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First name:Daria
Last name:Zhurina
Country:Russia
Thesis Subject:
Identification and partial characterization of transcriptional regulators involved in temperature-dependent expression of levansucrase in Pseudomonas syringae
Education:
09/2005-03/2009
International University Bremen/ Max Plank Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
PhD student at the International Max Planck Research School of Marine Microbiology (MarMic)
09/2004-08/2005
Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
Student at the BioRec graduate programme
09/2002-06/2004
Department of Biology and Soil Science, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Master of Biology (specialization Genetics) degree awarded, Diploma with excellence
09/1998-06/2002
Department of Biology and Soil Science, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Bachelor of Biology degree awarded
Scientific Interests and Goals:
I am interested in bacterial adaptation to the environmental conditions on the level of gene expression.
Selected Publications:
1. Hongqiao Li, Alexander Schenk, Abhishek Srivastava, Daria Zhurina, and Matthias S. Ullrich
Thermoresponsive expression and differential secretion of the extra-cellular enzyme levansucrase in the plant pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea.
FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2006 Dec;265(2):178-85.

2. Wong TS, Zhurina D, Schwaneberg U.
The diversity challenge in directed protein evolution.
Comb Chem High Throughput Screen. 2006 May;9(4):271-88.

3.Abhishek Srivastava, Daria Zhurina and Matthias S.Ullrich
Levansucrase and levan formation in Pseudomonas syringae and related organisms (Review).
M.Ullrich (ed.) ’Bacterial Polysaccharides – Current Topics and Innovations’’; Horizon Scientific Press, Norwich