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Overview

Igor Kovalchuk is affiliated with the University of Lethbridge in Canada. Their research activities span multiple fields focusing predominantly on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, along with significant contributions to medicine and agricultural and biological sciences.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, Kovalchuk has focused on subfields such as:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Plant Science
  • Pharmacology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cell Biology

The primary research topics covered by Kovalchuk encompass:

  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • GABA and Rice Research
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Psychedelics and Drug Studies
  • Retinal Development and Disorders

Frequent publication venues where Kovalchuk's work appears include:

  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecules
  • Preprints.org
  • Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology

Selected recent publications exemplify the scope and themes of their research:

  • "The dynamic broad epigenetic (H3K4me3, H3K27ac) domain as a mark of essential genes" (2021), published in Clinical Epigenetics
  • "The Genomics of Cannabis and Its Close Relatives" (2020), published in Annual Review of Plant Biology
  • "The Role of microRNAs in Organismal and Skin Aging" (2020), published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "In search of preventative strategies: novel high-CBD cannabis sativa extracts modulate ACE2 expression in COVID-19 gateway tissues" (2020), published in Aging
  • "Cannabinoids as anticancer therapeutic agents" (2020), published in Cell Cycle

Kovalchuk collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Olga Kovalchuk
  • Yaroslav Ilnytskyy
  • Bo Wang
  • Marta Gerasymchuk
  • Esmaeel Ghasemi Gojani

Best Publications

  • Stress-induced perinatal and transgenerational epigenetic programming of brain development and mental health.

    Olena Babenko;Igor Kovalchuk;Gerlinde A.S. Metz

  • Transgenerational Adaptation of Arabidopsis to Stress Requires DNA Methylation and the Function of Dicer-Like Proteins

    Alex Boyko;Todd Blevins;Youli Yao;Andrey Golubov

  • Epigenetic control of plant stress response.

    Alex Boyko;Igor Kovalchuk

  • Transgenerational changes in the genome stability and methylation in pathogen-infected plants (Virus-induced plant genome instability)

    Alexander Boyko;Palak Kathiria;Franz J. Zemp;Youli Yao

  • Genome instability and epigenetic modification--heritable responses to environmental stress?

    Alex Boyko;Igor Kovalchuk

  • Pathogen-induced systemic plant signal triggers DNA rearrangements

    Igor Kovalchuk;Olga Kovalchuk;Véronique Kalck;Vitaly Boyko

  • Genome hypermethylation in Pinus silvestris of Chernobyl--a mechanism for radiation adaptation?

    Olga Kovalchuk;Paula Burke;Andrey Arkhipov;Nikolaj Kuchma

  • Role of epigenetic effectors in maintenance of the long-term persistent bystander effect in spleen in vivo.

    Igor Koturbash;Alex Boyko;Rocio Rodriguez-Juarez;Robert J. McDonald

  • The Progeny of Arabidopsis thaliana Plants Exposed to Salt Exhibit Changes in DNA Methylation, Histone Modifications and Gene Expression

    Andriy Bilichak;Yaroslav Ilnystkyy;Jens Hollunder;Jens Hollunder;Igor Kovalchuk

  • Maternal stress induces epigenetic signatures of psychiatric and neurological diseases in the offspring.

    Fabiola C. R. Zucchi;Youli Yao;Isaac D. Ward;Yaroslav Ilnytskyy

  • Tobacco mosaic virus infection results in an increase in recombination frequency and resistance to viral, bacterial and fungal pathogens in the progeny of infected tobacco plants

    Palak Kathiria;Corinne Sidler;Andrey Golubov;Melanie Kalischuk

  • Molecular aspects of plant adaptation to life in the Chernobyl zone

    Igor Kovalchuk;Vladimir Abramov;Igor Pogribny;Olga Kovalchuk

  • The Allium cepa chromosome aberration test reliably measures genotoxicity of soils of inhabited areas in the Ukraine contaminated by the Chernobyl accident.

    Olga Kovalchuk;Igor Kovalchuk;Andrey Arkhipov;Polina Telyuk

  • Genome-wide variation of the somatic mutation frequency in transgenic plants

    Igor Kovalchuk;Olga Kovalchuk;Barbara Hohn

  • Ancestral exposure to stress epigenetically programs preterm birth risk and adverse maternal and newborn outcomes

    Youli Yao;Alexandra M. Robinson;Fabiola C. R. Zucchi;Jerrah C. Robbins

  • A sensitive transgenic plant system to detect toxic inorganic compounds in the environment.

    Olga Kovalchuk;Victor Titov;Barbara Hohn;Igor Kovalchuk

  • Wheat mutation rate after Chernobyl

    Olga Kovalchuk;Yuri E. Dubrova;Andrey Arkhipov;Barbara Hohn

  • Estrogen-induced rat breast carcinogenesis is characterized by alterations in DNA methylation, histone modifications and aberrant microRNA expression.

    Olga Kovalchuk;Volodymyr P. Tryndyak;Beverly Montgomery;Alex Boyko

  • The dynamic broad epigenetic (H3K4me3, H3K27ac) domain as a mark of essential genes

    Tasnim H. Beacon;Geneviève P. Delcuve;Camila López;Gino Nardocci

  • Epigenetics in Health and Disease

    Igor Kovalchuk;Olga Kovalchuk

Frequent Co-Authors

Olga Kovalchuk
Olga Kovalchuk University of Lethbridge
Gerlinde A. S. Metz
Gerlinde A. S. Metz University of Lethbridge
Barbara Hohn
Barbara Hohn Friedrich Miescher Institute
François Eudes
François Eudes Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Igor P. Pogribny
Igor P. Pogribny National Center for Toxicological Research
John P. Kastelic
John P. Kastelic University of Calgary
Bryan Kolb
Bryan Kolb University of Lethbridge
Isabelle Aubert
Isabelle Aubert Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Yuri E. Dubrova
Yuri E. Dubrova University of Leicester
Frederick M. Ausubel
Frederick M. Ausubel Harvard University

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