Kaunas University of Technology, Diploma Engineer-Technologist

Kaunas University of Technology PhD. Thesis entitled “Synthesis of granular cellulose based stationary phases and peculiarities of their porous structure”

ACADEMIC HISTORY

Research Associate at Kaunas University of Technology, Dept. of Organic Technology

Senior Research Associate at Kaunas University of Technology, Dept. of Organic Technology and Dept. of Food Technology

Since Sept., 1999

Senior Research Associate at Vytautas Magnus University, Dept. of Chemistry

Since Sept., 2001

Associate Professor at Vytautas Magnus University, Dept. of Chemistry

Since Nov. 2002

Head of the Dept. of Chemistry

Habilitation thesis entitled “Stationary phases and techniques for liquid chromatography and electrochromatography: towards microseparations” defended

Full Professor

RESEARCH VISITS

1992-1993, A.v.Humboldt Fellow at Mainz University (Germany)
1995 Sept.–1996 Feb. – Marburg University (Germany)
1997 May–Sept., 1998 Sept.-Dec., 1999 April-Aug.; 2000 June-August, 2001 June-August, 2002 July-August –Vennergren Foundation visiting Professor at Uppsala University (Sweden)
2000 Oct.-Nov. – DAAD Research Scientist at Kassel University (Germany)
2003 May – Marburg University
2005 May-June, NATO Guest scientist at Inst. of Chemical Methodology, CNRS Rome, Italy

INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS ATTENDED

1993 – 17th Iternational symposium on “Column Liquid Chromatography”, Hamburg (Germany)
1995 – Nordic Polymer Meeting 1995, Helsinki (Finland)
1996 – 21st International Symposium on Chromatography, Stuttgart (Germany)
1999 – 23rd International Symposium on HPLC and Related Techniques, Granada (Spain)
1999 – Analysdagarna, International Conference, Uppsala (Sweden).
2000 – Corporative analytical conference at AstraZeneca pharmaceutical company, G?teborg (Sweden)
2001 – 25th International Symposium on HPLC and Related Techniques, Maastricht (The Netheralands)
2002 April 14-18 HPCE Stockholm (Sweden), 2002 Sept. 1-4 ITP Helsinki, Finland, 2002 Sept. 8-12 ISSS Torun (Poland), 2002 Nov. 10-13 ISPPP Heidelberg (Germany), 2004 Sept. 13-15 ITP Rome (Italy)

Editorial boards

Member of Editorial boards of the FOOD CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY, Kaunas;
Scripta Horti Botanici Universitatis Vytauti Magni. ISBN 9955-12-1,Kaunas;
Guest Editor of the Journal of Biochemical and Biophysical Methods, Elsevier, Amsterdam.

PATENTS

Holds 7 patents

Author or co-author of more than 90 publications. Some important publications:

