Assistant Development
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EDUCATION
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN USA
Ph.D. in Chemistry, June 2008
Major Field: Biochemistry Minor Field: Biology
Advisor: Prof. Shahriar Mobashery
Smolensk State Pedagogical Institute
Smolensk, Russia
B.Sc. in Biology, June 1997
Major Field: Biology Minor Field: Chemistry
EXPERIENCE
Zymetis, Inc., 08/2010 - to present College Park, MD, USA
Vice President for Science
. Supervising R&D activities at the company.
. Product development.
. Generating ideas for new products and technologies.
. Participating in company's IP management.
. Generating reports for management and investors.
Zymetis, Inc., 07/2008 - 08/2010 College Park, MD, USA
Research Scientist III
. Protein design, metabolic engineering and strain development for
production of various enzymes for bioethanol production.
. Small and large scale fermentations (from 10 to 7,500 L).
. Process development and equipment design for production of various
enzymes and green chemicals.
. Supervising process scale-up trials.
. Training and supervising research personnel.
. Participating in writing of grant proposals, reports and publications.
University of Notre Dame, 08/2003 - 06/2008
Notre Dame, IN, USA
Graduate Research Assistant
. Development of expression and purification systems for isolation of
bacterial proteins.
. Development of protocols for characterization of enzymatic activity of
bacterial proteins.
. Development of protocols for gene cloning, creation of fusion proteins
and site-directed mutagenesis.
. Microbiological testing of different antimicrobial agents.
. Development of protocols for LC-MS-based analysis of bacterial
peptidoglycan.
. Development of protocols for gene silencing in bacteria.
. Training new graduate and undergraduate students.
. University Of Notre Dame Reilly Fellowship recipient (2007-2008)
Wayne State University, 08/2001 - 07/2003
Detroit, MI, USA
Graduate Research Assistant
. Research pursuits as listed above.
. Wayne State Department of Chemistry Thomas C. Rumble Fellowship
recipient (2001-2002)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Wayne State University, 01/2001 - 08/2001 Detroit, MI, USA
Research Assistant
. Cloning, mutagenizing, purification and characterization of bacterial (-
lactamases and penicillin-binding proteins.
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of
Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine of
Wayne State University, 03/2000 - 12/2000 Detroit, MI, USA
Research Assistant
. Cloning and characterization of bacterial (-lactamases.
Department of Clinical Pharmacology,
Smolensk State Medical Academy 01/1998 - 03/2000 Smolensk, Russia
Clinical Molecular Microbiologist
. Microbiological analysis of clinical specimens.
. Genotyping of various bacterial pathogens.
. MIC determination using serial dilution, e-test and disk methods.
. Development of diagnostics system for bacterial pathogens and drug-
resistance determinants in bacteria.
. Development of high-throughput antimicrobial resistance screening assays.
PUBLICATIONS
Suvorov, M., Lee, M., Hesek, D., Boggess, B., Mobashery S.
Lytic Transglycosylase MltB of Escherichia coli and Its Role in Recycling
of Peptidoglycan Strands of Bacterial Cell Wall. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008
130(36): 118**-*****.
Suvorov, M., Fisher, J. F., and Mobashery, S.
Chapter "Bacterial Cell Wall: Morphology and Biochemistry". Practical Book
of Microbiology. CRC Press, 2008.
Suvorov, M., Vakulenko, S.B., and Mobashery, S.
Cytoplasmic-Membrane Anchoring of a Class A ?-Lactamase and Its Capacity
in Manifesting Antibiotic Resistance. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2007
51(8): 2937-42.
Fuda, C., Suvorov, M., Shi, Q., Hesek, D., Lee, M., and Mobashery, S.
Shared Functional Attributes Between the mecA Gene Product of
Staphylococcus sciuri and Penicillin-Binding Protein 2a of Methicillin-
Resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Biochemistry, 2007 46 (27): 8050 -8057.
Complete list of publications is available upon request.
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