Denis Melnik

Ph.D. thesis: “Prussian blue nanoparticles in electrochemical biosensors and for ROS scavenging in vivo”.

Supervisor: Prof. Timofei Zatsepin

IDC committee members: Prof. Keith Stivenson, Prof. Pavel Troshin  and Prof. Timofei Zatsepin

Denis graduated from Chemical department of Moscow State University in 2013. His diploma work was dedicated to development of chromatographic methods to study 1,1-dimethylhydrazine transformations in soils. Denis gained addition academic and industrial experience after graduation, he worked as a junior researcher in A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical synthesis and he worked under investigation new polymeric monolithic columns in chromatography and for analysis of large biomolecule. After that, he worked as a biochemist in NTC “Bioinvest”, where he gained experience in purification of synthesized biomolecules using chromatrography and electrophoresis. Denis joined Skoltech in 2016  in position research technician and further gained promotion to research engineer. He worked in RNA chemistry lab leaded by professor Timofei Zatsepin, his work was in development and optimization of RNA purification and characterization by chromatography, mass-spectrometry and electrophoresis. In 2018 Denis decided to make PHD study and his work is also concerned with RNA chemistry and application of new materials in their determitation and applications for target delivery in vivo

List of papers:

1.  Monolithic capillary columns based on pentaerythritol tetraacrylate for the chromatographic analysis of peptides / E.V. Kucherenko, M. Melnik, A.A. Korolev et al. // Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry. – 2015. – Vol. 89, No. 9. – P. 1478-1483.

List of conferences:

1. Synthesis and investigation of chromatographic properties of monolithic capillary columns based on pentaerytritol tetraacrylate in peptide analysis / Authors: Kucherenko E., Melnik D., Korolev A., Kanateva A., Kanatyeva A., Kurganov A., // 38th International Symposium on Capillary Chromatography and 11th GC x GC. May 18-23, 2014. Riva del Garda, Italy, Riva del Garda, Italy, May 18-23, 2014