Research Projects

Sulfate-reducing prokaryotes (SRP) is a phylogenetically and physiologically diverse group of prokaryotes that can gain energy from dissimilatory reduction of sulfate. Acid mine drainage and waste water treatment plants represent the most important habitats where sulfidogenes are exposed to high …

Financing Agency: Russian Ministry of Education and Science The deep subsurface biosphere is considered to be a “seed bank” of thermophilic microorganisms. We study microbial diversity in the outflow of a deep (2600 m), artesian, thermal, oil-exploration borehole in Western …

Financing Agency: Russian Fund for Fundamental Research (RFFI) Project Coordinator: Olga Karnachuk The geochemical importance of dissimilatory sulfate reduction in the formation of diagenetic iron sulfides in sedimentary environments is generally accepted. The environmentally important sulfate-reducing prokaryotes (SRP) are also …

Financing Agency: Russian Fund for Fundamental Research (RFFI) Project Coordinator: Olga Karnachuk Mining of metallic ore deposits produce large volumes of various wastes containing metal sulfides. When the sulfides are exposed to oxygenated water, they oxidized and produced acid water …