CURRICULUM VITAE

Alexey N. Petrov

Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics

Microbiology Building, Room 2135

Phone: (301) 405-1758

FAX: (301) 314-9489

Email: petrov@umd.edu

Undergraduate Education:

Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, M.S. in Biochemistry 1998.

Graduate Education:

2003- present Doctoral Candidate, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics. Jonathan D. Dinman, advisor.

Related Experience:

1998-1999 Research Assistant. Institute of Protein Science, Puschino, Russia under supervision of Dr. Alexander Spirin.

1999-2001 Research Assistant. University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, Department of Pharmacology under supervision of Dr. Alexey Ryazanov.

2001-2002 Research Assistant. University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology under supervision of Dr. Jonathan D. Dinman.

2002 Research Assistant. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, under supervision of Dr. Jonathan D. Dinman.

Awards and Honors:

2004 College Travel Award.

2005 Moyers Award. University of Maryland, College Park.

Articles in Refereed Journals:

1. Baxter-Roshek, J. L., Petrov, A.N., and Dinman, J.D. 2007. Optimization of Ribosome Structure and Function by rRNA Base Modification. PLoS.ONE. 2:e174.

2. Meskauskas, A., Petrov, A.N., and Dinman, J.D. 2005. Identification of functionally important amino acids of ribosomal protein L3 by saturation mutagenesis. Mol Cell Biol. 25:10863-10874.

3. Kiparisov, S., Petrov, A., Meskauskas, A., Sergiev, P.V., Dontsova, O.A., and Dinman, J.D. 2005. Structural and functional analysis of 5S rRNA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Genet.Genomics 274:235-247.

4. Petrov, A., Meskauskas, A., and Dinman, J.D. 2004. Ribosomal protein L3: influence on ribosome structure and function. RNA Biol. 1:59-65.

5. Plant, E. P., Jacobs, K.L., Harger, J.W., Meskauskas, A., Jacobs, J.L., Baxter, J.L., Petrov, A.N., and Dinman, J.D. 2003. The 9-A solution: how mRNA pseudoknots promote efficient programmed -1 ribosomal frameshifting. RNA 9:168-174.

6. Dorovkov, M. V., Pavur, K.S., Petrov, A.N., and Ryazanov, A.G. 2002. Regulation of elongation factor-2 kinase by pH. Biochemistry 41:13444-13450.

7. Riazanova, L. V., Pavur, K.S., Petrov, A.N., Dorovkov, M.V., and Riazanov, A.G. 2001. [Novel type of signaling molecules: protein kinases covalently linked to ion channels]. Mol Biol.(Mosk) 35:321-332.

8. Pavur, K. S., Petrov, A.N., and Ryazanov, A.G. 2000. Mapping the functional domains of elongation factor-2 kinase. Biochemistry 39:12216-12224.