9^th World Biomarkers Congress

Elena V Pikuta received her MS in 1995 at Perm State University in Russia, on Biology faculty. She was a practicing nurse in Surgery Department of the Regional Hospital in Perm for one year.She received her BS degree received in 1984 from Perm Medical College. In University she also defended Diploma in Biophysics “The Dielectric Parameters of Tissues at Hypoxia”. She was employed by the Institute of Ecology and Genetics of Microorganisms, The Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, as a research assistant. She had fi nished her PhD in 1997 at the Institute of icrobiology of RAS in Moscow, the thesis was “Alkaliphilic Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria.