New PhD graduate from the Lab

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Alina Kondrashina has successfully defended her PhD thesis in biochemistry. Alina worked at Biophysics and Bioanalysis lab in period 2011-2014. Her Google Scholar profile can be found here.
Congratulations to Alina and her supervisor, Prof. D. Papkovsky!

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