October 2025

...every autumn, the time comes for the International Conference of Chemistry...this time the 31st, which was held in Sibiu...and in which we participated in large numbers, as the Department of Horticultural Engineering, Sapientia EMTE staff and junior colleagues, namely (from left to right in the group photo): Katalin Molnár, Zsolt Czekes, Alexandra Sztankovics, Ágota Oláh, Kincső-Katalin Orbán, Gábor Kovács, and Izabella Babcsányi!

Our group presented its work in two posters and two oral presentations:

• Study of heavy metals and metalloids (boron) accumulated in vineyard soils
• BABCSÁNYI Izabella, LEMARCHAND Damien, PHAM THI HA Nhung, KOVÁCS Gábor Excerpts on the ecotoxicological effects of nanomaterials used as additives in fertilizers
• KOVÁCS Gábor, SZTANKOVICS Alexandra, OLÁH Ágota, ORBÁN Kincső-Katalin, CZEKES Zsolt, BABCSÁNYI Izabella, MOLNÁR Katalin Ágota OLÁH, Kincső-Katalin ORBÁN, Zsolt CZEKES, Izabella BABCSÁNYI, Katalin MOLNÁR Germination studies on white clover (Trifolium repens L.) and lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) plants treated with zinc oxide (ZnO) nanomaterial
• Kincső-Katalin ORBÁN, Gábor KOVÁCS, Katalin MOLNÁR Ecotoxicological assessment of ZnO-based nanofertilizer additive
• SZTANKOVICS Alexandra, CZEKES Zsolt, BABCSÁNYI Izabella, DOMOKOS Erzsébet, MOLNÁR Katalin, KOVÁCS Gábor

Thank you all for your hard work, cooperation, patience with each other... and everything else! ????

P.S.: We would like to congratulate our young colleague, Kincső-Katalin Orbán, who (perhaps) has the biggest smile on her face, on her special prize in the student poster section, awarded by the Hungarian Chemists' Association of Cluj-Napoca!