Who We Are and What We Do Brief Curricula of Prinzipal Investigator: Beloussov, Lev Vladimirovitch Other Members of the Research Group Embryological Branch and Bioorganic Branch References

Who We Are and What We Do

The Laboratory of  the Developmental Biophysics, Moscow State University (MSU)
The Laboratory of  the Developmental Biophysics, Moscow State University (MSU) has a complicated structure, which is the result of its hybrid origination. It had been created in the year 1992 due to a mutual attraction of two research groups from the Faculty of Biology, MSU: one being previously (since 1975) held at the Department of Embryology (Head: Prof. Dr. L.V. Beloussov) while another  being newly established at the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry (Head: Assistant-Professor, Dr. V.L.Voeikov).

The reasons for such a unification was our common ideological attitude (a dissapointment in the results of the dominating reducionistic approach in the present-day biology; the interest to the wholistical and non-linear trends) and the willing to reanimate and to develop further the classical studies on the biophoton emission being initiated in Russia by Alexander Gurwitsch more than 70 years ago.

We were happy to find a complete understanding and a support of these  ideas and intentions  by the International Institute of Biophysics and to become the IIB members. Sharing the main IIB goals, we intend to promote the development of the non-reductionistic and non-linear (non-additive) approaches to the biological events, treated on the molecular, supramolecular, cellular and organismis levels. Our special interest to the biophotons and other weak physical interactions within the living matter is associated with our deep intuitive believing that all of these phenomenae are the manifestations of still now quite poorly investigated non-linear and non-equilibrial fields which  play a primary role in coordinating all of  the  fundamental biological activities (developmental phenomenae, metabolic events and so on, up to a consciousness level).
  Brief Curricula of Prinzipal Investigator

Name: Beloussov, Lev Vladimirovitch

Now we give the information about the personalities and the working activities of the Embryological Branch of the Laboratory of Developmental Biophysics, Moscow State University Head:  Beloussov, Lev Vladimirovitch. Doctor Biol Sci., Professor of Embryology, Moscow State University. Correspondent-Member of the Russian Academy of the Natural Sciences (since 1993) Member of  the New York Academy (since 1994). Awarded by Carlo Bondi Prize (University of Perugia, Italy) in 1989 for his works on the mechanics of animals development.  Born in St Petersburg in 1935. Graduated from Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, in 1957. Candidate of Biol. Sci. since 1961. Doctor of Biol. Sci. since 1974. Professor of Embryology since 1980. Author of more than 160 papers on the different topics of Developmental and Theorectical Biology, mostly centered around the problem of morphogenesis. Monographs:  “Biological Morphogenesis”, Moscow University Press, Moscow, 1987 (in Russian) “Foundations on General Embryology”, Moscow University Press, Moscow, 1993 (in Russian), a standart text-book for Russian Universities and 3 others.

Other Members of the Research Group

• Kazakova, Natalia Ivanovna, Cand. Biol. Sci. Born in 1954. A specialist in the morphogenesis and osmotic events in hydroid polypes.
• Korvin-Pavlovskaia, Elena Georgievna, Cand Biol. Sci. Born in 1953. A specialist in fish embryology.
• Luchinskaia, Natalia Nikolaevna. Born in 1954. A specialist in amphibians embryology.
• Neckljudova, Irina Vasilievna. Born in 1949. Cand. Biol. Sci. A specialist in fish and amphibians embryology.
• Yermakov, Alexands Sergeevitch. Born in 1971. Postgraduate student. Specializing in amphibians embryology and pattern formation.

Embryological Branch and Bioorganic Branch

We are sure, that the exploration of these fields should be one of the main goals of the next century science and that the progress in this field will give not only the fundamental, but also the applicatory results of a highest importance. As told above, due to our  double origin, our laboratory consists of two parts, which may be called Embryological Branch and Bioorganic Branch.
The Embryological Branch is continuing its traditional studies on the biomechanical mechanisms of morphogenesis  and started recently to study the biophoton emission from the developing embryos in the hope that in some future  the  both directions can be effectively coupled with each other.
  References

Publications from the Laboratory of the Developmental Biophysics (Embryological Branch) since 1990.
 

