About / Lab Staff

Ivan Emilov Popov

Education:

2009-2012 PhD degree in Genetics, Agrobioinstitute Sofia, Agricultural Academy

2006-2008 Masters degree in Molecular Bioengineering, Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC), Technical University Dresden, Germany

2002-2006 Bachelors degree in Molecular Biology, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

Previous and Current Employment:

2012 till now - Bioinformatician at the Molecular Medicine Center, Medical University Sofia

Language proficiency:

English

Research interests:

Protein structures, python programming, biological sequence processing, statistics

Participation in research projects:

Co-Investigator

2009 - 2012 Processing of bioactive products from marine organisms with antimicrobial and anticancer activity

2008-2009 Understanding the molecular mechanisms of drought stress tolerance in cereal crops through analysis of gene expression

2008-2009 Accelerating genetic progress for drought resistance in wheat, using molecular markers

Publications:

Popov, I., Nenov, A., Petrov, P., Vassilev D. (2009). Bioinformatics in proteomics: a review on methods and algorithms. Biotechnology and biotechnological equipment 23(1): 1115-1120.

Popov, I., Nenov, A., Petrov, P., Vassilev, D. (2009) Detecting prospective mutation regions by codon usage – a bioinformatics approach. Biotechnology and biotechnological equipment, 23 (2): 655-657.

Dimov S., Peykov S., Popov I., Filipova D., Aleksandrova V., Vassilev D. (2009) Biodiversity study of 22 streptococcus thermophilus strains isolated from homemade yoghurts. J. Mountain agriculture on the balkans, (in press).

G. Radeva, V. Buchvarova, A. Kenarova, K. Flemming, I. Popov, D. Vassilev and S. Selenska-Pobell, Microbial diversity in highly contaminated uranium mining wastes in Bulgaria. (in preparation)

Grekova-Vasileva M., Popov I., Vassilev D.and Topalova Y. (2009). Isolation and characterization of microbial strain az029 capable of azo dye decolourization. Biotechnology and biotechnology equipment 23(2): 318-322

Popov I., Vassilev D. (2010). A semi-automated structural class dependent method for the prediction of protein secondary structures. Biotechnol. & biotechnol. Eq. 2010, 24(3), 2044-2048.

Simeonova V., Popov I., Vasilev D., (2012). Estimation of sequencing error rates present in genome databases. Biotechnol. & biotechnol. Eq. 2012, (in press).

Popov I., (2012). S-motifs as a new approach to secondary structure prediction: comparison with state of the art methods. Biotechnol. & biotechnol. Eq. 2012, (in press).

Presentations:

Popov, I., Nenov, A., Petrov, P. and Vassilev D. (2009). Finding disease associated proteins: a bioinformatics solution for the discovery of sequences with a high probability of mutation. Bulgarian-Japanese Symposium "Genomics and Proteomics in Personalized Medicine" Sofia, Bulgaria, Tokuda hospital, March 19-20.

Vassilev, D., Popov, I., Todorovska, E., (2009) Structure of the Triticum genome: Sequence clustering by codon usage. In: Abstracts book of 19th International Triticae Mapping Initiative (ITMI) - 3rd COST TRITIGEN joint meeting, August 31.08 - 4.09.2009, Clermont-Ferrand, France, p. 180.

Todorovska E., Kolev S., Ganeva G., Christov N., Popov I., Vassilev D. „Study on allele variation in loci for adaptive response and yield traits in wheat” (2009). In: Book of abstracts of the 19th ITMI - 3rd COST Tritigen joint meeting, August 31th-September 4th, 2009, Clermont-Ferrand, France, p. 122.

Popov, I., Vassilev, D., (2010). A semi-automated structural class dependent method for the prediction of protein secondary structures. In Book of Abstracts of the 4th International Meeting of International Research Foundation Hasumi – Bulgaria, “Oncoprogress – Oncovaccines 2010”, October 29-30, 2010, Sofia.

Popov, I., Simeonova, V., Vassilev, D., (2010). Estimation of sequencing error rates present in database sequences of the Oryza sativa (japonica cultivar group) genome. 2nd COST StatSeq joint meeting, May 20-21, 2010, Ghent, Belgium.

Popov, I., Vassilev, D., Attwood, T., (2010). Building diagnostic fingerprints for important kidney membrane proteins: the Aquaporins. 4th COST EuroKUP joint meeting, March 20-21, 2010, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Petrov P., van Ophuizen E., Leunissen J., Krachounov M., Popov I., Vassilev D. (2010). AnatOntoMerger – a system for computer-aided merging of anatomical ontologies, In: Book of Abstarcts: Workshop of COST action BM0702 “European Kidney and Urine Proteomics” (EuroKUP), meeting, Cyprus, 6-7 November.