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                                             BIOINFORMATICS COLLOQUIUM
						College of Science
                                              George Mason University
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	                       Polymeric aspects of structure-function relationships
						 
                                               Olga Tcherkasskava

				  Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 
				      Georgetown University School of Medicine

Biography:

Positions:
2001-present	Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 
                Georgetown University School of Medicicne, USA.  

1996-2001	Visiting Fellow, Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology, 
                National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA.  

1994-1996	Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada.  

1988-1994	Staff Scientist, Laboratory of Luminescent Polymers, Institute Macromolecular 
                Compounds, Russia.  

1986-1988	Senior Scientist, State Medical Institute, Russia.  Medical physics.  Phototherapy.
   
1980-1986	Research Fellow, Laboratory of Luminescent Polymers, Institute Macromolecular 
                Compounds, Russia.  Conformational statistics of macromolecular systems and 
                macromolecular dynamics.  Photo-physics of macromolecules.  

Education:
St. Petersburg University, Russia	B.S.	  1979		Physics and Mathematics
St. Petersburg University, Russia	M.S	  1980		Physics and Mathematics
Russian Academy of Sciences	        Ph.D.	  1993		Macromolecular Science
National Cancer Institute, NIH	        Post.doc  1996-2001	Structural Biology:  Protein Folding