Acting Head, Radioecology Laboratory
Contact:
Phone: +375 232 349 753
E-mail: elena.karpova1991@mail.ru
Scientific interests:
radioecology, environmental monitoring, radiobiology, radiobiology of microorganisms, cytogenetics.
Background:
2014 Graduated from Francisk Skorina Gomel State University, Biology Faculty, Department of Plant Botany and Physiology, with a qualification of a Biologist and an Educator of Biology and Chemistry.
2014-2023 Junior researcher, Radioecology Laboratory.
2016 Awarded a Master degree in Biological Sciences upon defence of her MScs thesis on “Protective properties of histolysis products of test plants under stress”.
2014 Advanced training course in Radioecology, Radiometry and Radiation Safety, F. S. Gomel State University.
2015 Completed a training course on Microbiology in Belarusian State University in Minsk.
2021-present Selected Chair of IRB Primary Trade Union Organization.
2022 Advanced training course in Radioecology, Radiometry and Radiation Safety, F. S. Gomel State University.
2023 Completed a post-graduate course in Radiobiology with a thesis study “Assessment of the main physiological groups of soil microorganisms and their effect on bioavailability of radionuclides”.
2023-2025 Researcher, Radioecology Laboratory.
2025-present Acting head of the laboratory.
Publications:
Author and co-author of over 50 research papers, including those published in Belarus VAK journals (VAK – Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Belarus).
A.N. Nikitin, I.A. Cheshyk, G.Z. Gutseva, E.A. Tankevich, М. Shintani, S. Okumoto. Impact of effective microorganisms on the transfer of radioactive cesium into lettuce and barley biomass. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 2018. Vol.192:491-497. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2018.08.005
Tankevich E.A., Nikitin A.N., Simonchyk Yu.K. Infuence of the main physiological groups of microorganisms on the bioavailability of 137Cs and its entry from peaty-gley soil into the biomass of Avena sativa L. Vestsi Natsyyanal’nai akademii navuk Belarusi. Seryya biyalagichnykh navuk = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Biological series, 2024, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 321–328 (in Russian). https://doi.org/10.29235/1029-8940-2024-69-4-321-328
Е.А. Tankevich, I.I. Kontsevaya. Изучение влияния экологических и климатических факторов на взаимоотношения микроорганизмов основных трофических групп в залежных дерново-подзолистых почвах зоны отчуждения Чернобыльской АЭС (= Study of the impact of environmental and climatic factors on the relationships of microorganisms of the main trophic groups in sod–podzolic soils of the ChNPP exclusion zone). Веснiк МДПУ iмя I.П. Шамякiна. 2024. № 1 (63). P. 60-70. (In Russian).
Tankevich, E., Nikitin, A., Simonchyk, Y., & Kantsavaya, I. (2024). The role of microorganisms of the main ecological and trophic groups in the transfer of 137Cs from soddy-podzolic sandy loam soil into the biomass of Avena sativa L. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Ecology, 2, 46-56. https://journals.bsu.by/index.php/ecology/article/view/6304
Nikitin A.N., Shurankova O.A., Tankevich E.A. Influence of spring barley seed treatment with mycor-rhiza-forming fungi of the genus Glomus on 137Cs accumulation in the vegetative organs of the plants. Vestsi Natsyyanal’nai akademii navuk Belarusi. Seryya biyalagichnykh navuk = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Biological series, 2025, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 31–39 (in Russian). https://doi.org/10.29235/1029-8940-2025-70-1-31-39
Lasko T.V., Tankevich E. A., Simonchyk Yu.K. Биологическое разнообразие растительных ассоциаций, произрастающих в Гомельской и Могилевской областях на пойменных землях, выведенных из сельскохозяйственного оборота (= Biological diversity of plant associations growing in Gomel and Mogilev regions on floodplain lands taken out of agricultural circulation). Веснiк МДПУ iмя I.П. Шамякiна. 2025. № 1 (65). P. 15-21. (In Russian).