Room 305
Phone: (+359 2) 8167 274
E-mail: rpankov@biofac.uni-sofia.bg
Office address | 8 Dragan Tzankov blvd, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria |
Occupation | Professor of Cell Biology |
Main activities and responsibilities | Training and assessment of students; Development of new courses; Training of graduates and PhD students; Research, preparation and implementation of national and international scientific and educational projects. |
Teaching experience
| 1988 – 1994 Assistant Professor at the Department of Cytology, Histology and Embryology 1994 – 2006 Associate Professor (same Department) 2006 – Professor (same Department) |
Courses |
"Cytology" (compulsory) for 1st year graduate students, specialties Molecular Biology and Biotechnology; "Cytology" (compulsory№ for 1st year graduate students, specialties Ecology and Environmental Protection and Bio-management and Sustainable Development; "Animal Cell Cultures and Hybridoma Techniques" (compulsory) for 4th year graduate students, Biotechnology specialty; "Stem Cells" (compulsory) for Masters of Cell Biology and Pathology and Developmental Biology; "Cell border complex and intercellular interactions" (compulsory) for masters of Cell Biology and Pathology |
Education and Training | 2012 – Corresponding member of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
2005 – Doctor Habil “Novel structural and signaling functions of integrin α5β1”, SSC Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Biochemistry 1992-1993 - Post doctoral training, La Jolla Cancer Research Institute (currently The Burnham Institute), La Jolla, California, USA
1990-1991 - Post doctoral training, The Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot, Israel |
Selected publications
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Research projects (last 5 years)
| Multi-purpose center for adult education in clean environment (ECO-Center), Програма „Еразъм+”, Grant agreement - 2014-1-BG01-KA204-001645 Structuring of work related competences in chemical engineering (STRENGTH), Програма LLP - Leonardo da Vinci, Grant agreement – 2013-1-ES1-LEO05-66726 Curricula Development in the fields of Reproductive Biology/Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Regenerative Medicine in Serbia (ART-REM), 586181-EPP-1-2017-1-RS-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP, Erasmus+, Grant agreement: 2017-3405/001-001 Cell quiescence: Role of cell compartmentalization of the extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERK), National Science Fund # ДФНИ-Б02/13/14 Investigation of the inhibitory effect of high glucose concentrations on TGFβ signalling and finding ways to counteract, National Science Fund, Contract № ДН11/7/18г. A new approach for assessing the protective role of anti-oxidants produced by photosynthetic plants on cell membranes and microdomains. Application of three-dimensional cell cultures as an adequate model of animal tissues. National Science Fund, Contract ДФНИ-02/023/14 |
Selected Meetings | 1. Панков Р, Плурипотентни стволови клетки - от лабораторията към клиничните изпитания, Юбилейна Научна Конференция „10 години Българска асоциация по клинична имунология” 28- 29 октомври 2016, София, лекция по покана 2. Pankov R, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells – New Opportunities and Challenges, Symposium, X-th Anniversary of Bulgarian Association of Reproductive Human Embryology, 23-24 October, 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria, invited lecture 3. Pankov R, The third dimensional perspective of the cell culture: advantages and limitations, Third Balkan Scientific Conference on Biology, May 30th-June 1st, 2014, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, plenary lecture 4. Evangelatov, R. Skrobanska, N. Stefanova, T. Topouzova-Hristova, R. Pankov „Culturing in native, tissue-like conditions approximates signaling through FAK and Src to in vivo conditions.” 