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Tatiana A. Zotina

Tatiana A. Zotina

12.01.1972

PH.D. (biological sciences)

Senior Research Scientist

Laboratory of Radioecology

Tel.: (3912) 494572

Fax: (3912) 433400

e-mail: t_zotina@ibp.ru

Education:

  • 1989-1994 Krasnoyarsk State University, Department of Physics, Specialization in Biophysics

  • 1994-1997 Post Graduate Courses of the Institute of Biophysics SB RAS

PHD thesis

  • "Mechanisms of formation of the vertical structure of phytoplankton in the stratified water body" (2001, Institute of biophysics SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk)

Professional experience

  • 2004 - now - Visiting lecturer (radiobiology, autumn semester), Siberian Federal University (former Krasnoyarsk State University);

  • 2004 - Now - Senior Research Scientist, Lab. of Biophysics, IBP SB RAS;

  • 2001-2004 - Research Scientist, Lab. of Radioecology, IBP SB RAS;

  • 1997-2001 - Junior research scientist, Lab. of Biophysics, IBP SB RAS;

Membership in international societies

  • 2004 - now - International Union of Radioecologists (IUR)

Scientific experience:

  • Experiments with isotopes of U, Am and Pu;

  • Estimation of toxicity of heavy metals for aquatic plants;

  • Chemical fractionation of biomass of aquatic plants;

  • Taxonomy of freshwater phytoplankton and macrophytes;

  • Laboratory experiments with microalgae and cyanobacteria;

  • Estimation of vitality of cyanobacteria with fluorescent staining techniques, image-system analyses;

  • Fluorometry of phytoplankton;

  • Experiments with 14‘- labeled compounds;

  • Field sampling of phytoplankton and aquatic plants;

  • Food chain transfer experiments with fish.

Principal scientific interest:

  • Radioecology: Biokinetic of artificial radionuclides in freshwater ecosystems;

  • Distribution of artificial radionuclides in the biomass of aquatic plants;

  • Estimation of vitality of aquatic plants;

  • Food chain transfer of radionuclides and stable heavy metals;

Conferences attended (5 years)

  • 2009

    17th International conference on Environmental Bioindicators, May, 19-21 2009, Moscow

    10th International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements - 10th ICOBTE (14-17 July 2009, Chihuahua, Mexico)

  • 2008 o International Conference on Radioecology and Environmental radioactivity, 15-20 June, 2008 in Bergen, Norway; o V Intetrational conference "Heavy metals and radionuclides in the environment" 15-18 October 2008, Semey, Kazahstan

  • 2007 o Vth Lavrent'ev's conference of young scientists of SB RAS, November, 20-22, Novosibirsk; o 9th International conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements (9th ICOBTE), Beijing, China, 15-19 July 2007.

  • 2006 o IV International conference "Heavy metals and radionuclides in the environment" Semey, Kazakstan, October, 19-21; o European Radiation Research 2006 (ERR-2006): The 35th Annual Meeting of the European Radiation Research Society and the 4th Annual Meeting of the Ukrainian Society for Radiation Biology. August, 22-25. Kyiv, Ukraine.

  • 2004 o IVth Lavrent'ev's conference of young scientists of SB RAS, November, 17-19, Novosibirsk; o ECORAD 2004, Aix-en-Provence, France, o XXIX congress of International Association of theoretical and applied limnology. Lahti, Finland, 2004.

Research projects supervising (5 years)

  • 2009-2010 RFBR-KSF "Distribution of uranium and transuranic elements in the biomass of macrophytes and their food chain transfer"

  • 2007-2008 RFBR-KSF "Aquatic plants as biofilters for the artificial radionuclides in the Yenisei River"

  • 2006-2007 - SB RAS "Estimation of the role of submerged macrophytes in accumulation of artificial radionuclides in the Yenisei River"2006-2007 - Grant of the President of Russian Federation "Investigation of mechanisms of accumulation of artificial radionuclides by aquatic plants"

  • 2004 - 2007 - Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation and CRDF "A study of the role of phototrophic organisms in migration of artificial radionuclides in the Yenisei River"

  • 2003-2004 SB RAS "Investigation of accumulation of Am-241 by diatom plankton of the Yenisei River"

Fellowships

  • 2007, 2008 - Russian Science Support Foundation

  • 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 - Krasnoyarsk Scientific Foundation;

Field research/Sampling trips:

  • 2000-2009 - short sampling trips for radioecological monitoring of the Yenisei River.

