Marina Kalyuzhnaya
Research associate

Marina Kalyuzhnaya
Research Assistant Professor

Department of Microbiology University of Washington
R&T Building
616 NE Northlake Place
Seattle WA 98105
206-543-0355

 


Education
Ph.D. 2000, Skryabin Institute for Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Science, 
Puschino, Russia

M.S. 1994, Dnepropetrovsk State University, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine

Research interests

Microbial ecology and environmental metagenomics

Microbial evolution and Systematics Structure and Function of methylotrophic
communities

Detection of methylotrophic function and methylotrophic subgroups in natural
environments FISH-Flow Cytometry based Cells Sorting of methylotrophic bacteria
from natural samples

Selected Publications

Kalyuzhnaya M.G., Lapidus A, Ivanova N, Copeland AC, McHardy AC, Szeto E, Salamov A., Grigoriev IV, Suciu D, Levine SR, Markowitz VM, Rigoutsos I, Tringe SG, Bruce D.C., Richardson M, Lidstrom ME, Chistoserdova L. 2008. High-resolution metagenomics targets specific functional types in complex microbial communities. Nature Biotechnology 26: 1029 - 1034

Kalyuzhnaya M.G., Lidstrom M.E. and Chistoserdova L. 2008. Real-time detection of actively metabolizing microbes via redox sensing as applied to methylotroph populations in Lake Washington. The SME Journal. ISME J. 2(7):696-706

Kalyuzhnaya M.G., Hristova K., Lidstrom M. E., and Chistoserdova L. 2008. Characterization of a novel methanol dehydrogenase in representatives of Burkholderiales: implications for environmental detection of methylotrophy and evidence for convergent evolution. J. Bacteriol. 190(11):3817-23

Kalyuzhnaya M.G., Bowerman S., Nercessian O., Lidstrom M.E., Chistoserdova L. Highly divergent genes for methanopterin-linked C1 transfer reactions in Lake Washington, assessed via metagenomic analysis and mRNA detection. Appl.Envir.Microbiol. (in press)

Kalyuzhnaya M.G., S. M. Stolyar, A. J. Auman, J. C. Lara, M.E. Lidstrom and L. Chistoserdova. Taxonomic characterization of a methanotrophic isolate from Lake Washington, Seattle, USA, and description of Methylosarcina lacustra sp. IJSEM. 2005. 55

Vorholt J.A., M.G. Kalyuzhnaya, C.H. Hagemeier, M.E. Lidstrom and L. Chistoserdova. MtdC, a novel class of methylene tetrahydromethanopterin dehydrogenases. 2005 J.Bacteriol. 187:6069–6074

Kalyuzhnaya M.G., M.E. Lidstrom, and L. Chistoserdova. Analysis of gene islands involved in methanopterin-linked C1 transfer 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 new molecular tools based on fhcD for environmental detection of H4MPT-linked C1-metabolism in bacteria. Environ.Microbiol. 2005 7(8): 1269-1274

Kalyuzhnaya M.G., O.Narcessian, M.E.Lidstrom and L.Chistoserdova. Community-level analysis: genes encoding methanopterin-dependent enzymes. Meth. Enzym. 2005, 397

Kalyuzhnaya M.G., Lidstrom M. E., and Chistoserdova L. Utility of Environmental Primers Targeting Ancient Enzymes: Methylotroph Detection in Lake Washington. Microbial.Ecol. Microbiol.Ecol. 2004, 48:463-472

Kaluzhnaya M.G., Khmelenina V, Eshinimaev B, Suzina N, Nikitin D, Solonin A, Lin JL, McDonald I, Murrell C, Trotsenko Y. Taxonomic characterization of new alkaliphilic and alkalitolerant methanotrophs from soda lakes of the Southeastern Transbaikal region and description of Methylomicrobium buryatense sp.nov. Syst Appl Microbiol. 2001. 24(2):166-176

Kaliuzhnaia M.G., Makutina V.A., Rusakova T.G., Nikitin D.V., Khmelenina V.N., Dmitriev V.V., Trotsenko Y.A. Methanotrophic communities in the soils of Russian northern taiga and subarctic tundra. Mikrobiologiia. 2002. 71(2):264-271

Kalyuzhnaya M.G., Khmelenina V.N., Kotelnikova S., Holmquist l., Pedersen K., Trotsenko Y.A. - Methylomonas scandinavica sp.nov. a new methanotrophic psychrotrophic bacterium isolated from deep igneous rock ground water of Sweden - Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1999, V.22 p.565-572

Kalyuzhnaya M.G., Khmelenina V.N., Lysenko A.M., Suzina N.E.,Trotsenko Y.A - New methanotrophic isolates from soda lakes of the southern Transbaikal region. Mikrobiologiia: 1999, v.68, N 5, p.689-697