Laboratory of Comparative Biochemistry

HEAD Vasily I. SVETASHEV, Dr. Sci. Chem.

STAFF numbers 14, including 1 Dr. Sci., 7 Cand. Sci.

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES: Study of the composition, distribution, pathways of biosynthesis, and biological activity of lipids of marine organisms and development of methods for lipid separation.

A microtechnique for lipid analysis has been developed, which is now widely applicable in different laboratories of Russia and abroad. General patterns of the distribution of polar lipids and fatty acids in main types of marine invertebrates and divisions of marine macrophytes have been elucidated. Methods of the separation of polyenoic fatty acids and some other physiologically active lipids from sea raw matter have been worked out.

Phone: 31-73-39; 31-09-37