  • 1995-2001 field research (1-2 months per year) at Shira Lake (Khakasia, Russia);

Professional research and study travels

  • 2009 (January) - Training course on applied spectrometry with the ORTEC instruments";

  • 2007 (August) - Institute of Hydrobiology, Kyiv, Ukraine. Collaborated research of distribution of artificial radionuclides in the biomass of aquatic plants from Chernobyl exclusion zone;

  • 2003 (July-August) - Erken Laboratory, Uppsala University, Norr Malma, Sweden - Taxonomy of freshwater algae, NORFA course;

  • 2003 (January-March) - Limnological station, Zurich University, Investigation of vitality of cyanobacteria with fluorescent staining techniques;

  • 2001 (August-September) - Limnological station, Zurich University, Investigation of photoheterotrophism of cyanobacteria from Lake Zurich.

  • 1999 (May) - Institute of Biology of Inland Waters RAS, Borok, The application of C-14 technique for estimation of phytoplankton primary production;

Publications in peer reviewed journals (5 years)

  1. Zotina, T.A., Bolsunovsky, A.Ya, Kalachova, G.S., 2009. Accumulation and distribution of 241Am in the biomass of freshwater plant Elodea canadensis. Radioprotection 44 (5), 65-69

  2. Zotina, T.A., Kalachova, G.S., Bolsunovsky, A.Ya., Degermendzhy, A.G., 2008. 241Am distribution in the biomass of freshwater macrophytes. Doklady Biological Sciences 421, 254-256.

  3. Zotina T.A., Bolsunovsky A.Ya., Bondareva L.G. (2008) Accumulation of 241Am by seston of the Yenisei River. Radiation Biology. Radioecology 48 (1): 117-122 (In Russian with Abstract in English)

  4. Zotina T.A. (2008) The biomass of macrophytes at several sites of the upper reaches of the Yenisei River. Journal of Siberian federal university. Biology. 2008, ό 1: 102-108

  5. Zotina T.A. Bolsunovsky. (2007) Role of aquatic plants in migration of artificial radionuclides in the Yenisei River. In: Y.Zhu et al. (Eds.) Biogeochemistry of trace elements: environmental protection, remediation and human health. Tsinghua Univ. Press, Beijing, 2007. P.457-458.

  6. Bolsunovsky A.Ya., Muratova E.N., Sukovaty A.G., Pimenov A.V., Sanzharaeva E.A., Zotina T.A., Sedelnikova T.S., Pan'kov Ye.V., Kornilova M.G. (2007) Radioecological monitoring of the Yenisei Rive and cytogenetic characteristics of aquatic plant Elodea canadensis. Radiation Biology. Radioecology 47 (1): 63-73 (In Russian with Abstract in English)

  7. Zotina T.A., Bolsunovsky A.Ya., Bondareva L.G. (2005) New Data on the Accumulation of Americium-241 by Photoassimilation Organs of the Aquatic Plant Elodea canadensis. Doclady Biological Sciences. 405: 431-433 (In English)

  8. Bolsunovsky A., Zotina T, Bondareva L. (2005) Accumulation and release of 241Am by a macrophyte of the Yenisei River (Elodea canadensis). Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 81(1): 33-46

  9. Bolsunovsky A.Ya., Zotina T.A., Bondareva L.G., Degermandzhy A.G. (2004) Assessment of the Rate of Accumulation of the Transuranium Element Americium-241 by the Aquatic Plant Elodea canadensis. Doclady Biological Sciences. 399: 467-469 (In English)

  10. Zotina T, Koster O, Juttner F. (2003) Photoheterotrophy and light-dependent uptake of organic and organic nitrogenous compounds by Planktothrix rubescens under low irradiance. Freshwater Biology. 48 (10): 1859-1872.