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molecular biology, environmental science, antibiotic resistance, pollution, cyanobacteria
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Employment (3)

NIRDBS - Institute of Biological Research Cluj-Napoca: Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, RO

2020-07-01 to present | Researcher (Taxonomy and ecology)
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Edina Szekeres

Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai: Cluj-Napoca, RO

2019-08-01 to 2023-05-01 | Research Assistant (Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology)
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Edina Szekeres

NIRDBS - Institute of Biological Research Cluj-Napoca: Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, RO

2014-10-01 to 2020-07-01 | Research Assistant (Taxonomy and ecology)
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Edina Szekeres

Education and qualifications (3)

Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai: Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, RO

2014-10 to 2018-12 | PhD degree (Integrative Biology)
Education
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Edina Szekeres

Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai: Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, RO

2012-10 to 2014-07 | Master degree in Molecular Biotechnology (Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology)
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Edina Szekeres

Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai: Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, RO

2009-10 to 2012-07 | Bachelor degree in Biochemistry (Biology)
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Edina Szekeres

Funding (4)

Alternative pollution indicators: prevalence and detection in lotic ecosystems with different levels of contamination (ALERTERS)

2023-01 to 2024-12 | Grant
Unitatea Executiva Pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior a Cercetarii Dezvoltarii si Inovarii (Bucharest, RO)
GRANT_NUMBER:

PD 74/2022

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Edina Szekeres

Interactions between warming-adapted cyanobacteria and freshwater plankton communities under different nutrient regimes (CyanoWarm_2)

2020-06 to 2020-07 | Grant
AQUACOSM – Research and Innovation action - No. 731065 (Berlin, DE)
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Edina Szekeres

Training event in wastewater treatment and workshop on the risks and issues related to antibiotics, antibiotic resistance, and resistant bacteria in natural environments and public health

2017-09 to 2017-09 | Grant
Unitatea Executiva Pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior a Cercetarii Dezvoltarii si Inovarii (Bucharest, RO)
GRANT_NUMBER:

PN-III-P1-1.1-MC-2017-0193

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Edina Szekeres

Biotechnological solutions for the growth of Arthrospira strains and optimization of biomass production in brackish water.

2015 to 2016 | Award
Ministry of Education and Scientific Research (Bucharest, RO)
GRANT_NUMBER:

POSDRU/187/1.5/S/155383

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Edina Szekeres

Works (26)

Environmental microbiome diversity and stability is a barrier to antimicrobial resistance gene accumulation

Communications Biology
2024-06-08 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2399-3642
Contributors: Uli Klümper; Giulia Gionchetta; Elisa Catão; Xavier Bellanger; Irina Dielacher; Alan Xavier Elena; Peiju Fang; Sonia Galazka; Agata Goryluk-Salmonowicz; David Kneis et al.
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Edina Szekeres

Contrary effects of increasing temperatures on the spread of antimicrobial resistance in river biofilms

mSphere
2024-02-28 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2379-5042
Contributors: Kenyum Bagra; David Kneis; Daniel Padfield; Edina Szekeres; Adela Teban-Man; Cristian Coman; Gargi Singh; Thomas U. Berendonk; Uli Klümper
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Edina Szekeres

Genome-wide transcriptional response to silver stress in extremely halophilic archaeon Haloferax alexandrinus DSM 27206 T

BMC Microbiology
2023-12-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1471-2180
Contributors: Doriana Mădălina Buda; Edina Szekeres; Lucian Barbu Tudoran; Julia Esclapez; Horia Leonard Banciu
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Karst spring microbiome: Diversity, core taxa, and community response to pathogens and antibiotic resistance gene contamination

Science of The Total Environment
2023-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0048-9697
Contributors: Edina Szekeres; Andreea Baricz; Adorján Cristea; Erika Andrea Levei; Zamfira Stupar; Traian Brad; Marius Kenesz; Oana Teodora Moldovan; Horia Leonard Banciu
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The combined impact of low temperatures and shifting phosphorus availability on the competitive ability of cyanobacteria

