Svetlana Senik

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Academic degree, academic title: Ph.D.

Position: Senior Researcher

E-mail: senik@binran.ru

Phone number: +7 (812) 372-54-62

Research interests:

Structural diversity of membrane lipids and their role in the development and adaptation of plants and fungi.
Phospholipid metabolism and genetic mechanisms of its regulation.
Diversity and biosynthesis of sterols and triterpenes of fungi.
Methods of lipidomics (LC-QqQ-MS/MS, MALDI-MS), metabolomics (GS-MS) and functional genomics (real-time PCR).

Keywords: Lipids, lipidomics, betaine lipids, sterols, triterpenes, fungi, Basidiomycota, yeast, mycelial-yeast dimorphism

Education and work experience:

2002–2008 ― student at St. Petersburg State University (Faculty of Biology and Soil, Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry).
2008–2011 ― full-time postgraduate student at the V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
2012 ― PhD thesis «Membrane lipids in morphogenetic response in basidial fungi» (supervised by E.R. Kotlova).

2008–2011 ― Senior Laboratory Assistant at the V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
2012–2016 ― Research Assistant at the Laboratory of Fungal Biochemistry, BIN RAS.
2016–2021 ― Research Associate at the Laboratory of Fungal Biochemistry, BIN RAS.
2021 ― until now ― Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Fungal Biochemistry, BIN RAS.

Grants and research projects:

Member of research team:

2022–2023. Russian Science Foundation №22-2401152 «Development of the method of targeted LC-MS/MS analysis of plant lipidome in connection with the study of uptake and metabolic conversion of exogenous phospholipids».
2020–2022. RFBR №20-04-01092 «Mechanisms of formation and remodelling of molecular diversity of phosphatidylcholines and their physiological role in the fungal cell» (Supervisor ― E.R. Kotlova).
2018–2020. RFBR №18-04-01349 «Evolutionary variability of the ascomycete fungus Podospora anserina: continuation of the long-term laboratory experiment».
2015–2017. RFBR №15-04-06211 «Morpho-physiological and biochemical bases of ecological plasticity of xylobiont macromycetes».
2014–2016. RFBR №14-04-01795 «Dynamics of the metabolite state in the context of a systematic approach to the study of growth and development processes of higher plants and fungi».
2012–2013. RFBR №12-04-31213 «Peculiarities of regulation of betaine lipid metabolism in fungi, algae and higher plants».
2011–2013. RFBR №11-04-01704-a «Ex situ conservation of macromycetes of protected areas of Russia: taxonomic revision and structural and functional features of mycelial stage».
2009–2011. RFBR №09-04-01634 «Participation of sphingolipid-dependent signalling systems in the regulation of growth processes in fungi and plants».
2005–2007. RFBR №05-04-48385 «Membrane glycero- and sphingolipids as bioregulators of growth processes in fungi and cryptogamous plants».

Professional memberships:

Selected publications:

Senik S.V., Shakhova N.V., Kiyashko A.A., Shavarda A.L. Triterpenoid acids of Agaricometes (Basidiomycota). Chemistry of natural compounds. 2025. 60(1). In print

Psurtseva N.V., Kiyashko A.A., Senik S.V., Pham T.H.G. Ex Situ Conservation, DNA Barcoding and Enzymatic Potential Evaluation of Macrofungi (Basidiomycota, Ascomycota) from Vietnam. Journal of Fungi. 2025. 11(1): 34.

Nokhsorov V.V., Sofronova V.E., Sleptsov I.V., Senik S.V., Petrova L.V., Petrov K.A. Sterol Profile of Spring Oats (Avena sativa L.) under Autumn Cold in Cryolithozone Conditions. International Journal of Plant Biology. 2024. 15: 1304–1320.

Kotlova E.R., Senik S.V., Pozhvanov G.A. et al. Uptake and metabolic conversion of exogenous phosphatidylcholines depending on their acyl chain structure in Arabidopsis thaliana. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2024. 25: 89.

