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Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya is affiliated with San Diego State University in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields with a focus on environmental science, earth and planetary sciences, and physics and astronomy.

Their primary work covers diverse subfields such as astronomy and astrophysics, oceanography, environmental chemistry, molecular biology, and geophysics. This broad range indicates engagement in both the physical and biological aspects of environmental and planetary research.

Key research topics central to their work include:

  • Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
  • Geophysics and gravity measurements
  • Methane hydrates and related phenomena
  • Solar and space plasma dynamics
  • Microbial metabolism and enzyme function
  • Earthquake detection and analysis
  • Seismic waves and analysis

Their recent papers demonstrate involvement in both local microbial studies and global environmental and biological themes. Notable publications include:

  • Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages, 2022, Cell
  • Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics, 2023, Nature
  • Repurposing a chemosensory macromolecular machine, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase as a metabolic valve advances Methylobacterium/Methylorubrum phyllosphere colonization and plant growth, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Hemerythrins enhance aerobic respiration in Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum 20ZR, a methane-consuming bacterium, 2020, FEMS Microbiology Letters

Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya has collaborated frequently with several researchers, among whom are Pavlo Bohutskyi, Briana Tatum, Joshua Adkins, Ashley Robinson, and Michael Konopka. These collaborations encompass a significant number of joint publications, indicating sustained partnerships within their research network.

Their work is published in a variety of venues with a strong presence in OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), as well as journals like Nature Communications and Systematic and Applied Microbiology. There is also representation in specialized references such as Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria.

This profile reflects a multidisciplinary research portfolio focused on environmental and planetary sciences, with intersections in molecular biology and microbial ecology contributing to the understanding of complex biological and physical systems.

Best Publications

  • The expanding world of methylotrophic metabolism.

    Ludmila Chistoserdova;Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya;Mary E. Lidstrom

  • Highly efficient methane biocatalysis revealed in a methanotrophic bacterium

    M. G. Kalyuzhnaya;S. Yang;S. Yang;O. N. Rozova;N. E. Smalley

  • Metabolic engineering in methanotrophic bacteria

    Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya;Aaron W. Puri;Mary E. Lidstrom

  • High-resolution metagenomics targets specific functional types in complex microbial communities.

    Marina G Kalyuzhnaya;Alla Lapidus;Natalia Ivanova;Alex C Copeland

  • Bacterial Populations Active in Metabolism of C1 Compounds in the Sediment of Lake Washington, a Freshwater Lake

    Olivier Nercessian;Emma Noyes;Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya;Mary E. Lidstrom

  • A methanotroph-based biorefinery: potential scenarios for generating multiple products from a single fermentation

    P. J. Strong;M. Kalyuzhnaya;J. Silverman;W. P. Clarke

  • A novel family of functional operons encoding methane/ammonia monooxygenase-related proteins in gammaproteobacterial methanotrophs.

    Patricia L. Tavormina;Victoria J. Orphan;Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya;Mike S. M. Jetten

  • Osmoadaptation in halophilic and alkaliphilic methanotrophs

    Valentina N. Khmelenina;Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya;Valentin G. Sakharovsky;Natalia E. Suzina

  • Genetic Tools for the Industrially Promising Methanotroph Methylomicrobium buryatense

    Aaron W. Puri;Sarah Owen;Frances Chu;Ted Chavkin

  • Isolation and characterization of halotolerant alkaliphilic methanotrophic bacteria from Tuva soda lakes

    Valentina N. Khmelenina;Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya;Natalia G. Starostina;Natalia E. Suzina

  • Epiphytic pink-pigmented methylotrophic bacteria enhance germination and seedling growth of wheat (Triticum aestivum) by producing phytohormone

    Kamlesh K. Meena;Manish Kumar;Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya;Mahesh S. Yandigeri

  • Bioconversion of methane to lactate by an obligate methanotrophic bacterium

    Calvin A. Henard;Holly Smith;Nancy Dowe;Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya

  • A metagenomic insight into freshwater methane-utilizing communities and evidence for cooperation between the Methylococcaceae and the Methylophilaceae

    David A.C. Beck;Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya;Stephanie Malfatti;Stephanie Malfatti;Susannah G. Tringe

  • Classification of halo(alkali)philic and halo(alkali)tolerant methanotrophs provisionally assigned to the genera Methylomicrobium and Methylobacter and emended description of the genus Methylomicrobium.

    Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya;Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya;Valentina Khmelenina;Bulat Eshinimaev;Dimitry Sorokin

  • Characterization of a Novel Methanol Dehydrogenase in Representatives of Burkholderiales : Implications for Environmental Detection of Methylotrophy and Evidence for Convergent Evolution

    Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya;Krassimira R. Hristova;Mary E. Lidstrom;Ludmila Chistoserdova

  • Methylomonas scandinavica sp.nov., a New Methanotrophic Psychrotrophic Bacterium isolated from Deep Igneous Rock Ground Water of Sweden

    Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya;Valentina N. Khmelenina;Svetlana Kotelnikova;Louise Holmquist

  • Methylotenera mobilis gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligately methylamine-utilizing bacterium within the family Methylophilaceae.

    Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya;Sarah Bowerman;Jimmie C. Lara;Mary E. Lidstrom

  • Current Trends in Methylotrophy

    Ludmila Chistoserdova;Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya

  • Genome-scale metabolic reconstructions and theoretical investigation of methane conversion in Methylomicrobium buryatense strain 5G(B1)

    Andrea de la Torre;Aisha Metivier;Frances Chu;Lieve M. L. Laurens

  • Methane-fed microbial microcosms show differential community dynamics and pinpoint taxa involved in communal response.

    Igor Y. Oshkin;Igor Y. Oshkin;David A C Beck;Andrew E. Lamb;Veronika Tchesnokova

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary E. Lidstrom
Mary E. Lidstrom University of Washington
Ludmila Chistoserdova
Ludmila Chistoserdova University of Washington
Yuri A. Trotsenko
Yuri A. Trotsenko Russian Academy of Sciences
Martin G. Klotz
Martin G. Klotz City University of New York
Tanja Woyke
Tanja Woyke Joint Genome Institute
Mike S. M. Jetten
Mike S. M. Jetten Radboud University
Lisa Y. Stein
Lisa Y. Stein University of Alberta
Huub J. M. Op den Camp
Huub J. M. Op den Camp Radboud University
J. Colin Murrell
J. Colin Murrell University of East Anglia
Alla Lapidus
Alla Lapidus Saint Petersburg State University

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