Simona Georgieva
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Department of Animal Diversity & Resources
Institute of Biodiversity & Ecosystem Research
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
2 Mayor Yuriy Gagarin Street,
1113 Sofia, Bulgariasimona.georgieva@gmail.com
simona.georgieva@iber.bas.bgORCiD: 0000-0001-8887-472X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8887-472X
Scopus Author ID: 55034114000
Researcher ID: I-3852-2018
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NeZsh5oAAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Simona_Georgieva2- Curriculum vitae
• 2024: Associate Professor, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
• 2015: PhD in Biology (Parasitology), University of South Bohemia in České Budējovice, Czech Republic. https://theses.cz/id/xilaie/?lang=en
Doctoral Fellowship of the Czech Republic’s Government.
Honoured with “cum laude” and Dean’s Prize for outstanding research presented in the PhD thesis
• 2008: MSc in Biology, Sofia University, Bulgaria
• 2006: BSc in Biology, Sofia University, BulgariaCOMMISSIONS OF TRUST
2025– Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research: SCAR Fish Action Group
2023– European Commission: Expert Evaluator for the Environment and Geosciences (ENV) Research Panel
2024– COST Actions Expert EvaluatorEditorship:
2025– The Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/jzs
2024– Journal of Helminthology https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-helminthology/informa...
2021– Biodiversity Data Journal https://bdj.pensoft.net/browse_journal_groups.php?role_id=3&journal_name...HONOURS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2025 Campus France Fellow – A Scientific High Level Research Fellowship2022 BOF Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow, Hasselt University, Belgium (BOF22KV04)
2021–2023 Brain Pool Fellowship for Outstanding Overseas Researchers, National Research Foundation of Korea
2021 BOF Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow, Hasselt University, Belgium (BOF20KV02)
2019 Santander Ibero-American Research Fellowship
02/2018–01/2020 Postdoctoral Fellowship “Juan de la Cierva-Formación”, Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, Spain
01/2016–12/2017 Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Czech Academy of Sciences for promising young scientists
2015 PhD dissertation awarded with the Honor “cum laude”
2015 Awarded with Dean’s Prize for outstanding scientific results presented in the PhD dissertation
2014 Student Scholarship: 13th International Congress of Parasitology (ICOPA XIII), Mexico City, Mexico (World Federation of Parasitologists)
2013 Marc Dresden Student Travel Award, American Society of Parasitologists, Québec City, Canada
2012 European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) award to participate “EMBO Practical course on Computational Molecular Evolution”, Heraklion, Greece
2011 European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT) award to participate the EDIT training course "Integrative taxonomy and taxonomic expertise in the framework of the DNA-barcoding initiative", Paris, France
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
12/2024– Associate Professor, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria02/2020-12/2024 Researcher, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
08/2021-12/2023 Brain Pool Outstanding Overseas Researcher of the National Research Foundation of Korea, Department of Parasitology, School of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea
2018–2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellow “Juan de la Cierva-Formación”, Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Spain
2016–2017 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
2011–2015 Research Assistant, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
2005–2011 Research Associate, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
RESEARCH VISITS
01–02/2025 Research Unit MiVEGEC (Maladies infectieuses et Vecteurs: Ecologie, Génétiques, Evolution et Contrôle/ Infectious Diseases & Vectors: Ecology, Genetics, Evolution, & Control): The University of Montpellier, The French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), & French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
04–17/03/2024 The French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, ISEM – The Institute of Evolutionary Science of Montpellier, France
01–29/02/2024 Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences
8-20/11/2023 Meguro Parasitological Museum, Japan
15–30/09/2023 College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA
1-15/06/2023 College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA
24/04/2023-06/05/2023 College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA
01/2023–02/2023 Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
26/06/2022–11/07/2022 Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, Israel
03/2022–05/2022 Hasselt University, Belgium
18/01/2021–28/02/2021 Hasselt University, Belgium
26/10/2020–07/11/2020 University of Kiel and GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Germany
07/12/2019–19/12/2019 Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
17/11/2019–30/11/2019 National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
28/10/2019–08/11/2019 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research – Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Greece
14/10/2019–25/10/2019 Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology (IRBIM), Italy
25/11/2018–05/12/2018 The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History and National Research Centre, Tel Aviv University, Israel
15/11/2019–18/11/2018 Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Turkey
26/06/2018–20/07/2018 Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
15/09/2017–30/09/2017 North-West University, South Africa
27/08/2017–06/09/2017 University of Iceland, Institute for Experimental Parasitology, Iceland
25/08/2016–04/09/2016 University of Iceland, Institute for Experimental Parasitology, Iceland
16/09/2015–27/09/2015 University of Iceland, Institute for Experimental Parasitology, Iceland
05/05/2015–08/05/2015 University of Bologna, Italy
25/03/2015–31/03/2015 University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
15/08/2014–08/09/2014 National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
04/06/2013–15/07/2013 Concordia University, Canada
01/10/2012–07/10/2012 Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic
26/09/2012–30/09/2012 Autonomous University of Barcelona, SpainPROMOTORSHIP / SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE & UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS: University of Valencia (2 MSc students); University of South Bohemia (1 BSc and 2 MSc students); The Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1 PhD student); Kiel University (1 PhD student)
Maral Khosravi, PhD Student
Thesis Title: “Trematode parasites of mollusc hosts from marginal seas and their sensitivity to warming” https://macau.uni-kiel.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/macau_derivate_000...
Supervisors: Martin Wahl, David Thieltges, S. Georgieva
Awarding Institution: Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel
Date of Defence: 25 September 2023Naraiana Taborda, PhD Student
Thesis Title: “Biodiversity of Diplostomoidea (Trematoda: Digenea: Diplostomida) in freshwater fish in Brasil: an integrative approach” https://rima.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/20.500.14407/9576
Supervisors: J. L. Luque, S. Georgieva
Awarding Institution: The Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro in Seropedica, Brazil
Date of Defence: 27 August 2020Judith Rodrígues Días, MSc in Biodiversity: Conservation and Evolution
Thesis Title: Parasite biodiversity of the surmullet Mullus surmuletus L., (Teleostei: Mullidae) in the Western Mediterranean. “Biodiversidad de parásitos del salmonete de roca, Mullus surmuletus L., (Teleostei: Mullidae) en el Mediterráneo occidental.”
Awarding Institution: University of Valencia, Spain
Supervisor: S. Georgieva
Date of Defense: 13 September 2019Susana Sánchez Gallego, MSc in Biodiversity: Conservation and Evolution
Thesis Title: “Parasitofauna de peces ‘morralla’ y estudio comparativo de Scorpaena notata Rafinesque, 1810 (Teleostei: Scorpaenidae).”
Awarding Institution: University of Valencia, Spain
Supervisor: S. Georgieva
Date of Defense: 13 September 2019Hynek Mazanec, MSc in Biology with specialization in Parasitology
Thesis Title: “Molecular and morphological characterization of isolates of digeneans of the family Strigeidae Railliet, 1919 from Iceland.” https://theses.cz/id/hz0nm4/?lang=en
Awarding Institution: University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Supervisors: A. Faltýnková, S. Georgieva
Date of Defense: May 2018Lucie Cibulková, MSc in Biology with specialization in Parasitology
Thesis Title: “Trematode diversity in freshwater pulmonate snails from the St Lawrence wetlands, Canada.”
