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Oleksandr Vasylenko
Position: Ph.D., Research Scientist, Department of Anesthesiology in the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Research Scientist in the Labolatory of Microbial Ecology at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Ukrainian Natl. Acad, Sci., Kyiv, Ukraine. Address: 4900 Battery Ln., Apt 309, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814 USA Phone: +1 202-650-8351 Home page: go to >> E-mail: alex_vasilenko<AT>yahoo.com |
1985 M.S. in Biophysics, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
1991 Ph.D. in Cell Biology, Institute of Cytology, Russian Acad. Sci, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1991 Ph.D. in Cell Biology, Institute of Cytology, Russian Acad. Sci, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Scientific interests:
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Biophysics
- Biochemistry
- Molecular Physiology
- Plant Physiology
- Microbiology
Membership of academic societies:
American Society for Microbiology (2003-2004)
New York Academy of Sciences (2000 – 2001)
International Who’s Who of Professionals (2000)
American Association of Gravitational and Space Biology (1996 – 1998)
Society for In Vitro Biology (1996 – 1998)
Commission of Space Research (1994-1996)
International Astronautical Federation (1989-1991)
Selected publications:
- Makarova KS, Omelchenko MV, Gaidamakova EK, Matrosova VY, Vasilenko A, Zhai M, Lapidus A, Copeland A, Kim E, Land M, Mavrommatis K, Pitluck S, Richardson PM, Detter C, Brettin T, Saunders E, Lai B, Ravel B, Kemner KM, Wolf YI, Sorokin A, Gerasimova AV, Gelfand MS, Fredrickson JK, Koonin EV, Daly MJ. Deinococcus geothermalis: The Pool of Extreme Radiation Resistance Genes Shrinks. PLoS ONE. 2007 Sep 26;2(9):e955.
- Daly MJ, Gaidamakova EK, Matrosova VY, Vasilenko A, Zhai M, Leapman RD, Lai B, Ravel B, Li SM, Kemner KM, Fredrickson JK (2007) Protein Oxidation Implicated as the Primary Determinant of Bacterial Radioresistance. PLoS Biol. 20;5(4): e92
- Qiu X, Daly MJ, Vasilenko A, Omelchenko MV, Gaidamakova EK, Wu L, Zhou J, Sundin GW, Tiedje JM. (2006)Transcriptome analysis applied to survival of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 exposed to ionizing radiation. J Bacteriol. 188(3):1199-204.
- Omelchenko MV, Wolf YI, Gaidamakova EK, Matrosova VY, Vasilenko A, Zhai M, Daly MJ, Koonin EV, Makarova KS. (2005) Comparative genomics of Thermus thermophilus and Deinococcus radiodurans: divergent routes of adaptation to thermophily and radiation resistance. BMC Evol Biol., 5:57.
- Ghosal D, Omelchenko MV, Gaidamakova EK, Matrosova VY, Vasilenko A,
Venkateswaran A, Zhai M, Kostandarithes HM, Brim H, Makarova KS, Wackett LP,
Fredrickson JK, Daly MJ. (2005) How radiation kills cells: survival of Deinococcus radiodurans and Shewanella oneidensis under oxidative stress. FEMS Microbiol Rev. 2005,29(2):361-75. - Daly MJ, Gaidamakova EK, Matrosova VY, Vasilenko A, Zhai M, Venkateswaran A, Hess M, Omelchenko MV, Kostandarithes HM, Makarova KS, Wackett LP, Fredrickson JK, Ghosal D. (2004) Accumulation of Mn(II) in Deinococcus radiodurans facilitates gamma-radiation resistance. Science. 2004 Nov 5;306(5698):1025-8.
- A. Venkateswaran, McFarlan, S.C., Ghosal, D., Minton, K.W., Vasilenko, A., Makarova, K., Wackett L.P., Daly, M.J. (2000) Physiological determinants of radiation resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 66(6): 2620-2626.
- A.Vasilenko, McDaniel,J.K., Conger, B.V. (2000) Ultrastructural analyses of somatic embryo initiation, development and polarity establishment from mesophyll cells of Dactylis glomerata. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology. Plant. 35(6), Ms. 99-036P.
- B.V. Conger and Vasilenko, A. (1998) Somatic embryo polarity in Dactylis glomerata as determined by electron microscopy. In: Plant biotechnology and in vitro biology in the 21st century. Edited by A. Altman, M. Ziv, S. Izhar. Kluver Academic Publishers: Dordecht, Boston, London, pp.37-40.
- B.V. Conger, Tomaszevski Jr., Z., McDaniel, J.K., Vasilenko, A. (1998) Spaceflight reduces somatic embryogenesis in orchardgrass (Poaceae). Plant Cell and Environment. 21: 1197-1203.
- A.Vasilenko, P.G. Sidorenko (1995) Induction of micronuclei in plant cells after exposure to accelerated ion irradiation. Radiat. Environ. Biophys. 34 (2): 107-113.
- A.I. Vasilenko, E.I. Knizhnik, V.M. Pugach, P.G. Sidorenko (1992) Application of CR-39 plastic as a dielectric track detector under plant cells irradiated with 10 MeV/nucleon 14N ions. Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas. 21: 445.
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