Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Young researcher from IBER-BAS is the winner in FameLab'2012

The FameLab Bulgaria 2012 is organised by the British Council together with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Science of Bulgaria and the Forum Demokrit. We are happy  that this year the winner in the National compettition is our colleague Boris Cenov (Department of Plant and Fungal Diversity and Resources, Division of Paleobotany and Palynology). Our young paleobotanist won 4 awards - the  Grand Jury Prize, the award of the audience, and these of the "Obekti" magazine and the Society of the Scientists in Bulgaria. ЗBoris Cenov will participate at the FameLab International Finals on 12-16 June 2012 in Cheltenham, UK.

New volume of the series "Fungi of Bulgaria"

The Eighth Volume of the monograph series "Fungi of Bulgaria" with author Dr Dimitar Stoykov (Department of Plant and Fungal Diversity and Resources) is printed out. The book includes taxonomic work on the fungi of the order Diaporthales (Ascomycota), so-called ‘diaporthalean fungi’ in phytopathological works. The most important aspects of the morphology, biology and ecologic characteristics of the diaporthalean fungi, and the species distribution according to the floristic division of Bulgaria are included in the book. Keys for determination of the families, genera and the species of Diaporthales , and an index of substrates/hosts of the species, recorded in the country are presented.

New book "Ecotoxicology"

Two months ago a new book of the open acess InTech Publishers "Ecotoxicology" (Ghousia Begum, Ed. InTech, February, 2012, ISBN 978-953-51-0027-0) was printed. The authors of the seventh chapter entitled "Genomic Sensitivity of Small Mammals - A Suitable Test System in the Genetic Monitoring", are two researchers from the IBER-BAS (Department of Ecosystem Research, Environmental Risk Assessment and Conservation Biology), Margarita Topashka-Ancheva and Tsvetelina Gerasimova.

Scientific Conference "Site Assessment and remediation of Contaminated Lands"

Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, BAS is one of the co-organisers of the Scientific Conference "Site Assessment and remediation of Contaminated Lands", which will be held on 10-11 May 2012 in Sofia. Co-organisers: MMI-Bor, Serbia, аssociation "Bulgaria in Europe - Vidin", "Niproruda Ltd" Sofia, Bulgaria.

The Conference is organising in the frame of the project "Creation of a database of pollutants from industrial waste in a transboundary aspect and a logical framework for problem solving", funded by EU Bulgaria-Serbia IPA Cross-border Programme, CCI Number 2007 CB16IPO006-1-101.

• Invitation
• Registration form
• Preliminary program

Boletales internet-site

Since 25 October 2010 an internet-site about the boletes mushrooms has been launched by Dr Boris Assyov (Division of Mycology, Department of Plant and Fungal Diversity and Resources).

The site is unique in Europe and aimed to be an online-resource for wider public interested in Boletales mushrooms. It presents a short overview on 147 species of boletes known so far from Europe. Another aim of the site is to give an idea to how boletes are collected and studied, what literature could be used to do that. So far the site has more than 20 000 visitors from 110 countries all over the world.

Sixth European Hemiptera Congress

The National Museum of Natural History (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) and Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" are co-оrganisers of Sixth European Hemiptera Congress. It will be held in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, 25-29 June 2012 under the patronage of the Director General of UNESCO Irina Bokova. Researchers from Europe and all over the world specialists in Hemiptera (Homoptera and Heteroptera) will attend the event. First Announcement and more information about the congress could be found on the website of the event.