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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2018 - current Senior Expert JSC Farmak

2016- 2018 Senior Researcher
Innovative biopharmaceutical production company "Ramintek LTD" (R&D department), Kyiv, Ukraine

2013- currentSenior Research Fellow
Laboratory of Protein Biosynthesis, Institute of Molecular Biology and
Genetics, NAS of Ukraine.

Project: Investigation of noncanonical functions of eEF1B complex in
human cells.

2002-2006Research Associate
Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, NAS of Ukraine.

Project: The investigation of Hsp60 expression at thyroid cancer

1997-2002Research Associate
Institute of Agroecology and Biotechnology, Laboratory of Genetics, National
Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Ukraine.

Project: Genetics of maize seed storage proteins.
1996-1997Research Assistant
Institute of Botany, NAS of Ukraine.

Project: Flowering regulation in angiosperms.



EDUCATION

2006 - 2010Ph.D. in Molecular Biology,
Thesis title: “Molecular chaperone Hsp60 expression in human heart at dilated cardiomyopathy”,
Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics NAS of Ukraine

1991 - 1996MSc in Plant Physiology and Ecology,
Taras Shevchenko National University in Kiev, Biological Faculty.

SCIENTIFIC SKILLS

DNA-cloning, bacterial expression and purification of recombinant proteins, RNA-purification, RT-PCR, SDS-PAGE, Western-blot analysis, immunoprecipitation, immunocytochemistry, ELISA, cell culture techniques

ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS

•Implementation of new methods, their adaptation for laboratory conditions
•Statistic processing, analyzing and presentation of obtained results, writing scientific papers
•Development of technical documentation (work instructions and technical charts, department's plans and reports, work with ISO documentation)

LANGUAGES

•English, spoken and written (advanced) (IELTS 6,5)
•Ukranian and Russian (native speaker)

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

FEBS, EACR and IFCB


COURSES, TRAININGS, CERTIFICATES

2018 - Phenomenex HPLC Troubleshooting Training Course (Kyiv)

Training course "Researcher Connect" from British Council (Kyiv)
Foundation Module (Know Your Audience, ensuring effective targeted communication); Abstracts (essential structural elements of abstracts for different audiences and needs); Persuasive Proposals (writing clear, concise and winning proposals); Presenting with Impact (step-by-step developing, delivering and critiquing presentation).

2017 - Stat2.1x: Introduction to Statistics: Descriptive Statistics
Course of study offered by BerkeleyX through edX
Certificate - https://verify.edx.org/cert/5f4c491b443a4cf6ab234e0871ac4176

2013 - 6th EU Summer School in Proteomics Basics “FEBS Advanced Lecture Course – High Performance Proteomics” (Brixen, Italy).

2012 - 36th FEBS Congress Biochemistry for Tomorrow's Medicine (Torino, Italy).

2011 - FEBS/SFRR-E/IUBMB Advanced Lecture Course "Protein maintenance and turnover in ageing & diseases" (Spetses, Greece).

2010 - Bridges in Life Sciences, 2nd Annual Scientific Meeting Review (Zagreb, Croatia).

2008 - 2nd World Conference of Stress (Budapest, Hungary).

2007 - EMBO- FEBS Workshop on Chaperones in Normal and Aberrant Protein Folding, Aging and Cancer (Tomar, Portugal).

2006 - Workshop on Molecular and Cell Biology at Spetsai: Past, Present and Future – A Forty Years’ Anniversary (Spetses, Greece).

2005 - EMBO-FEBS Workshop on Biology of Molecular Chaperones (Zakopane, Poland).


AWARDS
2006-2008Scholarship for Young Scientists, NAS of Ukraine.

ADDITIONAL INFO
•Fluent computer Skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

•Do not have harmful habits

•Hobbies: Biking, Skiing, Dancing and Dragon Boat Paddling


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1.M.Veremieva, L.Kapustian, A.Khoruzhenko, V.Zakharychev, B.Negrutskii, A.El’skaya. Independent overexpression of the subunits of translation elongation factor complex eEF1H in human lung cancer. - BMC Cancer - 2014, 14:913

2.L. Kapustian, I. Kroupskaya, O. Rozhko, V. Bobyk, D. Ryabenko, L. Sidorik. Akt1 expression and activity at different stages in experimental heart failure // Pathophysiology 21 (2014) 147–151.

3.Kapustian L., Vigontina O., Rozhko O., Ryabenko D., Michowski W., Lesniak W., Filipek A., Kroupskaya I., Sidorik L. Hsp90 and its co-chaperone, Sgt1, as autoantigens in dilated cardiomyopathy // Heart and Vessels. – 2013, V.28, №1, P.114-119.

4.Kroupskaya I., Kapustian L., Tykhonkova I., Sidorik L. Hsp60 and p70S6K form a complex in human cardiomyocytes // Biopolymers and Cell. – 2011. – V.27, №1. – P. 36-40.

5.Kapustian L.M., Rozhko O.T., Tihonkova I.O., Sidorik L.L. Interaction between Hsp60 and Bax in normal human myocardium and in myocardium affected by dilated cardiomyopathy // Biopolymers and Cell. – 2009. – V.25, №2. – P. 142-144.