Liudmyla Kozeko

Present position: Head of Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy.

 

Academic Qualifications: Dr.Sci. (Dr. Habil.) in Biology, Academic rank of Senior Researcher.

 

Research Interests: molecular and cellular mechanisms of plant tolerance and adaptation; plant phenotypic plasticity; space biology; heat shock proteins (HSPs)/molecular chaperones of plants; biostimulants for plants.

 

E-mail: liudmyla.kozeko@gmail.com; kozekole@nas.gov.ua

 

 

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Scientific Degrees, Title

2019 – Dr.Sci. (Dr. Habil.) in Biology, Thesis “The role of molecular chaperones in plant phenotypic plasticity”, Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics of NASU, Kyiv;

2009 – Academic rank of Senior Researcher;

1991 – Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD); Thesis “Protein synthesizing system of bean seed embryo”, Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Kyiv.

 

Professional career (positions)

2025-present – Head of Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy;

2019-2025 – Leading Researcher, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy;

2016-2018 – Doctoral Researcher, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy;

2003-2016 & 2018-2019 – Senior Researcher, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy;

2002-2003 – Researcher, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy;

1991-1998 – Researcher, Department of Plant Physiology /Phytohormonology;

1988-1991 – Postgraduate student, Department of Plant Physiology /Phytohormonology;

1988 – Senior laboratory assistant, Ukrainian Agricultural Academy, Vinnytsia;

1985-1987 – Engineer, Ukrainian Institute of Fodders, Vinnitsia.

 

Research projects

2026-2027 – Project of MESU & LRS International Cooperation Ukrainian-Lithuanian Programme “The use of biostimulant to increase the amount of economically valuable cellulose in flax fibre”, Principal Investigator (PI) (Lithuanian partner: Nature Research Centre, Vilnius);

2025-2029 – Projects of NASU “Molecular and cellular mechanisms of adaptation of plants of different ecological groups to changes in the water regime of biotopes”, PI;

2024 – Project of EMBO SLG Programme “Role of molecular chaperone system in increasing drought tolerance of plants using proline and γ-aminobutyric acid” in Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania;

2022-2023 – Project of MESU & LRS International Cooperation Ukrainian-Lithuanian Programme “Investigation of the impact of proline and γ-aminobutyric acid on plant tolerance to water deficit”, PI (Lithuanian partner: Nature Research Centre, Vilnius);

2018 – Project of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, Funding program “Bilateral Exchange of Academics, 2018”) in ZMBP, Tuebingen University, Germany: Project “Regulation of the heat shock response in Arabidopsis through modulation of HSP90 chaperone activity”;

2012 – Project “Role of Hsp90 chaperones in display of genetic damages generated by the space environment (an exobiological experiment with Arabidopsis thaliana seeds)”, The National Space Program of Ukraine supported by NASU, PI;

2010 – Project “Method for assessment of the state of plants which grow in unfavorable conditions”, The Program for innovation project of NASU;

1991-2025 – Implementer of 15 projects of NASU and 2 projects of National Space Agency of Ukraine.

 

Professional activities

Guest Editor of the Special Issue of Plants (MDPI), 2026;

Deputy Head of the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, 2004-2013 & 2021-2025;

Member of the Institute’s Academic Council;

Member of the Institute’s Ethics and Bioethics Commission;

Supervisor of student research works.

 

Membership in Professional Societies

Ukrainian Botanical Society;

Ukrainian Society of Cell Biology;

Federation of the European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) / Ukrainian Biochemical Society;

Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders of Ukraine;

Non-governmental organization ‘Women in Science’.

 

