Kirill Krivushin

$IMAGE1$	Education M.Sc. 2007, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia), the Faculty of Soil Science, Department of Soil Microbiology, thesis title "Methanogens in Ancient Permafrost” Ph.D. 2010, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia). MicrobiologyThesis title "Methanogens in Permafrost”
Education Research interests Professional activities Publications	Research interests Bacterial and archaeal (molecular) ecology and physiology in extreme environment Mars simulation methanogenic communities in permafrost, wetlands and soils of Arctic and Antarctic regions Mechanisms of adaptation to extreme environments (permafrost, fens/bogs, hypersaline environments, hydrotemal vents, hot springs, etc).
Professional activities
Professional experience
Student , Faculty of Soil science, Moscow State University (Russia), (2002—2007) Master’s student, Lab of Soil Cryology and the Department of Soil Microbiology of the Faculty of Soil science of the Moscow State University (2004—2007) Postgraduate student (Head: Prof. Dr. D.A. Gilichinsky), Lab of Soil Cryology, Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino(2007—2010) Researcher, Lab of Soil Cryology, Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino (2010—present)
Scholarship
2011, NASA Planetary Biology Internship (USA) 2010-2011, DAAD (German Academic Service Exchange, Germany) 2009, NORDIC-NASA Summer School (Iceland)
Honors, Awards
2011, First Award on "Youth Scientific Innovation Competition" ("UMNIK") 2010, First Award on competition of young scientists of the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science 2010, First Award on XVII international conference "Lomonosov”, Moscow State University 2002, Silver State Medal of the Russian Ministry of Education
Lab. experience and skills
Analytical methods: GC, HPLC, soil chemical analysis methods; Molecular microbiology methods: DNA/RNA extraction, PCR, primer design, Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (TRFLP), Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE), Single-Strand Conformation Polymorphism (SSCP), cloning, sequencing, phylogenetic analysis, statistical data analysis, ARB (sequence database handling and data analysis package), advanced linux-user.)
Publications
Papers 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 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 Rivkina E., Krivushin K., Shcherbakova V., Laurinavichius K., Pecheritsyna S., Kraev G., Gilichinsky D.Biogeochemistry of methane and methanogenic archaea in permafrost // FEMS Microbiology Ecolology. 2007. V. 61. P.1-15. 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. Main abstracts Krivushin K., Rivkina E., Pecheritsina S., Scherbakova V. Methanogens in permafrost // MicroPerm. Potsdam, Germany, 2010. P. 25 Krivushin K., Rivkina E., Pecheritsina S., Scherbakova V. Methanogens in permafrost // 10th European Workshop on Astrobiology EANA’10. Pushchino, Russia, 2010. P. 26 Rivkina E. M., Sherbakova V. A.,Krivushin K. V., Abramov A. A., Gilichinsky D. A. Permafrost on Earth — Models and Analogues of Martian Habitats and Inhabitants // Astrobiology Science Conference 2010: Evolution and Life: Surviving Catastrophes and Extremes on Earth and Beyond. League City, USA, 2010. P. 5620 Krivushin K, Scherbakova V., Vishnevetskaya T., Rivkina E.Methanogens in ancient Permafrost // Nordic-NASA Summer School: Water, Ice and the Origin of Life. Reykjavik, Iceland, 2009. P. 8 Krivushin K., Vishnevetskaya T., Rivkina E. Methanogens in ancient Antarctic permafrost sediments // 3rd International Conference on Alpine and polar Microbiology. Banff, Canada, 2008. P. 47 8.Krivushin K., Vishnevetskaya T., Rivkina E. Methane and methanogens in Antarctic permafrost // SCAR/IASC IPY Open Science Conference in association with the XXX SCAR Meeting. Saint- Petersburg, Russia, 2008. P. 361. Krivushin K., Shcherbakova V., Rivkina E., Vorobyova E. Methanogenic Archaea isolated from Arctic permafrost // 2nd International Conference on Alpine and polar Microbiology. Insbruck, Austria, 2006. P. 71 Rivkina E., Kraev G., Krivushin K. Biogeochemistry of methane in Arctic permafrost of late Cenozoic age // 2nd International Conference on Alpine and polar Microbiology. Innsbruck, Austria, 2006. P. 43 Krivushin K.V., Scherbakova V.А., Rivkina Е.М. Метанобразующие археи, выделенные из древней мерзлоты Арктики // XII international conference "Lomonosov”. Russia, Moscow, 2006. P.58 Krivushin, K., Scherbakova, V., Rivkina, E.Methanogenic bacteria isolated from Arctic per mafrost sediments of different age // 2-nd European Conference On Permafrost. Potsdam, Germany, 2005. P. 42 Rivkina E.M.., Shcherbakova V.A., Laurinavichus K.S., Krivushin K.V., Gavrish E., Trotsenko Y.A., Gilichinsky D.A. Methanogenesis and methaneoxidation in the permafrost // Priority direction in the study of Earth Cryosphera. Russia, Pushchino, 2005. P. 53 *Krivushin K.V.* Methanogenic archaea isolated from Siberian permafrost of different age // XII international conference "Lomonosov”. Russia, Moscow, 2005. P.113