Prof Peter Golyshin is interested in the environmental genomics of microorganisms. He performed the first omics-based studies in marine obligate hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria that play a key role in marine oil degradation worldwide. He pioneered activity-based metagenomic enzyme discovery in cow rumen, earthworm gut and deep-sea environments.  His other significant achievements include the determination of the chaperonin-based cold adaptation in E. coli and Oleispira. His lab has isolated and described >15 microbial taxa at the level of the genus and above and performed culture-independent analysis of  deeply branching microbial phyla from extreme habitats. His current activities focus on mining (meta)genomes for enzymes of industrial relevance from extremophiles and biodegradation of organic pollutants (including plastics) in the environment.

Profile in Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=zc7Da-AAAAAJ&view_op=list_works

Profile in ORCID : http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5433-0350

 

Current projects

  • UKRI Engineering Biology Mission Hub EBIC-Environmental Biotechnology Innovation Centre, Grant Nr BB/Y008332/1, Lead, Cranfield University. Bangor PI, P. Golyshin, CoIs: A. Yakunin and D. Jones 14.02.2024-13.02.2029 Total budget, £13M, Bangor Uni share, £960k. https://ebicentre.co.uk/
  • UKRI Engineering Biology “Preventing Plastic Pollution with Engineering Biology (P3EB)” Mission Hub, Grant Nr BB/Y007972/1. Lead, Portsmouth University, Bangor PI, P. Golyshin, CoI, A. Yakunin. 14.02.2024-13.02.2029. Total budget, £11M, Bangor Uni share, £1.39M.
  • Centre for Environmental Biotechnology (CEB) ERDF/Welsh European Funding Organisaion-Bangor University co-funded, project ID:81280,  Director, total grant £8.6 M. http://environmental-biotechnology.bangor.ac.uk/index.php.en
  • EU Horizon 2020, Grant Nr 101000327 FuturEnzyme: Enzymes for more environment-friendly consumer products (PI) 2021-2025, EUR 549,000. http://www.futurenzyme.eu/

Past projects

  • NERC (Natural Environment Research Council UK) Grant Nr NE/S004548/1. Microbial hitch-hikers of marine plastics: the survival, persistence & ecology of microbial communities in the Plastisphere (Plastic Vectors) (PI ) 2019-2023, £599,000
  • EU Horizon 2020 (Contract Nr 634486) Industrial applications of marine enzymes: Innovative screening and expression platforms to discover and use the functional protein diversity from the sea (INMARE) Co-ordinator, 01.04.2015-31.03.2019, €6,000,000 http://inmare.bangor.ac.uk/index.php.en
  • ERA-Net IB2-BBSRC [14-ERA IB] Grant Nr BB/M029085/1. A metagenomic collection of novel and highly efficient biocatalysts for industrial biotechnology (MetaCat) PI, 1.03.2015-28.02.2018, £340.000
  • SynbiCITE: Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) in Synthetic Biology, co-funded by EPSRC (EP/L011573/1), 2013-2018 http://www.synbicite.com/ 
  • Innovate UK-BBSRC Grant  No. 101911 Biotechnology for Antiweeds (BaW) (PG with Dr Slava Tverezovskiy  (BioComposites) 1.09.2014-31.08.2017, £498.000.
  • NERC (joint with Davey Jones, SENR), Characterisation of the nature, origins and ecological significance of dissolved organic matter in freshwater ecosystems (DOMAINE) Apr 1, 2014-May 31, 2017, £440.000 http://www.nerc-domaine.uk/
  • EU FP7 Integrated Biotechnological Solutions for Combating Marine Oil Spills (Kill-Spill) 2013-2016, €312.000 http://www.killspill.eu/
  • EU FP7 (OCEAN.2011-2 287589) Marine Microorganisms: Biodiversity, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology (MICROB3) 2012-2016. €300.000 http://microb3.eu/
  • Royal Society (RS-DFID Africa Network Grants) Assessment of water quality indices of some recreational surface waters in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa as a tool for capacity development in the impoverished Province,  Sep 1, 2013-Aug 31, 2014, £ 25.000
  • Royal Society UK (2013 - RFBR cost share) Mining novel enzymes from new thermophilic microorganisms from subsurface, Sep 1, 2013-Aug 31, 2015, £12.000
  • EU FP7 KBBE-266473 Unravelling and exploiting Mediterranean Sea microbial diversity and ecology for xenobiotics’ and pollutants’ clean up (ULIXES) 2011-2014. €300.000 http://www.ulixes.unimi.it/
  • EU FP7 KBBE-245226 Molecular Approaches and MetaGenomic Investigations for optimizing Clean-up of PAH-contaminated sites (MAGIC PAH) 2010-2014. €305.000 http://www.magicpah.org/
  • EU FP7. KBBE-226977 Marine Metagenomics for new Biotechnological Applications (MAMBA) 2009-2013. Coordinator, total 2.9 Mio EUR http://mamba.bangor.ac.uk Associated with a Partner Project BEEM (CAD 10M) http://www.beem.utoronto.ca/

