Toxicity of heavy metals and pesticides on the living world

Assoc. Prof. Galina Satchanska, PhD, is Head of the Department of Natural Sciences at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia. She graduated in Biochemistry and Microbiology from the Faculty of Biology, Sofia University St. Kl. Ohridski, and joined the Institute of Molecular Biology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Satchanska obtained a PhD in Molecular Environmental Microbiology, being supervised by Prof. E. Golovinsky, DSc, DHC. She has studied bacteria in heavy metal and other xenobiotics polluted soils and waters tackling environmental pollution. Satchanska has been invited multiple times as a guest scientist at the Helmholtz Research Center Dresden-Rossendorf in Germany and at the Center for Bioengineering Gilbert Durand, Toulouse, France. She was awarded fellowships by BMBF and DAAD, Germany, UNESCO and NATO. She is a member of the Board of the Bulgarian Society of Microbiology (Union of Scientists in Bulgaria and Federation of European Microbiological Societies - FEMS) and of FEMS Election Committee (2017 - 2019), and is currently the Delegate for Bulgaria at FEMS Council. Satchanska is a member of the Academic Council of New Bulgarian University and is in charge of the university's Educational and Research Laboratory in Biology.

Нов български университет
София 1618
кв. Овча купел, ул. Монтевидео №21
vruseva@nbu.bg

The polluted environment: a source of substances toxic to humans

• Heavy metals
• Lead
• Cadmium
• Manganese
• Arsenic
• Mercury
• Chromium
• Pesticides
• Pesticides clasification
• Metablism and adaptation of microorganisms to pesticides
• Effect of pesticide structure on the process of its degradation
• Environmental factors affecting pesticide degradation
• Radionuclides
• Uranium
• Crude oil hydrocarbons and hydrocarbons from chemical industry

References
Toxic effects of xenobiotics on human health

• Toxicity of essential metals on human health
• Toxicity of heavy metals on human health
• Toxicity of pesticides on human health

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