Irina Vaseva
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Associate Professor Irina Vaseva, PhDBuilding 21, Office 222; Lab 121 ORCID: 0000-0003-3117-7274 |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Plant hormones, ethylene, cytokinins, cell type specificity of hormonal signaling and crosstalk, dehydrins, expression of stress-inducible proteins.
EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC DEGREES
- 1997, MSc, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Faculty of Biology, Sofia, Bulgaria
- 2007, PhD, Acad. M. Popov Institute of Plant Physiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), Sofia, Bulgaria
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
- 2018– continuing: Associate Professor, IPPG-BAS
- 2010 – 2018: Assistant Professor, IPPG – BAS
- 2005 – 2009: Assistant researcher, Acad. M. Popov Institute of Plant Physiology – BAS
- 2000 – 2005: PhD Student, Acad. M. Popov Institute of Plant Physiology – BAS
- 1999 (May-December): Researcher, Acad. M. Popov Institute of Plant Physiology – BAS
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
- July 2014 – June 2017: Post-Doctoral position, Ghent University, Department of Biology, Functional Plant Biology Group, Prof. Dominique Van Der Straeten lab, Gent, Belgium
- August 2012 – July 2013: Sciex Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Universität Bern, Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Urs Feller lab, Bern, Switzerland
- February 2009 – August 2010: Post-Doctoral position, Ghent University, Department of Physiology, Hormonal Signaling and Bioimaging Unit, Prof. Dominique Van Der Straeten lab, Gent, Belgium
- June 2002 – May 2003: Marie Curie Fellowship for PhD students, National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), Molecular Research Group, Cambridge, United Kingdom
PROJECTS IN THE LAST TEN YEARS
| 2018 – 2020 | Joint Research Project between the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), Belgium (VS.078.18N) “Cell type specificity of ethylene signaling in plant responses to abiotic stress”, Project coordinator from BAS |
| 2017 – 2020 | Research grant from National Science Fund (NSF), Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science (DН11/8): Small NudC proteins: effective regulators of development and stress tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana, Project participant |
| 2016 – 2019 | Research grant DН06/12 from NSF – Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science: Study on adaptive mechanisms to drought in Bulgarian winter wheat varieties,Project participant |
| 2013 – 2014 | Project BG051PO001-3.3.06-0025, Bulgaria’s Human Resources Development operational programme ” Support for training and development of young competitive experts in the field of physiology, phytochemistry, genomics, proteomics and biodiversity of eukaryotic organisms”, mentor |
| 2012 – 2013 | Project 11.113 “Identification of Dehydrin Types involved in Abiotic Stress Responces in Trifolium repens -IDAST”, SCIEX–NMSch (Scientific Exchange Programme between the New Member States of the EU and Switzerland), Universität Bern, Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Prof. Urs Feller lab, Bern, Switzerland, principal researcher |
| 2011 – 2013 | Project DNTC 01-12/13.12.2011 “Regulation of proteolysis under water stress in di- and monocotyledonous plants” (REPRODIMO), Project coordinator and participant |
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
- Union of Scientists in Bulgaria, Subdivision of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
- Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Vaseva-Gemisheva I, Lee D, Karanov E. 2005. Response of cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase expression and specific activity to drought stress and herbicide treatments in pea leaves. Plant Growth Regul, 46: 199-208
Vaseva-Gemisheva I, Sergiev I, Todorova D, Alexieva V, Stanoeva E, Lachkova V, Karanov E. 2005. Antagonistic effects of triazolo[4, 5-d]pyrimidine and pyridylurea derivatives on cytokinin-induced cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase activity in young pea plants. Plant Growth Regul, 46: 193-197
Todorova D, Genkov T, Vaseva-Gemisheva I, Alexieva V, Karanov E, Smith A, Hall M. 2005. Effect of temperature stress on the endogenous cytokinin content in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh plants. Acta Physiol Plant, 27 (1): 13-18