Awarding Institution: University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Supervisors: S. Georgieva, A. Faltýnková
Date of Defense: 27 May 2017
Link: https://theses.cz/id/7a2qey/Lucie_Cibulkov_-_Redukovan_verze.pdf?lang=en;zpet=%2Fvyhledavani%2F%3Fsearch%3DLucie%20Cibulková%26start%3D1Jana Zikmundová, BSc in Biology with specialization in Parasitology
Thesis Title: “Is there a soldier cast in freshwater echinostome trematodes?”
Awarding Institution: University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Supervisors: A. Kostadinova, S. Georgieva
Date of Defense: May 2011
Link: https://theses.cz/id/a01uqk/?isshlret=Jana%3BZIKMUNDOVÁ%3B;zpet=%2Fvyhledavani%2F%3Fsearch%3DJana%20Zikmundová%26start%3D1MENTOR OF STUDENTS: A total of 22 PhD, MSc and BSc students): University College London, UK; Kiel University, Germany; University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; University of Valencia, Spain; Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain; University of Bologna, Italy; University of Sassari, Italy; Chungbuk National University, South Korea; University of Oran, Algeria; University of Annaba, Algeria; University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia; Masaryk University, Czech Republic; University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Sofia University (Bulgaria).
FIELD RESEARCH EXPERIENCE / MEMBER IN EXPEDITIONS FOR PARASITOLOGICAL FIELD STUDIES IN:
Camargue, France: 23-30 Jan 2025
Off the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast: 5–17 June 2024
Off Charleston, South Carolina, USA: June 1–20 2024; September 24–30 2024
Stono Preserve, Charleston, South Carolina, USA: April 23 – May 6, 2023
Korea Strait, off Busan, South Korea: January10–14 2022
Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, Iran: December 07–19, 2019
Gulf of Mexico off Merida, Mexico: November 17–30, 2019
Aegean Sea, off Crete Island, Greece: October 28 – November 08, 2019
Tyrrhenian Sea, off Sicily, Italy: October 14–25, 2019
Lake Tanganyika, Zambia: September 15 – October 05, 2019
Levantine Sea, off Haifa, Israel: November 25 – December 05, 2018
Levantine Sea, Gulf of Antalya, Turkey: November 15–18, 2018
The Amazon River, Brazil: June 26–July 10, 2018
South-West Atlantic Ocean off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: July 11–20, 2018
Lake Iseo, Italy: May, 2015
Mexico City’s freshwater habitats: 2014
Lake Mývatn and Reykjavik’s freshwater lake system, Iceland: 2015–2017 (a total of 3 trips)
The Saint Lawrence River wetlands, Canada: July 2013
Danube Wetlands, Slovak Republic: 2011–2013 (3 seasonal trips per year)
Central European Freshwater, Czech Republic (2011–2016; multiple trips)
Black Sea, off Sozopol, Bulgaria: July 2007LANGUAGES
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Russian: Fluent
Czech: Basic
Spanish: Basic
Bulgarian: Native speakerLEARNED SOCIETIES & ACADEMIC SERVICE
SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES, PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS & MEMBERSHIP: The Systematics Association https://systass.org
The American Society of Parasitologists https://www.amsocparasit.org/
The Genetics Society https://genetics.org.uk
The Society for the Study of Evolution https://www.evolutionsociety.org
The Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine http://www.parasitol.or.kr/eng/SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS, REFEREE FOR: Molecular Ecology, Ecology and Evolution, International Journal for Parasitology, International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites & Wildlife; Invertebrate Zoology Journal, Journal of Helminthology, Journal of Natural History, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Marine & Freshwater Research, Marine Biology, Marine Biology Resources; Parasites & Vectors, Parasitology, Parasitology International, Parasitology Research, Pharmaceuticals; Scientific Reports, Systematic Parasitology, The European Zoological Journal, The Journal of Parasitology, The Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Vestnik Zoologii, Zoologica Scripta, Zoosystematics and Evolution, Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Biodiversity Data Journal, Diversity and Distributions, Fishes, Heliyon, Canadian Journal of Zoology, Folia Parasitologica, ...
OUTREACH & SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
2022.07.11-15 Understanding our seas: workshop on the biology and ecology of the East-Asian finless porpoise, Taean, South Korea
2018, 2019 EXPOCIENCIA, University of Valencia, Spain
2018 International Day of Women & Girls in Science "Día de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia", Valencia, Spain- Research interests
– Parasite biodiversity: Parasite life cycles, Systematics, Phylogeny & Evolution; Species delimitation, Molecular systematics & taxonomy
– Ecology of parasites and pathogens: Neglected zoonoses; Effects of the environmental change on disease transmission; Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Climate Change
– Parasite communities: Species interactions, Transmission strategies & Food webs
– Habitats: Marine & Freshwater; Coral & Temperate Reefs; Extreme environments: Polar & Subpolar, Deep sea, Hypersaline- Publications
Total publications: 117
• Papers in international ISI journals: 37
• Book chapters: 1
• Conference proceedings: 79
• Citations: 1071/1119/1551 (WoS/Scopus/Google Scholar)
• Total publications in the first quartile (Q1): 17: Scientific Reports (1)b, International Journal for Parasitology (3)a; Parasites & Vectors (7)a, Parasitology Research (1)b; Infection, Genetics & Evolution (1)c; PloS ONE (1); International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife (1)d; Deep-Sea Research I (1)e; Frontiers in Marine Science (1)e. The publications in Q1 fall in the categories: Parasitology (10)a, Medicine /Miscellaneous/ (3)b, Infectious Diseases (1)c, Animal Science and Zoology (1)d Aquatic Sciencee
• h-INDEX: 20/22 (WoS & Scopus/Google Scholar)PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:
37. Hill-Spanik, K. M., Díaz-Morales, D. M., Atkinson, S. D., Georgieva, S., Sures, B., Davis, E. W., Kmentová, N., Vanhove, M. P. M., Schütz, R., & de Buron, I. (2025). Exploring hidden parasite diversity during a ParasiteBlitz across a coastal habitat gradient using environmental DNA metabarcoding. Journal of Helminthology, 99:e114. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X25100801
36. de Buron, I., Hill-Spanik, K. M., Atkinson, S. D., Vanhove, M. P. M, Kmentová, N., Georgieva, S., Díaz-Morales, D. M., Kendrick, M. R., Roumillat, W. A., Rothman, G. K. (2025). ParasiteBlitz: Adaptation of the BioBlitz concept to parasitology. Journal of Helminthology, 99:e39. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X25000197
35. Martin, S., Cheslett, D., Georgieva, S., O’Connor, I., Swords, F., O’Dwyer, K. (2024). A microparasite survey of four decapod crustacean species. Journal of Crustacean Biology. [IF2023=1.2] Q3 https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruae029
34. Martin, S., Cheslett, D., Collins, E., Swords, F., Georgieva, S., O’ Connor, I., O’ Dwyer, K. (2024). Variation in Paramarteilia canceri infections in velvet crab (Necora puber). Diseases of Aquatic Organisms [IF2023=1.1] Q2 https://doi.org/10.3354/dao03772
33. Kim, S.**, Heejeong, Y., Lee, K., Lee., H., Kim, MJ., Kang, Y., Choe, S**., Georgieva, S.**(2023). Novel morphological and molecular data for Nasitrema spp. (Digenea: Brachycladiidae) in the East Asian finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis sunameri). Frontiers in Marine Science 10: 1187451 [IF2023=2.8] Q1; (*corresponding authors) https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1187451
32. Pérez-del-Olmo, A., Georgieva, S., Dallarés, S., Constenla, M., Kostadinova, A., & Carrassón, M. (2023). Linking integrative taxonomy and ecology: Diversity and population structure of two platyhelminth parasites (Digenea: Lepidapedidae) of sympatric deep-sea fishes in the Western Mediterranean. Deep-Sea Research Part I, 192, 103948. [IF2023=2.3] Q1; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103948
31. Khosravi, M., Thieltges, D.W., Shamseddin, J., & Georgieva, S. (2022). Schistosomes in the Persian Gulf: novel molecular data, host associations, and life-cycle elucidations. Scientific Reports, 12:13461. [IF2021=4.6] Q1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-
17771-230. Lablack L., Rima, M., Georgieva, S., Marzoug D., & Kostadinova, A. (2022). Novel molecular data for monogenean parasites of sparid fishes in the Mediterranean and a molecular phylogeny of the Microcotylidae Taschenberg, 1879. Current Research in Parasitology & Vector-Borne Diseases, 2, 100069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpvbd.2021.100069
29. Schwelm, J.*, Georgieva, S.*, Grabner, D., Kostadinova, A., & Sures, B. (2021). Molecular and morphological characterisation of Diplostomum phoxini (Faust, 1918) with a revised classification and an updated nomenclature of the species-level lineages of Diplostomum (Digenea: Diplostomidae) sequenced worldwide. Parasitology 1–17. [IF2021=3.243] Q2 (*equal contributors); doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182021001372
28. Kmentová, N. Bray, R. A., Koblmüller, S., Artois, T., De Keyzer, E. L. R., Gelnar, M., Vanhove, M. P. M., & Georgieva, S. (2020). Uncharted digenean diversity in Lake Tanganyika: cryptogonimids infecting endemic lates perches. Parasites & Vectors, 13:221. [IF2020=3.876] Q1; doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-3913-x
27. Víllora-Montero, M., Pérez-del-Olmo, A., Georgieva, S., Raga, J. A., & Montero, F. E. (2020). Considerations on the taxonomy and morphology of Microcotyle spp.: Redescription of M. erythrini van Beneden & Hesse, 1863 (Monogenea: Microcotylidae) and the description of a new species from D. dentex (L.) (Teleostei: Sparidae). Parasites & Vectors, 13:45. [IF2020=3.876] Q1; doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-3878-9
26. Hernández-Orts, J. S., Georgieva, S., Landete, D. N., & Scholz, T. (2019). Heterophyid trematodes (Digenea) from penguins: A new species of Ascocotyle Looss, 1899, first description of metacercaria of Ascocotyle (A.) patagoniensis Hernández-Orts et al. (2012), and first molecular data. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 8, 94–105. [IF2019=1.923] Q1; doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2018.12.008
25. Pérez-del-Olmo, A. *, Dallarés, S. *, Georgieva, S. *, Constenla, M., Kostadinova, A., & Carrassón, M. (2019). Species of Lepidapedon Stafford, 1904 (Digenea: Lepidapedidae) from deep-sea fishes in the Western Mediterranean: molecular and morphological evidence. Systematic Parasitology, 2, 149–169. [IF2019=1.047] Q3 (*equal contributors); doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-019-09845-z
24. Georgieva, S.**, Blasco-Costa, I. & Kostadinova, A. (2017). Molecular characterisation of four echinostomes (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) from birds in New Zealand, with descriptions of Echinostoma novaezealandense n. sp. and Echinoparyphium poulini n. sp. Systematic Parasitology, 94, 477–497. [IF2017=1.181] (**corresponding author) Q3; doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-017-9712-x
23. Hernández-Orts, J., Brandão, M., Georgieva, S., Raga, J., Crespo, E., Luque, J., & Aznar, F. (2017). From mammals back to birds: Host-switch of the acanthocephalan Corynosoma australe from pinnipeds to the Magellanic penguin Spheniscus magellanicus. Plos One, 12, e0183809. [IF2017=2.766] Q2; doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183809
22. Kudlai, O., Oros, M., Kostadinova, A., Georgieva, S. (2017). Exploring the diversity of Diplostomum (Digenea: Diplostomidae) in fishes from the River Danube using mitochondrial DNA barcodes. Parasites & Vectors, 10: 592. [IF2017=3.294] Q1; doi:
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-017-2518-521. Palacios-Abella, J. F., Georgieva, S., Mele, S., Raga, J. A., Isbert, W., Kostadinova, A., Montero, F. E. (2017). Skoulekia erythrini n. sp. (Digenea: Aporocotylidae): a parasite of Pagellus erythrinus (L.) (Perciformes: Sparidae) from the western Mediterranean with an amendment of the generic diagnosis. Systematic Parasitology, 94, 669–688 [IF2017=1.181] Q3; doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-017-9733-5
20. Rima, M., Marzoug, D., Pérez-del-Olmo, A., Kostadinova, A., Bouderbala, M., Georgieva, S.** (2017). New molecular and morphological data for opecoelid digeneans in two Mediterranean sparid fishes with descriptions of Macvicaria gibsoni n. sp. and M. crassigula (Linton, 1910) (sensu stricto). Systematic Parasitology, 94, 739– 763. [IF2017=1.181]; (**corresponding author) Q3; doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230- 017-9736-2
19. Soldánová, M.*, Georgieva, S.*, Roháčová, J., Knudsen, R., Kuhn, J. A., Henriksen, E. H., Siwertsson, A., Shaw, J. C., Kuris, A. M., Amundsen, P-A., Scholz, T., Lafferty, K. D. & Kostadinova, A. (2017). Molecular analyses reveal high diversity of trematodes in a sub-Arctic lake. International Journal for Parasitology, 47, 327–345. [IF2017 =3.078] (*equal contributors) Q1; doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2016.12.008
18. Stoyanov, B.*, Georgieva, S.*, Pankov, P., Kudlai, O., Kostadinova, A., Georgiev, B.B. (2017). Morphology and molecules reveal the alien Posthodiplostomum centrarchi Hoffman, 1958 as the third species of Posthodiplostomum Dubois, 1936 (Digenea: Diplostomidae) in Europe. Systematic Parasitology, 94(1): 1–20. [IF2017=1.181] Q3 (*equal contributors); doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-016-9680-6
17. Antar, R., Georgieva, S., Gargouri, L., & Kostadinova, A. (2015). Molecular evidence for the existence of species complexes within Macvicaria Gibson & Bray, 1982 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) in the western Mediterranean, with descriptions of two new species. Systematic Parasitology, 91, 211–229. [IF2015=1.316] Q3; doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-015-9577-9
16. Faltýnková, A., Georgieva, S., Soldánová, M. & Kostadinova, A. (2015). A re-assessment of species diversity within the ‘revolutum’ group of Echinostoma Rudolphi, 1809 (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) in Europe. Systematic Parasitology, 90, 1–25. [IF2015=1.316] Q3; doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-014-9530-3
