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Dr. Alexandra Martynova-Van Kley

 

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Dr. Alexandra Martynova-Van Kley (email) is an Associate Professor in Biotechnology. She came to SFASU in 2002 following a long career as a research scientist for the Russian Academy of Science in Ufa, Russia were she obtained considerable laboratory experience and authored a number of peer-reviewed publications at the academy.

The Russian system of higher education has a long tradition of involving students in research at the undergraduate level. Each student must spend his or her final year conducting research and writing a “diploma” prior to graduating from the university with a degree equivalent to the bachelor’s degree in the United States. Dr. Van Kley has had extensive experience supervising and working with such students assigned to her laboratory to work as interns as they completed their diplomas. Several of her projects involving undergraduate interns resulted in publications in conference proceedings. 

2008 publications:

  Martynova-Van Kley A., A. Syvyk, I. Teplova, M. Hume, A. Nalian. 2008. Identification of avian Eimeria species using a PCR-DGGE approach. Poultry Science, 87:1707-1713.

  Hume M., C. Scanlan, R. Harvey, A. Andrews, J. Snodgrass, A. Nalian, A. Martynova-Van Kley, D. Nisbet. 2008. Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis as a Tool to Determine Batch Similarity of Porcine Cecal Bacteria Probotic Cultures. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 74(16):5241-3.

  Syvyk A., A. Martynova-Van Kley, A. Nalian. 2008. A positive control for detecting heteroduplexes in DGGE for microbial community fingerprinting. The Texas Journal of Science, 60(1):33-44.

  Martyniuk O., А. Nalian, A. Martynova-Van Kley. 2008. Phylogenetic analysis of Amaranthaceae Juss. based on surface structure of pollen and  sequences of maturase k and RBCL proteins. In press, Biotechnology, Ukraine (in English)

  Р.М.Баширова, Р.И.Ибрагимов, A. Martynova-VanKley, О.В.Шуралева, Н.В. Кудашкина.2008 Влияние биотических и  эдафических факторов на содержание флавоноидов в траве Polygonum aviculare L. In press, Bестник БашГУ, Russia (in Russian)

  Nalian A., J. Van Kley, K. Stroup, R. Ibragimov, A. Martynova-Van Kley. 2008. Soil nutrients and host preferences of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonizing roots of two east Texas plants along a hydrological gradient. In press, Plant Physiology, Russia (in English and Russian)

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Graduate students & their thesis topics:

  • 16S  rDNA analysis of microbial (bacterial and fungal)  population in oil contaminated sites (Alexander Fedotov)

  • Detection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in an east Texas  (Kevin Stroup, Darya Fakhretdinova)

  • 16S,18S rDNA and cytochrome c oxidase(COI)  sequences for East Texas  earthworms identification ( Julia Leontieva)

  • Comparison of the catalytic activities of the wild type endogluconase from P.horikoshii and it’s  mutants developed by computational approach (Jorge Del Aguila)

  • 16S rDNA analysis of microbial  population in East Texas lakes (Paul Whitehurst)

  • Eimeria detection and identification (Andrew Syvyk)

  • Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Endogluconases (Cel5A) and their mutants (Jasmine Wang)

 

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