 Common Information
Education
Current Scientific Interests
Professional Experience
Scientific Visits
Grants
Conferences
Publications
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Common Information
Birthdate: 14.05.1977
Marital status: married
Residence: St. Petersburg, Russia
Post address:198207 ul. Z. Portnovoy, 14-14
E-mail: [email protected]
Education
1994-1999: St. Peterburg State Agrarian University, Faculty of Plant Protection, Chair of Biological Control.
dipl. agr. diploma thesis: "Pathogenesis of microsporidiosis and coccidiosis in bimaculate cricket with respect to insect resistance to endoparasites"
1999-2001: St. Peterburg State University, Faculty of biology and Soil Science, Chair of Invertebrate Zoology.
m.d. biol. dissertation thesis: "Defense reactions of orthopteran insects during microsporidiosis"
Postgraduate study 1999-2003: St. Peterburg State Agrarian University, Faculty of Plant Protection, Chair of Biological Control.
ph.d. dissertation thesis: "Immune reactions of the haemolymph of orthopteran insects during microsporidiosis"
Current Scientific Interests
Insect immunity: cellular and humoral reactions of haemolymph and their regulation
Microsporidia of insects: parasite-host interactions and mechanisms of pathogenicity
Infective pathogens in laboratory cultures of orthopteran insects
Application of fungi, microsporidia and bacteria for microbiological control of locusts
Electron microscopy as a mean for histopathological and phylogenetic studies
Modern methods of fluorescent microscopy
In vitro cultivation of insect haemocytes
Professional Experience
1999-2003: Technician at the Laboratory of Microbiological Control All-Russian Institute for Plant Protection, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences (RAAS), St. Petersburg-Pushkin
2003-now: Researcher -- Ibidem
Scientific Visits
Aug-Sept 2000; Jan-Feb, Jun-Jul 2002; Jun-Aug 2003: Lab Parasitology (Prof. Rolf Entzeroth) Dresden Technical University, Germany
Oct-Nov 2000; Jun-Jul 2001; Jun-Aug 2002: Lab Insect Pathology (Dr. Viktor Glupov) Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Novosibirsk, Russia
Grants
Student travel award - Society of Inverterate Pathology (S.I.P. Meeting Aug 2004, Helsinki)
Russian Foundation for Basic Research #04-04-49314, 2004 (All-Russ. Inst. Plant Protection)
Russian Foundation for Basic Research #03-04-49629, 2003 (Inst. Cytol. RAS)
DAAD Jun-Aug 2003 (SPb State Agr. Uni - Dresden TU)
Personal stipend from Minister of Agriculture (SPb State Agr. Uni)
INTAS 99 Open Call 1732, 2000-2002 (All-Russ. Inst. Plant Protection)
St. Petersburg administration 2000-2002 (personal grant)
Federal Program "INTEGRATSIA", Oct-Nov 2000 (travel grant to Novosibirsk)
Federal Program "INTEGRATSIA", 1999-2002 (SPb State Agr. Uni)
Conferences
Sokolova J., Tokarev Y., Dolgikh V., Nassonova E., Semionov P., Glupov V., Issi I., 1999. Microsporidians influence insect defense system? Abstr. 3rd Europ. Congr. Protistol., Helsingor, Denmark, 72.
Tokarev Y. S., Morzhina E.V. , Vorontsova Y.L. , Svezhova N.V., Sokolova Y.Y., 2003. Interactions of microsporidia with insect immune system: infection of haemopoietic tissue and blood cell proliferation in Orthoptera.
Abstr. 10th Confer. Ciliate Biol. and 4th Europ. Congr. Protistol.,
San Benedetto del Tronto (AP) Italy, 61.
Tokarev Yu. S., Vorontsova Ya.L., Sokolova Yu.Ya., Glupov V.V., Entzeroth R. 2004. Microsporidia suppress melanization reaction and phenoloxidase activity of the haemolymph of their insect hosts
Abstr. XXXVII Annual S.I.P. Meeting, Helsinki, Finland, 81.
Tokarev Yu. S., Levchenko M.V., Naumov A.M., 2004. Virulence of new strains of entomopathogenic hyphomycetes (Deuteromycota, Hyphomycetes) to orthopteran insects.
Ibidem, 96.
Publications
Issi I.V., Tokarev Y.S. Impact of the microsporidia on hormonal
balance in their insect hosts. Parasitologiya, 2002, 36, 405-421
Nassonova E. S., Tokarev Y. S., Trammer T., Entzeroth R., Sokolova Y Y., 2001. Phagocytosis of Nosema grylli (Microsporida, Nosematidae) spores in vivo and in vitro. J. Euk. Microbiol., 49, 83S-84S
Sokolova Y.Y., Tokarev Y.S., Lozinskaya Y.L., Glupov V.V. A morpho-functional analysis of the hemocytes in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) normally and in acute microsporidiosis due to Nosema grylli. Parazitologiya, 2000, 34, 408-419.
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