Vadim P. Valuev

Age: 23

Work Address: Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Lavrentieva ave.10, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia

Telephone: +7(3832) 333119

FAX: +7(3832) 331278

Email: valuev@bionet.nsc.ru

Work Experience and Current Position:

1999 - present PhD. student, Laboratory of Theoretical Genetics, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia

1997-1999 Laboratory Assistant, Laboratory of Theoretical Genetics, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia

1996-1997 Laboratory Assistant, Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia

Areas of Scientific interest:

Pattern recognition and its application to the biological sequence analysis, protein structure and function, protein 3-dimensional structure prediction and protein sequence annotation, in vitro directed protein evolution, databases and data mining.

Educational Background:

Novosibirsk State University (Physics Faculty, Department of Chemical and Biological Physics), 1993-1999.

Degree: Ms.D. in Biophysics, 1999

Thesis title: “Computer analysis of protein structure-functional determinants”

Thesis supervisors: Nikolay A. Kolchanov, Prof., Dr.Sci., Michail P. Ponomarenko, PhD.

Head institution: Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, Russia

Degree: Bcs.D. in Chemical Physics, 1997

Thesis title: “Study of surface defects of iron oxide with EXAFS-spectroscopy”

Thesis supervisor: Dmitry I. Kochubey, Prof., Dr.Sci.,

Head institution: , Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, Russia

Awards and prizes

2000 – laureate of the program “Young scientists of Russia” (travel grant ¹ 00-07-93006

for participation in Bioinformatics2000 conference)

2000 – a fellowship of the International Soros Science Education Programme (Soros postgraduate student)

2000 – a fellowship of Italian Physical Society (for participation in “Enrico Fermi“ school)

Participation in Conferences and Workshops:

1998 - the 1st International Conference on Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure, (BGRS'98), Novosibirsk, Russia; posters and demonstration, co-author of report.

1999 – International conference” Mathematics. Computer. Education” Puschino, Moscow region. A report.

1999 – the II Russian Biophysics Congress. Moscow. A report.

2000- Bioinformatics2000, Elsinore, Denmark, a poster.

2000 – Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Novosibirsk, an oral report.

2000- International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi”, course “Protein folding, evolution and design”, Varenna, Italy, a poster.

2000 - the 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure, (BGRS'98), Novosibirsk, Russia; posters and demonstration.

2000 – the 8th Russian workshop on Neuroinformatics. Krasnoyarsk, Russia, an oral report.

The main author of the WWW resources:

Generation of recognition programs for protein structure-functional determinants using various methods and physical properties ( http://wwwmgs.bionet.nsc.ru/mgs/programs/codgen2/prot_prop.htm , http://wwwmgs.bionet.nsc.ru/mgs/programs/codgen2/all_prot.html )

ASPD database (a database on synthetic peptides from phage display experiments) (http://srs5.bionet.nsc.ru/srs5bin/cgi-bin/wgetz?-page+LibInfo+-lib+ASPD_ALIGN)

Papers

  1. Valuev V.P., Kuropatov D.A., Ponomarenko M.P. Automatic generation of recognition programs for amino acid sequences. // Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure. Novosibirsk, 1998, V. 2, P. 396-400.
  2. Ponomarenko J.V., Furman D.P., Mishchenko T.M., Katokhina L.V., Valuev V.P., Peregoedova E.L., Frolov A.S., Podkolodny N.L., Ponomarenko M.P. Activity: a database for activities of functional DNA/RNA sites. // Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure. Novosibirsk, 1998, V. 1, P. 62-65.
  3. Ivanisenko V.A., Grigorovich D.A., Afonnikov D.A., Kuropatov D.A., Valuev V.P., Kolchanov N.A. Information system FrameProt on spatial structures of DNA, RNA and proteins as a part of GeneExpress system. Proceedings of the First Russian Conference “Digital Libraries: Advanced methods and Technologies, Digital Collections” 1999, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. pp.175-186 (in Russian)
  4. Afonnikov D.A, Valuev V.P., Kashinskaya Ju. O., Orlov Yu. L. (2000) The ASPD Database on synthetic peptides. Computational technologies, v. 5, special issue, 75-78.
  5. Valuev V.P., Kuropatov D.A.(2000) Automatic generation of recognition programs for amino acid sequences. Computational technologies, v. 5, special issue, 67-74.
  6. Valuev V.P. 3-dimensional protein structural class recognition. In: Proceedings of the IId International Conference on Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure, Novosibirsk, 2000 (eds. Kolchanov NA et al.), vol. II, pp. 164-166.
  7. Valuev VP, Afonnikov DA, Petrenko O, Beylina AG, Lokhova IV, Grigorovich DA, Fokin ON, Ivanisenko VA. The database ASPD on experiments with application of phage display technique. In: Proceedings of the IId International Conference on Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure, Novosibirsk, 2000 (eds. Kolchanov NA et al.), vol.II, pp. 160-163.
  8. Valuev VP, Afonnikov DA Course “Introduction to bioinformatics”. In: Proceedings of the IId International Conference on Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure, Novosibirsk, 2000 (eds. Kolchanov NA et al.), vol.II, pp. 229-231.