BioCoderDojo Timisoara

Romanian origin Princeton professor and mathematician Corina Tarnita explores biological systems!

Corina Tarnita is a mathematician with a biologist’s soul.

Her research on how regular patterns emerge in nature and the origins of sociality in animal groups has come a long way since The Scientist first profiled her 15 years ago.

Discover what Tarnita is up to now via the link in the comments.

Together with friends at Young European Biologists - YEB, BioCraftEd.xyz, BioCoderDojo Timisoara develops a series of online technical trainings in Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics dedicated to high school and university students (and other interested), to be delivered during the second semester.

We'd like to adapt the design of this educational program to the specific needs of those potentially participating.

Please help us by investing 3-5 minutes and share your opinions in an anonymous way, filling in the form in the first comment!

Thanks, looking forward to welcome you to a super cool educational program you contributed to shape!

Marko Obrvan
Davor Merkas
Radu Ticiu

Look, look, one of our first batch ninja and later on mentor, David Livadariu, performs spectacularly at international conferences, bringing a lot of tech ingredients to a crayfish themed presentation!

Congrats, David, to you and also to your mentor, professor Lucian Pârvulescu!

Ne place! :)

🎓 Inginerie Genetică – viitorul biotehnologiilor începe aici!

Specializarea Inginerie Genetică din cadrul Facultății de Horticultură, Silvicultură și Biotehnologii Vegetale, Universitatea de Științele Vieții „Regele Mihai I” din Timișoara, formează specialiști de înalt nivel în domeniul biotehnologiilor moderne, geneticii și biologiei moleculare.

Programul oferă o pregătire interdisciplinară solidă, îmbinând cunoștințe din genetică, biotehnologii vegetale, cultură de țesuturi, analiză moleculară, bioinformatică și inginerie metabolică, cu aplicații directe în cercetare, industrie și inovare.

🌱 Absolvenții sunt pregătiți să contribuie la:

- dezvoltarea și optimizarea proceselor biotehnologice
- biosinteza compușilor bioactivi (enzime, proteine, metaboliți secundari)
- cercetare în genetică și biologie moleculară
soluții inovatoare pentru sănătate, agricultură și mediu

💼 Oportunități de carieră:

- inginer biotehnolog (COR 213152)
- microbiolog (ESCO 2131)
- laboratoare de analize genetice și moleculare
- industria farmaceutică, cosmetică și biotehnologică
- centre de cercetare și dezvoltare
- laboratoare de cultură in vitro și bioinformatică

🔬 Ingineria genetică este un domeniu strategic al viitorului, esențial pentru securitatea alimentară, sănătate și dezvoltare durabilă.

📍 Alege o carieră în știință. Alege inovația. Alege viitorul!

There was a nice story our founder Radu Ticiu told us after his first IGEM participation in 2023. During the first day of the event, a group of Canadian students from the McGill University team, seeing “Romania” written on his judge badge approached him saying that their team’s leaders and its PI are of Romanian origin.

In the final day of the event, the whole iGEM universe knew that the McGill team is the bag winner of the competition and Radu knew that Codruța Ignea, Primary Principal Investigator of the team, even more than being from Romania, is right from our city, Timișoara!

Now we are proud to invite all those interested in bioengineering, synthetic biology, bioeconomy and the iGEM Competition to meet in Timisoara and interact with dr. Codruța Ignea, Wed, June 3rd, at 12:00, in an event co-organized by Universitatea de Științele Vieții “Regele Mihai I” din Timișoara, Fundatia Excelsior Alumni USVT, Institutul de Biotehnologia Plantelor Timișoara, -Center for Nonformal Education and Creative Entrepreneurship and BioCoderDojo Timisoara.

Details and registration in the Luma event in the first comment.

BioCoderDojo Timisoara and the network of CoderDojo Timișoara implementations joins forces with GreenTwin, Grădinescu Timişoara - GreenFeel, in organising and running Bee Green an urban science camp focused on the natural life around gardens and bee hives, open to kids in primary and middle schools.

Encourage kids around you to join a dynamic and potentially deeply formative event!

The project is supported by the Științescu Timișoara program of the Fundaţia Comunitară Timişoara!

Bee Green — atelier de idei și invenții pentru natură Bee Green este un atelier pentru copii dedicat polenizatorilor, naturii și invențiilor practice la GreenFeel, Timișoara. Organizat de GreenTwin.

Fantastic week for BioCoderDojo Timișoara with two of the youngest ninjas, Sophia Irina Harcău and Casian Veselin, concluding their awesome Global Committed Listener participation to the How To Grow (Almost) Anything program by MIT Media Lab, by presenting their final projects on PLNC8ß anti-Helicobacter pylori and Zea anti-pest, respectively.

Additionaly, their mentors, Todinca, Iulia Nicoras, Letiția Iliescu, Erik Boros, Gabriel Tăbăcaru, and Radu Ticiu will join the BFH European Meet-Up
event, reuniting in Hamburg representatives of almost 30 synthetic biology IGEM teams from 9 countries, with a first participation of a Romanian team to an iGEM Competition pre-event!

Congrats all for your dedicated work!

Thanks, Georg Tremmel and BioClub Tokyo team and peers for guiding and motivating Sophia, Casian and their colleagues Mia Dărăbuș and Andrei Vasilan during the demanding HTGAA.org program!

Additionaly, our alumnus Mihai Fracea was selected to attend as a Leader of Tomorrow the Excellentium Conference by Global Biotech Revolution!

BioCoderDojo Timișoara is growing on passion for science and hard work!

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Val Muresan supports as a Timotion champion our crowdfunding campaign aiming to attract community support for the BioCoderDojo Timisoara education activities in the fields at the convergence of life science and technology, dedicated to middle and high school studens in Timisoara, Lugoj, Arad and Deva!

Val Muresan Susțin Timișoara Community BioLab pentru că IT-ul se schimbă rapid sub presiunea AI, iar relevanța vine din aplicații cu impact real. Longevitatea și calitatea vieții se bazează pe biochimie. În Timișoara există deja semințele acestei direcții — hai să le susținem.