Professor Dsc Ivan Nikiforov Minkov

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Head of Department of Technology Transfer and IP Management, CPSBB

Director of IMBB, Person-in-Charge of IMBB for the PlantaSYST project

Awards and memberships: Award from the Ministry of Education and Sciences (MES) for best regional centre in FP6 in Bulgaria. Award Winner of “Pythagoras” national award for best perform-ing project leader for 2007-2009. Winner of Diploma from the MES for good performance in devel-oping research infrastructure in ERA, FP7.

International Research Projects: Partner of seven projects from FP6, six projects from FP7, in-cluding coordination of a REGPPOT Program project BIoSupport (2.3 mil. EUR, single beneficiary) 2009-2013; four projects from H2020, including PlantaSyst (15 mil. EUR), Program: WIDE-SPREAD – TEAMING, Phase 2, 2017-2023.

Administrative and organisational expertise: Registration of IMBB as a non-profit, private re-search structure (2011). Registration of Genomics Research Centre (GRC) – SME in field of molec-ular biotechnology (2010).

Publications: 60 registered papers, 1608 total citations, h-index – 16.
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55230928300. Google Scholar – 2522 citations, h-index 20. Research Gate – 1945 citations, RG-index 31.54 (90%), h-index – 17. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Minkov.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Zahmanova G., Aljabali A.A., Takova K., Toneva V., Tambuwala M.M., Andonov A.P., Lukov G.L.,Minkov I. (2023) The Plant Viruses and Molecular Farming: How Beneficial They Might Be for Human and Animal Health? International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(2) :1533. (IF 6.208)

Zahmanova G., Mazalovska M., Takova K., Toneva V., Minkov I., Peyret H., Lomonossoff G. (2021) Efficient production of chimeric Hepatitis B virus-like particles bearing an epitope of Hepatitis E virus capsid by transient expression in Nicotiana benthamiana. Life. 11(1): 64. (IF 2.991)

Apostolova E., Gozmanova M., Nacheva L., Ivanova Z., Toneva V., Minkov I., Baev V., Ya-hubyan G. (2020) MicroRNA profiling of the resurrection plants Haberlea rhodopensis unveils es-sential regulators of survival under severe drought. Biologia plantarum 64: 541-550.

Zahmanova G., Mazalovska, M., Takova, K., Toneva, V., Minkov, I., Mardanova, E., Ravin, N., Lomonossoff, G.P. (2020) Rapid high-yield transient expression of swine Hepatitis E ORF2 capsid proteins in Nicotiana benthamiana plants and production of chimeric Hepatitis E virus-like particles bearing the M2e Influenza epitope. Plants. 9(1): 29.

Gechev T., Benina M., Obata T., Tohge T., Sujeeth N., Minkov I., Hille J., Temanni M., Marriott A., Bergström E., Thomas-Oates J., Antonio C., Mueller-Roeber B., Schippers J., Fernie A., Toneva V. (2013) Molecular mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in the resurrection glacial relic Haberlea rhodopensis. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 70: 689–709.

Sablok G, Milev I, Minkov G, Minkov I, Varotto C, Yahubyan G, Baev V. (2013) isomiRex: web-based identification of microRNAs, isomiR variations and differential expression using next-generation sequencing datasets. FEBS Letters. 587(16): 2634.

ORCID – https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9331-353X