Elizaveta Rivkina

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Education

    • Lomonosov Moscow State University, Geology Department, MS in Geophysics, 1971
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University, Geology Department, PhD in Geochemistry,1986

Education

Research interests

Professional activities

History of the research funding

Selected publications

Research interests

  • Permafrost biogeochemistry
  • Greenhouse bases in permafrost
  • Permafrost as a Microbial Habitat
  • Metabolic activity of Microorganisms in Permafrost - Life below freezing point

Professional activities

Professional experience
  • Junior Scientist,Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Lab of Biogeochemistry, USSR Academy of Sciences, Pushchino (1973–1986)
  • Researcher, Institute of Soil Science and Photosynthesis, Lab of Soil Resources and Soil Genesis, USSR Academy of Sciences, Pushchino
  • Senior Researcher, Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Lab of Mass and Energy Exchange, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino (1995-2005)
  • Senior Staff Scientist, Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Lab of Soil Cryology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino (2005–2011)
  • Head of Soil Cryology Laboratory, Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino (since 2012 until present)

Overseas experience
  • Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1993-1994. Cooperative Research (USA-RUSSIA) in long-term microbiological areas (Dr. J. Tiedje)
  • Polar Desert Center, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fl, 1995–1997. OPP-9420227. Cooperative Research: «Living and Fossil Microorganisms, a Sensitive Paleoclimate Indicator in the McMurdo Dry Valleys» (Dr. E.I. Friedmann, supervisor).  
  • NASA-NAGW1871 & NAGW 4044. "Microorganisms in Siberian Permafrost” (Dr. E.I. Friedmann, supervisor) 

Professional affiliations
  • Russian Society of Soil Science, Member 2000 to present
  • European Astrobiology Network Association, Member 2009 to present

Supervised PhD Student Theses
  • Kirill Krivushin "Methanogenic Archae in Permafrost" (2010);
  • Gleb Kraev "Methane in Permafrost" (2010) 

Field experience
  • North-Eastern Arctic (Kolyma Lowland) (1990–1998);
  • Kamchatka Peninsula (2004)

History of the research funding

Current

  • RSF grant 14-14-01115. Metagenomics of the arctic permafrost — new approach to the studies of biota and its response to the climate changes (2014–2016) (team leader)
  • Russian Fund for Basic Research 15-04-07772 Cryopegs as unique ancient permafrostecosystems: ecological significance and biotechnological potential (2015–2017) (team leader)
  • Russian Academy of Sciences. Cryobiosphere: Permanently and Seasonally Subzero Ecosystems (2009–2014), (participant)
  • Russian Academy of Sciences program “The origin of the biosphere and the evolution of geo-biological systems. Cryobiosphere: viable paleomicroorganisms from subzerotemperature ecosystems” (2009–2016) (participant)
  • Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP) — continuing (participant)
  • Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) — continuing (participant)

Completed

  • Russian Fund for Basic Research 12-05-01085 The response of biota and greenhouse gases to temperature and phase state changes (2012-2014) (team leader)
  • Cryobiosphere: Permanently and Seasonally Subzero Ecosystems, Russian Academy of Sciences. (2009–2011) (participant)
  • Russian Fund for Basic Research. 08-05-00268-a. Permafrost degradation and forecast of carbon containing gases release to atmosphere (2008-2010) (team leader)
  • Antarctic Permafrost Age-Implication to Astro/Terrestrial Biogeosience, Russian Academy of Sciences. (2005–2008
  • Mechanisms of microbial adaptation to permafrost conditions, Russian Fund for Basic Research. 04-04-48257-a. (2004–2007) (team leader)
  • Genomic and Evolutionary Studies on Microbial Life at Low Temperature, NASA Astrobiology Institute. (2000–2006) (participant)
  • NSF. Life in Extreme Environment: Strategy of prokaryote survival in permafrost (2000–2004) (participant)
  • INTAS. Permafrost Dating by Cosmogenic 36Cl and 10Be and its Applications to Bio- and Geoscience (2006–2008) (participant)

Selected publications

 Rivkina, E., Petrovskaya, L., Vishnivetskaya, T., Krivushin, K., Shmakova, L., Tutukina, M., Meyers, A., and Kondrashov, F. Metagenomic analyses of the late Pleistocene permafrost – additional tools for reconstruction of environmental conditions, Biogeosciences, 13, 2207-2219, doi:10.5194/bg-13-2207-2016, 2016.

