Марія

MARIIA BOIKO

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Diligent professional with 5+ years of experience as a microbiologist with a broad skill
range and comprehensive knowledge of laboratory practice. I have a well-rounded skill
set in lead and function projects.
Self-motivated, flexible, sense of leadership and responsibility, versatile, reliable,
loyal, ambitious, efficient, articulate, committed, conscientious, effective team player.

Willing to relocate: Anywhere. Authorized to work in the US for any employer.

Education:
National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine; 2015 – 2018
Diploma: Candidate of agricultural sciences, PhD. Specialty in Biotechnology.
Qualifying scientific work: Functional biotechnological agents Bacillus thuringiensis
for Сolorado beetle control.

Tarasa Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; 2005 – 2011
Diploma: Master’s Degree in Biotechnology
Master’s Thesis: Obtaining prothrombin, its activation and diagnostic determination
of blood plasma content.
National Technical University of Kirovohrad; 2011 – 2014
Diploma: Specialist’s Degree in Economic Science, Management and Administration.
Qualifying scientific work: Management of the main production at the enterprise.

Experience:

BTU-center – LATAM (Latin America), Brazil

Regional Scientific Representative May 2023 - May 2024
• Regulation of using biological products, negotiations, translation of catalogs of
biological products into Portuguese and Spanish, participation in the company’s
marketing activities, preparation of presentations.

• Facilitated research and development operations by managing the primary
research process through design, implementation, and delivery. Exceeded 92% of
target benchmark metrics in 2023.

• Curated productivity by effectively communicating with processing engineers
and documenting findings, increasing overall efficiency by 15%.

• Search for partners, analysis of the agricultural market, study of the registration
processes of biological products in Brazil, participation in agricultural exhibitions.

Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brazil April 2022 - February 2024

Post Doctorate: Evaluation of the antifungal potential of natural and synthetic
substances on planktonic and sessile cells of Candida and Cryptococus ssp.

• Successfully increased lab efficiency by 20% and reduced costs by 15%
through implementation of Lean principles.

• Lectures, research, preparation of presentations, laboratory research methods,
molecular biological (DNA, RNA isolation, PCR) analysis, microbiological methods.

National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine
Department of Ecobiotechnology and Biodiversity

Assistant Professor September 2016 - July 2020
• Practical classes and lectures teaching; research; preparation of presentations,
lectures and examination tasks; student assessment, writing articles and
abstracts.
Postgraduate Studies September 2015 – April 2018

• Qualifying scientific work: Functional biotechnological agents Bacillus
thuringiensis for Colorado beetle control.
• Teaching and research: practical classes, writing articles and abstracts,
preparation of presentations, laboratory research methods, molecular biological
(DNA isolation, PCR analysis), biochemical, microbiological, field methods.
 • Research of the effectiveness of using the preparative form on the basis of a
strain of entomopathogenic bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis 87/3, to control the
number of larvae of Colorado potato beetle and phytopathogens Fusarium,
Venturia ssp.

Tarasa Shevchenko National University of Kyiv September 2009 – June 2011
• Research, assistant, industrial, undergraduate practice.
• Master thesis: Obtaining prothrombin, its activation and diagnostic
determination of blood plasma content.
• Conducting practical classes with students, laboratory research methods:
centrifugation, ion-exchange, affinity and paper chromatography, dialysis,
electrophoretic analysis, enzyme electrophoresis, molecular spectroscopy,
determination of amidase and fibrinogenase activity.

National Technical University of Kirovohrad September 2011- January 2014

• Research, assistant, industrial, undergraduate practice.
• Qualifying scientific work: Management of the main production at the
enterprise.

Skills:

• Сonducting negotiations, market analysis, maintaining working documentation.
• Practical classes and lectures teaching.
• Laboratory research methods: preparation of microbiological media,
determination of cultural and morphological, physiological and biochemical
characteristics of bacterial strains, entomocidal, antifungal activity, molecular
biological (DNA, RNA isolation, PCR analysis), microbiological;
• Field methods - research of entomopathogenic bacteria;
• Mathematical methods for statistical processing of experimental data;
• Monitoring of diseases, identification of pathogens, elucidation of mechanisms
of interaction between pathogenic bacteria and host plants and development of
preventive measures to control pests.

Achievements:

Winner of the President of Ukraine Award, 2019
Soybean Diseases: Diagnosis, Biocontrol, Prevention
Grant of the President of Ukraine, 2016
Development of biocontrol systems agrocenoses based on polymorphism and
entomopathogenic properties of bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis» (state registration
number 0116U000657)

Fundamental issues of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, 2019
Assessment of biodiversity and phytoprotective properties of bacteria of the genus
Bacillus for biocontrol of pests (state registration number 0117U002554).

Languages:

• Ukrainian: fluent;
• Russian: fluent;
• English: advanced;
• Portuguese: intermediate;
• French: basic;
• Turkish: basic;
• Spanish : basic.