Welcome!
My name is Maria Shumskaya and I am currently an Associate Professor at Kean University, New Jersey, USA. I work in the field of Plant/Fungi Science and teach several college level courses on Biochemistry, Bioinformatics and Plant Science.
I studied biology and chemistry at the Moscow State University, Russia, and graduated magna cum laude in 2000 with a Masters Degree in Biochemistry. Sophisticated structure of photosynthetic organisms sparked my interest in molecular biology of Cyanobacteria, which I worked with both at the Institute for Plant Physiology, Russia, and at the National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan. I completed my PhD in Plant Biochemistry in 2004 and then continued with the research on proteomics of Cyanobacteria as a post-doc at Stockholm University, Sweden. In 2008, I moved to the City University of New York to investigate carotenoid biosynthesis and metabolism of maize. I stayed as a post-doc and a doctoral lecturer until 2016 when I moved to Kean University.
My current research interest is diversity and metabolism of fungi inhabiting dead wood.
You can find my Curriculum Vitae and Publications under the corresponding Menu tabs.
If you are interested in knowing more about what I do, check the Research Projects tab.
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID):
orcid.org/0000-0001-7916-462X
Maria Shumskaya, Ph.D. 