Heliana Dundarova
Personal information
- Contacts
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Base 2, Office 7,
1 Tsar Osvoboditel
1000 Sofia
BulgariaPhone: (+359) 893 470 395
e-mail: heliana.dundarova@iber.bas.bgORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3136-6457
Web of Science: http://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/HNI-7801-2023
- Curriculum vitae
EDUCATION
PhD in Zoology 2018
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
PhD thesis title: “Phylogeny of Myotis mystacinus morphogroup (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in the Balkan Peninsula”MA in Zoology 2011
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Prague, The Czech Republic
Master thesis title: “Phylogeography of Rousettus aegyptiacus in the Mediterranean region”BA in Biology 2007
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Biology, Sofia, BulgariaPROJECTS
Project leader:
Conservation of the Cave Dwelling Bat Communities in South Kazakhstan
2022 - Present
Rufford 36630-2The role of the cave-dwelling bats as a vector and reservoir of the European lyssaviruses in Bulgaria
2019 - Present
№ КП-06-Н31/14 from 11.12.2019 “National Science Fund”, Ministry of Education and Science, BulgariaUnderground Habitats as a Unit for Conservation of Vulnerable Bat Communities in South-western Kyrgyzstan
2018 - 2019
Rufford 24890-1Bat expert:
Bats and men – sharing LIFE under one roof
2018 - Present
Life, Disney Conservation FundExploring and mitigating the threat of Lloviu virus re-emergence in Central European Miniopterus schreibersii populations / Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2019 - 2020
EUROBATSSustainable bats conservation in the cross-border area (BatsConserv)
2018 - 2019
Interreg V-A «Greece-Bulgaria 2014 - 2020NATURA 2000, Lot 5 (Bats) – Survey of bat habitats and determination of conservation status.
2012
Ministry of Environment and Water, Dicon groupCURRENT POSITIONS
Chief Assistant at the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Reviewer at Environment and Ecology Research (Horizon Research Publishing)
- Research interests
Ecology, evolution, and conservation of Eurasian bats, with particular focus on the role of bats as hosts and vectors of RNA viruses.
- Publications
Balkanska R, Shumkova R, Atsenova A, Salkova D, Dundarova H, Radoslavov G, Hristov P. 2023. Molecular Detection and Phylogenetic Analysis of Deformed Wing Virus and Sacbrood Virus Isolated from Pollen. Veterinar Sciences,10(2):104.
https://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/10/2/140Dundarova, H, Orlova, M, Anisimov, N, Baskakova, S, Shakula, G, Shakula, F, Shakula, S, Amirekul, K. 2022. A new species of Spinturnix (Acari: Spinturnicidae) from the Turkestani long-eared bat Otonycteris leucophaea (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) in Kazakhstan. Zootaxa, 5222(5): 443-456.
https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5222.5.3Ivanova-Aleksandrova N, Dundarova H, Neov B, Emilova R, Georgieva I, Antova R, Kirov K, Pikula J, Zukalová K, Zukal J. 2022. Ectoparasites of Cave-Dwelling Bat Species in Bulgaria. Proc Zool Soc, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12595-022-00451-4
Nemcova M, Seidlova V, Zukal J, Dundarova H, Zukalova K and Pikula J. 2022. Performance of bat-derived macrophages at different temperatures.Front Vet Sci, 9:978756. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.978756
Dundarova H, Altybaev K, Mamatkalykov P, Momosheva G, Nizamiev A, Sultanbek kyzy B. 2021. Underground Habitats as a Unit for Bat Conservation in Southwestern Kyrgyzstan. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica,73(4):597-605.
http://www.acta-zoologica-bulgarica.eu/2021/002569Dundarova H, Michev B, Pandourski I. 2021. Bats over the Western Black Sea Open Water Area. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 73(4):543-546.
