DEPARTMENT “BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY”
Scientiests and specialists
- Prof., Ph.D. Dimitar Gudev - head of department
- Assoc. Prof., Ph.D. Penka Moneva
- Res. Assoc. Marina Dyavolova
- Senior expert zooengineer Antoaneta Yancheva
- Senior technician Elka Simeonova
Research activities
- Investigates the possible stress-inducing effect of abiotical and technological factors under the conditions of the currently used technologies for raising of farm animals in order to optimize the existing technologies and make them less stressful.
- Studies the possibilities for strengthening of the immune system and alleviating the adverse effect of stress by the use of various feed supplements.
- Investigates biochemical, physiological and ethological parameters as a source of information for animal welfare and elaborates quick and simple methods for reliable on farm assessment of animal welfare.
- Carries out investigations on some of the mechanisms implicated in the mutual control between immune system and hypothalamic-pituitary –adrenal axis.