Lyubov Kurbatova

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Academic degree, academic title: Ph.D.

Position: Senior Researcher

E-mail: kurbatovale@binran.ru

Research interests:

Flora, systematics and phytogeography of bryophytes of Russia and Antarctica.

Keywords: Мosses, bryoflora, Russia, Antarctica

Education and work experience:

St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Biology and Soil Science, Department of Botany.
2002 — Candidate Sci. in Biology (Ph.D. equivalent), Komarov Botanical Institute RAS. Thesis «Mosses of the Leningrad region».

1996 — until now — Komarov Botanical Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Lichenology and Bryology.
1998–2005 — St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Biology and Soil Science, Department of Botany.
2008–2013 — Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Russian Antarctic Expedition.

Grants and research projects:

Project leader:

2012–2013. RFBR №12-04-90448-Ukr_a «Study of molecular-genetic bases and physiological features of adaptation to abiotic stresses on the example of Antarctic plants».
2011–2013. RFBR №11-04-01247-a «Features of post-glacial development and the current state of the cryptogamous flora of the ice-free territories of Antarctica».

Member of research team:

2018–2020. RFBR №18-05-60093 «Spatial and temporal changes in the lichen and bryoflora of the Russian Arctic and adjacent territories and their relationship to global natural processes and anthropogenic environmental transformation».
2016–2019. RFBR №16-04-01050 A «Ecosystem significance of Antarctic oasis soils and their biocenotic and geochemical role in the landscape».
2013–2014. RFBR №13-04-90411 Ukr_f_a «Biological and soil processes in the unique tundras of West Antarctica: biogeography, biogeochemistry and ecology of isolated geosystems in time and space».
2007–2009. RFBR №07-04-00325-and «Liverworts and anthocerotophyta Russia».
2006-2008. RFBR 06-05-78062-d «Publication of the book «The Natural environment and biodiversity of the archipelago «Birch Islands» (Gulf of Finland)»».
2005–2007. RFBR №05-04-49658-а «Flora and vegetation of the Islands of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic sea (within Russia)».
2005. RFBR №05-04-63009-k «Organization and conduct of an expedition to study the flora and vegetation of the islands of the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea».
1995–1997. RFBR №95-04-11949-a «Development of the bryological herbarium of the Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and preparation on its basis of the collection «Flora of mosses of Russia»».

Conferences and workshops:

Organizing committee:

VI (XIV) International Botanical Conference of Young Scientists in St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg, April 21–25, 2025. Section curator.

Attendee:

VI (XIV) International Botanical Conference of Young Scientists in St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg, April 21–25, 2025. Sectional lecture.
XXVI All-Russian scientific conference «Conservation of biodiversity of Kamchatka and adjacent seas». Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, November 12–13, 2025. Oral report.

Professional memberships:

Selected publications:

Doroshina G.Ya.. Kurbatova L.E. New record of Buxbaumia viridis (Buxbaumiaceae) in the North-West of Russia. Botanicheskii zhurnal. 2023. 108(5): 484–490.[In Russian]

Popov E.S., Kurbatova L.E., Glazkova E.A. et al. New data on the distribution and population status of Sarcosoma globosum (Schmidel) Casp. in the Leningrad Region and Republic of Karelia. [Trudy Karel’skogo nauchnogo tsentra RAN] Transactions of the Karelian Research Centre RAS. 2023. 5: 30–42. [In Russian}

Kandelinskaya O.L., Grischenko H.R., … Kurbatova L.E. Hemostatic activity in vitro of lectin-containing substances of bryathypes on the example of some antarctic and belarus representatives. Medical academic journal. 2023. 23(3): 00–00. [In Russian]