Roman Zubarev

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Nationality Russia Name Roman Zubarev		Fields Chemist Doctoral advisor Bo Sundqvist

Institutions Cornell UniversityUniversity of Southern DenmarkUppsala UniversityKarolinska Institutet Alma mater Moscow Engineering Physics InstituteUppsala University Known for Mass spectrometryElectron-capture dissociation Education Uppsala University, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI

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Roman A. Zubarev is a professor of medicinal proteomics in the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics at the Karolinska Institutet. His research focuses on the use of mass spectrometry in biology and medicine.

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Early life and education

M.S. in applied physics at Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, 1986

Ph.D. in ion physics at Uppsala University, 1997

Research interests

Electron-capture dissociation. In 1997, while in Fred McLafferty's lab at Cornell University, Zubarev discovered the phenomenon of electron-capture dissociation (ECD)¹ of polypeptides. He later developed ECD and other ion-electron reactions² as analytical techniques in Odense (1998-2002) and Uppsala (2002-2008).

Isotopic Resonance Hypothesis. Discovered the phenomenon of isotopic resonance in Uppsala (2008),² formulated the isotopic resonance hypothesis and experimentally verified it in Stockholm (2009-2013)³.

Isoaspartate theory of Alzheimer’s disease. The role of isoaspartate in Alzheimer’s disease has first been suggested as early as in 1991.⁴ Over the next three decades the evidence gradually accummulated, being strongly supported by blood proteomics data.⁵

Origin of life studies. Zubarev showed that the organic matter produced abiotically in a Miller-Urey experiment can be assimilated by bacteria, and thus proved that early Earth has been a hospitable place for life.⁶ For the first time in history of science, Zubarev obtained a living cell from dead matter.⁷ In that landmark experiment, bacteria were separated into lipids, nucleic acids and proteins, and these ingredients were isolated and incubated separately and in a mixture. After incubation, the isolates were seeded on Petri dish. While isolated molecules showed no growth (negaive control), lipid-containing mixtures gave bacterial colonies, proving that life can self-assemble from a mixture of right ingredients.

Awards

Curt Brunnée Award, 2006

Biemann Medal, 2007⁸

Gold medal, Russian Mass Spectrometry Society, 2013

References

Roman Zubarev Wikipedia

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