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MS, Botany, Biological Department, Lomonosov Moscow State Univiersity, Moscow, Russia, June 1995.

PhD, Mycology and Botany, Biological Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, November 2004.

Course on origin and evolution of mitochondria and chloroplasts. (FEBS advanced courses). March 12-17, 2005. Wildbad Kreuth, Germany.

Course on DNA Microarray technology. May 8-12, 2006. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK.

Web Designer Program. September 1 - November 30, 2008. AcademyX, San Francisco, CA.

Professional photography program. January 11 2011 - January 25, 2012. Whashington School of Photography, Bethesda, MD.

Computer Skills

Web Design: HTML hand coding, CSS, Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, basic Adobe Flash, understanding the use of JavaScript, Content Management System (WordPress).

Statistical data analysis (Statistica)

EndNote (bibliographic tool), MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point),.

Bioinformatics software for sequences alignment, prediction putative proteins, phylogenetic analysis, dinucleotide analysis and recombination analysis: Sequencher 4.8, CAP3, Geneious, VectorNTI, MEGA4, BioEdit, RAT, SimPlot, Simmonics v1.6 (a package of computer programs for analysis of virus phylogeny and segregation, RNA structure and recombination analysis).

Molecular Biology

Gel electrophoresis, PCR, RT-PCR, DNA and RNA purification/isolation, 5’ and 3’ RACE

Molecular cloning

Viral particle purification from from plants, fungi, blood, excrements, animal tissues

The basics of Microarray techniques

Tissure culture

BSL3 tissure culture

Mycology

Isolation and identification of fungi, fungal taxonomy.

The basics of fungal genetics.

Molecular methods for diagnostic, identification and taxonomy of fungi.

Taxonomy, ecology and physiology of lichens.

Botany and Plant Ecology

Identification and taxonomy of plants.

Collection and preservation of plants, and production of herbarium specimens.

Vegetation description and classification, geobotanical indication.

Mathematical methods in geobotany, geomorphology.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, MD.

2010-present
The National Center for Biotechnology Information
Bioinformatics scientist
Primary Project: Curation Virus Reference Sequence Database.
Advisor: Tatiana Tatusova, Ph.D.

Blood System Research Institute (UCSF), San Francisco, CA.

2010-2009
Molecular Virology Department
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Primary Research Project: Identification and characterization of novel viruses in human and animal plasma and stool samples using sequence independent sequencing and shotgun and 454 sequencing.
Advisor: Eric Delwart, Ph.D.

Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK.

2005-2007
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Primary Research Project: Study of biodiversity and ecology of plant-associated viruses in the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve; discovering new viruses in fungi and plants with using the metagenomic approach and dsRNA isolation method.
Advisor: Ulrich Melcher, Ph.D.

The Centre of Bioengineering RAS, Moscow, Russia.

2003-2005
Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory
Scientist.
Primary Research Project: Analysis of genetic structure of transgenic plants, identification of pathogenic microorganisms and fungi in agricultural crops with using molecular diagnostics.
Advisor: Eugenia Bulygina, Ph.D.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Scheets K., Blinkova O., Melcher U., Palmer M.W., Wiley G.B., Ding T., Roe B.A. “Detection of members of the Tombusviridae in the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Osage County, Oklahoma, USA” 2011. Virus Research. Vol. 160 pp. 256–26. Full Text.

Blinkova O., Victoria J., Li Y., Keele B.F., Sanz C., Ndjango J.N., Peeters M., Travis D., Lonsdorf E.V., Wilson M.L., Pusey A.E., Hahn B.H. and Delwart E.L. “Novel circular DNA viruses in stool samples of wild-living chimpanzees” 2010. Journal of General Virology. Vol. 91 (2010), pp. 74-86. Full Text.

Li L., Victoria J., Kapoor A., Blinkova O., Wang C., Babrzadeh F., Mason C.J., Pandey P., Triki H., Bahri O., Oderinde B.S., Baba M.M., Bukbuk D.N., Besser J.M., Bartkus J.M., Delwart E.L. 2009. “A novel picornavirus associated with gastroenteritis”. Journal of Virology. Vol. 83, No. 22. pp. 12002-12006 Full Text.

Blinkova O., Kapoor A., Victoria J., Naeem A., Shaukat S., Sharif S., Alam M.A., Angez M., Zaidi S. and Delwart. E.L. “Cardioviruses are genetically diverse and common enteric infections in South Asian children.” 2009. Journal of Virology. Vol. 83, No. 9, pp. 4631-4641 Full Text.

Victoria J., Kapoor A., Li L., Blinkova O., Slikas B., Wang C., Naeem A., Zaidi S., Delwart E. “Metagenomic Analyses of Viruses in Stool Samples from Children with Acute Flaccid Paralysis.” 2009. Journal of Virology. Vol. 83, No. 9, pp. 4642-4651.Full Text.

Blinkova O., Rosario K., Li L., Kapoor A., Slikas E., Bernardin F., Breitbart M. and Delwart E. “Frequent detection of highly diverse Cardioviruses, Cosaviruses, Bocaviruses and Circoviruses in US sewage”. 2009. Journal of Clinical Virology. Vol. 47, No. 11, pp. 3507-3513.Full Text.

