Department of microbiology and parasitology with the basics of immunology

Staff of department

ShyrobokovVolodymyrPavlovych.

Head of the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology.

Academician of NAS of Ukraine, academician of NAMS of Ukraine, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, honored worker of science and technology of Ukraine.

Graduated from the Bogomolets Kyiv Medical Institute, Faculty of Medicine.

Studied at the postgraduate course at the Department of Microbiology of KMI in 1995-1997. At the end of postgraduate course he defended his candidate`s dissertation.

In 1977 he defended his doctoral dissertation on “Comparative study of molecular and biological properties of Coxsackie viruses and their selected variants”.

Scientific supervisor of 25 PhD theses, scientific consultant of 10 doctoral theses. Scientific interests – enterovirology, ecology of microorganisms, human microbiome.

Co-author of 3 clinical protocols, standards, guidelines, 6 fact sheets, 13 methodological recommendations that have been implemented in clinical practice.

Author and co-author of 541 scientific works, including 9 books, 43 textbooks, 57 inventions and patents, 6 educational qualifications, 12 study programs.

Head of the NTGI (group of scientific and technical experts on immunoprophylaxis of Ukraine; member of the Council on Biosafety at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, member of the expert council of DACU of Ukraine.

Member of the Presidium of two microbiological scientific societies of Ukraine (Microbiologists, epidemiologists and parasitologists named after DK Zabolotny and SM Vinogradsky Microbiologists).

He was awarded the Order of Merit of the 3rd and 2nd Degrees, diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, numerous medals and honors.

Voitsekhovskyi Valerii Gryhorovych

Doctor of Medical SciencesProfessor of the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology, Bogomolets National Medical University, Ministry of Health of Ukraine. In 1973 he graduated with honors from the Bogomolets Kyiv Medical Institute.

Studied at the graduate school of the Bogomolets National Medical University, (1974-1977).

In 1982 he defended his dissertation for obtaining a scientific degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences for a theme: “Research of development of conditionally pathogenic spore-forming bacteria”. In 2004 he defended his dissertation for a doctor of medical sciences degree on the topic “Cell aggregation in the ontogeny of spore-forming microorganisms”.

Under the leadership ofVoitsekhovskyiV. G. 3 PhD theses have been prepared and defended.

The field of research is related to the study of mechanisms of development and differentiation of microorganisms, patterns of spore formation, autoinducers of development, processes of intercellular interaction, chemical communication in bacteria and systems that regulate the expression of genes responsible for virulence factors, the role of cellular bioregulation microorganisms.

He is the author of 305 scientific works, including 2 monographs, 6 textbooks, 5 manuals, 10 copyright certificates, 3 domestic patents, 11 foreign patents, 22 methodological instructions and developments, 5 methodological recommendations, more than 10 educational programs.

Member of the Specialized Scientific Council for the protection of doctoral and PhD theses in the specialties “Social Medicine” – 14.02.03, “Hygiene and occupational pathology” – 14.02.01, “Microbiology” – 03.00.07, “Virology” – 03.00.06 Bogomolets NMU, member of the Academic Council of the Medical Faculty № 4 of Bogomolets NMU, Deputy Chairman of the Problem Commission of the Ministry of Health and the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine for Microbiology and Virology, Deputy Head of the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology for Scientific Work.

Voitsekhovskyi V. G. was elected Academician of the Public Organization “National Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine” (2006) and Academician of “International Academy of Sciences of Ecology, Human and Nature Safety” (2007).

Awards:

• Acknowledgment of the Mayor of Kyiv (2005).
• Certificate of Honor from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (2005).
• Certificate of Honor from the Ministry of Health of Ukraine (2006).
• Medal for 20 years of ANVOU (2012).
• Order of Saint Equal-Apostle Prince Vladimir the Great III Degree (for services to the revival of spirituality in Ukraine and approval of the Local Ukrainian Orthodox Church awarded by the Patriarch of Kyiv and all Rus-Ukraine Filaret) (2012).
• Order of St. Luke the Archbishop of Crimea (for services to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church he was awarded the Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine by the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Vladimir) (2013).
• Bogomolets Medal of the Academy of Higher Education of Ukraine (2015).
• Honorary Diploma of the Academic Council of the Bogomolets NMU (2016).
• Certificate of Honor from the Academy of Higher Education of Ukraine (2017).
• Ivan Puluy Medal of the Academy of Higher Education of Ukraine (2018).