Offices held

Committees:

  • SBS Board of Studies
  • SBS Research Committee

Groups:

Role

Chair in Environmental Genomics,

Director, the Centre for Environmental Biotechnology (CEB)

http://environmental-biotechnology.bangor.ac.uk/index.php.en

 

Email

p.golyshin@bangor.ac.uk

Location

313.2, 2nd floor Thoday bldg

Phone

3629

  • PhD
    Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1987–1991
  • MSc: Diploma with Distinction
    Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1982–1987

At the Centre for Environmental Biotechnology we offer a range of postgraduate projects on topics exemplified below

  • discovery of novel enzymes of industrial relevance from extremophilic microorganisms and their communities;
  • microbiology of petroleum degradation in marine environments: cultivation and OMICS studies);
  • applications of marine oil-degrading bacteria (enzymes, surfactants, biopolymers, osmolytes);
  • culture-independent (metagenomic) analysis of taxonomic composition and functional potential of microbial communities;
  • investigation of the role of marine microorganisms and their enzymes in the fate of synthetic polyester plastics;
  • application of proteomics technologies to enzyme discovery (general principles, sample preparation and enzymatic digestion of proteins, LC-MS analysis of peptide mixtures and data analysis;
  • application of metabolomics technologies to enzyme discovery (general principles, sample preparation, targeted and discovery mode LC-MS analysis of complex metabolite mixtures and data analysis;
  • application of lipidomics technologies to study microbial communities (general principles, sample preparation, lipid extraction, targeted and discovery mode LC-MS analysis of complex lipid mixtures and data analysis.

To apply, please follow the guidance:

