Ilya Prokopiev

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Academic degree, academic title: Ph.D.

Position: Senior Researcher

E-mail: prokopiev@binran.ru

Research interests:

Study of the component composition of secondary metabolites of lichens. Establishing the structure of compounds, identifying their biological activity.
Revealing the relationship between the qualitative and quantitative content of secondary metabolites in lichens and the ecological conditions of their growth.
Development of metabolomic profiling as a new approach in lichen chemotaxonomy.

Keywords: Secondary metabolites, chromatography, mass spectrometry, chemotaxonomy, lichens

Education and work experience:

2001-2006 – Yakutsk State University M.K. Ammosov.
2009 – Ph.D. thesis: «Physiological, biochemical and population adaptations of wild plants of South and Central Yakutia» (supervisor A. Zhuravskaya).

2019 – until now – Senior Researcher of Laboratory of Phytochemistry Komarov Botanical Institute RAS.

Grants and research projects:

Project leader:

2017-2019. RFBR № 17-04-01483-a «Metabolome analysis as a new approach in chemotaxonomy of lichen genus».
2016. Grant of the head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) for young scientists and specialists No. 16/16 «Study of genotoxicity and antigenotoxicity of secondary metabolites of lichens».
2014. Grant of the Scientific and Educational Foundation of Young Scientists of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) № 2014-01-0009 «Variability of the content of usnic acid in the tissues of lichens, coupled with the geographical latitude of growth».

Member of research team:

2019-2021. RFBR № 19-04-00074-а «Biodiversity and phylogenetic relationships of lichens of the Far East and West coast of North America on the example of the families Micareaceae and Teloschistaceae».
2018-2020. RFBR № 18-44-140019 р_а «Qualitative and quantitative characteristics of cryoprotectants of lichens in the Arctic and Subarctic».
2018-2019. RFBR № 18-34-00332 мол_а «Taxonomic revision of the genera Arctoparmelia Hale and Flavocetraria Kärnefelt & Thell in Russia».