Iryna Kozeretska Position: Ph.D., associated professor of the General and Molecular Genetics Department at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Address: 64 Volodymyrska Str., Kyiv, 01601 Ukraine Phone: +38 (044) 522 3995 Fax: +38 (044) 522 0828 Home page: go to >> E-mail: iryna.kozeretska@gmail.com

1987 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
2000 Ph.D. in Genetics, Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering, NASU, Kyiv, Ukraine.


Research interests:

• Developmental genetics
• Drosophila melanogaster population genetics
• Symbiotic cytoplasmic bacteria of the invertebrate
• Antarctic vascular plants and terrestrial invertebrate genetics

Professional membership:

The Ukrainian Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders (Head of Kyiv cell)
Ukrainian Science Club (Associated member)
Ukraine Radiobiological Society (Member)


Selected publications:

1. Серга С.В., Демидов С.В., Козерецкая И.А. 2010 Инфицирование Wolbachia не влияет на частоту кроссинговера у Drosophila melanogaster. Цитология и генетика. 44 (4): 55-60

2. Козерецкая И.А. 2010 Мобильные генетические элементы Drosophila melanogaster. Популяционно-генетический аспект. Вісн. Укр. тов­ва генетиків і селекціонерів. 8 (1): 81-90

3. Volkov R. A, Kozeretska I.A., Kyryachenko S. S., Andreev I. O., Maidanyuk D. N., Parnikoza I. YU., Kunakh V. A. 2010 Molecular evolution and variability of ITS1-ITS2 in populations of Deschampsia antarctica from two regions of the Maritime Antarctic. Polar Science. 3: 1-10. doi:10.1016/j.polar.2010.04.011

4. I.A. Kozeretska, I.Yu. Parnikoza, O. Mustafa, O.V. Tyschenko, S.G. Korsun, P. Convey. 2009 Development of Antarctic herb tundra vegetation near Arctowski station, King George Island. Polar Science. 3: 254-261 doi:10.1016/j.polar.2009.10.001

5. Parnikoza I., Convey P., Dykyy I., Trokhymets V., Milinevsky G., Tyschenko O., Inozemtseva D., Kozeretska I. 2009 Current status of the Antarctic herb tundra formation in the central Argentine Islands. Global Change Biology, 15: Р. 1685-1693. doi 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01906.x

6. Rozhok, А. I., Bilousov, О., Protsenko О.V., Zhuk O, Kozeretska I.A. 2009 Occurrence of P element in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster in Ukraine. Dros. Inf. Serv. 92: P. 73-78

7. Kozeretska., et. al. 2008 The frequencies and activity of locus β-est alleles in laboratory populations of Drosophila melanogaster, originating from wild flies of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Dros. Inf. Serv. 91, Р. 47-50

8. Kozeretska., et. al. 2008 Mutation Processes in Natural Populations of Drosophila melanogaster and Hirundo rustica from Radiation-Contaminated Regions of Ukraine. ISSN 0095-4527, Cytology and Genetics. Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 267–271

9. Kozeretska., et. al. 2007 Genes affecting wing planarity of Drosophila virilis (I): curl. DIS 90б Р. 187-189

10. Kravets A., Kozeretska I., Gatilova G., Omeltchenko Zh. 2007 Dynamics effects of protracted exposure and a problem of linkage in radiobiology, in: Current problems of radiation research. Ed. By D. Grodzinsky & A. Dmitriev. Kyiv. P.:118-133

11. Kozeretska I.A., Protsenko A.V. 2007 Genetic monitoring in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster from differently radioactively contaminated Ukranian territories. Bulletein of ecological status of the exclusion zone and the zone of obligatory resettlement (Ukraine). Vol.29, No 1, pp. 57-60

12. I.Y. Parnikoza, D. N. Maidanuk, I. A. Kozeretska. 2007 Are Deschampsia antarctica Desv. and Colobanthus quitensis (Kunth) Bartl. migratory relicts? Cytology and Genetics. Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 226–229. © Allerton Press, Inc

13. Parnikoza Y., Myryuta N., Mazur M., Maidanyuk D., Kozeretska I. Interpopulation heterogeneity of Deschampsia antarctica Desv. according to the variability of nucleas areas and the relative level of DNA in different tissues of leaves. Ukrainian Antarctic Journal.  №3, 2005., С. 128-134

14. Kyr’jachenko S.S., Kozeretska I.A., Rakusa-Suszczewski S. 2005 The genetic and molecular biology aspects of Deschampsia antarctica spread in Antarctica. Cytology and Genetics. №4: 75-80

15. Irina A. Kozeretska, Irina S. Gubenko, and Stanislav N. Gorb. 2004 New Unusual miniature-Like Wing Mutation in Drosophila virilis. Journal of Morphology. 261:270–275