Division of Environmental Mutagenesis

Research priorities

• Assessment of mutagen and comutagen properties of environmental xenobiotics by a complex of in vivo and in vitro tests and criteria: microbiological, cytogenetic, biochemical and molecular;

• Analyses the effects of anthropogenesis on living organisms – plants, animals and microalgae, as well as changes in haematological and cytogenetic indicators of selected animal species;

• Analyses of the mechanisms for genotype and individual resistance (adaptive response) in plants, animals and humans, as well as research on the scale of these adaptations;

• Prevention of induced mutagenesis (antimutagenesis) by exogenous application of natural products, newly synthesized amino-phosphoric acids and their polymer analogues.

Current and recent project with coordinators from the division

• 2016-2017. Potential phytocyde effect of plant extracts from Amaryllis plants on Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Financed by MES, Programme for support of young scientists in BAS. Coordinator: Chief Assistant Petya Parvanova, PhD

• 2016-2017. DNA protective potential of extracts from in vitro cultivated plants Clinopodium vulgare L. Financed by MES, Programme for support of young scientists in BAS. Coordinator: Chief Assistant Teodora Todorova, PhD