Curriculum vitae,
Yana K. Reshetnyak, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
East Hall,
Phone: (401) 874-5586 (office)
(401) 874-2944 and 874-4210 (lab)
Fax: (401) 874-2380
E-mail: reshetnyak@mail.uri.edu
Affiliated Member
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry,
E-mail: yana.reshetnyak@yale.edu
1988-1993: Department of Physics,
1993: M.S. in Physics (Molecular Biophysics), Diploma with Honours,
Physics Department, St.-Petersburg State University, St.-Petersburg, Russia
1996 – 2000: Postgraduate Student, Laboratory
of Functional Biophysics of
Proteins, Institute of
Theoretical and Experimental
2000: Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Institute of Theoretical and Experimental
2006-present: Assistant Professor, Physics Department,
2004-2006: NSF Advance Assistant Professor, Physics Department, University of
Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island.
2004-present: Affiliated Member, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry,
2003 - 2004: Postdoctoral
Research Associate; Laboratory headed by
Prof. D.Engelman, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry,
2000 - 2003: Postdoctoral
Research Associate; Laboratory headed by
Prof. R. Goldfarb, Department of Molecular Biology and Immunology,
Institute for Cancer Research, University of North Texas Health Science Centre,
Fort Worth, Texas.
1999: Department
of Biology,
1998: Department
of Molecular Biology and Immunology,
1998: Department
of Gene Regulation and Protein Function, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of
Gerontology,
1997 ‑ 1998: Muscle Research Unit,
1997: Laboratoire de Biophysique,
Faculte de Pharmacie, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.
2006: URI outstanding inventor, patent application: “Selective delivery of molecules into cells in diseased tissue regions using environmentally sensitive transmembrane peptide insertion”. 8127PCT.
2004-2006: NSF
Advance Faculty Fellow.
2002: Laureate of the Gregorio Weber
International Competition for the best dissertations in Biological Fluorescence
(Theory of Protein Fluorescence): http://www.lfd.uci.edu/weber/prize/
1998: Stefan
Batory Foundation grant to participate in “The Jablonski Centennial Conference
on Luminescence and Photophysics”,
1998: Soros
PhD-student grant award # a98-1929.
1997: Wood/Whelan
Fellowship from the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
(host
1997: Soros
PhD-student grant award # a97-1841.
1997: Fellowship
of British Biophysical Society to participate in 2nd European Biophysical
Congress (EBSA’97)
1997: Travel-grant
#97-04-58767, Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) to participate in
2nd European Biophysical Congress (EBSA’97) Orleans, France, 1997
1997: Fellowship
to the 41st Annual Meeting of the American Biophysical Society,
1997: Fellowships
to
1996: Fellowships
to
Awarded Reseach Projects
DoD PC050351: 2006-2009 (active)
“Development of
Peptide-Toxin Conjugates Specifically Targeting Prostate Cancer”
Role: PI
Role: PI
DoD BC061356; 2007-2010 (active)
“The Self-Guided Nanocompounds Targeting Breast Cancer Cells”
Role: Co-PI
URI Foundation: 2007-2008 (active)
“Novel technology for in vivo imaging of tumor metastasis in transgenic mice”
Role: PI
URI Research Development Fund; 2007
(active)
Novel delivery system for cancer gene
therapy
Role: PI
NIH NCI; 2007-2009
(active)
New technology for selective delivery of PNAs in cancer
cells in vitro & in vivo
Role: Co-PI
Role: PI
Role: PI
Research Proposal Development Grant, URI; 2005-2006 (completed)
“Time-resolved studies of insertion & helix formation of transmembrane peptides”
Role: PI
Server for PFAST database
Role: PI
URI Faculty Development Fund; 2005 (completed)
Travel Grant
Role: PI
Pilot Project of NIH P20 RR016457; 2004-2005 (completed)
INBRE Program of the
Molecular Nanosyringe for Environment-Selective Injection of Molecules into Cells
Role: PI
2007: XIIth European Conference on the Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules Bobigny (
2007: Department
of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program Meeting "Innovative Minds in
Prostate Cancer Today – IMPaCT”,
2007: Department
of Pathology,
2007: Department of
Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology,
2006: 11th
Prouts Neck Cancer Meeting “Emerging Strategies in Prostate Cancer Therapy”
2006: Department of Mechanical
Engineering & Applied Mechanics,
2006: The Brown Forum
for
2006:
2005: International Congress of Nanotechnology,
2005: NESS 2005:
Structural Perspectives on Membrane Proteins, Univ.
2005: Department of Mechanical
Engineering & Applied Mechanics,
2005: Department of Biomedical Sciences,
2004: Physics
Department,
2003: Chemistry
Department,
2002: Biochemistry and
Biophysics Department,
2001: Biophotonics Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
1998: Department of
Gene Regulation and Protein Function, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of
Gerontology,
1997: Muscle
Research Unit,
1997: Laboratoire de Biophysique, Faculte de
Pharmacie, Univ. Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.
Biophysical Society of the
International Association of
Nanotechnology http://www.ianano.org/
Teaching
2004-present: Member of the
graduate faculty committee, Physics Department, URI
2007: PHY430x: Modern
Biological Physics
PHY560: Experimental Methods in
Condensed Matter Physics
2006: PHY691: Methods in
Biological and Medical Physics
CSC592: Bioinformatics (contributed)
2005: CSC592:
Bioinformatics (contributed)