Dr Elena Piletska
Senior Research Fellow
Location: Cranfield Health, Vincent Building, Cranfield Campus
E: e.piletska@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 758300
Current activities
Elena’s professional interests include biochemistry of chloroplasts, molecularly imprinted polymers, molecular modelling and development of the synthetic receptors for the purification and separation of the man-made and natural toxins and quorum sensing signal molecules. Among Elena’s achievements in Cranfield are more that 30 successfully delivered industry-funded and European projects, Leverhulme Research Fellowship Award and 101 publications in the international peer-reviewed journals and patents.
Clients
Luminex, NOAA, GSK, EU, P&G, University of Kent, University of Greenwich, Toximet, Sphere, NATO, MRC, Scottish Fisheries, Nitto Denko Corporation (Japan).Background
Dr Elena Piletska began her research career in 1985 after graduation from Moscow State University (USSR) with diploma in Microbiology. For the next three years she worked in the Bach’s Institute of Biochemistry (Moscow) on study of chloroplast DNA. In 1989 she received a Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry, which was awarded for a work on mapping and characterisation of the chloroplast genome. After completion her PhD, she joined the Institute of Agroecology and Biotechnology (Kiev, Ukraine), where she worked on design and development of biosensors based on chloroplasts and its components. In 1994-1995 Elena visited Professor Isao Karube's laboratory in Tokyo University. In 1995-1996 Elena was awarded by INTAS grant “Test-system for detection of the trace quantities of herbicides”, individual INTAS grant “D1-cartridges for photosynthesis-inhibiting herbicides pre-concentration” and JSPS grant “Development of the sensors for herbicides”. In 1998 Elena was working as a Visiting Researcher in Poly-An GmbH (Berlin, Germany) on development of a new fluorescent technique for immobilisation of primary amine-contained compounds. From 2000 and until now Elena is employed by Cranfield University.
Selected publications
Towards the development of multisensor for drugs of abuse based on molecular imprinted polymers.
Piletska EV, Romero-Guerra M, Chianella I, Karim K, Turner APF and Piletsky SA.
Anal. Chim. Acta, 2005, 542, 111-117.
Adaptation of the molecular imprinted polymers towards polar environment.
Piletska EV, Romero-Guerra M, Guerreiro AR, Karim K, Turner APF and Piletsky SA.
Anal. Chim. Acta, 2005, 542, 47-51.
Controlled release of the herbicide simazine from computationally designed molecularly imprinted polymers.
Piletska EV, Turner NW, Turner APF and Piletsky SA.
J. Control. Release, 2005, 108, 132-139.
Introducing the biotin –specific synthetic receptors based on molecular imprinted polymerisation by photografting from water.
Piletska EV, Piletsky SA., Karim K, Terpetschnig E and Turner APF.
Anal. Chem. Acta, 2003, 504, 179-183.
Recognition of ephedrine enantiomers by MIPs designed using a computational approach.
Piletsky SA, Karim K, Piletska EV, Day CJ, Freebairn KW, Legge C and Turner APF.
Analyst, 2001, 126, 1826-1830.