15. O’Dwyer, K., Faltýnková, A., Georgieva, S., & Kostadinova, A. (2015). An integrative taxonomic investigation of the diversity of digenean parasites infecting the intertidal snail Austrolittorina unifasciata Gray, 1826 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in Australia. Parasitology Research, 114, 2381–2397. [IF2015=2.027] Q2; doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-015-4436-9
14. Selbach, C., Soldánová, M., Georgieva, S., Kostadinova, A., & Sures, B. (2015). Integrative taxonomic approach to the cryptic diversity of Diplostomum spp. in lymnaeid snails from Europe with a focus on the “Diplostomum mergi” species complex. Parasites & Vectors, 8:300. [IF2015=3.234] Q1; doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0904-4
13. Blasco-Costa, I., Faltýnková, A., Georgieva, S., Skírnisson, K., Scholz, T. & Kostadinova, A. (2014). Fish pathogens near the Arctic Circle: molecular, morphological and ecological evidence for unexpected diversity of Diplostomum (Digenea: Diplostomidae) in Iceland. International Journal for Parasitology, 44, 703–715. [IF2014=3.872] Q1; doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2014.04.009
12. Faltýnková, A., Georgieva, S., Kostadinova, A., Blasco-Costa, I., Scholz, T. & Skírnisson,
K. (2014). Diplostomum von Nordmann, 1832 (Digenea: Diplostomidae) in the sub- Arctic: descriptions of the larval stages of six species discovered by morphological and molecular analyses. Systematic Parasitology, 89, 195–213. [IF2014=1.336] Q3; doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-014-9517-011. Georgieva, S., Faltýnková, A., Brown, R., Blasco-Costa, I., Soldánová, M., Sitko, J., Scholz, T. & Kostadinova, A. (2014). Echinostoma ʻrevolutumʼ (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) species complex revisited: species delimitation based on novel molecular and morphological data gathered in Europe. Parasites & Vectors, 7, 520. [IF2014=3.430] Q1; doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-014-0520-8
10. Marzoug, D., Rima, M., Boutiba, Z., Georgieva, S., Kostadinova, A. & Pérez-del-Olmo, A. (2014). A new species of Saturnius Manter, 1969 (Digenea: Hemiuridae) from Mediterranean mullet (Teleostei: Mugilidae). Systematic Parasitology, 87, 127–134. [IF2014=1.336] Q3; doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-013-9468-x
9. Pérez-del-Olmo, A.*, Georgieva, S.*, Pula, H. & Kostadinova, A. (2014). Molecular and morphological evidence for three species of Diplostomum (Digenea: Diplostomidae), parasites of fishes and fish-eating birds in Spain. Parasites & Vectors, 7, 502. [IF2014=3.430] (*equal contributors) Q1; doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-014-0502- x
8. Selbach, C., Soldánová, M., Georgieva, S., Kostadinova, A., Kalbe, M. & Sures, B. (2014). Morphological and molecular data for larval stages of four species of Petasiger 1909 (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) with an updated key to the known cercariae from the Palaearctic. Systematic Parasitology, 89, 153–166. [IF2014=1.336] Q3; doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-014-9513-4
7. Zikmundová, J., Georgieva, S., Faltýnkova, A., Soldánová, M. & Kostadinova, A. (2014). Species diversity of Plagiorchis Lühe, 1899 (Digenea: Plagiorchiidae) in lymnaeid snails from freshwater ecosystems in central Europe revealed by molecules and morphology. Systematic Parasitology, 88, 37–54. [IF2014=1.336] Q3; doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-014-9481-8
6. Chibwana, F. D., Blasco-Costa, I., Georgeiva, S., Hosea, K. M., Nkwengulila, G., Scholz, T. & Kostadinova, A. (2013). A first insight into the barcodes for African diplostomids (Digenea: Diplostomidae): Brain parasites in Clarias gariepinus (Siluriformes: Clariidae). Infection, Genetics & Evolution, 17, 62–70. [IF2013=3.264] Q1; doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2013.03.037
5. Dallarés, S., Georgieva, S., Kostadinova, A., Carrassón, M., Gibson, D. I. & Pérez-del- Olmo, A. (2013). Morphometric and molecular characterisation of specimens of Lepidapedon Stafford, 1904 (Digenea: Lepocreadiidae) from the deep-sea fish Mora moro (Risso) (Teleostei: Moridae) in the western Mediterranean. Systematic Parasitology, 85, 243–253. [IF2013=1.035] Q3; doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-013- 9426-7
4. Georgieva, S.*, Selbach, C.*, Faltýnková, A., Soldánová, M., Sures, B., Skírnisson, K. & Kostadinova, A. (2013). New cryptic species of the ‘revolutumʼ group of Echinostoma (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) revealed by molecular and morphological data. Parasites & Vectors 6, 64. [IF2013=3.251] Q1 (*equal contributors); doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-6-64
3. Georgieva, S., Soldánová, M., Pérez-del-Olmo, A., Dangel, D. R., Sitko, J., Sures, B. & Kostadinova, A. (2013). Molecular prospecting for European Diplostomum (Digenea: Diplostomidae) reveals cryptic diversity. International Journal for Parasitology, 43, 57– 72. [IF2013=3.404] Q1; doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2012.10.019
2. Georgieva, S., Kostadinova, A. & Skírnisson, K. (2012). The life-cycle of Petasiger islandicus Kostadinova & Skirnisson, 2007 (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) elucidated with the aid of molecular data. Systematic Parasitology, 82, 177–183. [IF2012=1.260] Q3; doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-012-9354-y
1. Georgieva, K., Georgieva, S., Mizinska, Y. & Stoitsova, S. R. (2012). Fasciola hepatica miracidia: Lectin binding and stimulation of in vitro miracidium-to-sporocyst transformation. Acta Parasitologica, 57, 46–52. [IF2012=1.000] Q4; doi: https://doi.org/10.2478/s11686-012-0007-8
Book Chapter
Faltýnková, A., Georgieva, S., Kostadinova, A., & Bray, R. A. (2017). Biodiversity and
evolution of digeneans of fishes in the Southern Ocean. In: Klimpel, S., Kuhn, T.& Mehlhorn, H. (Eds), Biodiversity and evolution of parasitic life in the Southern Ocean. Parasitology Research Monographs. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, pp. 49–74. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46343-8_5INVITED TALKS
5. Georgieva, S. (2024). Parasite biodiversity in changing environments: insights and challenges. The French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), The Institute of Evolutionary Science of Montpellier (ISEM), The University of Montpellier, France, March 6th, 2024, Montpellier, France4. Georgieva, S. (2021). Emerging zoonoses and parasite response to climate change: insights and challenges. The 63rd Fall Conference of the Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine. October 29th, Cheongju, Korea
3. Georgieva, S. (2019). Biodiversity and population connectivity of sparid fish parasites in the Mediterranean Sea. Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, acting in particular for its constituent Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture (Crete, Greece). November 6th, 2020, Crete, Greece.
