Taras K. Antal

PhD, Senior Researcher

 

C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E

Personal Data

Taras Kornelievich Antal, born in 1972, married, one kid

Nationality: Russian

Permanent job address: Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Faculty of Biology, Dept of Biophysics, 119899, Moscow, Russia.

Telephone: 7 (495) 939-50-29

E-mail: taras@biophys.msu.ru or taras_an@mail.ru

 

Educational background:

2000-Ph.D. dissertation 'Probing of phytoplankton photosynthesis in situ with the submersible pulse-and-probe fluorometer'.

1995-1998-Ph.D. student, Faculty of Biology, MSU

1990-1995-Student, MSU

 

Research experience:

2007-2009-postdoc in Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology, Dept of Biology, University of Turku, Finland (Project supervisor: Prof. E. Tyystjärvi)

2003-2005-postdoctoral position in Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, Dept of Plant Physiology, Uppsala University, Sweden (Project supervisor: Prof. P. Lindblad)

2000 till now-Senior Researcher, MSU

1998-2000-Researcher, MSU

1995-Diploma work 'Oxidative processes induced by photosystem 1 in thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus at high temperature', MSU

 

Teaching experience:

2000-2003-Teaching course 'The chlorophyll a fluorescence as a tool for probing photosynthesis in vivo and in situ'

Awards, Grants and Fellowships:

2007-3 months scholarship granted by the Swedish Institute.

2006-The U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF) (participant).

2006-The International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) grants (participation).

2005-9 months scholarship granted by the Swedish Institute.

2003-Moscow State University rector stipend for young perspective scientists.

2000-till now-Russian Foundation of Fundamental Investigations (RFFI) grant (participation).

2000-2003-RFFI personal grant for young researchers.

2000-The International Association for the Promotion of Cooperation with Scientists from the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (INTAS) grant (participation).

1995-INTAS grant (participation).

 

 

Research interests are mainly focused on study of stress-induced regulation of primary photosynthetic processes. They include studies:

a) effects of sulfur/nitrogen deprivation stress on primary photosynthetic reactions

b) high-resolved light-induced kinetics of chlorophyll a fluorescence (OJIP) with respect to their analysis and application

c) H₂ production by green algae and unicellular cyanobacteria

d) application of fluorescence methods for estimation photosynthetic capacity of phytoplankton in situ;

e) artificial photosynthesis

 

 

Methods:

Fluorometers: PAM, PEA, FRR. Picosecond fluorescence. Microfluorometry. Imaging fluorescence. Delayed Light Emission. Low and high temperature thermoluminescence. Low temperature fluorescence emission. Spectrophotometry. Determination of protein, starch, ATP, pigments. Nucleotides/enzymes extraction. Gel electrophoresis. Gas chromatography. Bioreactors. Alga/cyanobacteria cultivation. Nutrient deprivation. H₂ photoproduction.

 

Languages: Russian, English, Ukrainian.

 

Total publications: 30

 

List of publications (available in English):

1. Antal, T.K., Volgusheva, A.A., Kukarskih, G.P., Krendeleva, T.E., Rubin, A.B. Relationships between H₂ photoproduction and different electron transport pathways in sulfur-deprived Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (2009) International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 34, pp. 9087-9094.

 

2.      Antal, T.K., Matorin, D.N., Ilyash, L.V., Volgusheva A.A., Osipov, V., Konyuhov, I.V., Krendeleva, T.E., Rubin, A.B. Probing of photosynthetic reactions in marine microalgae with a PEA chlorophyll fluorometer (2009) Photosynthesis Research, 102, pp. 67-76.

 

3. Antal, T.K., Sarvikas, P., Tyystjärvi, E. Two-Electron Reactions S₂Q_BRS₀Q_B and S₃Q_BRS₁Q_B are involved in deactivation of higher S States of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II. (2009) Biophysical Journal, 96, pp. 1-9.

 

4. Antal, T.K., Lo, W., Armstrong, W.H., Tyystjärvi, E. Illumination with ultraviolet or visible light induces chemical changes in the water-soluble manganese complex, [Mn₄O₆(bpea)₄]Br₄. (2009) Photochemistry and Photobiology, 85, pp. 663-668.

 

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