Cătălin Voiniciuc
Associate Professor
- Gainesville FL UNITED STATES
- Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
Cătălin Voiniciuc is an expert on cell walls, complex carbohydrates and synthetic biology.
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Cătălin Voiniciuc's research covers synthetic biology, plant cell walls and polysaccharides. He currently leads the Designer Glycans research group, which aims to design new paths to control the function, synthesis and modification of plant cell wall polysaccharides. Since founding the group, Cătălin has been developing novel synthetic biology approaches that leverage liquid handling robots, artificial intelligence and directed evolution to discover and improve enzymes.
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From Romania to Canada and Germany, New University of Florida Scientist Will Use AI to Help Plant Breeding, Other Farm Applications
Seed Today online
2022-07-27
After several years as a post-doctoral researcher and then later as a research group leader – all in Germany — Voiniciuc has joined UF/IFAS as an associate professor of horticultural sciences. His primary goal at UF/IFAS is to learn how plants make and remodel their cell walls.
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Illuminating Glucomannan Synthases to Explore Cell Wall Synthesis Bottlenecks
bioRxivGrieß-Osowski, et al.
2025-05-20
This study identifies C-terminal fluorescent protein tags that maintain ManS activity in the yeast to accelerate the Design, Build, Test, Learn cycles for polysaccharide biosynthesis.
Postharvest hypoxia and anoxia stresses delay anthocyanin accumulation in cold-stored blood orange fruit
ScienceDirectHabibi, et al.
2025-03-13
The effect of different gas compositions on bioactive compounds, antioxidant activity, and quality of ‘Moro’ blood orange fruit during cold storage was investigated.
Intracellular Mannanases Sustain Matrix Polysaccharide Biosynthesis
bioRxivJacobson, et al.
2025-02-28
We report that Arabidopsis man2 man5 double mutants produce less β-mannan in the seed coat epidermis, rejecting the current dogma that man mutants should maintain or over accumulate Man-rich polymers.