Fadeev V.S., Blinkova O.V. , Gaponenko A.K. 2006 “Optimization of biological and physical parameters for biolistic genetic transformation of common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) using a particle inflow gun”. Genetika, Vol. 42, № 4, pp. 402–411. PDF.

Onipchenko, V.G., Blinkova, O.V., Zakharov, A.A., Blinnikov, M.S. and Abzeeva, M.A. 2001 “Dynamics of two contrasted alpine communities in the Caucasus: results of 14-years of permanent plot observations” Oecologia Montana. Vol. 10. P. 1-8.

Blinkova O.V. Urbanavichene I.N., Urbanavichus G.P. 2003 “New and rare lichen species from Caucasus (Teberdinsky State Biosphere Reserve)” Bot. journal. V. 88. № 10. P. 115-118. [In Russian with English abstract].

Blinkova O.V., Urbanavichus G.P. 2005. “Ecological analysis of lichens in the Teberda State Biosphere Reserve (North-Western Caucasus, Russia)”Folia Cryptog. Estonica, Fasc. 41: 23–34. PDF.

Book chapters

Davydov D.A. Gudovicheva A.V., Egorov V.I., Blinkova O.V. 2003 “The comparative investigating of N2 content and nitrogen fixation of some lichens in the protected areas of Tula region, Kola Peninsula and Northern Caucasus” Kulikovo Polie. Historical landscape. Nature. Archeology. History. Vol. 1. Tula. P. 187-197. [In Russian].

Onipchenko V.G., Golikov K.A., Blinkova O.V., Zakharov A.A. 2004 “Fluctuations and trends in the dynamics of alpine lichen heath and snow bed communities” P.144-157. In: W.Winterhoff (ed.), Alpine ecosystems in the Northwest Caucasus Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. PDF.

Blinkova O.V. Urbanavichene I.N., Urbanavichus G.P. “The lichens of Teberdinsky State Reserve” Urbanavichus G.P., Urbanavichene I.N. The lichens in the reserves of Russia. The present-day biodiversity in the reserves. Vol. 2. The lichens and Bryophyta. Moscow. [In Russian].

Semi-technical journal articles

Blinkova O.V. 2003 “Distribution of Macrolichens in Teberdinsky State Biosphere Reserve’s area” Transactions of the Teberda Reserve. Issue 20. Moscow. P. 60-74. [In Russian with English abstract].

Blinkova O.V. 2004: The materials to the lichen flora of the Teberda State Biosphere Reserve. - Novitates Systematicae Plantarum non Vascularium [Academia Scientiarum Rossica] 37: 192-199. [In Russian].

Blinkova O.V. 2004 “The annotated list of lichens from Teberdinsky Reserve” Transactions of the Teberda Reserve. Issue 21. Moscow. P. 113-149. [In Russian with English abstract].

Abstracts

Blinkova O.V. 2000 “Analysis of interannual dynamics in alpine lichen heath, Teberdinsky State Biosphere Reserve” The VII conference of young botanists in St.-Petepsburg. Abstracts. May 15-19, 2000, St.-Peterburg. P. 179. [In Russian].

Blinkova O.V. 2002 “Distribution patterns of fruticose and foliose lichens at Teberdinsky State Biosphere Reserve” Boreal lichen flora. Biological monitoring with lichen Program and abstracts of third international lichenological school and symposium. Abstracts. 31th July – 4th August, Ekaterinburg. P. 24-25. [In Russian].

Blinkova O.V. 2004 “The taxonomic structure of Teberdinsky Reserve’s lichens flora” Mycology and Algology – 2004. The materials of anniversary conference devoted 85 anniversaries of faculty a Mycology and Algology, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Moscow. P. 26. [In Russian].

Blinkova O.V. 2004 “Zone distribution of lichens in the Teberdinsky State Biosphere Reserve” The VIII conference of young botanists in St.-Petepsburg. Abstracts. May 17-21, St.-Peterburg. P.79. [In Russian].

Blinkova O.V. 2004 “The ecological analysis of lichens in the Teberda state biosphere Reserve (The North-Western Caucasus, Russia)” IAL5 Book of abstracts: Lichens in focus. Tartu: . University of Tartu. P. 53.

Blinkova O. “Distribution of plant-associated viruses: what can we say now? A review of the literature”. Tallgrass Prairie Preserve Retreat, Abstracts. March 9.

Grover V., Muthukumar V., Blinkova O., Zhang F., Song Y., Pierce M., Meicher U. 2006. “Identification of Viruses in the Tall Grass Prairie Preserve”. Tallgrass Prairie Preserve Retreat, Abstracts. March 9.

Melcher U., Grover V., Muthukumar V., Zhang F., Blinkova O., Pierce M. 2006. “Methods for Surveying Plants in Natural Settings for Viruses” American Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting, Abstracts. July 29 Aug. 2, Quebec City, Quebec.

Blinkova O., Wiley G.B., McGlinn D, Thapa V., Palmer M., Roe B.A., Melcher U. 2007. “Metagenomic Analysis of Plant Viruses using a ‘Lawn mower’ Approach”. American Society For Microbiology Missouri Valley Branch, Abstracts. March 30-31, Stillwater, OK. P. 36.

Blinkova O., Walker N.R., Feldman T.S. 2007. “Mycoviruses in symbiotic plant-fungal interactions”. The ESA/SER Joint Meeting. August 5 -- August 10. San Jose, CA.

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