Scientific Reports
2022-09-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2045-2322
Contributors: Charlotte L. Briddon; Edina Szekeres; Adriana Hegedüs; Maria Nicoară; Cecilia Chiriac; Maria Stockenreiter; Bogdan Drugă
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Microbial water quality and health risk assessment in karst springs from Apuseni Mountains, Romania

Frontiers in Environmental Science
2022-09-16 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2296-665X
Contributors: Zamfira Stupar; Erika Andrea Levei; Emilia Neag; Andreea Baricz; Edina Szekeres; Oana Teodora Moldovan
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Molecular Typing Reveals Environmental Dispersion of Antibiotic-Resistant Enterococci under Anthropogenic Pressure

Antibiotics
2022-09-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2079-6382
Contributors: Anca Farkas; Cristian Coman; Edina Szekeres; Adela Teban-Man; Rahela Carpa; Anca Butiuc-Keul
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Long‐term acclimation might enhance the growth and competitive ability of Microcystis aeruginosa in warm environments

Freshwater Biology
2022-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0046-5070
Part of ISSN: 1365-2427
Contributors: Bogdan Druga; Elisabeth Ramm; Edina Szekeres; Cecilia Chiriac; Adriana Hegedüs; Maria Stockenreiter
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Municipal Wastewaters Carry Important Carbapenemase Genes Independent of Hospital Input and Can Mirror Clinical Resistance Patterns

Microbiology Spectrum
2022-04-27 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2165-0497
Contributors: Adela Teban-Man; Edina Szekeres; Peiju Fang; Uli Klümper; Adriana Hegedus; Andreea Baricz; Thomas Ulrich Berendonk; Marcel Pârvu; Cristian Coman
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Antibiotic Resistance in Pseudomonas spp. Through the Urban Water Cycle

Current Microbiology
2021 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85101767469

Part of ISSN: 14320991 03438651
Contributors: Butiuc-Keul, A.; Carpa, R.; Podar, D.; Szekeres, E.; Muntean, V.; Iordache, D.; Farkas, A.
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Wastewaters, with or without hospital contribution, harbour MDR, carbapenemase-producing, but not hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae

Antibiotics
2021 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85103578859

Part of ISSN: 20796382
Contributors: Teban-Man, A.; Farkas, A.; Baricz, A.; Hegedus, A.; Szekeres, E.; Pârvu, M.; Coman, C.
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Mud volcanoes and the presence of PAHs

Scientific Reports
2020 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85078337676

Part of ISSN: 20452322
Contributors: Remizovschi, A.; Carpa, R.; Forray, F.L.; Chiriac, C.; Roba, C.-A.; Beldean-Galea, S.; Andrei, A.-Ș.; Szekeres, E.; Baricz, A.; Lupan, I. et al.
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Testing different membrane filters for 16s rrna gene-based metabarcoding in karstic springs

Water (Switzerland)
2020 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85097261024

Part of ISSN: 20734441
Contributors: Moldovan, O.T.; Baricz, A.; Szekeres, E.; Kenesz, M.; Hoaghia, M.A.; Levei, E.A.; Mirea, I.C.; Năstase-Bucur, R.; Brad, T.; Chiciudean, I. et al.
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Spatio-temporal insights into microbiology of the freshwater-to-hypersaline, oxic-hypoxic-euxinic waters of Ursu Lake

Environmental Microbiology
2019 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85078669576

Part of ISSN: 14622920 14622912
Contributors: Baricz, A.; Chiriac, C.M.; Andrei, A.-Ș.; Bulzu, P.-A.; Levei, E.A.; Cadar, O.; Battes, K.P.; Cîmpean, M.; Șenilă, M.; Cristea, A. et al.
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The impact of cation concentration on Microcystis (cyanobacteria) scum formation

Scientific Reports
2019 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85062282029