http://www.acta-zoologica-bulgarica.eu/2021/002511Dundarova H, Pandourski I. 2021. On the presence of bats (Chiroptera) at the mouths of Kamchiya and Shkorpilovska Rivers, Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. ZooNotes. 172:1-4
http://www.zoonotes.bio.uni-plovdiv.bg/ZooNotes_2021/ZooNotes_172_2021_D...Seidlova V, Zukal J, Brichta J, Anisimov N, Apoznański G, Bandouchova H, Bartonička T, Berková H, Botvinkin A D, Heger T, Dundarova H, Kokurewicz H, Linhart P, Orlov O L, Piacek V, Presetnik P, Shumkina A P, Tiunov M P, Treml F, Pikula J. 2020. Active surveillance for antibodies confirms circulation of lyssaviruses in Palearctic bats. 2020. BMC Veterinary Research, 16, 482. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-020-02702-y
Daszak P, das Neves C, Amuasi J, Hayman D, Kuiken T, Roche B, Zambrana-Torrelio C, Buss P, Dundarova H, Feferholtz Y, Foldvari G, Igbinosa E, Junglen S, Liu Q, Suzan G, Uhart M, Wannous C, Woolaston K, Mosig Reidl P, O'Brien K, Pascual U, Stoett P, Li H, Ngo H T, IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. 2020. Workshop Report on Biodiversity and Pandemics of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem ServicesIPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany.
https://zenodo.org/record/4158500#.X6KWoogzY2xÇoraman E, Dundarova H, Dietz C, Mayer F. 2020. Patterns of mtDNA introgression suggest population replacement in Palaearctic whiskered bat species. Royal Society Open Science, 7: 191805
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.191805?fbclid=IwAR0t...Linhart P, Banďouchová H, Zukal J, Votypka J, Kokurewicz T, Dundarova H, Apoznanski G, Heger T, Kubickova A, Nemcova M, Piaček V, Sedláčková J, Seidlová V, Berkova H, Hanzal V, Pikula J. 2020. Trypanosomes in Eastern and Central European bats. 89: 69-78.
https://actavet.vfu.cz/89/1/0069/Dundarova H, Goranov S, Ragyov D. 2019. The northernmost point of distribution of the European free-tailed bat Tadarida teniotis (Rafinesque, 1814) (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in Bulgaria. In: Bechev, D. & Georgiev, D. (Eds.). Faunistic diversity of Vrachanski Balkan Nature Park. Part 2. ZooNotes, Supplement 6, Plovdiv University Press, Plovdiv, 167-170.
http://www.zoonotes.bio.uni-plovdiv.bg/Supplements/ZooNotes_Suppl%207_Vr...Dundarova H, Dedov I, Ljubomirov I, Zhalov A, Deltshev C. 2018. Preliminary research on the cave fauna in three caves in Lurë Mountain (Albania). 8th Symposium on karst protection-proceedings. Student Speleological and Alpinistic Club. Belgrade. ISBN:978-86-907923-3-7, 139-144.
Хабилов Т.К, Таджибаева Д.Э, Дундарова Х. Новые данные по распространению и биологии индийского подковоноса Rhinolophus lepidus Blyth, 1844 в Средней Азии. 2018. Plecotus et al., 21:57-61.
http://zmmu.msu.ru/bats/biblio/plec21/lepidus18.pdfMartínková N, Pikula J,Zukal J,Kovacova V, Bandouchova H, Bartonička T, Alexander Botvinkin A.D,Brichta J,Dundarova H, Kokurewicz T, Irwin N.R, Linhart P, Oleg L.O, Piacek V, Škrabánek P, Tiunov M.P, Zahradníková A. 2018. Hibernation temperature-dependent Pseudogymnoascus destructans infection intensityin Palearctic bats. Virulence, 9(1):1734-1750.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21505594.2018.1548685Dundarova H. 2018. Bat diversity in Lednitsata and Forgovskata dupka caves: two potentially important swarming sites in Western Rhodopes Mountains (Bulgaria). Acta zoologica Bulgarica. 70 (1): 139-142.
http://www.acta-zoologica-bulgarica.eu/downloads/acta-zoologica-bulgaric...Dietz C, Gazaryan A, Papov G, Dundarova H, Mayer F. 2016. Myotis hajastanicus is a local vicariant of a widespread species rather than a critically endangered endemic of the Sevan lake basin (Armenia). Mammalian Biology. 81:518–522.
http://ysu.am/files/10-1509626177-.pdfHulva P, Marešová T, Dundarova H, Bilgin R, Benda P, Bartonička T, Horáček I. 2012. Environmental margin and island evolution in Middle Eastern populations of the Egyptian fruit bat. Molecular Ecology. 21:6104-6116.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b3ca/786f82290165afe4aa079bfaa56bf7be4c...
Affiliation
- Department
- Ecosystem Research, Environmental Risk Assessment and Conservation Biology
- Division
- Community Ecology and Conservation Biology
- Research group
- Conservation Biology
Хронология
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- 9 години 19 седмици