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Dr. Ilya Pozdnyakov
Lecturer in Biochemistry and Cell Biology
School of Science
Email Address
ipozdnyako@constructor.university
Office
Research II, Room 46
Research Interests
I am an evolutionary cell biologist with a strong interest in ion transport in microbes. My research interests lie at the intersection of cell physiology, microbiology, and ecology, and include the evolution of ion channels, the origin and diversity of electrical excitability, and the relationship between the repertoire of ion transporters and ecological niche.
University Education
| Dec. 2016 | Ph.D. in Cell Biology Institute of Cytology RAS St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Dec. 2011 | M.Sc. in Biology St. Petersburg State University, Department of Biochemistry St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Jun. 2009 | B.Sc. in Biology St. Petersburg State University, Department of Biochemistry St. Petersburg, Russia |
Work Experience
| May 2022 - Sep 2024 | Postdoctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (Ploen, Germany), group "Marine Microbes" Guest scientist at GOEMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Kiel, Germany), Ocean EcoSystems Biology (Prof. A.Z. Worden) |
| Jan 2017 - May 2022 | Researcher and then senior researcher at the Laboratory of Cytology of Unicellular Organisms, Institute of Cytology RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Sep 2017 - Apr 2022 | Lecturer at the Department of Nanobiotechnologies, St. Petersburg Academic University named after J. Alferov, St. Petersburg, Russia |
Selected Publications
Pozdnyakov I., Matantseva O., Skarlato S. 2021. Consensus channelome of dinoflagellates revealed by transcriptomic analysis sheds light on their physiology. Algae. 36 (4): 315–326.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4490/algae.2021.36.12.2
Pozdnyakov I., Safonov P., Skarlato S. 2020. Diversity of voltage-gated potassium channels and cyclic nucleotide-binding domain-containing channels in eukaryotes. Scientific Reports. 10: 17758.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74971-4
Pozdnyakov I., Matantseva O., Skarlato S. 2018. Diversity and evolution of four domain voltage-gated cation channels of eukaryotes and their ancestral functional determinants. Scientific Reports. 8: 3539.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21897-7