State Scientific Institution Institute of Genetics and Cytology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (IGiC NASB)
| Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus ( IGiC NASB ) | |
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| International name | Institute of Genetics and Cytology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus |
| Based | 1965 |
| Director | Lemesh Valentina Aleksandrovna |
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| Graduate school | specialties: 03.00.15 Genetics; 03.00.26 molecular genetics; 03.00.23 Biotechnology |
| Doctoral studies | specialty: 03.00.15 Genetics |
| Location |  Belarus , Minsk |
| Site | igc.by |
History
Genetics in Belarus was closely connected mainly with the solution of the practical problems of breeding and seed production of agricultural crops.
The beginning of genetic research was determined by the work of the academician of the BSSR Academy of Sciences Anton Romanovich Zhebrak in the field of distant hybridization of wheat and experimental polyploidy (the 30s, Moscow, the beginning and 1953-1965, the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR - continued). [one]
Key research areas
- Studying the genetic processes of regulation of the vital activity of plants and animals in order to control their productivity, quality, and sustainability.
- Study of the structural and functional organization and variability of genomes, genetic engineering and cellular technologies, biosafety.
- Studying the genetic problems of the stability and variability of organisms in conditions of technogenic pollution of the environment
Key scientific and practical achievements
Scientific Awards
- Three State Prizes of the BSSR and the Republic of Belarus (1974, 1982, 2002) - three
- Prize of the Lenin Komsomol of Belarus (1990);
- five prizes of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (1993, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2003).
Research Grants
Grants from UNESCO, NATO, INTAS, INCO-COPERNICUS, MacArthur Foundation, International Science Foundation, Belarusian Republican Foundation for Basic Research
Products and Services
- analysis of food raw materials and food products in GMOs
- DNA certification of crop varieties
- DNA labeling of agricultural plants and animals according to economically useful traits
- DNA diagnostics of human hereditary diseases
- DNA identification of wild animals and microorganisms
- development and examination of the regulatory framework in the field of biosafety
- seminars and consultations on the safety of genetic engineering activities
Innovative Infrastructure
Branch of the Republican Center for Technology Transfer
Research Units
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology
- Lab molecular genetics
- Lab plant cytogenetics
- Lab nonchromosomal heredity
- Lab human genetics
- Department of Environmental Genetics
- Lab environmental genetics and biotechnology
- Lab genetic safety
- Lab animal genetics
- Lab modeling of genetic processes
- Department of genetic basis of selection
- Lab chromosome engineering plants
- Lab genetics of phytoimmunity
- Lab potato genetics
- Department of scientific and innovative work
- National Biosafety Coordination Center (supervisor - Mozgova Galina Valerievna)
- National Coordination Center for Access to Genetic Resources (Head - Makeeva Elena Nikolaevna)
Administration
- Director: Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor Lemesh Valentina Aleksandrovna
- Scientific Secretary: Ph.D. Ryabokon Nadezhda Ivanovna
Notes
- ↑ Institute of Genetics and Cytology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, GENERAL INFORMATION (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment January 20, 2010. Archived January 25, 2010.
See also
- Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS