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Last updated:
11 September 2023

Elena Platonova

Born 15 April 1992 in Krasnovodsk, Turkmenistan.

E-mail: plat.992@gmail.com

Research interests: behavioral and physiological adaptations in malaria-infected birds; development of malaria in birds in relation to different pathways of parasite transmission.

Education:

  • 2009–2014 ― Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Department of Bioecology and Biodiversity.
  • 2014–2016 ― St. Petersburg State University, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, MSc in Parasitology.
  • 2017-2022 ― PhD study, P.B. Šivickis Laboratory of Parasitology, Nature Research Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania).

Conferences and Workshops:

  • Fourth International Workshop on Malaria and Related Haemosporidian Parasites of Wildlife, September 26 – October 2, 2015, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, USA.
  • The 6th Conference of the Scandinavian-Baltic Society for Parasitology – April 23–24, 2015, Uppsala, Sweden.
  • International Conference on Malaria and Related Haemosporidian Parasites of Wildlife, Vilnius, Lithuania, 7–11 August 2013.

Selected publications:

Mukhin A., Palinauskas V., Platonova E., Kobylkov D., Vakoliuk I., Valkiūnas G. 2016. The Strategy to Survive Primary Malaria Infection: An Experimental Study on Behavioural Changes in Parasitized Birds. PLoS ONE 11(7): e0159216.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159216

Asghar M., Palinauskas V., Zaghdoudi-Allan N., Valkiūnas P., Mukhin A., Platonova E., Färnert A., Bensch S., Hasselquist D. 2016. Parallel telomere shortening in multiple body tissues owing to malaria infection. Proc R Soc B 283(1836)
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1184

Ilgūnas, M., Bukauskaitė, D., Palinauskas, V., Iezhova, T., Fragner, K., Platonova, E., Weissenböck, H., Valkiūnas, G. 2019. Patterns of Plasmodium homocircumflexum virulence in experimentally infected passerine birds. Malaria Journal 18, 174.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2810-2

Ilgūnas, M., Palinauskas, V., Platonova, E., Iezhova, T., Valkiūnas, G. 2019. The experimental study on susceptibility of common European songbirds to Plasmodium elongatum (lineage pGRW6), a widespread avian malaria parasite. Malaria Journal 18, 290.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2926-4

Žiegytė, R., Platonova, E., Bernotienė, R., Valkiūnas, G., Palinauskas, V. 2020. Complete sporogony of the blood parasite Haemoproteus nucleocondensus in common biting midges: why is its transmission interrupted in Europe? Parasitology 14, 593–600.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182020000116

Palinauskas, V., Platonova, E., Žiegytė, R., Mukhin, A. 2020. Dynamics of blood stage and sporozoite-induced malarial infections in experimentally infected passerines. International Journal for Parasitology 50, 1057–1065.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.05.015

Žiegytė, R., Platonova, E., Kinderis, E., Mukhin, A., Palinauskas, V., Bernotienė, R. 2021. Culicoides biting midges involved in transmission of haemoproteids. Parasites & Vectors 14, 1–9.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04516-1

Platonova, E., Aželytė, J., Iezhova, T., Ilgūnas, M., Mukhin, A., Palinauskas, V. 2021. Experimental study of newly described avian malaria parasite Plasmodium (Novyella) collidatum n. sp., genetic lineage pFANTAIL01 obtained from South Asian migrant bird. Malaria Journal 20, 1–16.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03588-3

Platonova, E., Palinauskas, V. 2021. The impact of temperature on the sporogonic development of tropical avian malaria parasites Plasmodium relictum (genetic lineage pGRW4) in Culex pipiens form molestus mosquitoes. Microorganisms 9, 2240.
https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9112240

Aželytė, J., Platonova, E., Bensch, S., Hellgren, O., Palinauskas, V. A comparative analysis of the dynamics of Plasmodium relictum (GRW4) development in the blood during single and mixed infections. Acta Tropica 226, 106247.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2021.106247

Aželytė, J., Wu-Chuang, A., Žiegytė, R., Platonova, E., Mateos-Hernandez, L., Maye, J., Obregon, D., Palinauskas, V. and Cabezas-Cruz, A., 2022. Anti-microbiota vaccine reduces avian malaria infection within mosquito vectors. Frontiers in immunology 13, 1-16.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.841835

Erokhina, M., Bushuev, A., Palinauskas, V., Platonova, E., & Mukhin, A. (2024). Intensity of Haemoproteus spp. blood infection differs between wild birds captured using different trapping methods. Biological Communications, 69(3), 192–199.
https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu03.2024.307

Platonova, E., Davydov, A., Erokhina, M., & Mukhin, A. (2024). Avian malaria parasites (Haemosporida: Plasmodiidae) in mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of the Curonian Spit (South-East coast of the Baltic Sea). Biological Communications, 69(3), 185–191.
https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu03.2024.306

Platonova E, Erokhina M, Mukhina A, Davydov A, Mukhin A. The Study of Biting Midges Culicoides Latreille, 1809 (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) and the Prevalence of Haemoproteus Kruse, 1890 (Haemosporida: Haemoproteidae) on the Curonian Spit of the Baltic Sea. Diversity. 2024; 16(12):723.
https://doi.org/10.3390/d16120723