Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Moscow State Univeristy, Russia. June 2002

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook NY, USA. November 2002-current

Research Interests

NMR spectroscopy.

1. Analysis of NMR spectra by lineshape fitting or other advanced methods. Conventional use of NMR spectra, with only the frequencies of the assigned peaks are taken into account, wastes enormous amounts of spectral information. While it is beneficial to Varian and Bruker, it's really not fair that we have to spend millions on new spectrometers in order to solve problems for which we can get more than enough information on a ten times cheaper system.
2. Protein structure analysis by NMR. This is the field with the highest demand and toughest challenges for NMR spectroscopists, so I couldn't help getting into it. I assign in NMRView and calculate structures with CYANA (ex-DYANA), XPLOR, CNS, and ARIA. All these programs have their own strengths and weaknesses.

Computer science.

• I am interested in theory of algorithms, programming languages, and operating systems design. I also find the idea of artificial intellegence fascinating, but did not work in that area at all so far.

List of publications:

Articles

	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.
	Zubkov, S., Lennarz, W. J., Mohanty, S. Structural basis for the function of a minimembrane protein subunit of yeast oligosaccharyltransferase Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, March 2004; 101(11): 3821-3826. [PUBMED] [ABSTRACT] [PDF]

	Journal of Molecular Biology
	Mohanty, S., Zubkov, S., Gronenborn, A. M. The solution NMR structure of Antheraea polyphemus PBP provides new insight into pheromone recognition by pheronome binding proteins J. Mol. Biol., March 2004; 337(2): 443-451. [PUBMED] [ABSTRACT] [PDF]

	Journal of Biomolecular NMR
	Mohanty, S., Zubkov, S., Campos-Olivas, R. 1H, 13C, and 15N backbone assignments of the pheromone binding protein from the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus (ApolPBP) J. Biomol. NMR, December 2003; 27(4): 393 - 394. [PUBMED] [Abstract] [PDF]

	International Journal of Molecular Sciences
	Zubkov, S. V., Chertkov, V. A. Experimental determination of pseudorotation potentials for disubstituted cyclopentanes based on spin-spin coupling constants Int. J. Mol. Sci. March 2003; 4(3): 107 - 118. [PDF]

	Russian Chemical Bulletin
	Zubkov, S. V., Chertkov, V. A., Golotvin, S. S. A new program for total lineshape analysis of NMR spectra. Conformational analysis of trans-1,2-dibromocyclopentane. Russ. Chem. Bull. 2002; 51(7): 1222 - 1230. [Abstract]

	Russian NMR Newsletter
	Zubkov, S. V., Golotvin, S. S., Chertkov, V. A. New program VALISA. Conformational analysis of some substituted cyclopentanes and cyclohexanes. Russian NMR Newsletter. (Russian) 2000; 2000(1-2): 917 - 922.

	Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds
	Chertkov, V. A., Zubkov, S. V., Ovcharenko, A. A., Karchava, A. V., Yurovskaya, M. A. Determination of ultra long-range spin-spin coupling constants using analysis of full form of line in 1H NMR spectra of fullerene C60 cycloadducts with 1-(4-nitrophenyl)-3-phenylnitrililide. Chem. Heterocycl. Compd. (Engl. Transl.), 1999; 389(11): 1500 - 1505.

	Russian NMR Newsletter
	Zubkov, S. V. Total lineshape NMR spectra analysis. Russian NMR Newsletter. (Russian) 1998; 1998(1): 593 - 602.

	Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds
	Makarkina, A. V., Zubkov, S. V., Chertkov, V. A. Orientation of benzothiophene by a magnetic field in the isotropic liquid phase. Chem. Heterocycl. Compd. (Engl. Transl.), 1997; 357(3): 266-270.

Books

		DMK Press
		Zubkov, S. V. Assembler for DOS, Windows and UNIX - 2nd ed, corr.&add. Russian 2003, DMK Press, Moscow, Russia, 608 pages. ISBN: 5-94074-259-9 (2nd edition, 2003, bestseller series) ISBN: 5-94074-003-0 (2nd edition, 2003, paperback) ISBN: 5-89818-082-6 (2nd edition, 2000, hard cover) 640 pages. ISBN: 5-89818-019-2 (1st edition, 1999) [Review]

	DMK Press
	Zubkov, S. V. Linux. Russian versions. Russian 2000, DMK Press, Moscow, Russia, 352 pages ISBN: 5-94074-013-8 [Review]

Conference Presentations

	17th Symposium of the Protein Society July 26-30, 2003, Boston, MA
	Mohanty, S., Zubkov, S. NMR Assignment and secondary structure of the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus pheromone binding protein ApolPBP Protein Science, vol 12 suppl 2, 121.

	15th European Experimental NMR Conference (EENC2000) June 12-17, 2000, Leipzig, Germany
	Zubkov, S. V., Golotvin, S. S., Chertkov, V. A. Solving multi-site conformational problems with total lineshape analysis of NMR spectral multiplets Proceedings of the 15th European Experimental NMR Conference (EENC 2000), page 42. [PDF]

	3rd Russian Conference "New achievements of NMR in structural research" April 4-7, 2000, Kazan, Russia
	Chertkov V. A., Zubkov, S. V., Golotvin, S. S. Proceedings of the III Russian Conference "New achievements of NMR in structural research", page 59 (Russian)

I solved the structures of these proteins:

	Protein Data Bank
	Zubkov, S., Lennarz, W. J., Mohanty, S. NMR structure of yeast oligosaccharyltransferase subunit Ost4p November 21, 2003 PDB Identifier: 1RKL BMRB Identifier: 6056 (on hold for publication)

PDB	Protein Data Bank
	Mohanty, S., Zubkov, S. NMR structure of D. punctata allatostatin 5 in micelles October 15, 2003 PDB Identifier: 1R6I (on hold for publication) BMRB Identifier: 5990 (on hold for publication)

	Protein Data Bank
	Mohanty, S., Zubkov, S., Gronenborn, A. M. Solution structure of Antheraea polyphemus pheromone binding protein (ApolPBP) September 3, 2003 PDB Identifier: 1QWV BMRB Identifier: 5689