Education

1994 – Graduate of the Faculty Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Teacher Education
1994-1997 – Post-graduate, Biochemistry
Professional experience
1997 – Candidate of Biological Sciences
1997-2000 – Teaching assistant, associate professor of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Teacher Education
2000-2006 – Associate professor of Department of Chemistry, Penza State University
2006-present – Associate professor of Department of Human physiology, Penza State University
Author of more than 60 scientific and educational publications, 4 articles indexed in SCOPUS

Taught subjects

Biochemistry

Biological chemistry - Biochemistry of oral cavity

Scientific  articles (SCOPUS) 

Distribution of activity of major carboxypeptidases in tissues of various laboratory animals Vernigora, A.N., Shchetinina, N.V., Saldaev, D.A., Gengin, M.T.          2002    Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii

Distribution of activities of alkaline carboxypeptidases in tissues of laboratory animals of different species Vernigora, A.N., Shchetinina, N.V., Saldaev, D.A., Gengin, M.T. –2002 Journal of Evolutionary Biochemistry and Physiology

Determination of the angiotensin converting enzyme activity with using dansyl-Phe-Ala-Arg as substrate  Shchetinina, N.V., Vernigora, A.N., Gengin, M.T.  2001    Ukrain'skyi Biokhimichnyi Zhurnal

Influence of sodium hydroxybutirate on activity of carboxypeptidase H and angiotensin converting enzyme in rat brain regions Vernigora, A.N., Gengin, M.T., Shchetinina, N.V., Spiridonov, D.A.  1999    Ukrain'skyi Biokhimichnyi Zhurnal

Effect of sodium hydroxybutyrate on carboxypeptidase H activity and on angiotensin-converting enzyme in different regions of the rat brain Vernigora, A.N., Gengin, M.T., Shchetinina, N.V., Spiridonov, D.A.   1999    Ukrainskii biokhimicheskii zhurnal

Activity of basic carboxypeptidases in male and female rats

Shchetinina, N.V.         1997    Ukrain'skyi Biokhimichnyi Zhurnal

Activity of the pmsf-inhibited carboxypeptidase in the encephalon tissues and departments of erinaceus europaeus Vernigora, A.N., Shchetinina, N.V., Gengin, M.T.       1997    Ukrain'skyi Biokhimichnyi Zhurnal

 Tissue and regional distribution of activity of phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride inhibited carboxypeptidase and other carboxypeptidases in rats Shchetinina, N.V., Vernigora, A.N., Gengin, M.T., Firstova, N.V.  1997    Ukrainskii biokhimicheskii zhurnal

 Activities of basic (cleaving arginine and lysine residues) carboxypeptidases in rats of different age Vernigora, A.N., Shchetinina, N.V., Gengin, M.T.          1996    Biochemistry (Moscow)

 Activities of basic carboxypeptidases cleaving arginine and lysine in rats of various age

Vernigora, A.N., Shchetinina, N.V., Gengin, M.T.       1996    Biokhimiya