Tatyana Smirnova
Bio
Awards
- National Institute of Health Individual National Research Service Award (Postdoctoral Fellowship) 1997-2000
- National Science Foundation POWRE (Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Engineering) Award, 2000
Education
Postdoctoral Fellow Lomonosov Institute of Fine Chemical Technology
Ph.D. Physical Chemistry University of Illinois 1997
Diploma Engineer in Chemistry Lomonosov Institute of Fine Chemical Technology 1986
Area(s) of Expertise
My research interests are focused on application of spectroscopy, especially electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and fluorescence, in chemistry and biology, specifically to study structure and dynamics of membranes and proteins, drug-protein, and protein-protein interactions.
Site-directed spin labeling of proteins: measuring protein distances in solution, protein folding/unfolding; interactions of protein with drugs and environment; docking of fatty acids and drug molecules in lipophilic protein channels.
Dynamics of lipids and lipid-protein interactions.
Pico-to-nanosecond dynamics of small molecules in complex systems.
Characterization of transient free radicals by spin trapping EPR.
Electron spin exchange and dipolar interactions in liquids and low-dimensional magnetic systems including metallo-organic ferromagnets: theoretical and experimental aspects.
Magnetic susceptibility and EPR studies of low-dimensional systems.