 http://environmental-biotechnology.bangor.ac.uk/postgrad-projects.php.en

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  • PublishedA communal catalogue reveals Earth's multiscale microbial diversity
    Thompson, L. R., Sanders, J. G., McDonald, D., Amir, A., Ladau, J., Locey, K. J., Prill, R. J., Tripathi, A., Gibbons, S. M., Ackermann, G., Navas-Molina, J. A., Janssen, S., Kopylova, E., Vazquez-Baeza, Y., Gonzalez, A., Morton, J. T., Mirarab, S., Xu, Z. Z., Jiang, L. & Haroon, M. F. & 283 others, Kanbar, J., Zhu, Q., Song, S. J., Kosciolek, T., Bokulich, N. A., Lefler, J., Brislawn, C. J., Humphrey, G., Owens, S. M., Hampton-Marcell, J., Berg-Lyons, D., McKenzie, V., Fierer, N., Fuhrman, J. A., Clauset, A., Stevens, R. L., Shade, A., Pollard, K. S., Goodwin, K. D., Jansson, J. K., Gilbert, J. A., Knight, R., Agosto Rivera, J. L., Al-Moosawi, L., Alverdy, J., Amato, K. R., Andras, J., Angenent, L. T., Antonopoulos, D. A., Apprill, A., Armitage, D., Ballantine, K., Bárta, J., Baum, J. K., Berry, A., Bhatnagar, A., Bhatnagar, M., Biddle, J. F., Bittner, L., Boldgiv, B., Bottos, E., Boyer, D. M., Braun, J., Brazelton, W., Brearley, F. Q., Campbell, A. H., Caporaso, J. G., Cardona, C., Carroll, J., Cary, S. C., Casper, B. B., Charles, T. C., Chu, H., Claar, D. C., Clark, R. G., Clayton, J. B., Clemente, J. C., Cochran, A., Coleman, M. L., Collins, G., Colwel, R. R., Contreras, M., Crary, B. B., Creer, S., Cristol, D. A., Crump, B. C., Cui, D., Daly, S. E., Davalos, L., Dawson, R. D., Defazio, J., Delsuc, F., Dionisi, H. M., Dominguez-Bello, M. G., Dowell, R., Dubinsky, E. A., Dunn, P. O., Ercolini, D., Espinoza, R. E., Ezenwa, V., Fenner, N., Findlay, H. S., Fleming, I. D., Fogliano, V., Forsman, A., Freeman, C., Friedman, E. S., Galindo, G., Garcia, L., Garcia-Amado, M. A., Garshelis, D., Gasser, R. B., Gerdts, G., Gibson, M. K., Gifford, I., Gill, R. T., Giray, T., Gittel, A., Golyshin, P., Gong, D., Grossart, H.-P., Guyton, K., Haig, S.-J., Hale, V., Hall, R. S., Hallam, S. J., Handley, K. M., Hasan, N. A., Haydon, S. R., Hickman, J. E., Hidalgo, G., Hofmockel, K. S., Hooker, J., Hulth, S., Hultman, J., Hyde, E., Ibáñez-Álamo, J. D., Jastrow, J. D., Jex, A. R., Johnson, L. S., Johnston, E. R., Joseph, S., Jurburg, S. D., Jurelevicius, D., Karlsson, A., Karlsson, R., Kauppinen, S., Kellogg, C. T. E., Kennedy, S. J., Kerkhof, L. J., King, G. M., Kling, G. W., Koehler, A. V., Krezalek, M., Kueneman, J., Lamendella, R., Landon, E. M., Lane-deGraaf, K., LaRoche, J., Larsen, P., Laverock, B., Lax, S., Lentino, M., Levin, I. I., Liancourt, P., Liang, W., Linz, A. M., Lipson, D. A., Liu, Y., Lladser, M. E., Lozada, M., Spirito, C. M., MacCormack, W. P., MacRae-Crerar, A., Magris, M., Martín-Platero, A. M., Martín-Vivaldi, M., Martínez, L. M., Martínez-Bueno, M., Marzinelli, E. M., Mason, O. U., Mayer, G. D., McDevitt-Irwin, J. M., McDonald, J., McGuire, K. L., McMahon, K. D., McMinds, R., Medina, M., Mendelson, J. R., Metcalf, J. L., Meyer, F., Michelangeli, F., Miller, K., Mills, D. A., Minich, J., Mocali, S., Moitinho-Silva, L., Moore, A., Morgan-Kiss, R. M., Munroe, P., Myrold, D., Neufeld, J. D., Ni, Y., Nicol, G. W., Nielsen, S., Nissimov, J. I., Niu, K., Nolan, M. J., Noyce, K., O’Brien, S. L., Okamoto, N., Orlando, L., Ortiz Castellano, Y., Osuolale, O., Oswald, W., Parnell, J., Peralta-Sánchez, J. M., Petraitis, P., Pfister, C., Pilon-Smits, E., Piombino, P., Pointing, S. B., Pollock, F. J., Potter, C., Prithiviraj, B., Quince, C., Rani, A., Ranjan, R., Rao, S., Rees, A. P., Richardson, M., Riebesell, U., Robinson, C., Rockne, K. J., Rodriguezl, S. M., Rohwer, F., Roundstone, W., Safran, R. J., Sangwan, N., Sanz, V., Schrenk, M., Schrenzel, M. D., Scott, N. M., Seger, R. L., Seguin-Orlando, A., Seldin, L., Seyler, L. M., Shakhsheer, B., Sheets, G. M., Shen, C., Shi, Y., Shin, H., Shogan, B. D., Shutler, D., Siegel, J., Simmons, S., Sjöling, S., Smith, D. P., Soler, J. J., Sperling, M., Steinberg, P. D., Stephens, B., Stevens, M. A., Taghavi, S., Tai, V., Tait, K., Tan, C. L., Tas, N., Taylor, D. L., Thomas, T., Timling, I., Turner, B. L., Urich, T., Ursell, L. K., van