Address of the Department: 
Faculty of Biology, Shampansky Lane, 2, Odesa, 65058

Head of Department
Ivanytsia Volodymyr Oleksiiovych
Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor

Tetiana Hudzenko
Ph.D. in Biology, Associate Professor
Scientific secretary of Department

Ganna Yamborko
Ph.D. in Technical sciences, Associate Professor
Employees of the Department

Staff teachers:

• Tetiana Philipova, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor
• Zinchenko Oksana, Ph.D. in Microbiology, Associate Professor
• Ivanytsia Tetiana, Ph.D. in Biology, Associate Professor
• Rusakova Mariia, Ph.D. in Microbiology, Associate Professor
• Vasylieva Nataliia, Ph.D. in Biology, Associate Professor
• Galkin Mykola, Ph.D. in Biology, Associate Professor
• Merlich Andrii, Ph.D. in Biology, Associate Professor
• Andriy Ostapchuk, Ph.D. in Biology, Associate Professor
• Tesliuk Nataliia, Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences, Associate Professor

Research-accessory staff:

• Valentyna Khytrych – Head of the Laboratory
• Mykola Chaban – Specialist
• Maryna Borysivna Gudzenko – Specialist
• Olena Loburenko – Laboratory Assistant

The main directions of scientific activity of the department

• Biological diversity, microbiome, metagenomics, bioinformatics
• Marine microbial resources and their genetic potential, genomics
• Search for producers of new bacteriocins, antibiotics and antitumor compounds for medicine and pharmacy
• Environmental biotechnologies for the improvement of the marine environment
• Microbiological monitoring of the marine environment
• Microorganisms, destructors and technologies of bioremediation of contaminated soils
• Resistance of microorganisms to antibiotics, heavy metals, organic toxicants
• Microorganisms for the protection of microcloned plants
• The main studied microorganisms: myxobacteria, lactic acid bacteria, actinomycetes, Bacillus group
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Educational courses, that are teaching at the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Biotechnology

Teaching and methodological works of the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Biotechnology

Scientific works of the employees of the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Biotechnology

History of the Department of Microbiology, Virology 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.