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Svetlana N. Dedysh

Svetlana N. Dedysh

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Microbiology
Russia
2026

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Microbiology

D-Index
64
Citations
12822
World Ranking
2638
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in Russia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in Russia Leader Award

Overview

Svetlana N. Dedysh is affiliated with the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Russian Federation. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong emphasis on molecular biology, ecology, and environmental chemistry among other related subfields.

Their body of work covers a range of topics within microbial ecology and physiology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, as well as microbial metabolism and enzyme function. Additional research areas include methane hydrates, biofuel production and bioconversion, anaerobic digestion and biogas production, and protist diversity and phylogeny.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Svetlana N. Dedysh include Anastasia A. Ivanova, Igor Y. Oshkin, Irina S. Kulichevskaya, Olga V. Danilova, and Andrey V. Mardanov. These collaborations reflect a network of research partnerships within microbial studies and environmental microbiology.

Common venues for publication of their work include:

  • Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria
  • Microbiology
  • Microorganisms
  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
  • Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Among recent papers featuring Svetlana N. Dedysh as author or co-author are:

  • Wide distribution of Phycisphaera -like planctomycetes from WD2101 soil group in peatlands and genome analysis of the first cultivated representative, 2020, Environmental Microbiology
  • Linking ecology and systematics of acidobacteria: Distinct habitat preferences of the Acidobacteriia and Blastocatellia in tundra soils, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Frigoriglobus tundricola gen. nov., sp. nov., a psychrotolerant cellulolytic planctomycete of the family Gemmataceae from a littoral tundra wetland, 2020, Systematic and Applied Microbiology
  • Genome analysis of the candidate phylum MBNT15 bacterium from a boreal peatland predicted its respiratory versatility and dissimilatory iron metabolism, 2022, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Rokubacteria in Northern Peatlands: Habitat Preferences and Diversity Patterns, 2021, Microorganisms

Best Publications

  • Methylocella palustris gen. nov., sp. nov., a new methane-oxidizing acidophilic bacterium from peat bogs, representing a novel subtype of serine-pathway methanotrophs.

    Svetlana N. Dedysh;Werner Liesack;Valentina N. Khmelenina;Natalia E. Suzina

  • 13,16-Dimethyl Octacosanedioic Acid (iso-Diabolic Acid), a Common Membrane-Spanning Lipid of Acidobacteria Subdivisions 1 and 3

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;W. Irene C. Rijpstra;Ellen C. Hopmans;Johan W. H. Weijers

  • Phylogenetic analysis and in situ identification of bacteria community composition in an acidic Sphagnum peat bog.

    Svetlana N. Dedysh;Timofei A. Pankratov;Svetlana E. Belova;Irina S. Kulichevskaya

  • Methylocella Species Are Facultatively Methanotrophic

    Svetlana N. Dedysh;Claudia Knief;Peter F. Dunfield

  • Bacterial populations and environmental factors controlling cellulose degradation in an acidic Sphagnum peat

    Timofey A. Pankratov;Anastasia O. Ivanova;Svetlana N. Dedysh;Werner Liesack

  • Methylocapsa acidiphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel methane-oxidizing and dinitrogen-fixing acidophilic bacterium from Sphagnum bog.

    Svetlana N Dedysh;Valentina N Khmelenina;Natalia E Suzina;Yuri A Trotsenko

  • Methylocella silvestris sp. nov., a novel methanotroph isolated from an acidic forest cambisol.

    Peter F. Dunfield;Valentina N. Khmelenina;Natalia E. Suzina;Yuri A. Trotsenko

  • Methyloferula stellata gen. nov., sp. nov., an acidophilic, obligately methanotrophic bacterium that possesses only a soluble methane monooxygenase.

    Alexey V. Vorobev;Mohamed Baani;Nina V. Doronina;Allyson L. Brady

  • Cold season CH4 and CO2 emission from boreal peat bogs (West Siberia): Winter fluxes and thaw activation dynamics

    N. S. Panikov;S. N. Dedysh

  • Mucilaginibacter paludis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Mucilaginibacter gracilis sp. nov., pectin-, xylan- and laminarin-degrading members of the family Sphingobacteriaceae from acidic Sphagnum peat bog

    Timofei A. Pankratov;Brian J. Tindall;Werner Liesack;Svetlana N. Dedysh

  • Widespread soil bacterium that oxidizes atmospheric methane.

    Alexander Tøsdal Tveit;Anne Grethe Hestnes;Serina Lee Robinson;Arno Schintlmeister

  • Acidophilic methanotrophic communities from Sphagnum peat bogs.

    Svetlana N. Dedysh;Nicolai S. Panikov;James M. Tiedje

  • Methylocella tundrae sp. nov., a novel methanotrophic bacterium from acidic tundra peatlands.

    Svetlana N. Dedysh;Yulia Y. Berestovskaya;Lina V. Vasylieva;Svetlana E. Belova

  • Detection and enumeration of methanotrophs in acidic Sphagnum peat by 16S rRNA fluorescence in situ hybridization, including the use of newly developed oligonucleotide probes for Methylocella palustris.

    Svetlana N. Dedysh;Manigee Derakshani;Werner Liesack

  • Pyrosequencing-based assessment of the bacteria diversity in surface and subsurface peat layers of a northern wetland, with focus on poorly studied phyla and candidate divisions.

    Yulia M. Serkebaeva;Yulia M. Serkebaeva;Yongkyu Kim;Werner Liesack;Svetlana N. Dedysh

  • Cultivating uncultured bacteria from northern wetlands: knowledge gained and remaining gaps.

    Svetlana N. Dedysh

  • NifH and NifD phylogenies: an evolutionary basis for understanding nitrogen fixation capabilities of methanotrophic bacteria

    Svetlana N. Dedysh;Peter Ricke;Werner Liesack

  • An overview of the occurrence of ether- and ester- linked iso -diabolic acid membrane lipids in microbial cultures of the Acidobacteria: Implications for brGDGT paleoproxies for temperature and pH

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;W. Irene C. Rijpstra;Bärbel U. Foesel;Katharina J. Huber

  • Isolation of acidophilic methane-oxidizing bacteria from northern peat wetlands.

    Svetlana N. Dedysh;Nicolai S. Panikov;Werner Liesack;Regine Großkopf

  • Bryobacter aggregatus gen. nov., sp. nov., a peat-inhabiting, aerobic chemo-organotroph from subdivision 3 of the Acidobacteria.

    Irina S. Kulichevskaya;Natalia E. Suzina;Werner Liesack;Svetlana N. Dedysh

  • Granulicella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., Granulicella pectinivorans sp. nov., Granulicella aggregans sp. nov. and Granulicella rosea sp. nov., acidophilic, polymer-degrading acidobacteria from Sphagnum peat bogs.

    Timofey A. Pankratov;Svetlana N. Dedysh

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Liesack
Werner Liesack Max Planck Society
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Peter F. Dunfield
Peter F. Dunfield University of Calgary
W. Irene C. Rijpstra
W. Irene C. Rijpstra Utrecht University
Paul L. E. Bodelier
Paul L. E. Bodelier Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Yuri A. Trotsenko
Yuri A. Trotsenko Russian Academy of Sciences
Jörg Overmann
Jörg Overmann Leibniz Association
James M. Tiedje
James M. Tiedje Michigan State University
J. Colin Murrell
J. Colin Murrell University of East Anglia
Mike S. M. Jetten
Mike S. M. Jetten Radboud University

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