Rezultate si publicatii

Title: Augmentation of wastewater-based epidemiology with machine learning to support global health surveillance

Journal: Nature Water

Journal info: IF not available (new journal)

Authors: Eva Aßmann, Timo Greiner, Hugues Richard, Matthew Wade, Shelesh Agrawal, Fabian Amman, Sindy Böttcher, Susanne Lackner, Markus Landthaler, Serghei Mangul, Viorel Munteanu, Fotis Psomopoulos, Maureen Smith, Maria Trofimova, Alexander Ullrich, Max von Kleist, Emanuel Wyler, Martin Hölzer & Christopher Irrgang

Authors with affiliation of University of Suceava: Viorel Munteanu, Serghei Mangul

Status: published on June 2, 2025

WW grant acknowledged in the Funding section: SM and VM were supported in part by the grant of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, under Romania’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan – Funded by EU – NextGenerationEU program no. 760286/27.03.2024, code 167/31.07.2023, within Pillar III, Component C9, Investment 8.

Link to the published article

Titlul: Leveraging Wastewater Sequencing to Strengthen Global Public Health Surveillance

Revista BMC Global and Public Health  

Informație despre revistă: nu are impact factor deocamdată (revistă proaspăt apărută)

Autori: Victor Gordeev, Martin Hölzer, Daniel Desirò, Iryna V. Goraichuk, Sergey Knyazev, Helena Solo-Gabriele, Pavel Skums, Smruthi Karthikeyan, Alexandria Evans, Shelesh Agrawal, Alexander G Lucaci, Christopher E Mason, Justin Maine Su, Cynthia Gibas, Niranjan Nagarajan, Rafael Peres da Silva, Nicolae Drabcinski, Viorel Munteanu, Lingyu Zhan, Julia Rubin, Nicholas C. Wu, Andrew Trister, Dumitru Ciorba, Viorel Bostan, Andrei Lobiuc, Mihai Covasa, Roel A. Ophoff, Alex Zelikovsky, Mihai Dimian, Serghei Mangul

Statut: Publicat pe 21 martie, 2025

Mențiunea grantului MetBio în secțiunea Finanțare: VG, VM, MC, AL, MD, AZ and SM were supported by a grant of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, under the Romania’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan – Funded by EU – NextGenerationEU program, project ”Metagenomics and Bioinformatics tools for Wastewater-based Genomic Surveillance of viral Pathogens for early prediction of public health risks – (MetBio-WGSP)” number 760286/27.03.2024, code 167/31.07.2023, within Pillar III, Component C9, Investment 8

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43586-024-00376-6

Title: Analysis of metagenomic data

Journal: Nature Reviews Methods Primers

Journal info: IF=50, Top 25% quartile Q1: Yes 

Authors: Liu S, Rodriguez JS, Munteanu V, Ronkowski C, Sharma NK, Alser M, Andreace F, Blekhman R, Blaszczyk D, Chikhi R, Crandall KA, Della Libera K, Francis D, Frolova A, Gancz AS, Huntley NE, Jaiswal P, Kosciolek T, Labaj PP, Labaj W, Luan T, Mason C, Moustafa AM, Muralidharan HS, Mutlu O, Mansouri Ghiasi N, Rahnavard A, Sun F, Tian S, Tierney BT, Van Syoc E, Vicedomini R, Zackular JP, Zelikovsky A, Zieli´nska K, Ganda E, Davenport ER, Pop M, Koslicki D, Mangul S

Authors with affiliation of University of Suceava: Viorel Munteanu, Alex Zelikovsky

Status: published on January 23

WW grant acknowledged in the Funding section: VM and AZ are supported in part by the grant of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, under the Romania’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan – Funded by EU – NextGenerationEU” program no. 760286/27.03.2024, code 167/31.07.2023, within Pillar III, Component C9, Investment 8.

doi.org/10.1038/s43586-024-00376-6

Conference Paper (ICCABS 2025)

R. Alomair, H. Farooq, D. Novikov, A. Juyal, and A. Zelikovsky, “Applying Genetic Algorithm with Saltations to MAX-3SAT,” In: Alser, M., et al. (eds.), Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences. ICCABS 2025. Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics 15599: 249–263

Link to the published article

Has MetBio’s funding source been mentioned? Yes!

Alexander Zelikovsky has been partially supported by NSF

Grant IIS-2212508, NSF Grant OISE-2412914, and by a grant of the Ministry

of Research, Innovation and Digitization, under the Romania’s National Recov-

ery and Resilience Plan – Funded by EU – NextGenerationEU program, project

“Metagenomics and Bioinformatics tools for Wastewater-based Genomic Surveillance

of viral Pathogens for early prediction of public health risks—(MetBio-WGSP)”

number 760286/27.03.2024, code 167/31.07.2023, within Pillar III, Component C9,

Investment 8.

Published: 01 November 2025

Conference Paper (ICCABS 2025)

A. Nemira, A. Juyal P. Skums, and A. Zelikovsky, “Epistatic Density of Viral Variants in Acute and Chronic HCV Patients” In: Alser, M., et al. (eds.), Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences. ICCABS 2025. Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics 15599: 238–248

Link to the published article
Was the MetBio funding source mentioned? Yes!

