Kseniya Smurova
Research Assistant

phone (095)939-2084
fax (095)939-2084
smurova@belozersky.msu.ru

Education and Professional Experience

1996-2001 Undegraduate student, Biological Faculty, Moscow State University
2001-present -- Graduate student, Biological Faculty, Moscow State University
Oct 2002 - Apr 2003 - Visiting research trainee, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2003-present - Research Assistant, A.N.Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Publications

Smurova KM, Alieva IB, Vorob'ev IA.
Free and centrosome-attached microtubules: quantitative analysis and themodeling of two-component system.
Tsitologiia. 2007;49(4):270-9. Russian.

Smurova K, Birukova A, Verin A, Vorobjev I, Alieva I
Reorganization of microtubule system in pulmonary endothelial cells in response to thrombin treatment
Tsitologiia. 2004;46(8):695-703. Russian.

Birukova AA, Birukov KG, Smurova K, Adyshev D, Kaibuchi K, Alieva I, Garcia JG, Verin AD.
Novel role of microtubules in thrombin-induced endothelial barrier dysfunction.
FASEB J. 2004 Dec;18(15):1879-90.

Birukova AA, Smurova K, Birukov KG, Usatyuk P, Liu F, Kaibuchi K, Ricks-Cord A, Natarajan V, Alieva I, Garcia JG, Verin AD.
Microtubule disassembly induces cytoskeletal remodeling and lung vascular barrier
dysfunction: role of Rho-dependent mechanisms.
J Cell Physiol. 2004 Oct;201(1):55-70.

AA Birukova, K Smurova, KG Birukov, K Kaibuchi, JG Garcia, AD Verin.
Role of Rho GTPases in thrombin-induced lung vascular endothelial cells barrier dysfunction.
Microvasc Res. 2004 Jan;67(1):64-77.

Smurova KM, Alieva IB, Vorobjev IA.
Dynamics of Microtubule System Recovery after Its Disruption by Nocodazole Treatment in Vero Cells.
Membrane Cell Biology. 2002 19: 486-496
(russian)