2. Georgieva, S. (2019). SparaFish: Biodiversity and population connectivity of sparid fish parasites in the Mediterranean Sea. IRBIM - Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnology. October 24th, 2019, Messina, Italy.
1. Georgieva, S. (2015). An integrative taxonomic approach to the study of trematode diversity and life-cycles in freshwater ecosystems. University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:
79. Atkinson, S.D., de Buron I., Díaz-Morales, D.M., Georgieva, S., Hill-Spanik K.M.,Kendrick, M.R., Kmentová, N., Rothman, G.K., Vanhove, M.P.M. (2025). Parasite Bioblitz: an intense, focussed, field study for building ecosystem knowledge. In: JOINT Aquatic Drug Approval Coordination, Western Fish Disease, & AFS Fish Health Section, June 23-27, Bozeman, Montana, USA.78. Young, M. A., Achatz, T. J., Bell, J. A., Von Holten, S. Z., Greiman, S. E., Pulis, E. E., Georgieva, S., Tkach, V. V. (2025). Diversity and interrelationships of diplostomids (Digenea: Diplostomoidea) parasitic in king- fishers. The 100th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists, 7-10 July, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
77. Von Holten, Z., Achatz, T. J., Greiman, S. E., Georgieva, S., Pulis, E. E., Tkach, V.V. (2025). Black spot disease goes global: revealing even further diversity of Uvulifer. The 56th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Society of Parasitologists, April 10–12, Auburn, Alabama.
76. Young, M. A., Achatz, T. J., Bell, J. A., Greiman, S. E., Pulis, E. E., Georgieva, S., Tkach, V. V. (2025). Diversity and interrelationships of diplostomids (Digenea: Diplostomoidea) parasitic in kingfishers. The 56th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Society of Parasitologists, April 10–12, Auburn, Alabama.
75. Hill-Spanik, K. M., Díaz-Morales, D. M., Atkinson, S. D., Georgieva, S., Kmentová, N., Vanhove M. P. M., Sures, B., Leese, F., Davis, E. W., Schütz, R., de Buron, I. (2025). Shooting for the moon: using environmental dna metabarcoding to capture parasite diversity during a ParasiteBlitz. The 56th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Society of Parasitologists, April 10–12, Auburn, Alabama.
74. Atkinson, S.D., de Buron, I., Díaz-Morales, D.M., Georgieva S., Hill-Spanik, K.M., Kendrick, M.R., Kmentová, N., Rothman, G.K., Vanhove, M.P.M. Parasite Bioblitz: An intense, focussed, field study for building ecosystem knowledge. XI International Symposium on Fish Parasites, 20–24 January 2025, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.
73. Hill-Spanik, K.M., Díaz-Morales, D.M., Atkinson, S.D., Sures, B., Kmentová, N., Georgieva, S., Davis, E.W., Schütz R. Exploring parasite diversity across an ecological gradient using dna metabarcoding. XI International Symposium on Fish Parasites, 20–24 January 2025, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.
72. Georgieva, S., Hill-Spanik, K.M., Diaz-Morales, D.M., de Buron, I. Parasite Bioblitz: tracking helminth life cycles across a broad taxonomic scale and interconnected ecosystems. XI International Symposium on Fish Parasites, 20–24 January 2025, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.
71. Atkinson, S.D., de Buron, I., Díaz-Morales, D.M., Georgieva, S., Hill-Spanik, K.M., Kendrick, M.R., Kmentová, N., Rothman, G.K., Vanhove, M.P.M. The fish and beyond parasite Bioblitz: diversity across a forested wetland to tidal creek continuum in South Carolina, USA. XI International Symposium on Fish Parasites, 20–24 January 2025, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.
70. Georgieva, S., Bommarito, C., Combe, M., Gozlan, E. Freshwater parasite diversity along a gradient of habitat degradation: a case study from Cambodia, South-Est Asia. International Congress in Ecology & Evolution (SFE2), 21-25 October, Lyon, France.
69. Georgieva, S., Bommarito, C., Combe, M., Gozlan, E. Freshwater parasite diversity
along a gradient of habitat degradation: a case study from Cambodia, South-Est Asia. In: The 14th European Multicolloquium of Parasitology (EMOP XIV), 26–30 August 2024, Wroclaw, Poland68. Georgieva, S., Orozova, P., Zaharieva, Z., Uzunova, E. Parasite diversity in Antarctic Fish Species (Teleostei: Notothenioidei) off the Livingston Island in the Southern Ocean, West Antarctica. In: The 14th European Multicolloquium of Parasitology (EMOP XIV), 26– 30 August 2024, Wroclaw, Poland
67. Tkach, V., Achatz, T., Kostadinova, A., Georgieva, S., Fecchio, A. Molecular phylogeny reveals history of host switching events in the evolution of Neodiplostomum (Digenea, Diplostomidae). The 99th Annual American Society of Parasitologists Meeting, Denver, Colorado June 14–17, 2024.
66. de Buron, I., Hill-Spanik, K.M., Vanhove, M.P.M., Díaz-Morales, D.M., Rothman, G.K., Georgieva, S., Kmentová, N., Kendrick, M.R., Atkinson, S.D. (2024). ParasiteBlitz: A fruitful endeavor at Stono Preserve, SC Part I. Fishes. In: The 55th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Society of Parasitologists, 18-20 April 2024, Lexington, Virginia, USA.
