Department of Microbiology, Virology and Biotechnology
Address of the Department:
Faculty of Biology, Shampansky Lane, 2, Odesa, 65058
Head of Department
Tetiana Philipova
Doctor of sciences in biology, full professor
Deputy head
Tetiana Gudzenko
candidate of sciences in biology, associate professor
Scientific secretary of Department
Ganna Yamborko
candidate of technical sciences, associate professor
Employees of the Department
Staff teachers:
- Ivanytsia Tetiana, candidate of sciences in biology, associate professor
- Zinchenko Oksana, candidate of sciences in biology, associate professor
- Rusakova Mariia, candidate of sciences in biology, associate professor
- Vasylieva Nataliia, candidate of sciences in biology, associate professor
- Galkin Mykola, candidate of sciences in biology, associate professor
- Merlich Andrii, candidate of sciences in biology
- Tesliuk Nataliia, candidate of sciences in biology
- Korotaeva Nadiia, candidate of sciences in biology
To provide specialties 091 and 162, the department engages Ivanytsia Volodymyr, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and Director of the Biotechnological Scientific and Educational Center, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Borys Galkin to give lectures
Research-accessory staff:
- Viktoriia Demydenko, head of educational laboratory
- Kateryna Kranga, rank I specialist
- Korobko Volodymyr, rank I specialist
- Mykola Chaban, rank I specialist
Basic directions of scientific work of the Department
- Biological diversity, metagenomics, bioinformatics
- Marine microbial resources and their genetic potential
- Search for new antibiotics and antitumor compounds from marine microorganisms for medicine and pharmacy
- Microorganisms and mariculture of marine molluscs
- Ecological biotechnologies of marine environment improvement
- Microbiological monitoring of the marine environment
- Relationships of microorganisms with other organisms
- Resistance of microorganisms to antibiotics, heavy metals, organic toxicants
- Microorganisms for the protection of microcloned plants
- The main studied groups of prokaryotes: the Bacillus group, actinomycetes, anammox bacteria, lactic acid bacteria
The Department of Microbiology, Virology and Botechnology publishes scientific journal “Microbiology and biotechnology”
Partners of the department
- D. K. Zabolotnyi Institute of Microbiology and Virology NASU (Kyiv)
- O. V. Palladin Institute of Biochemistry of NAS of Ukraine (Kyiv)
- Institute of Cellular Biology and Genetic Engineering of NAS of Ukraine (Kyiv)
- Institute of Marine Biology of NAS of Ukraine (Odessa)
- Plant breeding and genetics institute - National center of seed and Cultivar Investigation
- Engineering and Technology Institute (ETI) "Biotechnika" of UAAS;
- Ukrainian I. I. Mechnikov Research Anti-Plague Institute of MH of Ukrane;
- Odessa Research V. P. Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of AMSU (Odessa);
- Ukrainian Research Institute of Rehabilitation and Balneology of MH of Ukraine (Odessa);
- Ukrainian Research Institute of Transport Medicine of MH of Ukraine;
- NSC "Institute of viticulture and wine making named after V. E. Tairov" National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine
- Centralized Immunovirological Laboratory with diagnosis of AIDS and other particularly hazardous viral infections "Odessa Regional Laboratory Center of Ukraine";
- University of Brihton (UK);
- INRA (Nantes, France);
- Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture;
- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (Heraklion, Greece);
- Agriculture Genetics Institute (Hanoi, Vietnam);
- Umea University (Sweden);
- University of Westminster (UK)
Among the graduates of the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Biotechnology there are employees of Umea University (Sweden), D. K. Zabolotnyi Institute of Microbiology and Virology NASU (Kyiv), Institute of Marine Biology of NAS of Ukraine (Odessa), Plant Breeding and Genetics Institute - National Center of Seed and Cultivar Investigation of UAAS (Odessa), Engineering and Technology Institute (ETI) "Biotechnika" of UAAS, Ukrainian I. I. Mechnikov Research Anti-Plague Institute of MH of Ukrane, Odessa Research V. P. Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of AMSU (Odessa), Ukrainian Research Institute of Rehabilitation and Balneology of MH of Ukraine (Odessa), Ukrainian Research Institute of Transport Medicine of MH of Ukraine, National Scientific Center "V. E. Tairov Institute of Viticulture and Winemaking" of National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine (vut Tairove) and of other scientific establishments, laboratories of different activity profile (clinical, histological, immunoviral, laboratories of private networks "Sinevo", " Smartlab", «EUROLAB» and other), of different medical institutions: maternity homes, hospitals, sanitary-epidemiological stations and are also employees of such institutions as WWF, FE SGS UKRAINE, "Simesta VAAL" and of other.