Todorova D, Vaseva-Gemisheva I, Petrov P, Stoynova-Bakalova E, Alexieva V, Karanov E,, Smith A, Hall M. 2006. Cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase (CKX) activity in wild and ethylene-insensitive mutant eti5 type of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh plants and the effect of cytokinin N1-(2-chloro-4-pyridyl)-N2-phenylurea on enzymatic activity and leaf morphology. Acta Physiol Plant, 28 (6): 613-617
Todorova D, Vaseva I, Malbeck J, Trávníčková A, Macháčková I, Karanov E. 2007. Cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase activity as a tool in gibberellic acid/cytokinin cross talk. Biol Plantarum, 51 (3): 579-583
Vaseva I, Todorova D, Malbeck J, Travničkova A, Machačkova I. 2009. Mild temperature stress modulates cytokinin content and cytokinin oxidase/ dehydrogenase activity in young pea plants. Acta Agronomica Hungarica, 57(1): 33–40
Vaseva II, Grigorova BS, Simova-Stoilova LP, Demirevska KN, Feller U. 2010. Abscisic acid and LEA profile changes in winter wheat under progressive drought stress. Plant Biology, 12 (5): 698–707
Simova-Stoilova L, Vaseva I, Grigorova B, Demirevska K, Feller U. 2010. Proteolytic activity and cysteine protease expression in wheat leaves under severe soil drought and recovery. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 48(2-3): 200-206
Grigorova B, Vaseva I, Demirevska K, Feller U. 2011. Combined drought and heat stress in wheat: changes in some heat shock proteins. Biol Plantarum, 55 (1): 105-111
Grigorova B, Vaseva I, Demirevska K, Feller U. 2011. Comparative study of HSP expression after individually applied and combined drought/heat stress in wheat plants. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 33 (5): 2041-2049
Vaseva I, Akiscan Y, Demirevska K, Anders I, Feller U. 2011. Drought stress tolerance of red and white clover – comparative analysis of some chaperonins and dehydrins. Scientia Horticulturae, 130: 653–659
Vaseva I, Sabotic J, Sustar-Vozlic J, Meglic V, Kidric M, Demirevska K, Simova-Stoilova L. 2011. The Response of Plants to Drought Stress – The Role of Dehydrins, Chaperones, Proteases and Protease Inhibitors in Maintaining Cellular Protein Function. In: Droughts: New Research, Chapter 11, Editors: Diogo F. Neves and João D. Sanz, ©2011 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-62100-769-2
Vandenbussche F, Vaseva I, Vissenberg K, Van Der Straeten D. 2012. Ethylene in vegetative development: a tale with a riddle. Tansley review. New Phytologist, 194: 895-909
Vaseva I, Akiscan Y, Simova-Stoilova L, Kostadinova A, Nenkova R, Anders I, Feller U, Demirevska K. 2012. Аntioxidant response to drought in red and white clover. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 34 (5): 1689-1699
Stoychev V, Simova-Stoilova L, Vaseva I, Kostadinova A, Nenkova R, Feller U, Demirevska K. 2013. Protein changes and proteolytic degradation in red and white clover plants subjected to waterlogging. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 35: 1925-1932
Vaseva I, Feller U. 2013. Natural antisense transcripts of Trifolium repens dehydrins. Plant Signaling & Behaviour, e27674
Vaseva I, Anders I, Feller U. 2014. Identification of dehydrin subclasses involved in drought response of Trifolium repens. Journal of Plant Physiology, 171: 213-224
Vaseva I, Anders I, Yuperlieva-Mateeva B, Nenkova R, Kostadinova A, Feller U. 2014. Dehydrin expression as a potential diagnostic tool for cold stress in white clover. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 78: 43-48
Feller U, Vaseva II. 2014. Extreme climatic events: impacts of drought and high temperature on physiological processes in agronomically important plants. Frontiers in Environmental Science, doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2014.00039
Stoychev V, Simova-Stoilova L, Vassileva V, Jorrín Novo JV, Vaseva I, Velikova V, Tsonev T. 2015. Changes in 2-DE protein profile of white and red clover leaves in response to waterlogging stress and recovery. Advances in Environmental Research, 39: 131-162
Vaseva II, Zehirov G, Kirova E, Simova-Stoilova L. 2016. Transcript profiling of serine-and cysteine protease inhibitors in Triticum aestivum varieties with different drought tolerance. Cereal Research Communications, 44 (1): 79-88
Vaseva II, Vandenbussche F, Simon D, Vissenberg K, Van Der Straeten D. 2016. Cell type specificity of plant hormonal signals: case studies and reflections on ethylene. Russian Journal of Plant Physiology, 63 (5): 577-586
Vaseva II, Qudeimat E, Potuschak T, Du Y, Genschik P, Vandenbussche F, Van Der Straeten D. 2018. The plant hormone ethylene fine-tunes Arabidopsis growth via the epidermis. PNAS, 115,17