65. Atkinson, S.D., de Buron, I., Díaz-Morales, D.M., Georgieva, S., Hill-Spanik, K.M., Kendrick, M.R., Kmentová, N., Rothman, G.K., Vanhove, M.P.M. Parasite diversity across a forested wetland to tidal creek continuum: Preliminary results of April 2023 Blitz at Stono Preserve, South Carolina, USA. In: Wetland Conference, March 5-6, 2024, Charleston, USA
64. Georgieva, S.* Natural history collections, parasites and biodiversity conservation in a changing world. In: The 16th Asian Society of Conservation Medicine Conference. 10–12 October 2023, Jeju Island, South Korea
63. Georgieva, S.* Endosymbionts of digeneans: diversity, host associations and circulation pathways in the East Asian freshwater ecosystems. In: The 15th International Colloquium on Endocytobiology and Symbiosis, 10–14 September 2023, Chicago, USA
62. Georgieva, S.*, Choe, S. Larval trematode diversity in freshwater fishes in Korea. The 38th Ichthyoparasitological Symposium, 21-22 June 2023, Oer-Erkenschwich, Germany
61. Georgieva, S.*, Khosravi, M. Trematode diversity in Pirenella cingulata (Gmelin, 1791)
(Cerithioidea: Potamididae) along the hottest marine coastline. The 38th Ichthyoparasitological Symposium, 21-22 June 2023, Oer-Erkenschwich, Germany60. Georgieva, S. *, Khosravi, M. Trematode communities in the potamidid gastropod Pirenella cingulata (Gmelin, 1791) (Cerithioidea: Potamididae) from the Persian Gulf. The 54th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Society of Parasitologists, 20-22 April 2023, Harrogate, Tennessee, USA
59. Georgieva, S. * & Choe, Seongjun. Helminth diversity in freshwater fishes in Korea. The 54th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Society of Parasitologists, 20-22 April 2023, Harrogate, Tennessee, USA
58. Choe, S., Kang, Y., Kim, S., Bia, M.M., Georgieva, S., Son, U. Molecular and morphological identification of trematode metacercariae recovered from freshwater fishes in the Republic of Korea. In: The 64th Annual Meeting of the Korean society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, 20-21 October 2022, Chuncheon, South Korea
57. Georgieva, S. & Khosravi, M. The Persian Gulf: a hotspot for trematode diversity? In: International Symposium on Ecology and Evolution of Marine Parasites and Diseases, 15–18 November 2022, La Rochelle, France
56. Kim, S., Lee, K., Lee, H., Kim, M., Kang, Y., Choe, S., Youn, H. & Georgieva, S. Nasitrema spp. infections: a common culprit in finless purpose standings in the Western Pacific. In: International Symposium on Ecology and Evolution of Marine Parasites and Diseases, 15–18 November 2022, La Rochelle, France
55. Son, M.J., Kim, S., Kang, Y., Choe, S., & Georgieva, S*. Parasite pathogens in fisheries targets in the North Pacific, revealing an unrecognised aspect of biodiversity. In: The 2nd International Ocean Health Symposium on Emerging Marine Diseases, Regulating Functions, and Governance Implications, 29–31 August 2022, Kiel, Germany. (*corresponding author)
54. Khosravi, M., Thieltges, D. W., Shamseddin, J., & Georgieva, S. Molecular systematics of the larval schistosomes parasitising the horn snail Pirenella cingulata (Gmelin) (Caenogastropoda: Potamididae) in the Persian Gulf. In: The 15th International Congress of Parasitology (ICOPA 2022), 21–26 August 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark
53. Georgieva, S.*, & Khosravi, M. A fine-scale phylogenetic assessment of the digenean trematodes parasitising the potamidid gastropod Pirenella cingulata (Gmelinn, 1791) (Cerithioidea: Potamididae) from the Persian Gulf. In: The 15th International Congress of Parasitology (ICOPA 2022), 21–26 August 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark. corresponding author)
52. Son, M.J., Kang, Y., Choe, S., & Georgieva, S*. Parasite communities in the so-iuy mullet, Planiliza haematocheilus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845) (Teleostei: Mugilidae), from the North West Pacific off Korea. In: The 15th International Congress of Parasitology (ICOPA 2022), 21–26 August 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark. (*corresponding author)
51. Han, S.H., Kim, S., Choe, S., & Georgieva, S.* An integrative taxonomic investigation to the diversity of metazoan parasites of the grass puffer fish Takifugu niphobles (Jordan & Snyder, 1901) (Teleostei: Tetraodontinae) in the North West Pacific. In: The 15th International Congress of Parasitology (ICOPA 2022), 21–26 August 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark. (*corresponding author)
50. Georgieva, S., Pérez-del-Olmo, A., Dallarés, S., Constenla Matalobos, M., Kostadinova, A., & Carrassón, M. (2021). Códigos de barras en mar profundo: diversidad y distribución de Lepidapedon spp. (Digenea: Lepidapedidae) en peces de profundidad del Mediterráneo Occidental. In: XXIV Bienal de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 8–11 September, Valencia, Spain. p. 114.
49. Kmentová, N., Koblmüller, S., Van Steenberge, M., Bray, R. A., De Keyzer, E.L.R., Gelnar, M., Georgieva, S. & Vanhove, M.P.M. (2019). Lates perches and their parasite fauna in Lake Tanganyika. In: NOBIS (Network of Biological Systematics) Jahrestagung, 28–29 November 2019, Salzburg, Austria.
48. Kmentová, N., Bray, R., Koblmüller, S., Artois, T., De Keyzer, E. L. R., Vanhove, M. P. M. & Georgieva, S. (2019). Trematode communities in the Lake Tanganyika’s latid perches. In: The 49th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 9–13 September 2019, Münster, Germany.
47. Hernández-Orts, J. S., Brandão, M., Georgieva, S., Raga, J. A., Crespo, E. A., Luque, J. L., & Aznar, F. J. (2018). Host-switch of Corynosoma australe (Polymorphidae) from mammal seals to bird penguins: exploiting an ancestral resource? In: The 9th International Acanthocephalan Workshop, 9–13 September 2018, Stará Lesná, Slovakia.
46. Faltýnková, A., Georgieva, S., Mazanec, H., Roháčová, J., Skírnisson, K. & Kostadinova, A. (2018). Trematodes in sub-Arctic lakes in Iceland. In: The 24th Helminthological Days, 7–9 May 2018, Prague, Czech Republic
45. Mazanec, H., Roháčová, J., Georgieva, S., Skírnisson, K. & Faltýnková, A. (2018). Digeneans of the family Strigeidae Railliet, 1919 from Iceland: morphology and molecular characterisation. In: The 24th Helminthological Days, 7–9 May 2018, Prague, Czech Republic
44. Georgieva, S., Rima, M., Marzoug, D., Pérez-del-Olmo, A., & Kostadinova, A. (2017). A complex of Macvicaria Gibson & Bray, 1982 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) in Mediterranean sparids. In: The 3rd International Congress on Parasites of Wildlife, 24–27 September 2017, Kruger National Park, South Africa.
43. Vyčítalová, K., Benovics, M., Koubková, B., Faltýnková, A., Scholz, T., Georgieva, S., Kvach, Y., Šimková, A. (2017). Parasites of endemic cyprinids from the Balkan Peninsula – host specificity, endemism and diversity of metazoan parasite communities. In: The 6th Workshop of European Centre of Ichthyoparasitology. 27–29 November 2017, Velehrad, Czech Republic.
42. Vyčítalová, K., Benovics, M., Mašová, Š., Faltýnková, A., Scholz, T., Kvach, Y., Georgieva, S., Šimková, A. (2017). Diversity of metazoan parasite communities of endemic cyprinid species from the selected areas of Mediterranean. In: The 23rd Helminthological Days, 8–12 May 2017, Duchonka, Slovakia.
