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Aneta Yoneva

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Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
2 Gagarin Street, 1113 Sofia
Bulgaria

Email: anetayoneva@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4643-4854

Curriculum vitae

Education

•2009: PhD in Parasitology, Institute of Experimental Pathology and Parasitology, BAS; thesis: Comparative ultrastructural studies on the spermiogenesis and mature spermatozoa of cestodes of the order Cyclophyllidea (supervisors: Prof. Yana Mizinska, Assoc. Prof. Stoyanka Stoitsova and Prof. Boyko Georgiev)
•1998: MSc in Molecular Biology with specialization in Virology, Faculty of Biology, St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

Employment
•2018-present: Associate Professor, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, BAS
•2010-2018: Chief Assistant, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, BAS
•2002-2010: Research Fellow, Institute of Experimental Pathology and Parasitology, BAS
•1998-2002: Biologist, Institute of Experimental Pathology and Parasitology, BAS

Research experience

•09-11/2018: Postdoctoral contract, Laboratory of Helminthology, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of ASCR
•09-11/2017: Postdoctoral contract, Laboratory of Helminthology, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of ASCR
•09-11/2016: Postdoctoral contract, Laboratory of Helminthology, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of ASCR
•09-11/2015: Postdoctoral contract, Laboratory of Helminthology, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of ASCR
•09-11/2014: Postdoctoral contract, Laboratory of Helminthology, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of ASCR
•11/2013: Postdoctoral contract, Laboratory of Helminthology, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
•04-06/2013: Postdoctoral research fellow at the Laboratory of Helminthology, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
•11/2012: Short-term research visit at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
•06-11/2012: Postdoctoral research fellow at the Laboratory of Helminthology, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
•01-03/2012: Visiting grant in the framework of the EC-funded project WETLANET at the Laboratory of Helminthology, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
•11/2011: Research visit at the Laboratory of Helminthology, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
•05-11/2010: Postdoctoral research fellow at the Laboratory of Helminthology, Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Publications

•Cielocha J.J., Martinez E., Jackson A., Yoneva A. (2022). Characterization of spermatozoon ultrastructure in Tetragonocephalum sp. (Cestoda: Lecanicephalidea: Tetragonocephalidae) from the whipray, Urogymnus asperrimus 1 (Dasyatidae: Urogymninae). Journal of Parasitology, 108(5), 500-510. http://doi.org/10.1645/22-42

•Yoneva A., van Beest G.S., Born-Torrijos A. (2022).Search, find and penetrate: Ultrastructural data of furcocercariae of Cardiocephaloides longicollis (Digenea, Strigeidae) explain their transmission and infection strategy into fish hosts. Parasitology Research, 121, 877-889. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-022-07448-0

•Yoneva A., Kuchta R., Smit N. (2020). Ultrastructure of the uterus, embryonic envelopes and the coracidium of the enigmatic tapeworm Tetracampos ciliotheca (Cestoda: Bothriocephalidea) from African sharptooth catfish (Clarias gariepinus). Parasitology Research, 119, 847-858. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-019-06496-3

•Barčák D., Yoneva A., Sehadová H., Oros M., Gustinelli A., Kuchta R. (2019). Complex insight on microanatomy of larval “human broad tapeworm” Dibothriocephalus latus (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidea). Parasites & Vectors, 12:408. http://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3664-8.

•Yoneva A., Scholz T., Kuchta R. (2018). Comparative morphology of surface ultrastructure of diphyllobothriidean tapeworms (Cestoda: Diphyllobothriidea). Invertebrate Biology, 137, 38-48.

•Born-Torrijos A., Holzer A., Raga J., van Beest G.S., Yoneva A. (2017). Description of embryonic development and ultrastructure in miracidia of Cardiocephaloides longicollis (Digenea, Strigeidae) in relation to active host finding strategy in a marine environment. Journal of Morphology, 278, 1137-1148.

•Yoneva A., Kuchta R., Mariaux J., Georgiev B.B. (2017). The first data on the vitellogenesis of paruterinid tapeworms: an ultrastructural study of Dictyterina cholodkowskii (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea). Parasitology Research, 116, 327-334.

•Yoneva A., Scholz T., Młocicki D., Kuchta R. (2015) Ultrastructural study of vitellogenesis of Ligula intestinalis (Diphyllobothriidea) reveals the presence of cytoplasmic-like cell death in cestodes. Frontiers in Zoology, 12:35.

