Sergey Kosourov
Ph.D.
Photosynthetic microbes sergey.kosourov@utu.fi Tykistökatu 6 Turku Työhuone: 6201 ORCID-tunniste: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4025-8041 |
Fotosynteettinen vedyn tuotanto ja vedyn aineenvaihdunta viherlevissä ja syanobakteereissa; fotosynteettinen elektroninsiirto ja fotosynteesin säätely; syanobakteerien ja viherleväsolujen immobilisointi; suunnitellut elävät materiaalit; viherlevien ja syanobakteerien fysiologia ja niiden stressivasteet.
PhotoFactory and Solar2Butanol Research Projects
Dr. Sergey Kosourov began his research career in 1998 as a junior researcher at the Institute of Basic Biological Problems, RAS, where he joined the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Biotechnology of Phototrophic Microorganisms. In 2000, he earned a Ph.D. in plant physiology from Moscow State University. Sergey then undertook two assignments at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), DOE, U.S.: first as a postdoctoral fellow (2002–2003) and later as a research associate (2006–2009). Between and after these assignments, he worked as a senior and, subsequently, a leading researcher at the Institute of Basic Biological Problems, RAS. In 2013, he joined the Molecular Plant Biology team at the University of Turku.
Dr. Kosourov has co-authored 49 research papers and six book chapters in solar chemical and fuel production, whole-cell thin-layer immobilization, and solid-state photosynthetic cell factories. Additionally, he holds an international patent for the design of a multi-stage photobioreactor system for H2 production.
Dr. Kosourov's current research is focused on the development of the advanced techniques for immobilization of green algae and cyanobacteria in nanoporous matrices with a structure specifically engineered for better light utilization and nutrient distribution. He also studies H2 metabolism in green algae and cyanobacteria, and investigates the potential of the native algal and cyanobacterial strains for production of solar fuels and high-value products.
Involved in teaching of advance courses “Biofuels from photoautotrophs” (KABI5010), “Biotechnological application of microalgae” (KABI5076) and "Applied photosynthesis research" (KABI4004) at the Department of Biochemistry both as a lecturer and in the development and delivery of laboratory courses. Co-supervised three Ph.D. and one M.Sc. thesis. Mentorship of several Ph.D. students, Erasmus and Erasmus-Mundus Aurora exchange trainees and “summer” students.
- Deletion of Flv3A facilitates long-term H2 photoproduction in diazotrophic Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 (2025)
- Physiologia Plantarum
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Engineered biocatalytic architecture for enhanced light utilisation in algal H2 production (2025)
- Energy and Environmental Science
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Non-invasive monitoring of cyanobacteria growth in a nanocellulose matrix (2025)
- Algal Research
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Towards high atom economy in whole-cell redox biocatalysis: up-scaling light-driven cyanobacterial ene-reductions in a flat panel photobioreactor (2025)
- Green Chemistry
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Employing photocurable biopolymers to engineer photosynthetic 3D-printed living materials for production of chemicals (2024)
- Green Chemistry
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Balancing photosynthesis, O2 consumption, and H2 recycling for sustained H2 photoproduction in pulse-illuminated algal cultures (2023)
- Sustainable Energy & Fuels
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Bioinspired mechanically stable all-polysaccharide based scaffold for photosynthetic production (2023)
- Journal of Materials Chemistry B
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Engineered green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as a whole-cell photosynthetic biocatalyst for stepwise photoproduction of H-2 and ε-caprolactone (2023)
- Green Chemistry
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Flv3A facilitates O2 photoreduction and affects H2 photoproduction independently of Flv1A in diazotrophic Anabaena filaments (2023)
- New Phytologist
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Mapping Nanocellulose- and Alginate-Based Photosynthetic Cell Factory Scaffolds: Interlinking Porosity, Wet Strength, and Gas Exchange (2023)
- Biomacromolecules
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Photosynthetically produced sucrose by immobilized Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 drives biotransformation in E. coli (2022)
- Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Electrospinning of Electroconductive Water-Resistant Nanofibers of PEDOT–PSS, Cellulose Nanofibrils and PEO: Fabrication, Characterization, and Cytocompatibility (2021)
- ACS Applied Bio Materials
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Nanocellulose-based mechanically stable immobilization matrix for enhanced ethylene production: a framework for photosynthetic solid-state cell factories (2021)
- Green Chemistry
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Photosynthetic hydrogen production: Novel protocols, promising engineering approaches and application of semi-synthetic hydrogenases (2021)
- Physiologia Plantarum
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Hydrogen Photoproduction in Green Algae: Novel Insights and Future Perspectives (2020) Climate Change, Photosynthesis and Advanced Biofuels Jokel M., Kosourov S., Allahverdiyeva Y.
(A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa) - Towards sustainable ethylene production with cyanobacterial artificial biofilms (2020)
- Green Chemistry
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Water oxidation by photosystem II is the primary source of electrons for sustained H2 photoproduction in nutrient-replete green algae (2020)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Acclimation responses of immobilized N2-fixing heterocystous cyanobacteria to long-term H2 photoproduction conditions: carbon allocation, oxidative stress and carotenoid production (2019)
- Journal of Applied Phycology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Elimination of the flavodiiron electron sink facilitates long-term H2 photoproduction in green algae (2019)
- Biotechnology for Biofuels
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Immobilized heterocysts as microbial factories for sustainable nitrogen fixation (2019)
- Journal of Biotechnology: X
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )