Humboldt Kolleg PROGRAM

Humboldt Kolleg
Bulgarian-German Scientific Cooperation: Past, Present and Future
November 26-28, 2015, Sofia (BULGARIA)
PROGRAM
(as of 23.11.2015)
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Sofia Hotel Balkan
Conference Room Royal I
9.00 – 10.00 Registration
Coffee refreshment
10.00 – 12.00
Opening
Chair: Dimo Platikanov (Bulgaria)
10.00 - 11.15
Ilza Pajeva, President of the Humboldt Union in Bulgaria
Enno Aufderheide, Secretary General of the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation
Detlef Lingemann, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany
to the Republic of Bulgaria
Stefan Konetzko, Desk officer, Subdivision "Europe", Federal Ministry
of Education and Research - Germany
Stefan Vodenicharov, President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Other officials & Congratulatory addresses
11.15-12.00
Georgi Vayssilov (Bulgaria): Bulgarian-German cooperation – a cornerstone in
development of modern research in Bulgaria
12.00-13.00
Group photo of participants & Lunch
13.30 – 15.30
Session: Science and research management I
Chair: Jörg Schenk, Head of Science department, German Embassy, Sofia
13.30-14.00
Stefan Konetzko, Christian Schache (Germany): Funding schemes for a
German-Bulgarian cooperation
14.00-14.30
Elisabeth Schepers (Germany): Fachleute finden, fördern und freistellen.
Personalplanung in Drittmittelprojekten
14.30-15.00
Eugenia Matthes (Germany): Fraunhofer – ein exzellenter Partner für Forschung
und Innovationen
15.00-15.30
Jürgen Plöhn (Germany): Voraussetzungen und Standards wissenschaftlicher
Publikationen
15.30-16.00
Coffee break
16.00 – 17.30
Session: Science and research management II
Chair: Jörg Schenk, Head of Science department, German Embassy, Sofia
16.00 – 16.20
Eugenia Matthes (Germany): Das Programm für Beschäftigung der
Innovationsassistenten – eine Erfolgsgeschichte des Freistaats Sachsen
16.20 – 16.40
Christian Schache (Germany): DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und
Raumfahrt) / DLR-Projektträger
16.40 – 17.10
Isabelle Scholtysek (Germany): Presentation of DAAD research scholarship
programmes
17.10 – 18.00
Lora Taseva (Bulgaria): Presentation of the programs of the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation
19.00 – 21.30
Reception: National Institute and Museum of Archaeology
(hosted by the Embassy of the FR Germany)
Friday, November 27, 2015
9.00 – 11.00
St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
Aula (Ceremonial Hall)
Session: Cooperation in biosciences and medicine
Chair: Nikolai Lazarov (Bulgaria)
9.00 - 9.25
Iliana Ionkova, Evgeny Golovinsky, Svetla Bogdanova (Bulgaria): Alexander
von Humboldt Foundation and Bulgarian-German studies in the area of
pharmacobiochemistry and pharmacy
9.25 - 9.50
Violeta Velikova, Andrea Ghirardo, Jörg-Peter Schnitzler (Bulgaria,
Germany): Biogenic isoprene beyond non-trivial carbon loss by plants – new
insights from transgenic poplar
9.50 - 10.15
Anastassia Stoykova, Anton Tonchev (Germany, Bulgaria): Genetic
mechanisms of cortical neurogenesis
10.15 - 10.40
Maya Zaharieva, Spiro Konstantinov, Martin Berger (Bulgaria, Germany):
Antineoplastic drug candidates: published research and future perspectives of the
German-Bulgarian cooperation
10.40 - 11.00
Petya Vasileva, Deshka Doycheva, Carsten Heinz (Bulgaria, Germany): New
development in uveitis: German-Bulgarian symposium
11.00-11.30
Coffee break
11.30 – 13.15
11.30 – 11.45
Parallel session I: Humanities and social sciences
Chair: Dilyana Boteva (Bulgaria)
Aula (Ceremonial Hall)
Tzvetomira Venkova (Bulgaria): German mediation in the reception of linguistic
generativism in Bulgaria
Junior scientists
11.45 – 11.55
Nikolina Nikolova (Bulgaria): Neolithic settlement ditches
11.55 – 12.05
Ivan Petrov (Bulgaria): Small children and animals in Germanic and Slavic
12.05 – 12.15
Lily Grozdanova (Bulgaria): The die study of the coinage of Pautalia –
conducting a traditionally numismatic research in the age of digital technologies
12.15 - 12.25
Georgi Dimov (Bulgaria): The cities of Southern Italy in between the east and the
west (11th-12th centuries)
Vladislav Ivanov (Bulgaria): The Knights Hospitaller at Rhodes and their
involvment in the Balkan political affairs (1300-1421)
12.25 – 12.35
12.35 – 12.45
Desislava Kostadinova (Bulgaria): State and development of the auxiliary
sciences of history in Bulgaria after the Second World War
12.45 – 12.55
Plamen Tsvetkov (Bulgaria): Mutual relationship between the mother tongue and
the first foreign language in text writing
12.55 – 13.05
Mariya Chankova (Bulgaria): Reading and information exploitation practices in
multimedia environment in the context of academic information search
11.30 – 13.15