Psurtseva N.V., Kiyashko A.A., Senik S.V., Shakhova N.V., Belova N.V. The Conservation and Study of Macromycetes in the Komarov Botanical Institute Basidiomycetes Culture Collection — Their Taxonomical Diversity and Biotechnological Prospects. J. Fungi. 2023. 9: 1196.

Senik S.V., Manzhieva B.S., Maloshenok L.G., Serebryakov E.B., Bruskin S.A., Kotlova E.R. Heterogeneous distribution of phospholipid molecular species in the surface culture of Flammulina velutipes: new facts about lipids containing α-linolenic fatty acid. Journal of Fungi. 2023. 9(102).

Nokhsorov V.V., Senik S.S., Kotlova E.R., Misharev A.D., Protopopov F.F., Dudareva L.V. Role of lipids of the evergreen shrub Ephedra monosperma in adaptation to low temperature in the Cryolithozone. Plants. 2023. 12(15).

Rozentsvet O.A., Kotlova E.R., Bogdanova E.S., Nesterov V.N., Senik S.V., Shavarda A.L. Balance of Δ5-, Δ7-sterols and stanols in halophytes in connection with salinity tolerance. Phytochemistry. 2022. 198: 113156.

Kotlova E.R., Senik S.V., Manzhieva B.S. et al. Diversity of ESI-MS Based Phosphatidylcholine Profiles in Basidiomycetes. Journal of Fungi. 2022. 8(2): 177.

Nokhsorov V.V., Dudareva L.V., Senik S.V., Chirikova N.K.,Petrov K.A. Influence of Extremely Low Temperatures of the Pole of Cold on the Lipid and Fatty-Acid Composition of Aerial Parts of the Horsetail Family (Equisetaceae). Plants. 2021. 10(5): 996.

Senik S.V., Kolker T.L., Kotlova E.R., Vlasov D.Yu., Shavarda A.L., Puzansky R. K., Psurtseva N.V. Lipid and metabolite profiling of Serpula lacrymans under freezing stress. Current microbiology. 2021. 789: 61–966.

Senik S.V., Psurtseva N.V., Shavarda A.L., Kotlova E.R. Role of lipids in the thermal plasticity of basidial fungus Favolaschia manipularis. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 2019. 65(12): 870–879.

Jani K., Khare K., Senik S. et al. Corynebacterium godavarianum sp. nov., isolated from Godavari river, India. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2017. 68: 241–247.

Kulikova N.A., Polyakov A.Y., Lebedev V.A. et al. Key Roles of Size and Crystallinity of Nanosized Iron Hydr(oxides) Stabilized by Humic Substances in Iron Bioavailability to Plants. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 2017. 65(51): 11157–11169.

Kulikova N.A., Abroskin D.P., Badun G.A. et al. Label Distribution in Tissues of Wheat Seedlings Cultivated with Tritium-Labeled Leonardite Humic Acid. Scientific Reports. 2016. 6: 28869.

Abros’kin D.P., Fuentes M., Garcia-Mina J.M., Klyain O.I., Senik S.V., Volkov D.S., Perminova I.V., Kulikova N.A. The effect of humic acids and their complexes with iron on the functional status of plants grown under iron deficiency. Eurasian Soil Science. 2016. 49: 1099–1108.

Senik S.V., Maloshenok L.G., Kotlova E.R., Shavarda A.L., Moiseenko K.V., Bruskin S.A., Koroleva O.V., Psurtseva N.V. Diacylglyceryltrimethylhomoserine content and gene expression changes triggered by phosphate deprivation in the mycelium of the basidiomycete Flammulina velutipes. Phytochemistry. 2015. 117: 34–42.

Senik S.V., Kotlova E.R., Psurtseva N.V., Novikov A.V., Khanin V.A., Shavarda A.L. Effect of exogenous sphingolipids on growth and metabolism in surface cultures of basidial fungi. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mushroom Biology and Mushroom Products (ICMBMP7). 2011. 96–102.

Editorial activity:

Topical Advisory Panel Member of International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Special Issue «New Insights of Fungal and Plant Lipids: Structural Diversity, Metabolism and Applications»