Diversity and Biotechnology of Extremophiles
Diversity and Biotechnology of Extremophiles
International Conference 26-27 September, 2016, Sofia
Scientific Program
Time / MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26Chairman: Nils-Kåre Birkeland
9:00 / Welcome notes from Prof. Hristo Najdenski, Director of the Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
9:10 / Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
NEW LITHOAUTOTROPHIC PROKARYOTES FROM TERRESTRIAL AND SUBMARINE THERMAL ENVIRONMENTS
9:50 / Veneta Grudeva, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
ACIDOPHILIC IRON BACTERIA FOR APPLICATION IN MINERAL BIOTECHNOLOGY.
10:30 / Coffee break
11:00 / Peter Schonheit, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany GLYCOYSIS ON HYPERTHERMOPHILES
11:40 / Zlatka Alexieva, Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
BIODEGRADATION OF AROMATICS BY FUNGI ISOLATED FROM EXTREME COLD HABITATS
12:20 / Lunch
Chairman: Prof. Grudeva
13:30 / Nils Kåre Birkeland, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
ANAEROBIC THERMOPHILES FROM DEEP AND HOT NORTH SEA OIL WELLS
14:10 / Galina Radeva, Institute of Molecular Biology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
ARCHAEA ECOLOGY AND DIVERSITY IN HEAVY METALS AND RADIONUCLIDES CONTAMINATED SITES
14:50 / Coffee break
15:20 / Hovik Panosyan, Yerevan State University,Yerevan, Armenia
THERMOPHILES HARBORED IN ARMENIAN GEOTHERMAL SPRINGS AND THEIR BIOTECHNOLOGICAL POTENTIAL
16:00 / Nikoleta Boteva, Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
METAGENOMIC ANALYSIS OF THERMOPHILIC DNAS ISOLATED FROM BULGARIAN HOT SPRINGS
16:15 / Poster session
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
Chairman: Margarita Kambourova
9:00 / Jennifer Littlechild, University of Exeter & Director of Exeter Biocatalysis Centre, Exeter, UK
NOVEL THERMOPHILIC ENZYMES WITH INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
9:40 / Svetla Danova, Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
ЕXTREMOPHILICITY OF LACTIC ACID BACTERIA AS A FACTOR IN GUT HEALTH
10:20 / Coffee break
10:50 / Barbara Nicolaus, Institute of Chemistry of Biomolecules, CNR, Naples, Italy
EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE PRODUCING MICROORGANISMS FROM EXTREME AREAS: CHEMISTRY AND APPLICATIONS
11:30 / Ekaterina Krumova, Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
ANTARCTIC FUNGI : SOURCE OF COLD-ACTIVE ANTIOXIDANT ENZYMES
11:45 / Lunch
Chairman: Barbara Nicolaus
13:30 / Andrey Karshikoff, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm,Sweden
UNDERSTANDING PROTEIN THERMAL TOLERANCE
14:10 / Nedelina Kostadinova, Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
OXIDATIVE STRESS EVENTS AS A RESULT OF COLD SHOCK IN ANTARCTIC FUNGI
14:25 / Coffee break
15:05 / Gabriela Teodosiu, Institute of Biology, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest, Romania
DIVERSITY OF HALOPHILIC ARCHAEA FROM HYPERSALINE HABITATS IN SLĂNIC PRAHOVA, ROMANIA
15:45 / Margarita Kambourova, Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
DIVERSITY AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL POTENTIAL OF EXTREMOPHILES ISOLATED FROM BULGARIAN EXTREME NICHES
16:25 / Closing of the conference
Poster session:
1. Iliev, M., R. Ilieva, V. Groudeva. BIODIVERSITY OF CHEMOLITHOTROPHIC BACTERIA IN SULFIDE DEPOSITS IN BULGARIA
2. Encheva-Malinova, M., Lubomira Yocheva, Blagovesta Gocheva, Petia Hristova, Nevena Bogatzevska, Mariya Stoyanova, Sava Tishkov, Penka Moncheva. ANTARCTIC ACTINOMYCETES AND THEIR ANTIBACTERIAL POTENTIAL
3. Todorova, N., Miroslav Rangelov, Bernardo Duarte, Isabel Caçador, Ventzislav Karamfilov. MICROBIAL DIVERSITY IN OIL CONTAMINATED BLACK SEA COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS
4. Videnova-Russeva, S. METABOLOMIC PROFILING OF ANTARCTIC YEASTS BASED ON HIGH RESOLUTION 1H NMR SPECTROSCOPY
5. Paunova-Krasteva, T., Dayana Borisova, Evgenia Vasileva-Tonkova, Stoyanka Stoitsova. ULTRASTRUCTURAL STUDY OF A RECENTLY DESCRIBED BACTERIAL SPECIES MYROIDES GUANONIS, ISOLATED FROM MAGURA CAVE
6. Miteva-Staleva, J., E. Krumova, M. Angelova. LOW TEMPERATURE STRESS AND AGING IN FUNGI
7. Hristina Kalcheva, Maria Dinka and Edit Ágoston-Szabó. THE IMPACT OF PSYCHROTOLERANT BACTERIA FROM THE DANUBE RIVER ON TWO WETLANDS (BÉDA-KARAPANCSA, DANUBE-DRAVA NATIONAL PARK, HUNGARY) AND RELATIONS OF PLANKTONIC BACTERIA TO ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS