Bairta Manzhieva

Author Identifiers: Russian Science Citation Index, ORCID iD

Position: Senior Laboratory Assistant

E-mail: bmanzhieva@binran.ru

Research interests:

Structural diversity of membrane lipids and their role in the growth and development of fungi
Phospholipid metabolism
Methods of lipidomics (LC Q-TOF MS/MS, LC-QqQ-MS/MS)

Keywords: Lipids, basidiomycetes, lipidomics

Education and work experience:

2009–2013 — Herzen State Pedagogical Univ. (Faculty of Biology, Department of Human Anatomy and Physiology), Bachelor's degree
2013–2015 — Herzen State Pedagogical Univ. (Faculty of Biology, Department of Botany), Master's degree
2020–2024 — Full-time postgraduate student at the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

2017–2020 — Research Assistant at the All-Russian Research Institute of Food Additives
2020–2024 — Senior Laboratory Assistant at the Scientific and Educational Center of the Botanical Institute RAS
2024 — until now — Senior Laboratory Assistant, Fungal Biochemistry Laboratory Botanical Institute RAS.

Grants and research projects:

Member of research team:

2025–2026. RSF №25-14-00490 «Conversion of molecular species of phospholipids as a fundamental basis for growth and adaptogenesis of plants and fungi» (Supervisor ― E.R. Kotlova).
2022–2023. RSF №22-2401152 «Development of the method of targeted LC-MS/MS analysis of plant lipidome in connection with the study of uptake and metabolic conversion of exogenous phospholipids» (Supervisor ― E.R. Kotlova).
2020–2022. RFBR №20-04-01092 «Mechanisms of formation and remodelling of molecular diversity of phosphatidylcholines and their physiological role in the fungal cell» (Supervisor ― E.R. Kotlova).

Selected publications:

Kotlova E.R., Senik S.V., Pozhvanov G.A. et al. Uptake and metabolic conversion of exogenous phosphatidylcholines depending on their acyl chain structure in Arabidopsis thaliana. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2024. 25: 89.

Senik S.V., Manzhieva B.S., Maloshenok L.G., Serebryakov E.B., Bruskin S.A., Kotlova E.R. Heterogeneous distribution of phospholipid molecular species in the surface culture of Flammulina velutipes: new facts about lipids containing α-linolenic fatty acid. Journal of Fungi. 2023. 9(102).

Kotlova E.R., Senik S.V., Manzhieva B.S. et al. Diversity of ESI-MS Based Phosphatidylcholine Profiles in Basidiomycetes. Journal of Fungi. 2022. 8(2): 177.