Youth and Progress of Biology 2026
Dear colleagues!
You can find the first informational letter of the conference “Youth and Progress of Biology 2026” at the link below:
Inform letter 2026
Department of Ecology
- About the Department
- History of Department
- Employees
- Lecturers' schedule
- Teaching materials
- Research
- News
About the Department
The Department of Ecology was established on November 21, 2012 at the Faculty of Biology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Among the scientific topics of the department are monitoring and multilevel bioindication assessment of the ecological condition of urbanized and man-made transformed territories and waters of Western Ukraine. Employees of the department study biodiversity (phyto-, myco-, zoodiversity) and its anthropogenic changes, biota distribution in natural and urban ecosystems of Western Ukraine, problems of conservation of natural complexes, study the ecological status of water bodies in different levels of anthropogenic load Lviv, their floristic and faunal component, as well as bioindication characteristics of certain species of biota, analyze the ecological and biochemical characteristics of aquatic plant species; study the effect of metals, pesticides and natural toxins (aflatoxin B1) on metabolism in biota cells; study the reactions of plants to the action of oil in the soil and the possibility of their effective use in phytoremediation technologies.
History of Department
The Department of Ecology was created on the November 21, 2012 at the Faculty of Biology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv on the basis of the decree of the Academic Council of the University (Order of the Rector № 0_117 dated November 5, 2012).
Employees
| ChairpersonZvenyslava Mamchur | Chairperson |
| ProfessorHalyna Antonyak | Professor |
| ProfessorIhor Kaprus | Professor |
| Associate ProfessorNataliia Dzhura | Associate Professor |
| Associate ProfessorOlha Tsvilynyuk | Associate Professor |
| LecturerYurii Drach | Lecturer |
| 2nd Category Engineer, Department Secretary (by-worker)Halyna Mudrak | 2nd Category Engineer, Department Secretary (by-worker) |
| Postgraduate Student, Engineer (by-worker)Olha Atorvin | Postgraduate Student, Engineer (by-worker) |
| Postgraduate StudentIryna Boretska | Postgraduate Student |
| Postgraduate StudentOleh Mytsak | Postgraduate Student |
| Postgraduate StudentIvan Stelmakh | Postgraduate Student |
Lecturers' schedule
Teaching materials
Syllabus_Ecological toxicology_2021
навчальний план аспірантів 101-Ekolohiia-ochna
СИЛАБУС_Комплексний моніторинг геосоціосистем»_2019_2020_оновл
СИЛАБУС_Актуальні проблеми_2019-20 (1)
СИЛАБУС_КУРСУ_Військові аспекти_2019_2020
СИЛАБУС_Адаптивні стратегії_2019-20
НАУКОВІ ОСНОВИ ЗБЕРЕЖЕННЯ І ВІДНОВЛЕННЯ БІОРІЗНОМАНІТТЯ (навчальна програма)
АКТУАЛЬНІ ПРОБЛЕМИ БІОХІМІЧНОЇ ЕКОЛОГІЇ (навчальна програма)
СУЧАСНІ ТЕНДЕНЦІЇ В ЕКОЛОГІЇ (навчальна програма)
ВІЙСЬКОВІ АСПЕКТИ ДЕГРАДАЦІЇ БІОСФЕРИ (навчальна програма)
Research
The scientific topics of the department are monitoring and multilevel bioindicative assessment of ecological state of urbanized and technogenically transformed territories and water areas of Western Ukraine.
The employees of the department study biodiversity (phyto-, myco-, and zoodiversity) and its anthropogenic changes, biota distribution under the conditions of natural and urbanized ecosystems of Western Ukraine, the problems of preservation of natural complexes, they investigate an ecological state of water objects on the territories with different level of anthropogenic press of Lviv region, study their floristic and faunistic components as well as bioindicative characteristics of certain biota species, analyze an ecological and biochemical features of aquatic plant species; study an influence of metals, pesticides and natural toxins (aflatoxin B1) on metabolism of biota cells; investigate the reactions of plants to the impact of oil in the soil and the possibility of their effective usage in phytoremediation technologies.
- anthropogenic changes of flora and fauna on the area of natural and urbanized ecosystems;
- the distribution peculiarities of biota invasive species;
- hydroecological analysis of the water reservoirs;
- an efficiency of usage of different plant species in the phytoremediation technologies on oil-polluted soils;
- an influence of the metals, pesticides and natural toxins (aflatoxin B1) on the cells of the biota;
- changes of biota in high mountainous areas of the Ukrainian Carpathians because of the climate changes.
News
Bachelor’s qualification theses
Congratulations to the students of the Department of Biophysics and Bioinformatics on the successful defense of their Bachelor’s qualification theses!
Ad astra per scientiam!
See you in the Master’s program!
Sincerely,
The Department of Biophysics and Bioinformatics Team
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