Salata Olga Viacheslavivna.

Professor of the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology, Bogomolets National Medical University. In 1973 she graduated with honors from the Faculty of Sanitary and Hygiene at the Kyiv Medical Institute. Specialty – medical, doctor.

In 1990, she defended her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences for a theme: “Hygienic justification of effective natural and artificial sorbents for the release of drinking and waste water from enteroviruses and enterobacteria”.

Scientific interests are focused on the normalization of biological (microbiological) factors in the environment and the establishment of patterns of migration of enteroviruses in water and soil.

Salata O.V. has 140 scientific works, an author’s certificate for the invention. She is the co-author of 8 textbooks, 30 methodological recommendations, 9 educational programs for students of medical, dental, pharmaceutical and medical-psychological faculties.

Scopus Index – 1.

Member of the Specialized Academic Council D 26.003.01, member of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Medicine № 4, member of the cycle methodological committee on hygienic disciplines.

Membership in professional associations –

Scientific and creative achievements were marked by the Nikomed-Ukraine scholarship (following the results of the 1999-2000 academic year for outstanding achievements in pedagogical and scientific work), published in the book “Women – Scientists of Kiev” (2003). She was awarded honorary diploma of the Ministry of Education and Science (2005) and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine (2000, 2005, 2010), gratitude of the Kyiv Mayor (2005), honorary diploma of the Academic Council of NMU named after O.O. The Epiphany (2015, 2019).

Bobyr Vitaly Vasyliovych.

Professor of the department of microbiology, virology and immunology. Graduated from the medico-prophylactic faculty of the Bogomolets National Medical University in 2002. In 2006 proved a candidate’s dissertation for a theme “The surface components of Coxsackie B viruses and their bentonite variants.”.

Scientific interests: enteroviruses, dysbiosis.

Author of 3 newsletters.

Total number of publications: 72, of which textbooks – 1, methodological recommendations -1, inventions -3.

Member of the Society of Microbiologists of Ukraine.

Scholarship of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine 2004-2006

Poniatovskyi Vadym Anatoliyovych.

Associate Professor of the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology, Candidate of Medical Sciences. He graduated from the BogomoletsNational Medical University in 2009. From 2010 to 2013 he studied in graduate school at the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology of Bogomolets NMU.  Dissertation on a theme:  “Enteroviruses in sewage of Kyiv city: species composition and biological properties”. In 2019 he completed a scientific internship at the National Institute of Public Health – NIH (Department of Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases) (Poland, Warsaw).

Main scientific interests:

• Combating antibiotic resistance – search for producers of new classes of antibiotics, use of bacteriophages for therapeutic and prophylactic purposes.
• The role of the simplest in the spread of viral and bacterial infections.

Author and co-author of 41 scientific works, including 1 monograph and 2 textbooks.

Member of the S.M. Vinogradskii Society of Microbiologists of Ukraine.

Lipatnikova Klavdiia Ivanivna.

Associate Professor of the department of microbiology, virology and immunology. Graduated from the sanitary-hygienic faculty of the Bogomolets NMU in 1975. In 1989 proved a candidate’s dissertation for a theme «Epidemiology features of flu in Ukraine». An associate professor of the department since 1996.

Scientific interests: Virology, Pedagogy.

Publications: 51, of which textbooks – 2, methodological recommendations – 7.

Awards:

Certificate of Honor of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine

Certificate of MES of Ukraine

Shylov Mykhailo Vitaliyovych.

Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor. He graduated from the Kiev Medical Institute in 1989 with a degree in medical treatment. He studied in graduate school in 1989-1991. Topic of the PhD thesis “Immunomodulatory properties of polio vaccine strains”.

Scientific interests: Virology.

There are 41 publications, including 3 textbooks and 10 curricula.

Honorary diploma of the Academic Council of NMU Praying Mantis (2019)

Dyuzhikova Olena Mychailivna

Associate Professor of the department of microbiology, virology and immunology. In 1987 she graduated from Arkhangelsk State Medical academy. From 2010 to 2013 she studied in graduate school. In 1994 she defended a candidate’s dissertation for a theme: «Physiological features of immunological reactivity of man in the north».

Scientific interests: microbiology, immunology.