Petrovskaya, L., Novototskaya-Vlasova, K., Spirina, E., Durdenko, E., Lomakina, G., Zavialova, M., Nikolaev, E., Rivkina, E. (2016). Expression and characterization of a new esterase with gcsag motif from a permafrost metagenomic library // FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiw046 fiw046 First published online: 28 February 2016

Manucharovaa, N. A. , Trosheva, E. V., Kol’tsova, E. M., Demkina, E. V., Karaevskaya, E.S., Rivkina, E.M., Mardanov, A.V. and El’-Registan,G. I. (2016). Characterization of the Structure of the Prokaryotic Complex of Antarctic Permafrost by Molecular Genetic Techniques // Microbiology, 85(1): 102–108.

Shatilovich Anastasia, Stoupin Daniel, Rivkina Elizaveta (2015) Ciliates from ancient permafrost: Assessment of cold resistance of the resting cysts // European Journal of Protistology, 51: 230–240.

Petrovskaya, L. E. , K. A. Novototskaya-Vlasova, E. A. Kryukova, E. M. Rivkina, D. A. Dolgikh & M. P. Kirpichnikov (2015) Cell surface display of cold-active esterase EstPc with the use of a new

Gilichinsky, Michael, Demidov, Nikita, Rivkina, Elizaveta (2015) Morphometry of volcanic cones on Mars in perspective of Astrobiological Research // International Journal of Astrobiology, 14 (4): 537–545.

Matthieu Legendre , Audrey Lartigue, Lionel bertaux, Sandra Jeudy, Julia Bartoli , Magali Lescot , Jean-Marie Alempic, Claire Ramus, Christophe Bruley , Karine Labadie , Lyubov Shmakova , Elizaveta Rivkina, Yohann Couté, Chantal Abergel, Jean-Michel Claverie In-depth study of Mollivirus sibericum, a new thirty-thousand-year-old giant virus infecting Acanthamoeba PNAS 2015 201510795

Rivkina, E., Petrovskaya, L., Vishnivetskaya, T., Krivushin, K., Shmakova, L., Tutukina, M., Meyers, A., and Kondrashov, F.: Metagenomic analyses of the late Pleistocene permafrost – additional tools for reconstruction of environmental conditions, Biogeosciences Discuss., 12, 12091-12119, doi:10.5194/bgd-12-12091-2015, 2015.

Shmakova L.A., Rivkina E.M. Viable Eukaryotes of the phylum Amoebozoa from the Arctic permafrost Paleontological Journal, 2015, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 572–577

Kirill Krivushin, Fyodor Kondrashov, Lyubov Shmakova, Mariya Tutukina, Lada Petrovskaya, Elizaveta Rivkina. Two Metagenomes from Late Pleistocene Northeast Siberian Permafrost. 2015, Genome Announcements, Volume 3 Issue 1 e01380-14

Matthieu Legendre, Julia Bartoli, Lyubov Shmakova, Sandra Jeudy, Karine Labadie, Annie Adrait, Magali Lescot, Olivier Poirot, Lionel Bertaux, Christophe Bruley, Yohann Couté, Elizaveta Rivkina, Chantal Abergel, and Jean-Michel Claverie Thirty-thousand-year-old distant relative of giant icosahedral DNA viruses with a pandoravirus morphology PNAS 2014 111 (11) 4274-4279; published ahead of print March 3, 014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1320670111 

ES Karaevskaya, LS Demchenko, NE Demidov, EM Rivkina, SA Bulat,  DA Gilichinsky (2014)Archaeal diversity in permafrost deposits of Bunger Hills Oasis and King George Island (Antarctica) according to the 16S rRNA gene sequencing //Microbiology 83 (4), 398-406

