Head: Oleg G. Davydenko
Doctor of Biological Sciences, professor, corresponding member
e-mail: cytoplasmic@mail.ru, davydenko@tut.by
Key directions of scientific research:
- use of DNA-markers in barley, soybean and sunflower breeding;
- hybrid sunflower breeding on the basis of CMS (Cytoplasmic Male Sterility);
- genetic history studies of Belarus population;
- genetic control of a number of diseases among Belarus population;
- DNA-testing for mitochondrial human diseases.
Key publications:
- Lukhanina, M. Sinyavskaya, I. Goloyenko, O. Davydenko Donor detection of heat-stable alleles of barley β-amylase // Genetics. – 2010. – Vol. 46, No. 1. – P.127–130.
- Soroka, A. Tushina, N. Danilenko, L. Sivitskaya Risk factors of renal amyloidosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis // International Journal of Biomedicine. – 2010. – Vol.1, No. 1. – P. 14–23.
- Danilenko, E. Merkulava, M. Siniauskaya, O. Olejnik, A. Levaya-Smaliak, A.Kushniarevich, A. Shymkevich, O. Davydenko. Spectrum of genetic changes in patients with non-syndromic hearing impairment and extremely high carrier frequency of 35delG GJB2 mutation in Belarus // PLoS One. – 2012. – Vol. 7 (5). – e36354.
- Kushniarevich, L. Sivitskaya, N. Danilenko, T. Novogrodskiy, I. Tsybovsky [et al.] Uniparental Genetic Heritage of Belarusians: Encounter of Rare Middle Eastern Matrilineages with a Central European Mitochondrial DNA Pool // PLoS ONE. – 2013. – Vol. 8(6). – e66499. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066499.
- Vaikhanskaya, L. Sivitskaya, N. Danilenko, O. Davydenko, T. Kurushka, I. Sidorenko. LMNA-related dilated cardi-omyopathy // Oxf. Med. Case Rep. – 2014. – Issue 6. – P. 102–104. – doi: 10.1093/omcr/omu040.
Monographs:
- Davydenko. Cytoplasmic Inheritance: O. Davydenko series of lectures. – Minsk: Belarusian State University, 2001. – 189 p.
- Danilenko, O. Davydenko. Worlds of organelle genomes. – Minsk: Technalohija, 2003. – 494p.
- O. Davydenko, D. Goloenko, V. Rozentsveig. Soya for moderate climate. Minsk: Technalohija, 2004. – 164 p.