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participating in response adaptation reactions of plants to the interaction with
various microorganisms.
the biochemistry of microorganisms group is headed by Liudmila P. Antoniuk, C.
Biochem. S., who graduated from the biological faculty of Saratov State University
in 1979, receiving her candidate degree in biochemistry in 1984. Her scientific
interests cover the area of molecular mechanisms of plant and soil microorganism
interactions, and the transmembrane signal transfer in cells of procaryotes.
(2.) The Genetics of Microorganisms Laboratory under Valerii I. Panasenko, D.
Microbio. S., born in 1937, he graduated from the faculty of physics of Saratov
State University, receiving his D. Microbiology S. in 1990. His interests are in the
biophysics of microbial cells. The laboratory has two research groups:
the genetics of microorganisms group under Valerii I. Panasenko and the soil
microbiology and biological nitrogen group (organized in 1989) under
Mikail Chumakov, C. Micro. Bio. S., born in 1958, graduated from the biological
faculty of the Saratov State University, receiving his candidate of sciences degree in
microbiology in 1988. His professional interests are in the genetics of nitrogenfixing
bacteria, associative interactions with non-leguminous plants,
monocotyledonous plants transformation, non-pathogenic agro-bacteria, and
bacterial fertilizers.
(3.) The Microbiology Laboratory under Valentina E. Nikitina, C. Biochem. S.,
who graduated from the biological faculty of Saratov State University in 1968,
receiving her candidate degree in biochemistry in 1977. Her scientific interests are
in bacterial lectins of nitrogen-fixing microorganisms.
(4.) The Physical Chemistry of Cell Structures Laboratory (organized in 1984)
under Sergei Iurii Shchyogolev, C. PM. S., who was born in 1946, graduated
from the faculty of physics of Saratov State University in 1968, receiving his
candidate degree in 1981. His interests are in the methods of physico-chemical and
immuno-chemical analysis of microbial and viral molecular structure as applied to
the problems of plant-microbe interaction and to the problems of diagnostics of
human and animal diseases. The laboratory has three groups:
the biophysics group under Nikolai G. Khlebtsov, who was born in 1949, graduated
from the faculty of physics of Saratov State University in 1972, receiving his
candidate of sciences in physics degree in 1982. His areas of interest include optical
methods for investigating structure, the aggregation and adsorption properties of
biological disperse systems with random and induced orientation, and studying the
fractionating properties of biological objects by light scattering methods.
the immuno-chemical and radio-isotope methods group under Larisa Iurii
Matora, who graduated from the faculty of biology of Saratov State University in
1986. Her professional interests involve immuno-chemical and biochemical
properties of cell surface of soil microorganisms and its dependence on moleculargenetic
characteristics.
the physical chemistry of biopolymers group under Sergei A. Trushin, C. Chem.
S., who was born in 1963, graduated from the chemistry faculty of Saratov State
University in 1985, receiving his candidate degree in chemistry in 1990. His
interests are in the surface structures of soil microorganisms and in the quantitative
characteristics of their interaction with the components of plant cells.
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