1.  O. Kornyšova, E. Machtejevas, V. Kudirkaitė, U. Pyell, A. Maruška. Synthesis and characterization of polyrotaxane-based polymeric continuous beds for capillary electrochromatography. J. Biochem. Biophys. Methods 50 (2002) 217 – 232.
2. E. Machtejevas, A. Maruška, A new approach to human serum albumin chiral stationary phase synthesis and its use in capillary liquid chromatography and capillary electrochromatography, J.Sep. Sci. 25 (2002) 10 – 16.
3. O.Kornyšova, R. Šurna, V. Snitka, U. Pyell, A. Maruška., Polyrotaxane approach for synthesis of continuous beds for capillary electrochromatography, J. Chromatogr. A 971 (2002) 225 – 235.
   1. A. Maruška in: F. Svec, T.B. Tennikova and Z. Deyl (Editors), Monolithic separation media: Monolithic continuous beds prepared from water-soluble acrylamide-based monomers, Elsevier, Amsterdam, (2003) 142 – 170.
   2. R. Jarmalavičienė, O.Kornyšova, D. Westerlund, A. Maruška. Non-particulate(continuous bed or monolithic) restricted-ccess reversed-phase media for sample clean-up and separation by capillary-format liquid chromatography. Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 377 (2003) 902 - 908.
   3. E. Machtejevas, B. Sellergren, V. Martynaitis, P.K. Owens, A. Maruška, Screening of oxazepine indole enantiomers by means of high performance liquid chromatography with imprinted polymer stationary phase, Journal of Separation Science, 27 (2004) 547-551.
   4. A. Maruška, O. Kornyšova, Continuous beds (monoliths): stationary phases for liquid chromatography formed using the hydrophobic interaction-based phase separation mechanism, Journal of Biochemical and Biophysical Methods, 59 (2004) 1-48.
   5. O. Kornyšova, R. Jarmalavičienė, A. Maruška. A simplified synthesis of polymeric nonparticulate stationary phases with macrocyclic antibiotic as chiral selector for capillary electrochromatography. Electrophoresis 25 (2004) 2825-2829.
   6. Stanius Ž., Obelevičius K., Kornyšova O., Maruška A., Ragažinskienė O. Capillary electrophoresis method for determination of bitter (?- and ?-) acids in Humulus lupulus L. Lithuanian varieties. Biologija.- Nr. 3. (2005), p. 81 - 84.: ISSN 1392 – 0146.
   7. Maruška A., Kornyšova O. Application of monolithic (continuous bed) chromatographic columns for phytochemical analysis. Journal of Chromatography A 1112 (2006) 319-330.
   8. Urbonavičiūtė A., Jakštas V., Kornyšova O., Janulis V., Maruška A. Capillary electrophoretic analysis of flavonoids in single-styled hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna Jacq.) ethanolic extracts. Journal of Chromatography A 112 (2006) 339-344.

RESEARCH PROJECTS DEVELOPED AND DIRECTED/COORDINATED

Research supervisor of the projects: “Normal phase capillary electrochromatography” (Nr. 305, March 1998 –March 1999); “Epigenetic and molecular investigation of plants for development of blooming theory” (Nr. T-36/06, 2006), Lithuanian Science and Studies Foundation.
Coordinator of the cooperative research project with Marburg University (Germany) entitled “Preparation and investigation of polyrotaxane based monolithic beds and homogeneous gels for capillary liquid chromatography and electrochromatography”, granted by Volkswagen Foundation (Germany), Dec., 1999 – July, 2003.
Coordinator of the cooperative research project with Uppsala University (Sweden) entitled “Continuous bed-based restricted access media for direct analysis of biological fluids using nano-liquid chromatography” granted by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, July, 2000-June, 2002.
Supervisor of the research group within the cooperative project with Mainz University and Merck KGaA (Germany) entitled “Development, characterization and tests of monolithic capillary columns for proteome analysis”, E. Merck Foundation, Jan., 2002 –Dec., 2002.
Research supervisor of the project on “Monolithic stationary phases for capillary electrochromatography” granted by AstraZeneca pharmaceutical company, Molndal (Sweden) Jan., 2002-Dec., 2003; Aug. 2004-June, 2005.

Lecturing, supervising activities and summer schools Organized

Subjects talked: Methodology of chemical analysis , Chemical and biochemical microanalysis. Physicochemical analysis. Chromatographic analysis. Supervized five PhD students, three thesis already defended.
Organized the Chromatography Course for the Baltic States students (held in Kaunas University of Technology) in cooperation with Mainz University (Prof. K. K. Unger, Dr. T. Renner) and Uppsala University (Prof. S. Hjertén), 1997 Nov. 10-14; several International courses on instrumental analysis held in Kaunas: Oct. 18-20, 1999 and Nov. 10-14, 2003, and summer school on “Bioanalysis methoods” in Skane (Sweden) July 22-27, 2001.

Analytical chemistry, molecular recognition, development of microseparation techniques, capillary electrophoresis, phytochemical analysis, food analysis, proteome analysis, synthesis of novel stationary phases for liquid nanochromatography and electrochromatography, material science, synthesis of nanostructured materials.