Tsanko Gechev

Asoc. Prof. Dr. Tsanko Gechev

Director

Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology in Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tsanko Gechev is the Director of the Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He is also teaching Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Plovdiv.

Dr. Gechev has degrees in Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and specializations in leading universities across the world: University of Gent (Belgium), Plant Research International and University of Groningen (The Netherlands), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich (Switzerland), University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA), and the University of Potsdam (Germany).

Dr. Gechev’s research is currently focused on the following topics: 1) Reactive oxygen species as modulators of plant stress responses and programmed cell death; 2) Plant ageing; 3) Molecular mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in resurrection species.

He published more than fifty scientific articles and has coordinated ten projects amounting more than 30 Mil. EUR.

In 2017, Dr. Gechev won the Pythagoras prize by the Ministry of Education and Science of Bulgaria.

Dr. Gechev is a member of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) and the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria. He is Editor of Planta (Springer) and International Journal of Molecular Sciences (MDPI).

Other speakers in 2020

Radka Kaneva

Bulgaria

Prof. Radka Kaneva, PhD

Executive Manager of Molecular Medicine Center at Medical University of Sofia
Member of BAPEMED Executive Board
Dobrin Svinarov

Bulgaria

Prof. Dr. Dobrin Svinarov, MD. PhD, Dr. Med Sc

Head of Clinical Laboratory and Clinical Pharmacology at Alexandrovska University Hospital / Chairman of the Department of Clinical Laboratory and at the Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Sofia / President of the Bulgarian Society of Clinical laboratory
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