41. Palacios-Abella, J. F., Georgieva, S., Mele, S., Raga, J. A., Isbert, W., Kostadinova, A., & Montero, F. E. (2017). Skoulekia spp. (Digenea: Aporocotylidae), blood flukes in Mediterranean porgies. In: The 3rd International Congress on Parasites of Wildlife, 24– 27 September 2017, Kruger National Park, South Africa.
40. Georgieva, S., Montero, F. E., Aznar, F. J., García, N. A., Crespo, E. A., Raga, J. A. & Hernández-Orts, J. S. (2017). Monogeneans of marine fishes from Patagonia, Argentina: diversity and new host records. In: The 8th International Symposium on Monogenea (ISM8), 6–11 August 2017, Brno, Czech Republic.
39. Georgieva, S., Stoyanov, B., Pankov, P., Kudlai, O., Georgiev, B., Kostadinova, A. (2016). A North American alien species of Posthodiplostomum Dubois, 1936 (Digenea: Diplostomidae) widespread in European freshwaters. In: The 5th Workshop of European Centre of Ichthyoparasitology. 28–30 November 2016, Prušánky, Czech Republic.
38. Roháčová, J., Mazanec, H., Georgieva, S., Skírnisson, K., Faltýnková, A. (2016). Strigeid trematodes (Digenea) from Iceland – an integrative taxonomic approach. In: The 5th Workshop of European Centre of Ichthyoparasitology. 28–30 November 2016, Prušánky, Czech Republic.
37. Selbach, C., Schwelm, J., Soldánová, M., Georgieva, S. & Sures, B. (2016). Hidden diversity on our doorstep: trematodes in lymnaeid and planorbid snails in a Central European reservoir system. In: The 27th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Parasitology, 9–12 March 2016, Göttingen, Germany.
36. Mazanec, H., Roháčová, J., Georgieva, S., Faltýnková, A. (2016). Molecular and morphological characterisation of larval and adult isolates of digeneans of the family Strigeidae Railliet, 1919 from Iceland. In: The 12th Czech and Slovak Parasitological Days, 16–20 May 2016, Ledeč nad Sázavou, Czech Republic.
35. Cibulková, L., Georgieva, S., Soldánová, M., Kostadinova, A. (2016). Trematode diversity in freshwater pulmonate snails from the St. Lawrence Wetlands, Canada. In: The 12th Czech and Slovak Parasitological Days, 16–20 May 2016, Ledeč nad Sázavou, Czech Republic.
34. Roháčová, J., Mazanec, H., Georgieva, S., Faltýnková, A. & Skírnisson, K. (2016). An integrative taxonomic approach to strigeid trematodes (Digenea) from Iceland. In: The 12th European Multicolloquium of Parasitology (EMOP XII), 20–24 July 2016, Turku, Finland.
33. Georgieva, S., Oros, M., Ondráčková, M., Kuchta, R., Kostadinova, A., Scholz, T. (2015). Molecular taxonomy of Diplostomum spp. (Digenea: Diplostomidae) from freshwater fishes in China. In: The 4th Workshop of European Centre of Ichthyoparasitology. International environmental educational, advisory and information centre of water protection Vodňany. 23–25 November 2015, Vodňany, Czechia.
32. Kudlai, O., Georgieva, S., Oros, M., Kostadinova, A. Molecular identification of metacercariae of Diplostomum spp. in fishes from the River Danube. In: The 4th Workshop of European Centre of Ichthyoparasitology. International environmental educational, advisory and information centre of water protection Vodňany. 23–25 November 2015, Vodňany, Czech Republic.
31. Georgieva, S., Mašová, Š, Faltýnková, A. (2015). Far apart: species of Macvicaria Gibson & Bray, 1982 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) in the Mediterranean and Antarctic. In: The 22nd Helminthological Days, 4–8 May, 2015, Stráž nad Nežárkou, Czechia.
30. Georgieva, S., Pérez-del-Olmo, A., Dallarés, S., Constenla, M., Kostadinova, A. & Carrassón, M. (2015). Molecules for ecology: Diversity and distribution of Lepidapedon spp. in deep-sea fishes of the Western Mediterranean. In: The 9th International Symposium on Fish Parasites (9th ISFP), 31 August–4 September 2015, Valencia, Spain.
29. Faltýnková, A., Georgieva, S., Mašová, Š., Jurajda, P. & Kostadinova, A. (2015). First molecular data for digeneans from Antarctic fishes. In: The 9th International Symposium on Fish Parasites (9th ISFP), 31 August–4 September 2015, Valencia, Spain.
28. Selbach, C., Soldánová, M., Georgieva, S., Kostadinova, A. & Sures, B. (2015). Of snails and worms – Trematode communities in a reservoir system in Germany. In: The 9th International Symposium on Fish Parasites (9th ISFP), 31 August–4 September 2015, Valencia, Spain.
27. Antar, R., Georgieva, S., Gargouri, L. & Kostadinova, A. (2015). Two new species of Macvicaria Gibson & Bray, 1982 (Digenea: Opecoelidae) from sparid fishes in the Western Mediterranean identified based on morphological and molecular data. In: The 9th International Symposium on Fish Parasites (9th ISFP), 31 August–4 September 2015, Valencia, Spain.
26. Mašová, Š., Nezhybová, V., Přikrylová, I., Heglasová, I., Georgieva, S., Faltýnková, A., Kostadinova, A., Jasinský, A., Civáňová, K. (2015). Some parasites like it cold: parasitological research progress in Prince Gustav channel, Antarctica. In: Workshop: Antarctic biosciences. 2015.
25. Schwelm, J., Selbach, C., Georgieva, S. & Sures, B. (2015). Small but mighty - Trematode diversity in small planorbid snails from a reservoir in Germany. In: The 9th International Symposium on Fish Parasites (9th ISFP), 31 August–4 September 2015, Valencia, Spain.
24. Soldánová, M., Selbach, C., Georgieva, S., Sures, B. & Kostadinova, A. (2015). Cryptic diversity of Diplostomum spp. in lymnaeid snails from Ruhr area with a focus on the "Diplostomum mergi" species complex. In: The 9th International Symposium on Fish Parasites (9th ISFP), 31 August–4 September 2015, Valencia, Spain.
23. Kudlai, O., Georgieva, S., Oros, M. & Kostadinova, A. (2015). Molecular identification of metacercariae of Diplostomum spp. in fishes from the River Danube. In: The 9th International Symposium on Fish Parasites (9th ISFP), 31 August–4 September 2015, Valencia, Spain.
22. Mele, S., Piras, M. C., Georgieva, S., Rodrígues-Llanos, J., Culurgioni, J., Palacios-Abella, J., Garippa, G., Kostadinova, A., Montero, F. E. & Merella, P. (2015). Morphological and molecular characterisation of Didymosulcus spp. (Digenea: Didymozoidae) of the Atlantic bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus (Scombridae). In: The 9th International Symposium on Fish Parasites (9th ISFP), 31 August–4 September 2015, Valencia, Spain.
