Svetlana Shatunova

2017 – current  Casual Staff Member (Tutor)

School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane

Notes: to improve skills in teaching

Duties:

• teach and lead tutorial groups during practical classes;
• communicate and provide accurate advice to students and refer matters to others when required;
• mark assessment and exam papers;

Achievements:

Students of the group supervised by me have passed their practical exam (2018).

2015 – 2017     Junior Research Fellow

Biotechnological Laboratory,Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia

Duties:

• Biotechnological Laboratory Management: performance of routine laboratory tasks as preparing reagents, buffers, microscopy, and maintaining/organizing lab supplies; manage laboratory safety; check safety related issues and routine waste handling issues; coordinate and train students for laboratory safety issues; the maintenance of cell cultures. Keep accurate and up to date records.
• Supervision of 2 Honours students: scientific project planning (1. Production of astaxanthin reach feed supplement from Phaffia rhodozyma at low cost. 2. Biotechnological production of non-traditional beer); developing of innovative methods to increase astaxanthin concentration in yeast cells; discussion of interim and final results of the scientific study, implementation of scientific research data analysis, statistical analysis.
• Performance of laboratory research projects: scientific project planning (Antifungal and antibacterial activity against bacteria and phytopathogens (Fusarium solani, Rhizoctoniasolani, Alternaria solani, Phytophtorainfestans, Erwiniacaratovora, Colletrotrichumcoccodes, Pectobacteriumatrosepticum, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Candida albicans); implementation of the biological part of the project; analyse and reporting of scientific study results, extrapolate data to develop theories to explain results.

Achievements:

Achievements:

• One of Honor student supervised by me has a research article published
• Two research articles written in collaboration with my team

2013 – 2015    Director

StonePlaza (manufacturing company)

Duties:

• Manage business during study
• Keeping company records and registers, preparation annual accounts.
• Preparation and protection of business-plan
• Management (budget, suppliers, financial issues, stuff issues)
• Compliance with WP health and Safety

Achievements:

• After two years of collaborated work with my team we opened two retail stores selling stone products in two cities of Russia (Ekaterinburg and Perm)
• Obtaining a loan from the bank based on the results of protection of the business-plan
• Company was sold for profit in 2015 to continue my study on full time base

2010 – 2012    Administrator

Sole Trader

 Duties:

• promotion a retail trade, keeping company records and registers

2009 – 2010    Leading Expert

Federal Agency on Fisheries of Russian Federation

 Duties:

• participation in conducting procedures for the placement of government orders for the delivery of goods, works, services

2004 – 2012       Sales Representative

Business Sole Trader

Duties:

• meetings, presentation and discussion of the benefits of the products that I offered to improve customers’ health, as well as the development of individual programs for health maintaining and preventing common diseases development.

LANGUAGES

• English (Upper-Intermediate)
• Russian (Native)

2017–current  Master of Biotechnology

The University of Queensland, Brisbane

Achievements:

• GPA: 6.333

2014 – 2016    Master of Biotechnology

The Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia

Achievements:

• Diploma with Honours (in TOP10)
• One research articles (reviewed) and seven conference proceedings are published

1999 – 2004  Bachelor of Biology

Department of Biology of The Perm State University (PSU), Perm, Russia

Achievements:

• Diploma with Honors (TOP 10)

SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES

Poster Presentations:

• The Australian Society of Medical Research Queensland Postgraduate Student Conference. Poster presentation title: The role of vascular adhesion molecules in immune cells regulation (Brisbane, 2019).

Oral Presentations:

• The International Conference of Young Scientists “Food Technologies and Biotechnologies” (Kazan, 2016). Presentation title: Brewery liquid waste utilization for carotenoid producer’s culturing
• The National Scientific Conference “Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Genomics of Plants and Microorganisms” (Tomsk, 2016). Presentation title: Development of in planta agrobacterium-mediated transformation technique for seeds.
• The XIII International Conference of Students, Ph.D. students and young scientists «Prospects of Development in Fundamental Sciences» (Tomsk, 2016). Presentation title: Effectiveness enhancement of in planta agrobacterium-mediated tobacco seeds transformation.

ACADEMIC AWARDS

• As the best presenter of The International Conference of Young Scientists “Food Technologies and Biotechnologies” (Kazan, 2016) was awarded the Honorable Diploma.
• As the best presenter of The National Scientific Conference “Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Genomics of Plants and Microorganisms” (Tomsk, 2016) was awarded the Honorable Diploma.
• For the excellent study was awarded the badge of the honors student and a certificate from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (2015).
• Was awarded a scholarship from the Government of the Russian Federation in the priority areas of the Russian Economy for the special success in educational and scientific activities (2015).

Kazan

Tomsk

Oktoberfest Beer Festival

• Being a Master student at the Ural Federal University, my team and I twice presented new types of beer in Oktoberfest Beer Festival as  manufacturers.