Parallel session II: Natural sciences
Chair: Radka Argirova (Bulgaria)
Conference Hall
2nd floor, North Wing
11.30 – 11.45
Haydar Özpınar, İsmail Hakkı Tekiner (Turkey): Characterization of
extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) producing Enterobacteriaceae from food
products
Junior scientists
11.45 – 11.55
Maya Zaharieva, Vaishali Kapoor, Spiro Konstantinov, Martin Berger
(Bulgaria, USA, Germany): Modulation of the Akt-mTOR and RB signaling
pathways of erufosine in malignant cells
11.55 – 12.05
Petar Donchev, Maya Zaharieva, Martin Berger, Spiro Konstantinov
(Bulgaria, Germany): New treatment options for chronic myeloid leukemia
12.05 – 12.15
Yohana Ilieva, Ivelina Zhelezova, Miryana Gogeva, Antonios Trochopoulos,
Michael Zepp, Maya Zaharieva, Martin Berger, Spiro Konstantinov
(Bulgaria, Germany): Advances in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma medication
12.15 - 12.25
Merilin Al Sharif, Ivanka Tsakovska, Petko Alov, Ilza Pajeva (Bulgaria):
Study of the ligand-dependent dysregulation of PPARγ: adverse outcome
pathways and molecular modelling
12.25 – 12.35
Zahari Vinarov, Liliya Vinarova, Nikolai Denkov, Slavka Tcholakova,
Simeon Stoyanov (Bulgaria): Reducing lipid bioaccessibility: physico-chemical
approaches
12.35 – 12.45
Ivelina Zhelezova, Georgi Momekov, Spiro Konstantinov (Bulgaria): In vitro
models of drug resistance in AML cell lines
12.45 – 12.55
Kaloyan Kaloyanov, Georgi Momekov, Spiro Konstantinov (Bulgaria): Cell
death inducers in non-Hodgkin lymphoma cells
12.55 – 13.05
Nikolai Jordanov, Ivan Gutzow (Bulgaria): The direct CO2-free carbon fuel
cell, the vitreous carbon / graphite battery and the electrochemical synthesis of
carbon allotropes
13.05 – 13.15
Daniela Doneva (Germany): Structure and dynamics of neutron stars
13.30 - 14.30
Lunch
14.30 – 16.35
Session: Cooperation in humanities and social sciences
Chair: Boris Parashkevov (Bulgaria)
Aula (Ceremonial Hall)
14.30 – 14.55
Roland Marti, Lora Taseva (Germany, Bulgaria): Die Entwicklung der deutschbulgarischen Zusammenarbeit in der Slavistik
14.55 – 15.20
Nikolina Burneva (Bulgaria): Erinnerungsorte und globale Perspektiven in der
bulgarischen Germanistik
15.20 – 15.45
Roumyana Preshlenova (Bulgaria): Collegium Germania und die deutschbulgarische wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit
15.45 – 16.10
Dilyana Boteva (Bulgaria): Crossing the iron curtain with a bilateral agreement
between the University of Sofia and the University of Saarland
16.10 - 16.35
Vassil Nikolov, Hristo Popov, Krum Bacvarov (Bulgaria): Praktiken am
Nationalen Archäologischen Institut und Museum der BAW bei dem Aufbau
wissenschaftlicher Kontakte mit Deutschland
16.35 - 17.00
Group photo of participants & Coffee break
17.00 - 18.30
Round table discussion
Aula (Ceremonial Hall)
Cooperation in science between Balkan countries and Germany
Chairs: Ilza Pajeva, Krum Bacvarov (Bulgaria)
Participants: Georgi Vayssilov (Bulgaria), Roland Marti (Germany),Irena Vassileva (Bulgaria),
representatives of Humboldt clubs: Catalin Vasilescu (Rumania), Luka Popović (Serbia), Haydar
Özpınar (Turkey)
19.00 – 22.30
Conference gala dinner
Saturday, November 28, 2015
9.00 – 11.00
St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
Aula (Ceremonial Hall)
Session: Cooperation in physics, earth sciences and mathematics
Chair: Antonia Shivarova (Bulgaria)
9.00 - 9.25
Luka Popović, Milcho Tsvetkov, Katya Tsvetkova (Serbia, Bulgaria):
Collaboration between Serbian, Bulgarian and German astronomers in the last
decade
9.25 – 9.50
Nikolay Vitanov, Holger Kantz, Zlatinka Dimitrova (Bulgaria, Germany):
Models of science dynamics and scientific productivity
9.50 - 10.15
Alexander Petkov, Stefan Ivanov, Dimiter Vassilev (Bulgaria): The
Lichnerowicz and Obata type results in the quaternionic contact geometry
10.15 – 10.40
Ognyan Kounchev (Bulgaria): On two Nobel prize-winning topics
10.40 – 11.10
Coffee break
11.10 – 13.15
Session: Cooperation in technical sciences and chemistry
Chair: Yuri Kalvachev (Bulgaria)
11.10 – 11.35
Cyril Popov (Germany): Preparation and applications of nanocrystalline diamond
films
11.35 – 12.00
Silviya Boycheva, Denitza Zgureva (Bulgaria): Experimental studies on carbon
dioxide adsorption by coal ash zeolites
12.00 – 12.25
Petar Petrov, Axel H.E. Müller (Bulgaria, Germany): Nano-sized block
copolymer aggregates: synthesis and possible application in biomedicine and
nanotechnology
12.25 – 12.50
Liudmil Antonov (Bulgaria): Tautomerism: from fundamental studies to smart
molecules design
12.50 – 13.15
Tzonko Kolev, Rumyana Bakalska, Mina Todorova (Bulgaria): New organic
materials for second order nonlinear application – hyper effective dyes for second
harmonic generation
13.15 – 13.25
13.30-14.30
Closing
Lunch