•Yoneva A., Scholz T., Bruňanská M., Kuchta R. (2015) Vitellogenesis of diphyllobothriidean cestodes (Platyhelminthes). Comptes Rendus Biologies 338: 169-179.

•Yoneva A., Kuchta R., Scholz T. (2014) First study of vitellogenesis of the broad fish tapeworm Diphyllobothrium latum (Cestoda, Diphyllobothriidea), a human parasite with extreme fecundity. Parasitology International 63: 747-753.

•Cielocha J.J., Yoneva A., Cantino M.E., Daniels S., Jensen K. (2013) Ultrastructure of the sperm of Adelobothrium sp. (Cestoda: Lecanicephalidea). Invertebrate Biology 132 (4): 315-325.

•Yoneva A., Kuchta R., Scholz T. (2013) Spermiogenesis and sperm ultrastructure of two species of Duthiersia, parasites of monitors, with a review of spermatological characters in the Diphyllobothriidea (Cestoda). Zoologischer Anzeiger 252: 486-494.

•Levron C., Yoneva A., Kalbe M. (2013) Spermatological characters in the diphyllobothriidean Schistocephalus solidus (Cestoda). Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 94: 240-247.

•Yoneva A., Levron C., Oros M., Orosova M., Scholz T. (2012) Spermiogenesis and spermatozoon ultrastructure of Hunterella nodulosa (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea), a monozoic parasite of suckers (Catostomidae) in North America. Folia Parasitologica 59 (3): 179-186.

•Yoneva A., Levron C., Nikolov P. N., Mizinska Y., Mariaux J., Georgiev B. B. (2012) Spermiogenesis and spermatozoon ultrastructure of the paruterinid cestode Notopentorchis sp. (Cyclophyllidea). Parasitology Research 111: 135-142.

•Yoneva A., Levron C., Ash A., Scholz T. (2012) Spermatological characters of monozoic tapeworms (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea), including first data on a species from the Indomalayan catfish. Journal of Parasitology 98: 423-430.

•Yoneva A., Levron C., Oros M., Orosova M., Scholz T. (2011) Ultrastructure of spermiogenesis and mature spermatozoon of Breviscolex orientalis (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea). Parasitology Research 108: 997-1005.

•Yoneva A., Georgieva K., Mizinska Y., Nikolov P.N., Georgiev B.B., Stoitsova S.R. (2010) Ultrastructure of spermiogenesis and mature spermatozoon of Anonchotaenia globata (von Linstow, 1879) (Cestoda, Cyclophyllidea, Paruterinidae). Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 91: 184-192.

•Yoneva A., Georgieva K., Nikolov P.N., Mizinska Y., Georgiev B.B., Stoitsova S.R. (2009) Ultrastructure of spermiogenesis and mature spermatozoon of Triaenorhina rectangula (Cestoda: Cyclophyllidea: Paruterinidae). Folia Parasitologica 56 (4): 275-283.

•Yoneva A., Świderski Z., Georgieva K., Nikolov P.N., Mizinska Y., Georgiev B.B. (2008) Spermiogenesis and sperm ultrastructure of Valipora mutabilis Linton, 1927 (Cestoda, Cyclophyllidea, Gryporhynchidae). Parasitology Research 103 (6): 1397-1405.

•Yoneva A., Miquel J., Swiderski Z., Georgieva K., Mizinska Y., Georgiev B.B. (2006) Ultrastructure of spermiogenesis and mature spermatozoon of Angularella beema (Clerc, 1906) (Cestoda, Cyclophyllidea, Dilepididae). Acta Parasitologica 51: 264-272.

•Yoneva A., Georgieva K., Mizinska Y., Georgiev B.B, Stoitsova S.R. (2006) Ultrastructure of spermiogenesis and mature spermatozoon of Skrjabinoporus merops (Cyclophyllidea, Metadilepididae). Acta Parasitologica 51 (3): 200-208.

Membership in professional bodies

•Since 2012 treasurer of the Bulgarian Society for Parasitology
•Since 2001 member of the Bulgarian Society for Parasitology

Affiliation

Department
Animal Diversity and Resources
Division
Biodiversity and Ecology of Parasites
Research group
Ultrastructure of Parasites

History

Member for
10 years 42 weeks