Olga Voitsekhovskaja
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Academic degree, academic title: Ph.D., Dr.rer.nat., Georg-August University Goettingen, Germany
Position: Laboratory Head
E-mail: ovoitse@binran.ru
Research interests:
- phloem transport and cell-to-cell communications
- intra- and intercellular compartmentation of metabolites
- autophagy in plant cells
- photosynthesis and photoprotection
Education and work experience:
Education:
January 2002 — PhD, Thesis title: “On the role of sugar compartmentation and stachyose synthesis in symplastic phloem loading” (published by Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen, 2002)
1998–2002 — PhD research at the Department of Biochemistry, Albrecht von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, Göttingen University (Göttingen, Germany), supervisor: Prof. Dr. H.-W. Heldt
1990–1995 — Study at the State University of St. Petersburg, Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty for Biology and Soil Sciences
Academic appointments:
Since 2015 — Head of the Laboratory of Molecular and Ecological Physiology, Komarov Botanical Institute
2010–2013 — Lecturer at the Department of Botany, Saint Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation)
2002–2015 — Senior Scientist at the Department of Ecological Physiology, Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation); group leader
2000–2001 — Researcher at the Department of Biochemistry, Göttingen University, (Göttingen, Germany)
1998–2000 — DAAD fellow at the Department of Biochemistry, Göttingen University, (Göttingen, Germany)
1995–1998 — Junior researcher at the Department of Ecological Physiology, Komarov Botanical Institute, supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yu. V. Gamalei
Grants and research projects:
- Russian Science Foundation, two-year (2017–2018) extension of grant #14-16-00120, project “Changes in the minor antenna and in the PSII reaction centres as basis to rise photosynthesis and tolerance to light and drought stress in barley”
- Russian Science Foundation, three-year (2014–2016) grant #14-16-00120, project “Changes in the minor antenna and in the PSII reaction centres as basis to rise photosynthesis and tolerance to light and drought stress in barley”
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research, three-year (2013–2015) grant #13-04-02000, project “The role of plasmodesmata in the development of the plant body: an evolutionary aspect”
- Russian Ministery of Science and Education, two-year (2012–2013) grant #8133, Project “Development of the technology to enhance the efficiency of photosynthesis and mineral nutrition in cultivated plants: cytological and molecular-genetic mechanisms”
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research, three-year (2010–2012) grant #10-04-01186, project “The role of peroxisome degradation in control of the peroxisomal pool size and of ROS levels in plant cells”
- Russian Academy of Sciences, specialized program of the Presidium “Biodiversity”, three-year grant (2009–2011), project “Intercellular and systemic transport as regulators of the expression of transgenes in vascular plants”
- Russian Ministery of Science and Education, three-year (2009–2011) grant #P289, Project “Spatial and temporal organization of the initiation of meristems in higher plants”
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research, three-year (2007–2009) grant #07-04-48388, Project “Establishment of phloem export during sink-source transition: study on the regulation of maturation of phloem elements”
- Russian Ministery for Science and Education, one-year (2005) grant #02.442.11.7101, Project “Functional specialization of cell constituents of collecting phloem in higher plants”
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research, three-year (2004–2006) grant #04-04-48388, Project “Role of raffinose oligosaccharide synthesis in symplastic phloem loading”
Conferences and workshops:
- Co-chair of Organizing Committee of the 10th International Conference “Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research For Sustainablity-2019” (PRS-2019), 23–28 June 2019, Saint Petersburg
- Chair of Organizing Committee, Co-Chair of Scientific Committee of the 4th International Symposium on Plant Signaling and Behavior (PSB-2016), 19–23 June 2016, Saint Petersburg (sponsored by the Russian Science Foundation)
Professional memberships:
- Plant Signaling and Behavior, Member of Steering Committee
- Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (2012–2016)