Part of ISSN: 20452322
Contributors: Drugă, B.; Buda, D.-M.; Szekeres, E.; Chiş, C.; Chiş, I.; Sicora, C.
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Investigating antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes, and microbial contaminants in groundwater in relation to the proximity of urban areas

Environmental Pollution
2018 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85042944131

Part of ISSN: 18736424 02697491
Contributors: Szekeres, E.; Chiriac, C.M.; Baricz, A.; Szőke-Nagy, T.; Lung, I.; Soran, M.-L.; Rudi, K.; Dragos, N.; Coman, C.
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Investigating the potential use of an Antarctic variant of Janthinobacterium lividum for tackling antimicrobial resistance in a One Health approach

Scientific Reports
2018 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85054889341

Part of ISSN: 20452322
Contributors: Baricz, A.; Teban, A.; Chiriac, C.M.; Szekeres, E.; Farkas, A.; Nica, M.; Dascălu, A.; Oprișan, C.; Lavin, P.; Coman, C.
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Microbial Composition and Diversity Patterns in Deep Hyperthermal Aquifers from the Western Plain of Romania

Microbial Ecology
2018 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85023191931

Part of ISSN: 00953628
Contributors: Chiriac, C.M.; Baricz, A.; Szekeres, E.; Rudi, K.; Dragoș, N.; Coman, C.
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Abundance of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes and bacterial community composition in wastewater effluents from different Romanian hospitals

Environmental Pollution
2017 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85015980289

Part of ISSN: 18736424 02697491
Contributors: Szekeres, E.; Baricz, A.; Chiriac, C.M.; Farkas, A.; Opris, O.; Soran, M.-L.; Andrei, A.-S.; Rudi, K.; Balcázar, J.L.; Dragos, N. et al.
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Differences in temperature and water chemistry shape distinct diversity patterns in thermophilic microbial communities

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
2017 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85031683908

Part of ISSN: 10985336 00992240
Contributors: Chiriac, C.M.; Szekeres, E.; Rudi, K.; Baricz, A.; Hegedus, A.; Dragoş, N.; Coman, C.
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Hypersaline sapropels act as hotspots for microbial dark matter

Scientific Reports
2017 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-85025477663

Part of ISSN: 20452322
Contributors: Andrei, A.-Ş.; Baricz, A.; Robeson, M.S.; Pǎuşan, M.R.; Tǎmaş, T.; Chiriac, C.; Szekeres, E.; Barbu-Tudoran, L.; Levei, E.A.; Coman, C. et al.
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Exploring the Role of Coliform Bacteria in Class 1 Integron Carriage and Biofilm Formation During Drinking Water Treatment

Microbial Ecology
2016 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84963734208

Part of ISSN: 00953628
Contributors: Farkas, A.; Crăciunaş, C.; Chiriac, C.; Szekeres, E.; Coman, C.; Butiuc-Keul, A.
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Method for nucleic acid extraction

Methodological guide for monitoring antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in the environment
2016 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-606-561-165-8
Contributors: Andreea Ionela Baricz; Szőke-Nagy Tiberiu; Edina Szekeres; Cecilia Chiriac
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Quantification of antibiotice resistance genes in environmental samples using real-time qPCR

Methodological guide for monitoring antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in the environment
2016 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-606-561-165-8
Contributors: Edina Szekeres; Adrian-Stefan Andrei
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Edina Szekeres

The metagenomic approach for microbial diversity investigation and antibiotic resistance evaluation in environmental samples

Methodological guide for monitoring antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in the environment
2016 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-606-561-165-8
Contributors: Cecilia Chiriac; Edina Szekeres
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Edina Szekeres

Selection of proper reference genes for the cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7002 using real-time quantitative PCR

FEMS Microbiology Letters
2014 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84907959054

Part of ISSN: 15746968 03781097
Contributors: Szekeres, E.; Sicora, C.; Dragoş, N.; Drugă, B.
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