Ludmila Chistoserdova, PhD. Senior Engineer/Scientist Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Box 351750 Seattle, WA 98195-1750

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chistoserdova L., and M.E. Lidstrom. 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. Distribution of tetrahydromethanopterin-dependent enzymes in methylotrophic bacteria and phylogeny of methenyl tetrahydromethanopterin cyclohydrolases. J. Bacteriol., 1999, 181:5750-5757.

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