Selected recent publications

  1. Kozeko L., Jurkonienė S., Mockevičiûtė R., Šveikauskas V., Zareyan M., Jankovska-Bortkevič E. 2025. Foliar application of proline and GABA modulates the chaperone system response to drought in Arabidopsis thaliana. Physiol. Plant., 177: e70629. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.70629
  2. Jurkonienė S., Gavelienė V., Mockevičiūtė R., Jankovska-Bortkevič E., Šveikauskas V., Jankauskienė J., Žalnierius T., Kozeko L. 2025. GABA and proline application induce drought resistance in oilseed rape. Plants, 14(6), 860. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14060860
  3. Kordyum E., Akimov Y., Polishchuk O., Panas I., Stepanov S., Kozeko L. 2024. Psammophytes Alyssum desertorum Stapf and Secale sylvestre Host are sensitive to soil flooding. Plants, 13(3), 413. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13030413
  4. Kozeko L., Ovcharenko Y., Jurkonienė S., Kordyum E. 2024. Understanding unique tolerance limits in Hydrocotyle verticillata: from submergence to water deficiency. Aquat. Bot., 190: 103725. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2023.103725
  5. Kozeko L., Jurkonienė S., Jankovska-Bortkevič E. 2024. GABA as a regulator of plant growth and stress tolerance. – In: T.O. Yastreb, Y.E. Kolupaev, A.I. Yemets, Y.B. Blume (Eds.) Regulation of adaptive responses in plants., Nova Science Publishers: 259-284. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52305/TXQB2084
  6. Jurkoniene S., Mockevičiūtė R., Gavelienė V., Šveikauskas V., Zareyan M., Jankovska-Bortkevič E., Jankauskiene J., Žalnierius T., Kozeko L. 2023. Proline enhances resistance and recovery of oilseed rape after a simulated prolonged drought. Plants, 12(14), 2718. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12142718
  7. Mockevičiūtė R., Jurkonienė S., Šveikauskas V., Zareyan M., Jankovska-Bortkevič E., Jankauskienė J., Kozeko L., Gavelienė V. 2023. Probiotics, proline and calcium induced protective responses of Triticum aestivum under drought stress. Plants, 12(6), 1301. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12061301
  8. Kozeko L., Kordyum E. 2023. Spatiotemporal expression patterns of cytosolic AtHSP90-2 in Arabidopsis seedlings. Plant Signal. Behav., 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2023.2202977
  9. Kozeko L. Different roles of inducible and constitutive HSP70 and HSP90 in tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana to high temperature and water deficit // Acta Physiologiae Plantarum - 2021. – 43(58).
  10. Kozeko L.Y. The role of HSP90 chaperones in stability and plasticity of ontogenesis of plants under normal and stressful conditions (Arabidopsis thaliana) // Cytol. Genet. – 2019. – 53 (2). – P. 143-161.
  11. Kordyum E.L., Bluma D.A., Ivanenko G.F., Kozeko E.L., Artemenko O.A., Vedenicheva N.P. Plasticity of morpho-physiological and oxidative metabolism patterns of Sium species (Apiaceae) at different soil moisture // J. Plant Physiol. Pathol. – 2019. – 7 (2). – 12 p.
  12. Kozeko L.Ye., Buy D.D., Pirko Ya.V., Blume Ya.B., Kordyum E.L. Clinorotation affects induction of the heat shock response in Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings // Gravitational Space Res. – 2018. – 6 (1). – P. 2-9.
  13. Kordyum E., Kozeko L., Ovcharenko Y., Brykov V. Assessment of alcohol dehydrogenase synthesis and aerenchyma formation in the tolerance of Sium L. species (Apiaceae) to water-logging // Aquatic Botany. – 2017. – 142. – P. 71-77.
  14. Козеко Л.Є., Рахметов Д.Б. Особливості динаміки синтезу білків теплового шоку HSP70 у Malva silvestris і M. pulchella (Malvaceae) у зв’язку зі стійкістю до високої температури, затоплення та посухи // Укр. ботан. журн. – 2016. – 73 (2). – С. 194-203.
  15. Kozeko L., Talalaiev O., Neimash V., Povarchuk V. A protective role of HSP90 chaperone in gamma-irradiated Arabidopsis thaliana seeds // Life Sci. in Space Res. – 2015. – 6. – P. 51-58.
  16. Козеко Л.Є., Овчаренко Ю.В. Динаміка структурно-функциональної адаптації Sium latifolium (Apiaceae) до затоплення кореневої системи // Укр. ботан. журн. – 2015. – Т. 72, № 2. – C. 172-179.
  17. Kozeko L.Ye. Changes in heat-shock protein synthesis and thermotolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings resulting from Hsp90 inhibition by geldanamycin // Cell Tissue Biology. – 2014. – 8 (5). – P. 416-422.
  18. Kozeko L.E. Phenotypic variability of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings as a result of inhibition of Hsp90 chaperones // Cytol. Genet. – 2013. – 47 (2). – P. 75-87.
  19. Козеко Л.Є., Артеменко О.А., Заславський В.А., Дідух Г.Я., Рахметов Д.Б., Мартинюк Г.М., Дідух Я.П., Кордюм Є.Л. Оцінка стану рослин при несприятливих змінах екологічних факторів з використанням білка теплового шоку 70 кДа (Hsp70) // Укр. ботан. журн. – 2011. – Т. 68, № 6. – С. 890-900.
  20. Кордюм Є.Л., Дідух Я.П., Козеко Л.Є., Артеменко О.А., Заславський В.А., Дідух А.Я. Розробка та підготовка до впровадження методу оцінки стану рослин у несприятливих умовах зовнішнього середовища // Наука та інновації. – 2011. – 7 (5). – С. 73-78.
  21. Козеко Л.Е. Белки теплового шока 90 кДа: разнообразие, структура и функции // Цитология. – 2010. – 52 (11). – С. 3-20.
  22. Kozeko L., Kordyum E. Effect of hypergravity on the level of heat shock proteins 70 and 90 in pea seedlings // Microgravity Sci. Technology. – 2009. – 21 (1). – P. 175-178.
  23. Kozeko L.Ye., Kordyum E.L. Heat shock proteins Hsp70 and Hsp90 in pea seedlings under clinorotation of different duration // Proc. 28th Annu. Int. Gravitational Physiology Mtg. (San Antonio, TX, USA, 8-13 April 2007) / J. Gravitational Physiol. – 2007. – 14 (1). – P. 115-116.
  24. Kozeko L., Kordyum E. The stress protein level under clinorotation in context of the seedling developmental program and the stress response // Microgravity sci. technol. – 2006. – XVIII (3/4). – P. 254-256.
  25. Kozeko L.E., Troyan V.M. The relationship between the mitotic activity and moisture content of recalcitrant seeds of Acer saccharinum (L.) during maturation, post-maturation drying and germination // Seed Sci. Res. – 2000. – 10. – P. 225-232.

 

 

Participation in scientific conferences

114 oral/poster/distant presentation on 36 national and 57 international conferences and meetings.

 

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