der Lelie, D., Van Treuren, W., van Zwieten, L., Vargas-Robles, D., Vega Thurber, R., Vitaglione, P., Walker, D. A., Walters, W. A., Wang, S., Wang, T., Weave, T., Webster, N. S., Wehrle, B., Weisenhorn, P., Weiss, S., Werner, J. J., West, K., Whitehead, A., Whitehead, S. R., Whittingham, L. A., Willerslev, E., Williams, A. E., Wood, S. A., Woodhams, D. C., Yang, Y., Zaneveld, J., Zarraonaindia, I., Zhang, Q. & Zhao, H., 23 Nov 2017, In: Nature. 551, 7681, p. 457-+
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedActivity screening of environmental metagenomic libraries reveals novel carboxylesterase families
    Popovic, A., Hai, T., Tchigvintsev, A., Hajighasemi, M., Nocek, B., Khusnutdinova, A. N., Brown, G., Glinos, J., Flick, R., Skarina, T., Chernikova, T., Yim, V., Bruls, T., Le Paslier, D., Yakimov, M. M., Joachimiak, A., Ferrer, M., Golyshina, O., Savchenko, A. & Golyshin, P. & 1 others, Yakunin, A. F., Mar 2017, In: Scientific Reports. 7, 44103, 44103.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • Published“ARMAN” archaea depend on association with euryarchaeal host in culture and in situ
    Golyshina, O., Toshchakov, S. V., Makarova, K. S., Gavrilov, S. N., Korzhenkov, A. A., La Cono, V., Arcadi, E., Nechitaylo, T. Y., Ferrer, M., Kublanov, I. V., Wolf, Y. I., Yakimov, M. M. & Golyshin, P., 2017, In: Nature Communications. 8, 60.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedBuwchitin: A Ruminal Peptide with Antimicrobial Potential against Enterococcus faecalis
    Oyama, L. B., Crochet, J.-A., Edwards, J. E., Girdwood, S. E., Cookson, A. R., Fernandez-Fuentes, N., Hilpert, K., Golyshin, P., Golyshina, O., Prive, F., Hess, M., Mantovani, H. C., Creevey, C. J. & Huws, S. A., 12 Jul 2017, In: Frontiers in Chemistry.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedDiscovery of anaerobic lithoheterotrophic haloarchaea, ubiquitous in hypersaline habitats
    Sorokin, D. Y., Messina, E., Smedile, F., Roman, P., Sinninghe Damste, J. S., Ciordia, S., Mena, M. C., Ferrer, M., Golyshin, P., Kublanov, I. V., Samarov, N. I., Toshchakov, S. V., La Cono, V. & Yakimov, M. M., 20 Jan 2017, In: ISME Journal. 11, p. 1245-1260
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedDiscovery of extremely halophilic, methyl-reducing euryarchaea provides insights into the evolutionary origin of methanogenesis
    Sorokin, D. Y., Makarova, K. S., Abbas, B., Ferrer, M., Golyshin, P., Galinski, E. A., Ciordia, S., Mena, M. C., Merkel, A. Y., Wolf, Y. I., van Loosdrecht, M. C. M. & Koonin, E. V., May 2017, In: Nature Microbiology. 2, 17081 .
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedFerrous iron- and ammonium-rich diffuse vents support habitat-specific communities in a shallow hydrothermal field off the Basiluzzo Islet (Aeolian Volcanic Archipelago)
    Bortoluzzi, G., Romeo, T., La Cono, V., La Spada, G., Smedile, F., Esposito, V., Sabatino, G., Di Bella, M., Canese, S., Scotti, G., Bo, M., Giuliano, L., Golyshin, P., Jones, D., Yakimov, M. M. & Andaloro, F., Sept 2017, In: Geobiology. 15, 5, p. 664-677
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedMetabolic and evolutionary patterns in the extremely acidophilic archaeon Ferroplasma acidiphilum YT
    Golyshina, O., Hai, T., Reva, O. N., Lemak, S., Yakunin, A. F., Goesmann, A., Nechitaylo, T. Y., LaCono, V., Smedile, F., Slesarev, A., Rojo, D., Barbas, C., Ferrer, M., Yakimov, M. M. & Golyshin, P., 16 Jun 2017, In: Scientific Reports. 7, 3682.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedMicrobial use of low molecular weight DOM in filtered and unfiltered freshwater: Role of ultra-small microorganisms and implications for water quality monitoring
    Brailsford, F., Glanville, H., Marshall, M., Golyshin, P., Jones, P. J., Yates, C. A., Owen, A. T. & Jones, D. L., 15 Nov 2017, In: Science of the Total Environment. 598, p. 377-384
