UMBC College of Engineering and Information Technology
Chemical & Biochemical Engineering

PEOPLE:
Silviya Petrova

Silviya Petrova Zustiak, PhD
Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering

Lab Member Spring 2006 to Fall 2009
Education &
Experience

M.S. Bioelectrical Engineering, Technical University (Sofia, Bulgaria), 2002
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, UMBC, 2010

Research

Star poly(ethylene glycol) as a tunable scaffold for neural tissue engineering

Publications

Zustiak S, JB Leach. Characterization of Protein Release from Hydrolytically Degradable Poly(ethylene glycol) Hydrogels. Under revision for Biotechnology & Bioengineering.

Zustiak S, H Boukari, JB Leach. Solute Diffusion and Interactions in Cross-linked Poly(ethylene Glycol) Hydrogels Studied by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy. In press in Soft Matter.

Zustiak S, R Durbal, JB Leach. Covalent Incorporation of Cell-Adhesive Peptide Ligands into Poly(ethylene glycol) Hydrogels Influences Physical, Mechanical and Transport Properties. Under revision for Acta Biomaterialia [PMID: 20385260].

Zustiak S, JB Leach. Hydrolytically Degradable Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Hydrogel Scaffolds with Tunable Degradation and Mechanical Properties. In press in Biomacromolecules 11(5):1348–1357 [PMID: 20355705].

Petrova S, Y Kostov, K Jeffries, G Rao. (2007) "Optical ratiometric sensor for alcohol measurements". Analytical Letters 40:715-27.

Pandelova A, S Petrova, A Neykov. (2003) "Experimental research of a hybrid biosensor for ecological purposes", Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment 17:187-193.
Current Employment

Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health, NICHD

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