Total number of publications 53, of which methodical recommendations – 8.

Grytsenko Larysa Mykolaivna.

Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor. In 1998 she graduated from the Faculty of Biology of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In 2005-2008 She studied in graduate school at the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology, Bogomolets NMU. In 2011 she defended a candidate’s dissertation for a theme: “Genotypic and Phenotypic Signs of Virulence of ESNO Viruses”,specialty 03.00.06 – Virology, In 2019, she completed an internship – “New and innovative teaching methods in medicine”, organized by the Medical University of Lublin.

Scientific interests: genetics of viruses

Publications – 56

Member of the S.M. Vinogradskii Society of Microbiologists of Ukraine.

Dolinchuk LiudmylaVasilivna

Associate Professor of the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology. She graduated from Faculty of Biology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 2010. She got the diploma with honors in the specialty «Microbiology and virology». In 2015, she defended a candidate’s dissertation on theme:”The Role of Genetic Propensity and Infectious Agents in the Development of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Miners”

Scientific interests: microbiology, genetics.

He is the author and co-author of 32 scientific works, 10 methodical developments.

Shelkova Nataliia Grygorivna

Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor.In 1979 she graduated from the Bogomolets Kyiv Medical Institute, Faculty of Hygiene. A candidate’s dissertation for a theme: “Bacterial-rotavirus relationships and some approaches to the development of therapeutic and prophylactic antiviral drug” by specialty 03.00.07 – Microbiology; 03.00.06 – Virology for the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences.

Bacteriological diagnostics of infectious diseases, study of microbiocenoses of human organs and systems.

Introduction to clinical practice:

• Determination of antigenic relationship of rotaviruses for establishment of epidemiological and epizootic pathogens. – Methodical recommendations.-Kiev, 1992.-16 p.

Publications – 40, including methodological recommendations – 2; inventions – 2 (copyright certificates)

Member of the Ukrainian Scientific Medical Society of Microbiologists, Epidemiologists and Parasitologists named after D. Zabolotny

Honorary Diploma of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Acknowledgment of the Rector of thePL Shupik NMAPE

Andryushkova Nataliia Hryhorivna.

Associate Professor of the department of microbiology, virology and immunology. She graduated from the medical faculty of the Bogomolets National Medical University in 2002. She is an assistant of the department since 2002. In 2019 she defended a candidate’s dissertation for a theme: «The value of enterovirus infection in the development of acute cerebral circulation disorders».

Scientific interests: The value of enterovirus infection in the development of acute disorders of cerebral circulation. Improving the teaching of microbiology, virology and immunology to international students.

Publications: 16 scientific works., Of which methodical recommendations: 4

Community Activities: In 2017, she received the British Council’s Certificate of B1 Language Proficiency (English). Proforg of the department.

Kostyuk Olena Vitaliivna.

An assistant of the department of microbiology, virology and immunology. Graduated with honor from the Kyiv Medical Institute with specialty hygiene, sanitation, epidemiology in 1989.

Candidate’s dissertation for a theme:”Psychological features of neuroticism of future doctors in the conditions of trilingualism” (medical psychology)

Main directions of scientific activity:

• Scientific interests:
• medical microbiology (H. pylori infection)
• medical psychology

Author of 23 publications

• Author of the collective monograph Innovations in Science / the challenges of our time, 2018
• Author and co-author of 9 collections of published methodological recommendations in English and two test collections
• Holds a patent for an invention

Osypchuk Nadiia Oleksiivna

An assistant of the department of microbiology, virology and immunology. Year of high school graduation:

1st Graduate – 2010, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, specialty “Microbiology, Virology, Teacher of Biology”

2 higher – 2010, State Academy of Housing and Communal Services, specialty “Accounting and Auditing”.

Candidate’s dissertation for a theme: “Topographic features of colonization by fungi of the genus Candida of the biotope of the mouth”

Scientific interests – Micromycetes, clinical mycology, yeast fungi of the genus Candida

Publications – 16.

Social activities:

• Deputy Dean of the Medical Faculty №4

Gurmach Yevgeniia Volodymyrivna. Assistant of the department. She graduated with honors from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 2015 with a degree in Immunology. In 2019, she defended a candidate’s dissertation for a theme “Metabolic polarization of rat microglial cells under conditions of C6 glioma growth and its correction with the toll-like receptor 3 agonist” and earned a PhD in biological sciences.