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedMonaibacterium marinum, gen. nov, sp. nov, a new member of the Alphaproteobacteria isolated from seawater of Menai Straits, Wales, UK
    Chernikova, T., Dallimore, J., Lunsdorf, H., Heipieper, H. J. & Golyshin, P., 1 Sept 2017, In: International Journal of Systematic Evolutionary Microbiology. 67, p. 3310-3317
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedMultidrug Resistance and High Prevalence of class 1 Integrons in Escherichia coli Isolated from Irrigation Water and Vegetables in Parts of Nsukka and Enugu, Nigeria
    Chigor, C. B., Ibangha, I.-A. I., Onuora, V. C., Omotosho, O. E., Chernikova, T., Chigor, V. N. & Golyshin, P., 1 Apr 2017, In: Faseb Journal. 31, S1, 777.22.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting Abstract › peer-review
  • PublishedSubtle shifts in microbial communities occur alongside the release of carbon induced by drought and rewetting in contrasting peatland ecosystems
    Potter, C., Freeman, C., Golyshin, P., Ackerman, G., Fenner, N., McDonald, J., Ehbair, A., Jones, T., Murphy, L. & Creer, S., Sept 2017, In: Scientific Reports. 7, 11314.
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedThe genome analysis of Oleiphilus messinensis ME102 (DSM 13489T) reveals backgrounds of its obligate alkane-devouring marine lifestyle
    Toshchakov, S. V., Korzhenkov, A. A., Chernikova, T., Ferrer, M., Golyshina, O., Yakimov, M. M. & Golyshin, P., Dec 2017, In: Marine Genomics. 36, p. 41-47
    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  • PublishedThe rumen microbiome: an underexplored resource for novel antimicrobial discovery
    Oyama, L. B., Girdwood, S. E., Cookson, A. R., Fernanadez-Fuentes, N., Prive, F., Vallin, H. E., Wilkinson, T. J., Golyshin, P., Golyshina, O., Mikut, R., Hilpert, K., Richards, J., Wootton, M., Edwards, J. E., Maresca, M., Perrier, J., Lundy, F. T., Luo, Y., Zhou, M. & Hess, M. & 3 others, Mantovani, H. C., Creevey, C. J. & Huws, S. A., 1 Dec 2017, In: NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes. 3, 33 .
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  • PublishedKlonirovanie gena vnekletochnoĭ RNKazy Bacillus circulans
    Fedorova, N. D., Shul'ga, A. A., Peredel'chuk, M. P., Kozharinova, L. V., Golyshin, P. N., Riabchenko, N. F. & Kirpichnikov, M. P., 1 Mar 1994, In: Molekuliarnaia biologiia. 28, 2, p. 468-71 4 p.
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  • PublishedVnekletochnaia shchelochnaia ribonukleaza Bacillus thuringiensis var. subtoxicus
    Dement'ev, A. A., Riabchenko, N. F., Protasevich, I. I., Golyshin, P. N., Stepanov, A. I., Orlov, V. M., Pustovaev, V. N., Makarov, A. A., Moiseev, G. P. & Karpeĭskiĭ, M. I., 1 Nov 1992, In: Molekuliarnaia biologiia. 26, 6, p. 1338-49 12 p.
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  • BU-IIA Funded Project: Exploring technology transfer options for microbial bioaugmentation of anaerobic waste biomass conversion to biogas

    The overarching aim of this application is to build on our current work on the EU SYNBIOGAS project which is developing engineered microbial communities to enhance waste biomass conversion to biomass. This proposal, which will fund additional plant-scale bioaugmentation of anaerobic digestion processes and techno-economic assessment of the bioprocess, enables us to increase our research activity at TRL6 and build a roadmap for technology adoption by our industrial partners. The project will facilitate applications for follow-on-funding, generate REF-relevant impact and provide possibilities for commercialisation. The project aligns directly with the University’s Strategy 2030 and the RWIF strategic priorities. 

    Funding awarded through the Bangor University Innovation and Impact Award (Research Wales Innovation Funding). Value = £42,055

    1 Apr 2022 – 31 Mar 2023

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