Education

• 1983 M.S., University of Nizhni Novgorod, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia (Biochemistry)

• 1988 Ph.D., University of Moscow, Moscow, Russia (Microbiology)

Research Areas

• Biochemistry of Methylotrophy

• Genetics of Methylotrophs

• Genomics of Methylotrophs

• Evolution of Methylotrophy

Selected Publications

• Chistoserdova, L. 2011. Methylotrophy in a lake: from metagenomics to single organism physiology. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 77:4705-4711.

• Chistoserdova, L. 2011. Modularity of methylotrophy, revisited. Environ. Microbiol. 13:2603-2622.

• Kalyuzhnaya, M.G., D.A.C. Beck, and L. Chistoserdova. 2011. Functional metagenomics of methylotrophs. Meth. Enzymol. 495: 81-98.

• Lapidus, A., A. Clum, K. LaButti, M.G. Kalyuzhnaya, S. Lim, D.A.C. Beck, T. Glavina del Rio, N. Nolan, K. Mavromatis, M. Huntemann, S. Lucas, M.E. Lidstrom, N. Ivanova, and L. Chistoserdova. 2011. Genomes of three methylotrophs from a single niche reveal the genetic and metabolic divergence of the Methylophilaceae. J. Bacteriol. 163:3757-3764.

• Joye, S.B., I. Leifer, I.R. McDonald, J.P. Chanton, C.D. Meile, A.P. Teske, J.E. Kostka, L. Chistoserdova, R. Coffin, D. Hollander, M. Kastner, J.P. Montoya, G. Rehder, E. Solomon, T. Truede, and T.A. Villareal. 2011. Comment on A persistent oxygen anomaly reveals the fate of spilled methane in the deep Gulf of Mexico. Science 332:1033.

• Chistoserdova, L. 2010. Functional metagenomics: recent advances and future challenges. Biotechnol. Genet. Eng. Rev. 26: 335-351.

• Chistoserdova, L. 2010. Recent progress and new challenges in metagenomics for biotechnology. Biotechnol. Lett. 32:1351-1359.

• Chistoserdova, L., M.G. Kalyuzhnaya, and M.E. Lidstrom. 2009. The expanding world of methylotrophic metabolism. Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 63: 477-499.

• Kalyuzhnaya, M.G., A. Lapidus, N. Ivanova, A. McHardy, A.C. Copeland, D. Suciu, A. Salamov, A. McHardy, E. Szeto, S.R. Levine, K. Barry, S. Green-Tringe, I. Grigoriev, V. Markowitz, I. Rigoutsos, P.M. Richardson, M.E. Lidstrom, and L. Chistoserdova. 2008. High-resolution metagenomics targets major functional types in complex microbial communities. Nat. Biotechnol. 26:1029-1034.

• Kalyuzhnaya, M.G., N. Korotkova, Crowther, C.J. Marx, M.E. Lidstrom, and L. Chistoserdova. 2005. Analysis of gene islands involved in methanopterin-linked C1 transfer reactions reveals new functions and provides evolutionary insights. J. Bacteriol. 187:4607-4614.

• Kalyuzhnaya, M.G., O. Nercessian, M.E. Lidstrom, and L. Chistoserdova. 2005. Development and application of PCR primers based on fhcD for environmental detection of methanopterin-linked C1 metabolism in bacteria. Environ. Microbiol. 7:1269-1274.

• Chistoserdova, L., J.A. Vorholt, and M.E. Lidstrom. 2005. A genomic view of methane oxidation by aerobic bacteria and anaerobic archaea. Genome Biol. 6:208.

• Kalyuzhnaya, M.G., M.E. Lidstrom, and L. Chistoserdova. 2004. Utility of environmental probes targeting ancient enzymes: methylotroph detection in Lake Washington. Microb. Ecol. 48:436-472.

• Chistoserdova, L., C. Jenkins, M. Kalyuzhnaya, C.J. Marx, A. Lapidus, J.A. Vorholt, J.T. Staley, and M.E. Lidstrom. 2004. The enigmatic planctomycetes may hold a key to the origins of methanogenesis and methylotrophy. Mol. Biol. Evol. 21:1234-1241.

• Chistoserdova, L., S.W. Chen, A Lapidus, and M.E. Lidstrom. 2003. Methylotrophy in Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 from a genomic point of view. J. Bactriol. 185:2980-2987.

• Chistoserdova L., and M.E. Lidstrom. 2003. The role of genomics in methylotrophic bacteria for understanding biogeochemical cycling. In: Genes in the Environment. 2003. Blackwell Science Ltd., UK, pp.133-149.

• Vorholt, J.A., L. Chistoserdova, S.M. Stolyar, M.E. Lidstrom, and R.K. Thauer. 1999. Distribution of tetrahydromethanopterin-dependent enzymes in methylotrophic bacteria and phylogeny of methenyl tetrahydromethanopterin cyclohydrolases. J. Bacteriol. 181:5750-5757.

• Chistoserdova, L., J.A. Vorholt, R.K. Thauer, and M.E. Lidstrom. 1998. C1 transfer enzymes and coenzymes linking methylotrophic bacteria and methanogenic archaea. Science 281:99-102.