Main

Fields of interest:

• Fungal biodeterioration of cultural heritage and protection methods (biocides, coatings, etc). Sick building syndrome and biodeterioration of building materials. Aerobiology of indoor and outdoor environments with emphasis on the indoor air quality of museums, libraries, public premises including metro stations. Assessment of risks driven by potentially pathogenic fungi in indoor environments.
• Morphology and morphogenesis of lithobiontic fungi and adaptive role of morphogenesis. Work with lithobiontic fungi: since 1993. Special attention for dimorphism and polymorphism in these fungi. Description of morphogenetic processes by means of the complex systems theory.
• Medical mycology, in particular, study of virulence factors of human pathogenic and opportunistic fungi (extracellular proteinases, phospholipases, hemolytic activity, temperature tolerance, etc).

Recent publications:

I.Yu. Kirtsideli and E.V. Bogomolova:
Development of microfungi communities in the indoor air of St.Petersburg museums,
Mikologiya i Fitopatologiya, Vol. 42, (2008), pp. 128-136.

E.V. Bogomolova, E.A. Minenko and I.Yu. Kirtsideli:
Potential virulence of opportunistic fungi isolated from museum environment,
Mikologiya i Fitopatologiya, Vol. 41, (2007), pp. 113-119.

E.V. Bogomolova:
Rock-Inhabiting Fungi: From Biodeterioration to Human Disease,
In: B.N. Ganguli and S.K. Deshmukh (Eds.):
Fungi: Multifaceted Microbes,
Anamaya Publishers, New Delhi, India, 2005, pp. 49-60.

I.A. Zarochentseva, E.V. Bogomolova and L.K. Panina:
The central role of MAP-kinase signal pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other yeasts in osmostress response,
Mikologiya i Fitopatologiya, Vol. 38, (2004), pp. 8-25.

E.V. Bogomolova and D.W. Minter:
A new microcolonial rock-inhabiting fungus from marble in Chersonesos (Crimea, Ukraine),
Mycotaxon, Vol. 86, (2003), pp. 195-204.

E.V. Bogomolova, E.A. Olkhovaya, L.K. Panina and S.M. Soukharjevsky:
Experimental study of influence of rocks and minerals chemical composition and surface structure over the lithobiontic fungi colonies morphology,
Mikologiya i Fitopatologiya, Vol. 37, (2003), pp. 1-13.

E.V. Bogomolova, G.B. Belostotskaya and L.K. Panina:
A tendency of spatial colony structure formation in lithobiontic fungi depending on topography of substrate surface,
Mikologiya i Fitopatologiya, Vol. 36, (2002), pp. 1-8.

E.V. Bogomolova:
Isopropyl alcohol induced mycelium formation in lithobiontic black yeasts,
Mikologiya i Fitopatologiya, Vol. 35, (2001), pp. 24-28.

A.L. Bulanitsa, E.V. Bogomolova, E.Yu. Bystrova, V.E. Kurochkin and L.K. Panina:
The model of spatio-temporal periodical structures formation in the colonies of mycelial fungi,
J. General Biology, Vol. 61, (2000), pp. 400-411.

L.K. Panina, E.V. Bogomolova and V.K. Pavlenko:
The spatial organization of colonies of dimorphous micromycetes,
Biophysics, Vol. 45, (2000), pp. 878-880.