Liguri Mosulishvili

Liguri Mosulishvili (ლიგური მოსულიშვილი; 10 June 1933 – 5 April 2010) was a Georgian physicist and Head of Biophysics Department at Andronikashvili Institute of Physics of Tbilisi State University, a PhD in physics.

Biography
Liguri Mosulishvili was born in 1933, in Arashenda village, Gurjaani Municipality, Georgia. He was trained as a physicist at the Tbilisi State University (1953–1958). In 1958 by the invitation Elephter Andronikashvili he has begun work as the junior researcher in Andronikashvili Institute of Physics.

In 1968 Liguri Mosulishvili was the Candidate of Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences (Experimental Physics) at Tbilisi State University, Georgia. He received his Ph.D. in Biophysics (Nuclear Physics and Biophysics), at Andronikashvili Institute of Physics of Tbilisi State University in 1985. His major research interests was Life Sciences, Ecology, Biophysics, Molecular biology, Neutron activation analysis and Experimental physics.

A small book of memoirs Episodes from life of physicists by Liguri Mosulishvili (edited by Miho Mosulishvili, who is a son of Liguri Mosulishvili's brother), was published in 2010.

Working experience

 * 2004-2006 — Principal Investigator, Andronikashvili institute of Physics
 * 1990-2004 — Head of the department, Andronikashvili Institute of Physics
 * 1961-1990 — Head of the Laboratory, Andronikashvili Institute of Physics
 * 1958-1961 — Junior Researcher, Andronikashvili institute of Physics

The Scientific Projects

 * 2000-2002 — ISTC project G-348 'Molecular Mechanisms of Heavy Metal Transformation on Microbial-Mineral Surfaces, their Roles in Detoxifying High-Oxidation State Cr and Other Heavy Metal Ions', Collaborators: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, CA, Berkeley
 * 2001-2003 — ISTC project G-349 'In Vitro Study of Mechanisms of Intracellular Responses to Low-Dose and Low-Dose Rate Exposure to Cr(VI) Compounds', Collaborators: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, CA, Berkeley
 * 2001-2004 — ISTC project G-408 'Neutron-Activation Analysis of Blue-Green Alga Spirulina Platensis: Heavy and Toxic Elements Accumulation from Nutrient Medium in the Process of Cell Growth' (Project manager), Project collaborator David C Glasgow
 * 2002-2003 — The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Coordinated Research Programme (CRP) Contract N11528/RBF, 'Selenium Containing Blue-Green Algae Spirulina Platensis for Preventive Health Care Investigated by Nuclear Techniques'

Georgian grants

 * 2004–2005 — 2.32.04. The study of toxic metals absorption and accumulation by algae Spirulina platensis (Project manager)
 * 2000–2001 — 2.25. The study of physical-chemical properties of procaryotic systems under loading with toxic metals (Project manager)
 * 1997–1999 — 2.22. Study of Cd(II) interaction with biomacromolecules in vivo and in vitro experiments (Project manager)

The scientific contacts

 * 1999-2006 — Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
 * 2004-2006 — Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
 * 2000-2005 — Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
 * 1975-1985 — Dresden Generating Station, Germany
 * 1970-1975 — Saulce sur Rhône (Loriol Le Pouzin Dam), France
 * 1964-1987 — Reactor of Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Awards

 * 2005 — Incentive prize of Joint Institute for Nuclear Research for research 'Using of neutron activation analysis for development of the new medical preparations and sorbents on the blue-green alga Spirulina platenis basis', Dubna (Russia), N 3108.
 * 2002 — Contest of Scientific, methodological and applied works of Laboratory of Neutron Physics (LNF), Second premium. Using of neutron activation analysis for development of the new medical preparations

Publications

 * Episodes from life of physicists (A notebook of memoirs), Published 2010 by Saari in Tbilisi, Georgia
 * Liguri Mosulishvili, Nelly Tsibakhashvili, Elene Kirkesali, Linetta Tsertsvadze, Marina Frontasyeva, Sergei Pavlov - Biotechnology in Georgia for Various Applications, BULLETIN OF THE GEORGIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, vol. 2, no. 3, 2008
 * L.M. Mosulishvili, E.I. Kirkesali, A.I. Belokobylsky, A.I. Khizanishvili, M.V. Frontasyeva, S.S. Pavlov, S.S. Gundorina (2002), J. Pharm. Biomed. Anal., 30(1): 87.
 * L.M. Mosulishvili, E.I. Kirkesali, A.I. Belokobylsky, A.I. Khizanishvili, M.V. Frontasyeva, S.F. Gundorina, C.D. Oprea (2002), J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. Articles, 252 (1): 15–20.
 * L.M. Mosulishvili, M.V. Frontasyeva, S.S. Pavlov, A.I. Belokobylsky, E.I. Kirkesali, A.I. Khizanishvili (2004), J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., 259 (1): 41–45.
 * A.I. Belokobylsky, E.N. Ginturi, N.E. Kuchava, E.I. Kirkesali, L.M. Mosulishvili, M.V. Frontasyeva, S.S. Pavlov, N.G. Aksenova (2004), J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., 259 (1), 65–68.
 * L.M. Mosulishvili, A.I. Belokobylsky, E.I. Kirkesali, M.V. Frontasyeva, S.S. Pavlov, N.G. Aksenova (2007), J. Neutron Res., 15(1): 49.
 * M.V. Frontasyeva, E.I. Kirkesali, N.G. Aksenova, L.M. Mosulishvili, A.I. Belokobylsky, A.I. Khizanishvili (2006), J. Neutron Res., 14 (2): 1–7.
 * L.M. Mosulishvili, A.I. Belokobylsky, A.I. Khizanishvili, E.I. Kirkesali, M.V. Frontasyeva, S.S. Pavlov (2001), Patent of RF No. 2209077, priority of March 15.
 * L. M. Mosulishvili, A. I. Belokobylsky, E.I. Kirkesali, M.V. Frontasyeva, S.S. Pavlov (2002), Patent of RF No. 2230560, priority of June 11.
 * N.Ya. Tsibakhashvili, M.V. Frontasyeva, E.I. Kirkesali, N.G. Aksenova, T.L. Kalabegishvili, I.G. Murusidze, L.M. Mosulishvili, H.-Y.N. Holman (2006), Anal. Chem. 78: 6285–6290.
 * N.Ya. Tsibakhashvili, L.M. Mosulishvili, E.I. Kirkesali, T.L. Kalabegishvili, M.V. Frontasyeva, E.V. Pomyakushina, S.S. Pavlov (2004). J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., 259 (3): 527–531.
 * N. Tsibakhahsvili, T. Kalabegishvili, L. Mosulishvili, E. Kirkesali, S. Kerkenjia, I. Murusidze, H.-Y. Holman, M.V. Frontasyeva, S.F. Gundorina (2008), J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. (accepted).
 * N. Tsibakhashvili, N. Asatiani, M. Abuladze, B. Birkaya, N. Sapozhnikova, L. Mosulishvili, H.-Y. Holman (2002), Biomed. Chrom., 16: 327.