Alexander Zelikovsky has been partially supported by NSF Grant IIS-2212508, NSF Grant OISE-2412914, and by a grant of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, under the Romania’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan – Funded by EU – NextGenerationEU program, project “Metagenomics and Bioinformatics tools for Wastewater-based Genomic Surveillance of viral Pathogens for early prediction of public health risks—(MetBio-WGSP)” number 760286/27.03.2024, code 167/31.07.2023, within Pillar III, Component C9, Investment 8.

Published: 01 November 2025

Title: SARS-CoV-2 wastewater genomic surveillance: approaches, challenges, and opportunities

Journal: Genome Biology

Authors: Viorel Munteanu, Michael A. Saldana, David Dreifuss, Wenhao O. Ouyang, Jannatul Ferdous, Fatemeh Mohebbi, Jessica Schlueter Roseberry, Dumitru Ciorba, Viorel Bostan, Victor Gordeev, Nicolae Drabcinski, Justin Maine Su, Nadiia Kasianchuk, Nitesh Kumar Sharma, Sergey Knyazev, Eva Aßmann, Andrei Lobiuc, Mihai Covasa, Keith A. Crandall, Nicholas C. Wu, Christopher E. Mason, Braden T. Tierney, Alexander G. Lucaci, Roel A. Ophoff, Cynthia Gibas, Piotr Rzymski, Pavel Skums, Helena Solo-Gabriele, Beerenwinkel Niko, Alex Zelikovsky, Martin Hölzer, Adam Smith & Serghei Mangul

Status: published on January 12, 2026

DOI: doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03927-6

Conference: Modern Benchmarking Ascona, 

Date 23-27 March 2025

Title: “Benchmarking of software tools for wastewater genomic surveillance”

Presenter: Alex Zelikovsky

Conferința: ICCABS 2025

Autori: Grigore Boldirev, Nitesh Kumar Sharma, Chimaoge Peace Aguma, Viorel Munteanu, Serghei Mangul, Mohammed Alser and Alex Zelikovsky

Grigore Boldirev, Nitesh Kumar Sharma, Chimaoge Peace Aguma, Serghei Mangul, Mohammed Alser and Alex Zelikovsky

Titlu: Assessing Microbial Genome Representation Across Various Reference Databases: A Comprehensive Evaluation

Prezentator: Chimaoge Peace Aguma

Conferința: ICCABS 2025

Autori: Victor Gordeev, Viorel Munteanu, Martin Hölzer, Shelesh Agrawal, Nicolae Drabcinski, Dumitru Ciorba, Mihai Covasa, Andrei Lobiuc, Viorel Bostan, Mihai Dimian, Alex Zelikovsky and Serghei Mangul

Titlu: A rigorous benchmarking of methods for SARS-CoV-2 lineage abundance estimation in wastewater

Prezentator: Victor Gordeev

Conference: UMTEB – XVII International Scientific Research Congress

Date: May 4-6, 2025

Title: “WASTEWATER MONITORING FOR PATHOGENS: INNOVATIONS, CHALLENGES AND APPLICATIONS”

Presenter: Iuliana Șoldănescu

Iuliana Soldanescu presented on May 6

link to the conference program:

Acknowledgement: the MetBio grant was acknowledged on a dedicated slide.

Conference: VETBioConnect, Young Scientists Conference (an international conference organized in Kharkiv, Ukraine by the “Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine”, National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine. Conference announcement.)

Date: June 4, 2025

Title: Wastewater Pathogen Surveillance: Methodology and Accompanying Challenges

Presenter: Gordeev Victor

Acknowledgement: the MetBio grant was acknowledged on a dedicated slide. Victor’s University of Suceava affiliation was mentioned on the first slide.

link to the conference program

Conference: Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2025)

Dates: July 20-24. Presented on July 21, 2025, 17:00-17:20. Confirmation of the scheduled talk and submitted abstract (the presentation can be found by typing the Name and Surname of the presenter or the name of the presentation). Alternative link to the full downloadable schedule.

Title: Comprehensive framework for assessing discrepancies in genomic content across microbial reference genomes

Presenter: Serghei Mangul

Authors with USV affiliation: Serghei Mangul, Viorel Munteanu, Mihai Dimian, Alex Zelikovsky

Acknowledgement: the MetBio-WGSP grant was acknowledged on slide 25. Serghei’s University of Suceava affiliation was mentioned on the first slide.

Link to the presentation slides

Conference: ISBRA 2025, Finland, Helsinki (conference website)

Dates: August 3-5, 2025. Link to the conference program with the scheduled talk (on August 4, 12:20-12:40).

Authors: Alex Zelikovsky

Title: Uncovering Epistatic Interactions in SARS-COV-2 Evolution through Hidden Markov Models

Presenter: Alex Zelikovsky

link to the presentation slides

Acknowledgement: the MetBio grant funding statement is listed on the last slide, the USV logo was included on the first slide.

Conference: 11th International Congress of Food Technologists, Biotechnologists and Nutritionists, ISSN 2975-710X

Dates: 9-12 December 2025, Zagreb, Croatia 

Authors: Ancuta Veronica Lupaescu, Roxana Gheorghita, Iuliana Soldanescu

Title: Advances in Analytical Techniques for Monitoring Physico- Chemical Parameters in Wastewater