Year of birth
| 1972
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Year of appointment within the Department
| 1998
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Teaching responsibilities
| Course holder of the B.Sc. courses "Introduction to genetic engineering" and "Molecular genetics", and the M.Sc. courses "Genetic engineering of pro- and eukaryotes" and "Molecular markers and basic population genetics"
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Professional interests
| Genetics, molecular genetics, molecular cloning
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Current research topics
| Bacterial genetics, construction of vectors for alternative cloning methods, lactic acid bacteria - typing methods and methods for detection of probiotic properties and bacteriocins synthesis.
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Memberships in professional organizations
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Bulgarian Society of Microbiology within the Union of the Bulgarian Scientists, collective member of the Federation of the European Microbiological Societies (FEMS); Union of Bulgarian Biologists
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Selected publications
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- Peykov, S.Z., Aleksandrova, V.D., Dimov, S.G. “Rapid identification of Enterococcus faecalis by species-specific primers based on the genes involved in the Entner-Doudoroff pathway” Mol Biol Rep 39(6):7025-730, 2012
- Dimov, S. “pSDTV vector: a modification of the pBluescript SK+ plasmid in order to perform PCR-fragments TA-cloning using Eam1105I restriction endonuclease” Mol Biol Rep 39(5): 6133-6139, 2012
- Kirilov, N., Dimov, S., Dalgalarrondo, M., Kambarev, S., Ignatova, T., Stoyanovski, S., Danova, S., Iliev, I., Haerlé, T., Chobert, J.-M. “Characterization of enterococci isolated from homemade Bulgarian 1 cheeses and katuk “ Eur Food Res Technol 233:1029-1040, 2011
- Ahmadova , A., Dimov, S., Ivanova, I., Choiset, Y., Chobert, J.-M., Kuliev, A and Haertlé, T. “Proteolytic activities and safety of use of Enterococci strains isolated from traditional Azerbaijani dairy products”, Eur Food Res Technol 233:131-140, 2011
- Dimov, S.G., Peykov, S., Raykova, D., Ivanova, P., Kirilov, N., Dalgalarrondo, M., Chobert, J.-M., Haertlé, T. and Ivanova, I. – “A newly discovered bacteriocin produced by Enterococcus faecalis 3915”. Beneficial Microbes 1(1):43-51, 2010
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