtos G1,2, Moldovan M1, Baldea B3, Trusca R4 , Prejmerean C1 – Influence of reinforcing and post-curing on the flexural properties of woven and undirectional glass fiber reinforced composites for medical applications
1 Dep. of Dental Materials, Raluca Ripan Institute of Research in Chemistry, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 2 Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 3 Faculty of Dental Medicine, Timisoara, Romania. 4 METAV Research & Development, Bucharest, Romania

15.30-15.45    Daniela Cioloboc – POLYOXOMETALLATES AS MODELS FOR OXIDASES AND PEROXIDASES
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

15.45-16.30    Poster session

16.30   Conclusions, closing

16.30-17.30    Visit of the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering