Nadezhda Kulshina V.

Status: Student.
Personal information: Birth date: December 3, 1984.
Contact info:
Tel.: +7 916 3365258.
e-mail: kulshina@nmr.ru, kulshina@gmail.com.

Education:
1997—2002: Gymnasium #1, Novosibirsk, Russia, Student.
2002—present: Biology Faculty at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. Student, Department of Bioengineering. Diploma of Specialist expected in June 2007.

Research experience:
10/2004—present: Research assistant at the M.M. Shemyakin and Yu.A. Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Laboratory of Structural Biology, Moscow, Russia.
06/2006—08/2006: Summer internship at HMS, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
06/2005—08/2005: Summer internship at NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
06/2004—08/2004: Summer internship at NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Presentations:
04/13/2006: XIII International Conference of Young Scientists «Lomonosov-2006», MSU, Moscow, Russia. «Molecular Modeling Study of Interactions between Antimicrobial Peptides AMP1 and AMP2 and an Explicit Lipid Bilayer Model that Imitates the Membrane of Gram-negative Bacteria». (Oral presentation).
10/28/2006: Student Symposium within the framework of the «Festival of Science», MSU, Moscow, Russia. «The Effect of L/D-Amino Acid Substitutions on Antimicrobial and Hemolytic Activity of Membrane-active Peptides». (Oral presentation).

Skills:
    Computer: Windows, Linux, Mac platforms. MS Office, familiarity with C/C++, MATLAB, CorelDraw.
    Research:

1. Molecular modeling: software — OS Linux, SGI IRIX, INSIGHT II, GROMACS, HyperChem, VMD, PyMol; methods — Molecular Dynamics and trajectory analysis.
2. Molecular biology: bacterial and mammalian cell culture, plasmid extraction and purification, phage transduction, restriction reactions, site-directed mutagenesis, PCR, oligonucleotide synthesis, gel analysis, radioactive labeling, spectroscopy.