Peter Zhurbenko

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Position: Research Assistant

E-mail: PZhurbenko@binran.ru

Research interests:

Systematics and phylogeny of the genus Iris.
Identification of the diversity of arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi.
Horizontal transfer of agrobacterium genes into the host plants.

Keywords: Molecular biology, phylogenetics, bioinformatics, metagenomics, horizontal gene transfer, GMO, plant anatomy, botany

Education and work experience:

2014 — Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University under name of S.M. Kirov, Forestry department, Forestry faculty, Degree of specialist (forestry), 01.07.2014; Qualification of engineer (forestry). Thesis: «Forest reclamation of the spent sand quarry of Saint-Petersburg and Lenigradskaya district». Supervisor: Dr. Navalichin S.V.
2015–2019 — Postgraduate program, Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (BIN RAS). Topic of research: «Systematics of subgenus Limniris (Tausch) Spach genus Iris L.». Supervisor: Dr. Nina Alekseeva.
2020–2021 — a one-year program on Bioinformatics for Biologists. Bioinformatics Institute.

2015–2022 — Senior Laboratory Assistant, Laboratory of Biosystematics and Cytology, BIN RAS.
2022 — until now — Research Assistant, Laboratory of Biosystematics and Cytology, BIN RAS.

Grants and research projects:

2021–2023. RSF № 21-14-00050 «Agrobacterial transformation in plant evolution».
2018–2021. RFBR №18-04-01040 «Ways and mechanisms of changes in genoms and karyotypes of plants interspecific hybrids and hybridogenic species».

Other projects:

2017. University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California. Berkeley in Berkeley, California, USA: Research on genus Iris in molecular laboratory.

Expeditions:

Altai.

Selected publications:

Yurkov, A.P., Kryukov, A.A. … Zhurbenko, P.M. et al. Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Distinct Ecosystems of the North Caucasus, a Temperate Biodiversity Hotspot. J. Fungi. 2024. 10(1): 11.

Zhidkin R., Zhurbenko P., Bogomaz O., Gorodilova E., Katsapov I., Antropov, D., Matveeva T. Biodiversity of rolB/C-like Natural Transgene in the Genus Vaccinium L. and Its Application for Phylogenetic Studies. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2023. 24: 6932.

Badaeva E.D., Kotseruba V.V., Fisenko A.V., Chikida N.N., Belousova M.K., Zhurbenko P.M., Surzhikov S.A., Dragovich A.Y. Intraspecific divergence of diploid grass Aegilops comosa is associated with structural chromosome changes. Comparative Cytogenetics. 2023. 17: 75–112.

Koteyeva N.K., Voznesenskaya E.V., Pathare V.S., Borisenko T.A., Zhurbenko P.M., Morozov G.A., Edwards G.E. Biochemical and Structural Diversification of C₄ Photosynthesis in Tribe Zoysieae (Poaceae). Plants. 2023. 12: 4049.

Belyakov E.A., Mikhaylova Y.V., Machs E.M. Zhurbenko P.M., Rodionov A.V. Hybridization and diversity of aquatic macrophyte Sparganium L. (Typhaceae) as revealed by high-throughput nrDNA sequencing. Sci Rep. 2022. 12: 21610.

Chen K., Zhurbenko P., Danilov L., Matveeva T., Otten L. Conservation of an Agrobacterium cT-DNA insert in Camellia section Thea reveals the ancient origin of tea plants from a genetically modified ancestor. Front Plant Sci. 2022. 13: 997762.

Kryukov A.A., Gorbunova A.O., Machs E.M., Mikhaylova Yu.V., Rodionov A.V., Zhurbenko P.M., Yurkov A.P. Perspectives of using Illumina MiSeq for identification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breeding. 2020. 24(2): 158–167.

Yurkov A., Kryukov A., Gorbunova A.O., Shcherbakov A.V., Zhurbenko P.M. Identification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soils of the North Caucasus based on Illumina MiSeq data for ITS1 and ITS2 regions. BIO Web Conf. 2020. 23: 02013.

Dorofeeva M.M., Zhurbenko P.M. Comparative study of ovule structure and development in some species of Iris subgenus Limniris. Ботанический журнал. 2020. 105(1): 15–31.

Rodionov A.V., Amosova A.V., … Zhurbenko P.M. et al. Genetic Consequences of Interspecific Hybridization, Its Role in Speciation and Phenotypic Diversity of Plants. Russian Journal of Genetics. 2019. 55(3): 278–294.