Melania Cristescu
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Melania Elena Cristescu is a Romanian–Canadian biologist and ecologist. She is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Ecological Genomics at McGill University and the Co-Editor of Genome.[1]
Early life[edit]
Born in Brașov,[2] Cristescu chose her career while examining aquatic habitats in the Danube Delta or exploring trails and caves of the Carpathian Mountains in Transylvania during her childhood summer vacations. The French oceanographer and explorer Jacques Cousteau influenced her.[1] She was also influenced by the books of Ștefan Negrea, a Romanian biologist and speleologist.[1]
Career[edit]
Cristescu earned her BSc Honors in Biology at Ovidius University of Constanța in 1996. After spending a year in Rochester, New York studying English, she moved to Canada, where she obtained a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology at the University of Guelph in 2004, under the direction of Paul D. N. Hebert.[2] After working as an NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow at Indiana University, she became an associate professor at the University of Windsor, where she worked in the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research.[1][3][4][5][6]
Cristescu's area of research is ecological genetics and genomics and her primary research organism is the microcrustacean Daphnia. Her other research areas include the nature and scale of recombination and mutation rate variation across genomes, the genetics of aquatic invasions, and speciation in ancient lakes.[1][7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e "Meet the Editors: Genome". Canadian Science Publishing. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ a b Ionescu, Sînziana (December 3, 2016). "Românca din Canada care cercetează misterele ADN-ului: "Primele lecţii de biologie le-am luat la Marea Neagră"". Adevărul (in Romanian). Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "Melania Cristescu". Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ "Genome welcomes new Co-Editor Dr. Melania Cristescu". Canadian Science Publishing. 10 October 2014. doi:10.4141/news.2014.10.10.275 (inactive 31 January 2024). Retrieved 22 November 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link) - ^ "Melania Cristescu". Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ "Campus mourns death of researcher". DailyNews. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
- ^ "Welcome to the Cristescu Lab!". Archived from the original on 2015-02-23. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
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- Living people
- People from Brașov
- Canadian ecologists
- Women ecologists
- 21st-century Canadian women scientists
- Canadian women academics
- 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
- Canadian women non-fiction writers
- Romanian biologists
- Romanian women scientists
- University of Guelph alumni
- Indiana University fellows
- Academic staff of University of Windsor
- Academic staff of McGill University