Scientific interests: Microbiology, Oncology

He is the author and co-author of about 30 scientific works.

Member of the Ukrainian Society of Immunology, Allergy and Immunorehabilitation Specialists, European Federation of Immunological Societies (EFIS), Ukrainian Biochemical Society of Ukraine, The Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) and European Society of Clinical Investigation (ESCI).

Yegorov Denys Petrovych

An assistant of the department of microbiology, virology and immunology. Graduated from the biological faculty of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 2010 with a specialty «Microbiology and virology». He is an assistant of the department since 2010. He performs candidate’s dissertation for a theme: “Biological properties of enterococci isolated from newborns.”

Scientific interests: Opportunistic, nosocomial infections.

Number of publications: 12

Member of the Young Scientists Society of Bogomolets National Medical University.

Poniatovska ValeriiaValeriivna Assistant of the department. In 2017, she graduated from the O. Gonchar Dnipropetrovsk National University and received the qualification “Master of Virology, Microbiologist, Researcher (Microbiology)”. In 2017, she underwent advanced training courses in the specialty “Clinical and Laboratory Diagnostics” (Zaporozhye). In 2018, she underwent refresher training in the specialty “Virology” (Kyiv).

Scientific interests: Microbiology, Virology

Nastenko Volodymyr Borysovych, assistant of the department. Graduated in 2013 from Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University. Candidate’s dissertation theme: “Antimicrobial properties of Quaternary salts of aryloxyethoxydialkyl ammonium under experimental conditions”

Scientific interests: the problem of antibiotic resistance, antimicrobial substances, ecology of microorganisms, virology.

Publications: 24 publications

Community activities: Volunteering. Participant in the events of the zavtra.ua and Pinchuk Foundation graduation programs.

Membership in professional associations: S.M. VinogradskiiSociety of Microbiologists of Ukraine.

Romanchyshina Anastasiia Pavlivna, postgraduate student of the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology, graduated from the Bogomolets National Medical Universityin 2015. In 2016, she completed her internship in the specialty “Microbiology, Virology”. He is currently studying for a postgraduate degree in Virology. Dissertation topic: “Interaction of enteroviruses and bacteriophages with acanthamebas as ecological phenomenon”

Scientific interests: study of free-living amoebae and features of their interaction with other microorganisms (viruses and bacteria).

Has 8 printed works (5 articles, 3 abstracts).

Member of the Young Scientists Society of NMU.

Klos LiudmylaMykolaivna,

postgraduate student Bogomolets National Medical University, 3 years of study. Graduated from Bogomolets National Medical Universityin 2003. Theme of the dissertation: «Methods of distance learning of microbiology, virology and immunology

Scientific interests – distance learning of future masters of pharmacy».

Number of publications: 7; Methodical recommendations: 2 Rational proposals: developed a method of distance learning of microbiology, virology and immunology of future masters of pharmacy.

Awards: gratitude of NMU

Stepanova Tamara Feodorivna.

Engineer of 1st categories of the department of microbiology, virology and immunology. She graduated from the Leningrad technological institute in 1973. She has been working at the department since 1996.

Rudnieva Kateryna Leonidivna – postgraduate student of the Department of Microbiology, Virology and Immunology

Graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy, preventive medicine in 2010. She completed her internship in the specialty “Microbiology, Virology” in 2011. She underwent advanced training courses in the specialty “Clinical and Laboratory Diagnostics” (Kyiv) in 2012.  In 2018, she underwent refresher training in the specialty “Microbiology” (Kyiv). She is currently studying for a postgraduate degree in Microbiology. Dissertation topic: “Antibiotic resistance of ESKAPE pathogens and experimental ways of overcoming it”

Scientific interests: Combating antibiotic resistance – the study of the synergistic effect of antibacterial drugs; infections associated with the provision of medical care and methods of preventing their spread.

Has 12 printed works.

She has been working in practical microbiology since 2014

Laboratory assistants:

Tovshchyk Viktoriia Volodymyrivna 

Senior laboratory assistant

Hladkykh OlenaVasylivna

 Trokhymchuk Nataliia Oleksandrivna

 Tolkacheva Tetiana Oleksandrivna.

Proniutkina Nadiia Mykolaivna

Kilova Nila Dmytrivna