Shmakova L. A. , D. G. Fedorov-Davydov, and E. M. Rivkina (2013). The Amoeboid Protists of Cryogenic Soils in the Kolyma Lowland. Eurasian Soil Science, 2013, Vol. 46, No. 12, pp. 1211–1218. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2013

Legendre Matthieu, Julia Bartoli, Lyubov Shmakova, Sandra Jeudy, Karine Labadie, Annie Adrait, Magali Lescot, Olivier Poirot, Lionel Bertaux, Christophe Bruley, Yohann Couté, Elizaveta Rivkina, Chantal Abergel, and Jean-Michel Claverie. (2014). Thirty-thousand-year-old distant relative of giant icosahedral DNA viruses with a pandoravirus morphology. PNAS, published ahead of print March 3, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1320670111

Viktoria Shcherbakova, Natalia Chuvilskaya, Elizaveta Rivkina, Nikita Demidov, Victoria Uchaeva, Stanislav Suetin, Nataliya Suzina, and David Gilichinsky (2013) Celerinatantimonas yamalensis sp. nov., a cold-adapted diazotrophic bacterium from a cold permafrost brine. Int.Journal Syst Evol Microbiology 63: 4421-4427.

Ksenia Novototskaya-Vlasova, Lada Petrovskaya, Elena Kryukova, Elizaveta Rivkina, Dmitry Dolgikh, Mikhail Kirpichnikov. (2013) “Expression and chaperone-assisted refolding of a new cold-active lipase from Psychrobacter cryohalolentis K5T”. Protein expression and purification, vol.91: 96-103.

V. A. Mironov, V. A. Shcherbakova, E. M. Rivkina, and D. A. Gilichinsky. (2013). Thermophilic Bacteria of the Genus Geobacillus from Permafrost Volcanic Sedimentary Rocks // Microbiology 82, p. 389

G. N. Kraev, E.-D. Schultze, and E. M. Rivkina(2013). Cryogenesis as a Factor of Methane Distribution in Layers of Permafrost // Doklady Earth Sciences, vol. 451, p. 882

N.E.Demidov, S.R.Verkulich, O.V.Zanina, E.S.Karaevskaya, Z.V.Pushina, E.M.Rivkina, D.G.Shmelev The end moraine and lacustrine-marine sediments in the crossection of quaternary deposits of the Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica (2013) // Problems of Arctica and Antarctica (in Russian), no. 3, 79-90

David E Graham, Matthew D Wallenstein, Tatiana A Vishnivetskaya, Mark P Waldrop, Tommy J Phelps, Susan M Pfiffner, Tullis C Onstott, Lyle G Whyte, Elizaveta M Rivkina, David A Gilichinsky, Dwayne A Elias, Rachel Mackelprang, Nathan C VerBerkmoes, Robert L Hettich,Dirk Wagner, Stan D Wullschleger and Janet K Jansson (2012) Microbes in thawing permafrost: the unknown variable in the climate change equation // The ISME Journal 6, 709-712. Full text (pdf)

Pecheritsyna SA, EM Rivkina, VN Akimov, VA Shcherbakova (2012) Desulfovibrio arcticus sp. nov., a psychrotolerant sulfate-reducing bacterium from a cryopeg of the Varandey Peninsula. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 62:33-37

А.А. Abramov, R.S. Sletten*, E.M. Rivkina, V.A. Mironov, D.A. Gilichinsky (2011) Geocryological Conditions of Antarctica. Earth Cryosphera, XV, 3: 3–19. (in Russian) Full text (pdf)

Shcherbakova V, Rivkina E, Pecheritsyna S, Laurinavichius K, Suzina N, Gilichinsky D (2011) Methanobacterium arcticum sp. nov., a methanogenic archaeon from Holocene Arctic permafrost. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, 61:144-147.

