Dr. Tsvetan Bachvaroff

Associate Research Professor, Institute of Marine & Environmental Technology (IMET)
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES)

Phone: (410) 234-8849 | Email: bachvarofft@umces.edu | 

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Education

The University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD (2004)
Ph.D., Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics

John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (1990)
B.A., Humanities

Research Interests

  1. DNA sequence analysis from data collection, assembly, annotation and phylogeny
  2. Culture independent methods such as single cell PCR, sequencing, and sequence analysis
  3. Establishing dinoflagellate cultures

Selected Publications

  1. Tsvetan R. Bachvaroff, Ernest Williams, Rosemary Jagus, and Allen R. Place, A cryptic noncanonical multi-module PKS/NRPS found in dinoflagellates; 16th International Conference on Harmful Algae proceedings (in press).
  2. Grant D Jones, Ernest P Williams, Tsvetan R Bachvaroff, Allen R Place and Rosemary Jagus, New tools in the Karlodinium veneficum translation initiation toolbox; 16th International Conference on Harmful Algae proceedings (in press).
  3. Chiguang Feng, Anita Ghosh, Mohammed N. Amin, Tsvetan R. Bachvaroff, Satoshi Tasumi, Marta Pasek, Aditi Banerjee, Surekha Shridhar, Lai-Xi Wang, Mario A. Bianchet, and Gerardo R. Vasta The Galectin CvGal2 from the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Displays Unique
    Specificity for ABH Blood Group Oligosaccharides and Differentially Recognizes Sympatric Perkinsus Species; Journal of Biological Chemistry (in press).
  4. B. Bentlage, T.S. Rogers, T.R.Bachvaroff, C.F. Delwiche (2015) Complex ancestries of Isoprenoid synthesis in dinoflagellates. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology (in press).
  5. J.E. Adolf, T.R.Bachvaroff, J.R. Deeds, A.R.Place (2015) Ichthyotoxic Karlodinium veneficum (Ballantine) J Larsen in the Upper Swan River Estuary (Western Australia): Ecological conditions leading to a fish kill. Harmful Algae 48:83-93.
  6. G.D. Jones, E.P. Williams, A.R.Place, R. Jagus, T.R Bachvaroff (2015) The alveolate translation initiation factor 4E family reveals a custom toolkit for translational control in core dinoflagellates; BMC Evolutionary Biology 15:14.
  7. E. D. Cooper, B. Bentlage, T.R.Gibbons, T.R. Bachvaroff, C.F.Delwiche (2014) Metatranscriptome profiling of a harmful algal bloom. Harmful Algae 37: 75-83.

Biography

In addition to receiving his Certificate in Emergency Medical Services and serving as a Paramedic with the Baltimore City Fire Department for four years, Tsvetan Bachvaroff received his B.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland College Park. He was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Center of Marine Biotechnology and subsequently with the Smithsonian Institution. He assumed his present position in 2013 as Research Assistant Professor for the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) at The University System of Maryland.

Dr. Bachvaroff has received numerous academic awards, including the William Trager Award from the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology / International Society of Protistologists, Best Graduate student poster / Bioscience day / University of Maryland College Park, the Marsho award for best student presentation / Mid-Atlantic Section of the American Society for Plant Biology, the Outstanding Teacher’s Assistant Award / Center for Teaching Excellence / University of Maryland College Park, and the Chemistry Prize / Trinity School / New York.

Presently his research is focused on dinoflagellate evolution with special emphasis on the parasitic dinoflagellates, using large scale sequencing and phylogenetic methods to describe the evolutionary history of different types of genes in dinoflagellates. 

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