Lecturers & Trainers

The interested participants will take part in Student Research Branch all over the year period. The divided structure of the researches and “seminars” will help to develop good skills and build up frequent communication among them and other participants. The regular interaction among students, researchers and abroad visitors and collaborators that Research Department of “Genetic Resources Cytogenetics and Molecular Analysis” hopes to stimulate will enhance co-operation among the Romanian Universities, transborder Universities and research departments and other EU nations.

The topics of the seminars are divided in 2 branches: Molecular and Cytogenetics. The practical activity held during one semester for each of subjects are successful and fruitful for the “students” to understand the landraces’s variability and chromosomes structure, behaviour and recombination (For More details about out university you should visit our website: www.usab-tm.ro.

School about methods which can be applied for monitoring stress induced effects in plants with special emphasis wheat, for scientists and students. All topics are covered by theoretical lectures and practical demonstrations of the instruments. The lectures attended by all participants, while the demonstrations involved groups of 5-7 people.
Such schools can be held regularly after the termination of the current project.

TOPICS:

• Detection of photosynthetic activity by chlorophyll fluorescence techniques (kinetic measurements and imaging);
• Detection of photosynthetic activity by CO2 gas exchange measurements;
• Phenotyping of plants by digital photographic imaging;
• Measurements of leaf temperature by thermal imaging;
• Detection and quantification of leaf rust infection by digital photography + chlorophyll fluorescence imaging;
• Detection of water in plants (roots, shoots, leaves, heads) by near infrared (NIR) imaging; 
• Complex stress diagnostics of wheat plants using a semi-robotic green house system;

Training activity in glass house (2010. October).
 The second generation of hybrids with tolerance to rusts.

The Romanian students group involved in training organized by BRC Szeged.
From right: Dr. Laszlo Purnhauser, Eng. Octavian Guler, Kótai Csaba, Imre Vass and others

Practical work on BRC Szeged. Phenotyping of plants by digital photographic imaging

Postgradual training in the framework of the International Training Course of BRC (for few persons).
These courses are organized for young scientists who have finished their university studies, The course contains lecture series in BRC about selected topics of modern biology.
The ITC course traditionally serves as a pre-selection school for PhD studies of the best students, which could provide a natural continuation of the cooperation between the Rumanian and Hungarian partners after termination of the current project.

Training on confocal - microscope working	Preparing seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana L by in vitro germination method for molecular analysis.

Subjects followed by students

The Hungarian scientists have developed a complex plant stress diagnostic system for greenhouse appliacations via cooperation of BRC and CRI, which can be applied for wheat plants.
This system ensures

• Individual identification of plants in pots
• Monitoring of plant growth under controlled growth stress conditions by using digital photography imaging
• Monitoring of plant physiological status by chlorophyll fluorescence and thermal imaging and chlorophyll determination [see results]
• Monitoring of harvest parameters (by measuring the grain no., weigth, etc.) [see results]
• Data storage and analysis using a central database