Gilichinsky DA, EM Rivkina (2011) Permafrost Microbiology (Reitner J, Thiel V, eds.) Encyclopedia of Geobiology, Springer-Verlag: 726-732

Petrovskaya, L. E., E.P. Lukashev , V.V. Chupin , S.V. Sychev , E.N. Lyukmanova, E.A. Kryukova, R.H. Ziganshin, E.V. Spirina, E.M. Rivkina, R.A. Khatypov, L.G. Erokhina, & D.A. Gilichinsky, V. A. S., M.P. Kirpichnikov (2010). Predicted bacteriorhodopsin from Exiguobacterium sibiricum is a functional proton pump. FEBS Letters 584, 4193-4196 Full text (pdf)

Krivushin KV, Shcherbakova, V.A., Petrovskaya, L.E., Rivkina, E.M. (2010) Methanobacterium veterum sp. nov., from ancient Siberian permafrost. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 60: 455-459

Suetin S, Shcherbakova V, Chuvilskaya N, Rivkina E, Suzina N, Lysenko A & Gilichinsky D (2009) Clostridium tagluense sp. nov., a psychrotolerant, anaerobic, spore-forming bacterium from permafrost. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 59: 1421.

Shcherbakova VA, , N. A. Chuvil’skaya, E. M. Rivkina, S. A. Pecheritsyna, S. V. Suetin, K. S. Laurinavichius, A. M. Lysenko, and D. A. Gilichinsky (2009) Novel Halotolerant Bacterium from Cryopeg in Permafrost: Description of Psychrobacter muriicola sp. nov. Microbiology 78: 84-91. Full text (pdf)

S. A. Pecheritsyna, V. A. Shcherbakova, A. L. Kholodov, V. N. Akimov, T. N. Abashina, N. E. Suzina, and E. M. Rivkina (2007) Microbiological Analysis of Cryopegs from the Varandei Peninsula, Barents Sea Microbiology 76: 614–620. Full text (2007)/span>

Gilichinsky, D. A.,Wilson, G. S., Friedmann, E. I., McKay, C. P., Sletten, R. S., Rivkina, E. M., Vishnivetskaya, T. A., Erokhina, L. G., Ivanushkina, N. E., Kochkina, G. A., Shcherbakova, V. A., Soina, V. S., Spirina, E. V., Vorobyova, E. A., Fyodorov-Davydov, D. G., Hallet, B., Ozerskaya, S. M., Sorokovikov, V. A., Laurinavichyus, K. S., Shatilovich, A. V., Chanton, J. P., Ostroumov, V. E., Tiedje, J. M. (2007) Microbial populations in Antarctic permafrost: biodiversity, state, age, and implication for astrobiology. Astrobiology 7: 275-311

Shcherbakova VA, , N. A. Chuvil’skaya, E. M. Rivkina, S. A. Pecheritsyna, S. V. Suetin, K. S. Laurinavichius, A. M. Lysenko, and D. A. Gilichinsky (2009) Novel Halotolerant Bacterium from Cryopeg in Permafrost: Description of Psychrobacter muriicola sp. nov. Microbiology 78: 84-91 (in Russian). Full text (pdf)

Rivkina E, Shcherbakova V, Laurinavichius K, et al. (2007) Biogeochemistry of methane and methanogenic archaea in permafrost. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 61: 1-15. Full text (pdf)

Rivkina E, Kraev, GN, Krivushin, KV, Laurinavichus, KS, Fyodorov-Davydov, DG, Kholodov, AL, Shcherbakova, VA, Gilichinsky, DA (2006) Methane in permafrost of Northeastern Arctic, Earth Cryosphere 10: 23-41.Full text (pdf)

Shcherbakova VA, Chuvilskaya NA, Rivkina EM, et al. (2005) Novel psychrophilic anaerobic spore-forming bacterium from the overcooled water brine in permafrost: description Clostridium algoriphilum sp. nov. Extremophiles 9: 239-246. Full text (pdf)

Rivkina E, K. Laurinavichyus, Gilichinsky D. (2005) Microbial Life below the Freezing Point within Permafrost // Life in Ancient Ice (eds. J. Castello, S. Rogers, Princeton University Press, Chapter 7: 106-117

Gilichinsky D, Rivkina, E., Bakermans, C., Shcherbakova, V., Petrovskaya, L., Ozerskaya, S., Ivanushkina, N., Kochkina, G., Laurinavichuis, K.,Pecheritsina, S., Fattakhova, R., Tiedje, J. M. (2005) Biodiversity of cryopegs in permafrost. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 53: 117-128. Full text (pdf)

Gilichinsky, D., E. Rivkina, K. Laurinavichius, E. Vorobyоva, C. McKay (2003). Permafrost frontiers of life. Frontiers of life (eds. L. Celnikier, Tran Thanh Van) 99-105.