1. Beloussov, L.V. (1990). Mechanics of Animal Development. Rivista di Biologia (Biology Forum) 83: 303-322.
2. Beloussov, L.V.  (1991). Basic morphogenetic processes in Hydrozoa and their evolutionary implications: an exercise in rational taxonomy. Hydrobiologia, 216/217: 61-67.
3. Beloussov, L.V. (1993). Transformation of morphomechanical constraints into generative rules of organic evolution. World Futures, 38: 33-42.
4. Beloussov, L.V. (1993). Gurwitsch’s theoretical heritage: outlines of a creative personality. Izvestia Ross. Akad. Nauk Ser. Biol., N 5: 780-784 (in Russian).
5. Beloussov, L.V. (1993). Bauer’s structural non-equilibricity and some morphogenetical phenomenae. In: Erwin Bauer and Theoretical Biology (E.L. Golovlev, A. Ju. Sungurov, S. E. Shnoll & I.G. Vorobyeva eds). Puschino Scientific Center of the Russian Acad. Sci. Puschino pp. 37-40. (in Russian)
6. Beloussov, L.V. (1993). Generation of morphological patterns: the mechanical ways to create regular structures in embryonic development. In: Thinking About Biology (W.D.Stein & F.J.Varela eds) SFI Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. Lect. Note Vol. III. Addison-Wesley: 149-167.
7. Beloussov, L.V. (1994). The interplay of active forces and passive mechanical stresses in animal morphogenesis. In: Biomechanics of Active Movement and Division of Cells (N.Akkas ed) NATO ASI Series H: Cell Biology, V. 84  Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg: 131-180.
8. Beloussov, L.V. (1995) Mechanical forces in morphogenesis: a regulatorial role and the possibilities of genetical parametrization. In: Interplay of Genetic and Physical Processes in the Development of Biological Form (D. Beysens, G. Forgacs, F. Gaill eds) World Scientific. Singapore etc pp 262-268.
9. Beloussov, L.V. (1995) Photon-emitting properties of a developing hen’s egg. In: Beloussov L.V. and Popp F.-A. (eds). Non-equilibricity and Coherence in Biology, Biophysics and Biotechnology. Moscow.: BioinformServices, pp. 167-190.
10. Beloussov, L.V. (1996).Patterns of mechanical stresses and formation of the body plans in animal embryos. Verh. Dtsch. Zool. Ges. 8: 219-229
11. Beloussov, L.V. (1996). On  the active memory in developing systems. Rivista di Biologia (Biology Forum) 89: 425-440.
12. Beloussov, L.V. (1996). Delocalization and coherency in developing organisms. In: Current Development of Biophysics (Changlin Zhang, F.-F. Popp & V.Bischof eds) Hanghou University Press,  pp 203-217.
13. Beloussov, L.V. & Baskakov, I.V. (1995). A reproduction of the mitogenetic experiments of the Gurwitsch’s school on frog and fish cleaving eggs. In: Beloussov L.V. and Popp F.-A. (eds). Non-equilibricity and Coherence in Biology, Biophysics and Biotechnology. Moscow.: BioinformServices, pp. 191-200.
14. Beloussov, L.V., Labas J.A., Kazakova N.I. (1993). Growth pulsations in hydroid polypes: kinematics, biological role and cytophysiology. In: Oscillations and Morphogenesis (L.Rensing ed) Marcel Dekker Basel, Hong Kong etc: 183-193.
15. Beloussov, L.V., Lakirev, A.V.  (1991). Generative rules for the morphogenesis of epithelial tubes. J.Theor.Biol. 152: 455-468.
16. Beloussov, L.V., Lakirev, A.V., Naumidi, I.I., Novoselov, V.V. (1990). Effects of relaxation of mechanical tensions upo the early morphogenesis of Xenopus laevis embryos. Int. J. Devel Biol. 34: 409-419.
17. Beloussov, L.V., Luchinskaia, N.N. (1995a). Biomechanic feedback in morphogenesis, as exemplified by stretch responses of amphibian embryonic tissues. J. Biochem. Cell Biol. 73: 555-563.
18. Beloussov, L.V., Luchinskaia, N.N. (1995b). Mechanodependent heterotopies of the axial rudiments in Xenopus laevis embryos. Ontogenez (Russ. J. Devel Biol.) 26, 213-222.
19. Beloussov, L.V., Mittenthal, J. (1992). A hyperrestoration of mechanical stresses as a possible motive force of a morphogenesis. Zhurn. Obsch. Biol. 53: 797-807   (In Russian).
20. Beloussov L.V. and Popp F.-A. (eds). Non-equilibricity and Coherence in Biology, Biophysics and Biotechnology. Moscow,  BioinformServices, 1995. 530 Ð.
21. Beloussov, L.V., Saveliev, S.V., Naumidi, I.I., Novoselov, V.V. (1994). Mechanical stresses in embryonic tissues: patterns, morphogenetic role and involvement in regulatory feedback. Intern. Rev. Cytol., 150: 1-34.
22. Beloussov, L.V. & Snetkova, E.V. (1994). The dependence of the differentiation potencies of the marginal zone areas in the early gastrulae of Xenopus laevis upon their morphogenetic movements. Ontogenez (Russ.J.Devel Biol.) 25: 63-71.
23. Beloussov, L.V. & Zhadan, A.L. (1993). Morphological reactions of Echinodermata embryos to the decrease of osmotic gradient between the blastocoel and external environment. Ontogenez, 24: 32-36 (Russ).
24. Kazakova, N.I., Labas, Ju.A & Beloussov, L.V. (1991). A correlaion between the polarity of electrical reactions and the distoproximal polarity in hydroid polypes. Ontogenez (Sov.J.Devel Biol.) 22: 84-89.
25. Kazakova, N.I., Zierold, K., Plickert, G., Labas J.A., Beloussov, L.V. (1994). X-ray microanalysis of ion contents in vacuoles and cytoplasm of the growing tips of a hydroid polyp as related to osmotic changes and growth pulsations. Tissue & Cell, 26: 687-697.
26. Luchinskaia, N.N., Rozenkranz, A.A., Morozow, A.P., Serebryakova, N.V., Sobolev, A.S., Beloussov, L.V. (1991). A dynamics of the adenylate-cyclase activity in the explants of the dorsal blastoporal lip of Xenopus laevis early gastrula. Ontogenez (Russ. J. Devel Biol.) 22: 39-48.