7th Abercrombie Meeting, 24-27 June 2012, St Catherine’s College, Oxford, UK 5. Kyumurkov A.; Evangelatov A.; Skrobanska R., Pankov R., Tubulin acetylation is specifically influenced by beta 1 integrin activation, 36th FEBS Congress, Biochemistry for Tomorrows Medicine, Torino, ITALY Date: JUN 25-30, 2011, FEBS JOURNAL Volume: 278 Special Issue: SI Supplement: 1 Pages: 361-361 6. Skrobanska R.; Evangelatov A.; Topouzova-Hristova T., Pankov R., Regulation of proliferation in tissue-like three dimensional culture system, 36th FEBS Congress, Biochemistry for Tomorrows Medicine, Torino, ITALY Date: JUN 25-30, 2011, FEBS JOURNAL Volume: 278 Special Issue: SI Supplement: 1 Pages: 162-163 7. Ralica Damianova, Nadezhda Stefanova, Galya Staneva, Diana Petkova, Albena Momchilova and Roumen Pankov, Biochemical and immunohistochemical characterization of tissue-like three dimensional culture system, 34th Congress of the Federation-of-European-Biochemical-Societies, JUL 04-09, 2009 Prague, Czech Republic 8. Pankov, R., "Cell adhesions and signaling - Insight from the third dimension" NATO Advanced Research Workshop Nanoengineered Materials for Regenerative Medicine, September 21-24, Varna, 2007 9. Pankov, R., Even-Ram, Sh., Cukierman, E., Matsumoto, K., Clark, K., and Yamada, K. M. Adhesion Contacts and Fibronectin Assembly. Fibronectin, Integrins, and Related Molecules, Gordon Research Conference, Ventura, CA, 2003 10. Ralitza V. Valtcheva, Elena V. Stephanova, Roumen G. Pankov, George P. Altankov, Zdravko I. Lalchev, Alterations in focal adhesion complexes in response to halothane, 2003, Turkish Journal of Biochemistry 13-th Balkan Biochemical Biophysical Days (12-15 October, 2003 Kusadasi Turkey), pp.166-167 11. Yamada, K. M., Pankov, R., Cukierman, E., Sakai, T., Larsen, M. Dimensions in integrin complex formation and signaling. Fibronectin, Integrins, and Related Molecules, Gordon Research Conference, Ventura, CA, 2003 12. Yamada, K. M., Katz, B.-Z., Miyamoto, S., Pankov, R., Cukierman, E., Larsen, M., Sakai, T. Dimensions and Specificity in Integrin-mediated Signaling. National Health Research Institute (NHRI) of Taiwan symposium on "Signal Transduction" Taipei, Taiwan, 2003 13. Yamada, K. M., Pankov, R., Cukierman, E., Larsen, M., Sakai, T. Dimensions and Dynamics in Integrin Function and Tissue Remodeling. Meeting in Seoul, Korea, 2003. 14. Yamada, K. M., Pankov, R., Cukierman, E. Dimensions in Adhesive Signaling. Cell migration and invasion meeting, Keystone Symposia, Keystone, CO, 2003. 15. Yamada, K. M., Pankov, R., Tran, H., and Cukierman, E. Dimensions and dynamics in integrin function. ECM conference, Brazil, 2002. 16. Cukierman, E., Pankov, R., and Yamada, K. M. The three dimensional matrix adhesion. 3rd Federation of Israel Societies for Experimental Biology Congress. Eilat, Israel, 2002. 17. Pankov, R., Cukierman, E., and Yamada, K. M. Integrin Dynamics, Matrix Assembly and Cell Survival. National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, annual retrieve College Park, MD, 2001. 18. Pankov, R., Cukierman, E., Hahn, C., Matsumoto, K., LaFlamme, S. E., and Yamada, K. M. Integrin-mediated cell survival and matrix assembly. Fibronectin, Integrins, and Related Molecules, Gordon Research Conference, Ventura, CA, 2001. 19. Yamada, K. M., Pankov, R., and Cukierman, E. Remodeling of matrices in adhesive contact formation. AACR 92nd annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2001. 20. Yamada, K. M., Tamura, M., Cukierman, E., and Pankov, R. Integrin complexes in matrix interactions, migration, and signaling. Cell Migration and Invasion, Keystone Symposia, Tahoe City, CA, 2001. 21. Pankov, R., Cukierman, E., Katz, B-Z., Matsumoto, K., Lin, D.C., Lin, S., Hahn, C., and Yamada, K.M. Integrin dynamics and matrix assembly: Actin- and tensin-induced translocation of alpha(5)beta(1) integrins drives early fibronectin fibrillogenesis. 13th ASCB annual meeting Washington D.C., 1999. 22. Pankov, R., Lemieux, M. and R. Hancock, An antigen localized at stable plus ends during mitosis, at kinetochore corona in metaphase and at the midbody in anaphase, Thirtieth Annual Meeting of The American Society for Cell Biology, San Diego, California, 9-13 December 1990. 23. Pankov, R. and G. Markov, Intermediate filament typing as a tool in tumor diagnosis, Bulgarian-German Symposium of Diagnostic Cytology and 4th Tutorial for Young Scientists, Varna, Bulgaria, 13-15 October 1989. 24. Hancock, R., Charron, M., Lambert, H., Lemieux, M., Pankov, R. and Hancock, R., Topoisomerase II as a target of antitumor drugs, 2nd International Symposium on Molecular Aspects of Chemotherapy, Gdansk, Poland, July 1988. 25. Parent-Vaugeois, C., Bergeron, A., Pankov, R., Fradet, Y., Induction in vivo et in vitro d'antigenes specifiques aux tumeurs papillaires de la vessie humaine, Journee Scientifique Annuelle de L'Hotel-Dieu de Quebeck, Quebeck, Canada, 27 May 1988. 26. Pankov, R. and Markov, G., Vertebrate liver cytokeratins - changes in the course of evolution, Canadian Cell Biology Society Annual Workshop, 3-4 April, 1987 27. Pankov, R. and Hancock, R., Polypeptides of the kinetochore of Chinese hamster ovary cells, Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.,16-20 November, St. 1987 |