Rivkina E, Laurinavichius K, McGrath J, Tiedje J, Shcherbakova V & Gilichinsky D (2004) Microbial life in permafrost. Adv Space Res 33: 1215-1221

Gilichinsky D, Rivkina E, Shcherbakova V, Laurinavichuis K & Tiedje J (2003) Supercooled water brines within permafrost-an unknown ecological niche for microorganisms: a model for astrobiology. Astrobiology 3: 331-341.

G. S. Wilson J.A. Barron, A. C. Ashworth, R. A. Askin, J. A. Carter, M. G. Curren, D. H. Dalhuisen, E. I. Friedmann, D. G. Fyodorov-Davidov, D. A. Gilichinsky, M. A. Harpere, D. M. Harwood, J. F. Hiemstra, T. R Janecek, K. J. Licht, V. E. Ostroumov, R. D. Powellm, E. M. Rivkina, S. A. Rose, A. P. Stroeven, P. Stroeven, J. J. M. van der Meero and M. C. Wizevich (2002) The Mount Feather Diamicton of the Sirius Group: an accumulation of indicators of Neogene Antarctic glacial and climatic history. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 182: 117-131.

Khmelenina VN, Makutina VA, Kalyuzhnaya MG, Rivkina EM, Gilichinsky DA & Trotsenko Y (2002) Discovery of viable methanotrophic bacteria in permafrost sediments of northeast Siberia. Dokl Biol Sci 384: 235-237.Full text (pdf)

Rivkina EM, Laurinavichus KS, Gilichinsky DA & Shcherbakova VA (2002) Methane generation in permafrost sediments. Dokl Biol Sci 383: 179-181. Full text (pdf)

Rivkina, E., Gilichinsky, D., McKay, C., Dallimore, S. (2001). Methane distribution in Permafrost: Evidence for a low pressure methane hydrate //Permafrost Response on Economic Development, Environmental security and Natural Potential. (NATO-series, R. Paepe, V. Melnikov, eds., Kluver Academic Publishers, 487-496. Full text (pdf)

Gilichinsky, D., Shatilovich, A., Vishnivetskaya, T., Spirina, E., Faizutdinova, R., Rivkina, E., Gubin, S., Erokhina, L.,Vorobyova, E., Soina, V. (2001). How long the life migth be preserved? The terrestrial permafrost model for Astrobiology // The Bridge between Big Bang and Biology (F. Giovannelli, ed.) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche of Italy) 3362-369

Rivkina, E., D. Gilichinsky (2001). Metabolic activity of permafrost microorganisms // The Bridge between Big Bang and Biology (F. Giovannelli, ed.) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche of Italy) 370-376

Rivkina EM, Friedmann EI, McKay CP & Gilichinsky DA (2000) Metabolic activity of permafrost bacteria below the freezing point. Appl Environ Microbiol 66: 3230-3233. Full text (pdf)

Rivkina E, Gilichinsky D, Wagener S, Tiedje J & McGrath J (1998) Biogeochemical activity of anaerobic microorganisms from buried permafrost sediments. Geomicrobiology Journal 15: 187-193. Full text (pdf)

Vorobyova E, Soina V, Gorlenko M, Minkovskaya, N., Zalinova, N., Mamukelashvili, A., Gilichinsky, D., Rivkina, E., Vishnivetskaya, T. (1997) The deep cold biosphere: facts and hypothesis. FEMS Microbiology Reviews 20: 277-290.

Zhou J, Davey, M. E., Figueras, J. B., Rivkina, E., Gilichinsky, D., Tiedje, J. M. (1997) Phylogenetic diversity of a bacterial community determined from Siberian tundra soil DNA. Microbiology 143 ( Pt 12): 3913-3919.