- German Society for Plant Sciences (2000–2010)
- Russian Society of Plant Physiologists (since 1996)
- Russian Botanical Society (since 1995)
Editorial activity:
- Review Editor for Frontiers in Plant Science, section Plant Cell Biology (since 2016)
- Guest Editor in Functional Plant Biology (CSIRO Publishing, 2016–2017)
Scientific-organizational and teaching activities:
Lectures and practical courses
- 2012 — present: Courses for PhD students at Komarov Botanical Instiitute RAS, specialization Plant Biochemistry and Physiology: “Plant physiology and biochemistry”; “Structure and functional organization of photosynthetic apparatus in land plants”; “Plant transport systems”; “Morphogenetic mechanisms in land plants”; “Plant carbohydrate metabolism”; “Modern methods in plant physiology and biochemistry”
- 2011–2012 — Practical course “Methods to study plant morphogenesis” for MSc Students at the Department of Botany of St. Petersburg State University
- 2011–2012 — Lecture course “Structure and functional organization of land plants” for MSc Students at the Department of Botany of St. Petersburg State University
- 2010 — Advanced practical course “Methods of molecular biology for MSc students in botany”
- 2001–2002 — Assistance in the International Master’s and PhD Programme in Molecular Biology at the Center for Molecular Biology, Göttingen, Germany
- 1998–2001 — Assistance in practical courses in basic biochemistry (Grundpraktikum, Grundpraktikum I, Grundpraktikum II), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Supervision (PhD students)
- Elena V. Tyutereva, PhD thesis “Reactions of the photosynthetic apparatus of barley mutant chlorina 3613 lacking chlorophyll b on variations of insolation levels”, defended on 14.12.2011.
- Anastasiia I. Evkaikina, PhD thesis “Tissue localization of transcripts and proteins of the developmental regulators, KNOX-homologs, in apical meristems of Selaginella kraussiana (Kuntze) A.Braun and Huperzia selago (L.) Bernh. ex Schrank et Mart. (Lycopodiophyta)”, defended on 17.10.2019.
- Valeriya A. Dmitrieva, PhD thesis “Regulation of flowering in arabidopsis and barley mutants lacking chlorophyll b”, defense envisioned for 2020.
- Alexandra V. Murtuzova, PhD thesis “Molecular and cellular mechanisms of barley salt tolerance”, defense envisioned for 2022.
Supervision (BSc and MSc Students)
- Camilla K. Rabadanova (MSc student, Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry of St. Petersburg State University, 2017–2019); MSc thesis «The role of potassium in the induction of autophagy during salt stress in Arabidopsis and barley»
- Natalia N. Perepelkina (BSc student, the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia in St. Petersburg, 2017–2018); BSc thesis «Autophagy and programmed cell death: complementary or competing cellular programs?»
- Anna S. Balashova (BSc student, the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia in St. Petersburg, 2017–2018); BSc thesis «Mosses as model plants to study molecular mechanisms of drought tolerance»
- Camilla K. Rabadanova (BsC student, the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia in St. Petersburg, 2015–2017); BSc thesis «Induction of autophagy in plant cells in response to different stresses»
- Ekaterina A. Klimova (Voronina) (MSc student, Department of Botany of St. Petersburg State University, 2015–2017); MSc thesis «Structure and molecular organization of simplex shoot apical meristems: study of Picea abies (L.) Karst as a model»
- Ekaterina A. Voronina (BSc student, Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry of St. Petersburg State University, 2014–2015); BSc thesis «Cellular and molecular aspects of organization of shoot apical meristems in Picea abies (L.) Karst.»
- Irina Yu. Zhelninskaya (Diploma student, Saint Petersburg State Agrarian University, 2010–2012.); Diploma thesis «Study of the composition of thylakoid membranes in barley chloroplasts using native and denaturing electrophoresis and immunoblotting»
- Anastasiia I. Evkaikina (MSc student, Department of Botany of St. Petersburg State University, 2010–2012); MSc thesis «Cellular and molecular aspects of organization of shoot apical meristems in Selaginella kraussiana (Kuntze) A.Braun and Huperzia selago (L.) Bernh. ex Schrank et Mart. (Lycopodiophyta)»
- Anastasia N. Naumenko (MSc student, Department of Botany of St. Petersburg State University, 2008–2009); MSc thesis «Cellular and molecular aspects of morphogenesis in Psilotum nudum»