Karina Ivanova

Personal information

Contacts

Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
2 Yurii Gagarin Street,
1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
e-mail: kari.ivanova89@gmail.com

Curriculum vitae

Date and place of birth: 28 October 1989, Ruse, Bulgaria

Education:

2015-Present: PhD Student in Parasitology and helminthology, Department of Animal Diversity and Resources, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Pavel Zehtindjiev
Co-supervisor: Dr. Dimitar Dimitrov

2012-2014: MSc in Parasitology, Department of Zoology and Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski".
Thesis title: Genetic diversity of avian blood parasites of the genera Plasmodium and Haemoproteus (Haemosporida) from East Asia.
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Pavel Zehtindjiev

2008 - 2012: BSc in Molecular biology, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

Participation in scientific meetings:

-International Conference "Malaria and Related Haemosporidian Parasites of Wildlife", 27-29 September 2016, Arbanasi, Bulgaria

-Summer school in Biological interactions: from genes to ecosystems, 9-15 July 2016, Toulouse, France

-European Ornithologists' Union (EOU) Conference, 24-28th August 2015, Badajoz, Spain

-Third Annual Conference and Workshop on "Malaria and Related Parasites of Wildlife", July - August 2014, National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, USA

-International Conference "Malaria and Related Haemosporidian Parasites of Wildlife", 7-11 August 2013, Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.

-Ninth National Conference of Parasitology with International Participation, 18-21 September 2013, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Research interests

Avian blood parasites (Haemosporida): morphological identification and molecular approaches in studies of haemosporidians. Evolution and ecology.
Host - parasite interactions.

Publications

Hahn S, Bauer S, Dimitrov D, Emmenegger T, Ivanova K, Zehtindjiev P, Buttemer WA (2018) Low intensity blood parasite infections do not reduce the aerobic performance of migratory birds. Proc. R. Soc. B, 285(1871), 20172307. https://doi.org/10.1098/RSPB.2017.2307

Ivanova K, Zehtindjiev P, Mariaux J, Dimitrov D, Georgiev BB (2017) Avian haemosporidians from rain forests in Madagascar: Molecular and morphological data of the genera Plasmodium , Haemoproteus and Leucocytozoon. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 58(January 2017), 115–124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2017.12.017

Zehtindjiev P, Vasilev V, Marinov MP, Ilieva M, Dimitrov D, Peev S, Raykov I, Raykova V, Ivanova K, Bedev K, Yankov Y (2017) No evidence for displacement of wintering red-breasted geese branta ruficollis (pallas, 1769) (anseriformes) at a wind farms area in northeast Bulgaria: Long-term monitoring results. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 69(2), 215–228.

Ivanova K, Zehtindjiev P, Mariaux J, Georgiev BB (2015) Genetic diversity of avian haemosporidians in Malaysia: Cytochrome b lineages of the genera Plasmodium and Haemoproteus (Haemosporida) from Selangor. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 31: 33-39. DOI 10.1016/j.meegid.2015.01.004 (link)

Zehtindjiev P, Ivanova K, Mariaux J, Georgiev BB (2013) First data on the genetic diversity of avian haemosporidians in China: cytochrome b lineages of the genera Plasmodium and Haemoproteus (Haemosporida) from Gansu Province. Parasitology Research 112(10): 3509-3515 DOI 10.1007/s00436-013-3533-x (link)

Affiliation

Department

Animal Diversity and Resources

Division

Biodiversity and Ecology of Parasites

Research group

Avian Blood Parasites

Хронология

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