Dr. Aurora Nedelcu

Biography

Aurora Nedelcu received her BSc in Biology from Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 1988. Before moving to Canada to pursue her PhD, she worked as a Biology teacher in a secondary school and as a Research Scientist in an Electron Microscopy Lab. She completed her PhD in Biology at Dalhousie University from 1993 to 1997 and continued her training as a postdoctoral fellow in the Organelle Genome Megasequencing Lab at Université de Montréal in 1998. She was also an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of Arizona from 1998 to 2002. Nedelcu joined the Biology Department at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) in 2002 and currently holds the position of Professor. She also has an Adjunct position in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. Her research interests focus on molecular and genomic evolution, the genetic basis of key transitions and major innovations in evolution, multicellularity, development, cell differentiation, and the evolution of cancer using model systems such as volvocine green algae and human cancer cell lines.

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