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Head of the laboratory : Andronov Evgeny Evgenievich
Phone: +7 (812) 466 59 79
The laboratory is the successor to the Laboratory of Soil Microbiology, which was established in the same year as ARRIAM (1930). The initiator of the creation and its first head was the director of the Institute, academician S. P. Kostychev, who initiated research on the so-called "biodynamics of soils". The studies of microbiological processes of soils of the Soviet Union carried out in the laboratory were subsequently generalized and continued by Kostychev's student N.M. Lazarev and expressed themselves in the creation of a model for the functioning of the bioorganomineral complex of soils. Since 1967, the laboratory's attention has been focused on studying the interaction of soil microorganisms and pesticides. Under the guidance of the head. The Kruglov Yu.V. laboratory conducted extensive studies of the effect of pesticides on the diversity of soil microorganisms, the biochemical processes of the carbon and nitrogen cycle in the soil, as well as on the symbiosis of legumes and nodule bacteria. Microbiological methods of pesticide indication and bioremediation of pesticide-contaminated soils have been developed. Along with this, in the 90s of the 20th century, systematic research began in the laboratory to study the diversity of soil microflora and the effect of various agrotechnical measures on the microbiome. In recent years, the laboratory has been developing and improving methodological techniques for molecular genetic analysis of the metagenome of the soil microbiome, used to study the taxonomic diversity of soil microflora and the influence of anthropogenic and natural factors on associations of soil microorganisms. The main approach is a set of modern methods of working with soil DNA and RNA, including high-performance sequencing, real-time PCR detection and data analysis using modern bioinformatics methods. In 2015, a group of young scientists from the laboratory (E. Pershina. and E. Together with colleagues from the V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Institute, they were awarded the Russian Government Prize for their work in the field of soil microbiome research.
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