21. Blasco-Costa, I., Faltýnková, A., Georgieva, S., Skírnisson, K., Scholz, T. & Kostadinova, A. (2014). Fish pathogens near the Arctic Circle: unexpected diversity. In: Swiss Systematics Society Day, Museum of Natural History of Geneva, 14 November 2014, Geneva, Switzerland.
20. Georgieva, S., Dallarés, S., Pérez-del-Olmo, A., Kostadinova, A. & Carrassón, M. (2014). Diversity and host specificity of Lepidapedon spp. (Digenea: Lepidapedidae) in the Mediterranean deep-sea. In: The 13th International Congress of Parasitology (ICOPA XIII), 10–15 August 2014, Mexico City, Mexico.
19. Selbach, C., Soldánová, M., Georgieva, S. & Sures, B. (2014). New lakes, old parasites – trematode communities in a reservoir system in Germany. In: The 13th International Congress of Parasitology (ICOPA XIII), 10–15 August 2014, Mexico City, Mexico.
18. Selbach, C., Soldánová, M., Georgieva, S., Kostadinova, A. & Sures, B. (2014). What you see is not what you get: Diversity of Diplostomum spp. in the Ruhr River, Germany. In:The International Symposium on Ecology and Evolution of Marine Parasites and Diseases, 10–14 March 2014, Texel, Netherlands.
17. Zikmundová, J., Georgieva, S., Faltýnková, A., Soldánová, M., Kostadinova, A. (2014). Molecular and morphological characterisation of cryptic species of larval plagiorchiidean trematodes. In: The 21st Helminthological Days, 5–9 May 2014, Stráž nad Nežárkou, Czech Republic.
16. Georgieva, S., Dallarés, S., Pérez-del-Olmo, P., Carrassón, M. (2014). Hidden in the deep-sea: diversity of Lepidapedon (Digenea: Lepidapedidae) in the Western Mediterranean. In: The 21st Helminthological Days, 5–9 May 2014, Stráž nad Nežárkou, Czech Republic.
15. Selbach, C., Soldánová, M., Georgieva, S., Kostadinova, A., Sures, B. (2014). Show me your spines – Diplostomum spp. diversity in the Ruhr River in Germany. In: The 21st Helminthological Days, 5–9 May 2014, Stráž nad Nežárkou, Czech Republic.
14. Georgieva, S., Blasco-Costa, I., Faltýnková, A., Pérez-del-Olmo, A., Soldánová, M., Kostadinova, A., Scholz, T. (2014). Further insights into the diplostomid diversity. In: The 3rd Workshop of European Centre of Ichthyoparasitology, 24–26 November 2014, Czech Republic.
13. Faltýnková, A., Georgieva, S., Kostadinova, A., Blasco-Costa, I., Scholz, T., Skírnisson, K. (2014). Larval stages of Diplostomum von Nordmann, 1832 (Digenea: Diplostomidae) in Iceland discovered by morphology and molecules. In: The 3rd Workshop of European Centre of Ichthyoparasitology, 24–26 November 2014, Czech Republic.
12. Hernández-Orts, J. S., Georgieva, S., Aznar, F. J., Raga, J. A., Luque, J. L. & Brandão, M. (2014). Morphological and molecular characterization of Corynosoma australe (Acanthocephala: Polymorphidae) from the Magellanic penguin Spheniscus magellanicus (Foster) (Aves: Sphenisciformes). In: The 8th Acanthocephalan Workshop, 29 September–1 October 2014, Freudenstadt, Germany.
11. Georgieva, S., Pula, H., Kostadinova, A. & Pérez-del-Olmo, A. (2014). Molecular and morphological characterisation of larval and adult isolates of Diplostomum (Digenea: Diplostomidae) from Spain. In: The 13th International Congress of Parasitology (ICOPA XIII), 10–15 August 2014, Mexico City, Mexico.
10. Soldánová, M., Selbach, C., Georgieva, S., Kostadinova, A., Sures, B. (2013). Species diversity of the genus Diplostomum (Digenea: Diplostomidae) in reservoirs in the River Ruhr catchment in Germany. In: The 2nd Workshop of European Centre of Ichthyoparasitology, Czech Republic.
9. Georgieva, S., Faltýnková, A., Kostadinova, A., Selbach, C., Soldánová, M., Sures, B. & Skirnísson, K. (2013). Cryptic diversity within the Echinostoma ‘revolutumʼ species complex (Digenea: Echinostomatidae). In: The 88th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Parasitologists, 26–29 June 2013, Québec City, Canada.
8. Georgieva, S., Soldánová, M., Pérez-del-Olmo, A., Dangel, D.R., Sitko, J., Sures, B. & Kostadinova, A. (2012). Molecular prospecting for European Diplostomum (Digenea: Diplostomidae) reveals cryptic diversity. In: The 1th Workshop of European Centre of Ichthyoparasitology, Czech Republic.
7. Georgieva, S. & Kostadinova, A. (2012). Early spring: good for parasites and bad for hosts or bad for both? In: The 12th European Multicolloquium of Parasitology (EMOP XI), 25–29 July 2012, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
6. Dallarés, S., Georgieva, S., Carrassón, M., Kostadinova, A. & Pérez-del-Olmo, A. (2012). Digeneans of the deep-sea fish Mora moro: the complexity of the identification of Lepidapedon species In: XVII Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies, 11–14 September 2012, Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain.
5. Georgieva, S., Brown, R. & Blasco-Costa, I. Molecular identification of sibling species of the ‘revolutum’ group of Echinostoma (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae). In: EMBO Practical Course on Computational Molecular Evolution, 29 April–10 May 2012, Heraklion, Greece.
4. Blasco-Costa, I. & Georgieva, S. (2012). African Diplostomidae: first molecular data. In: EMBO Practical Course on Computational Molecular Evolution (European Molecular Biology Organization), 29 April–10 May 2012, Heraklion, Greece.
3. Georgieva, K., Yoneva, A., Georgieva, S., Mizinska-Boevska, Y. & Stoitsova, S. (2010). Fasciola hepatica: characterization of the surface carbohydrates of the miracidia. In: British Society for Parasitology Spring Meeting and Trypanosomiasis & Leishmaniasis Seminar, 29 March–1 April 2010, Cardiff, UK.
2. Georgieva, K., Georgieva, S., Mizinska-Boevska, Y. & Stoitsova, S. (2009). Fasciola hepatica: stimulation of in vitro miracidium-to-sporocyst transformation by Concanavalin A and WGA. In: The 8th National Conference for Parasitology with International Participation, 23–26 September 2009, Varna, Bulgaria.
1. Pankov, P., Georgieva, S. & Kostadinova, A. (2009). Monogeneans from mullets (Teleostei: Mugilidae) off the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. In: The 8th National Conference for Parasitology with International Participation, 23–26 September 2009, Varna, Bulgaria.
Affiliation
- Department
- Animal Diversity and Resources
- Division
- Biodiversity and Ecology of Parasites
- Research group
- Taxonomy, Evolution and Ecology of Helminths
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