Biography

Dr Pluskal has worked in the Biotechnology field in the Boston area for 40+ years gaining a wide range of “hands on” and academic experience in solid phase chemical modification of chromatography base beads for protein and nucleic acid purification. Currently he is on the faculty at University of Rhode Island School of Pharmacy teaching basic and advanced bio chromatography courses.

Dr. Pluskal received his Ph.D. in 1976 and was a Muscular Dystrophy Post-Doctoral Fellow in the area of aging’s influence’s on muscle protein synthesis and regulation of gene
expression in developing muscle at the level of translational control. On leaving academia for a career at Millipore Corporation, Dr. Pluskal developed key technology in PVDF based blotting membranes, 2D-gel electrophoresis hardware, pre-cast gel technology, carbohydrate analysis by electrophoresis, membrane based chromatography resin development and purification applications. His work has led to several successful products in use today in Proteomics and protein purification leading to 4 granted US patents with several pending. He has published extensively in sample preparation, Proteomics, protein purification and synthetic chemistry areas.

Dr Pluskal has held leadership positions focused on biomolecule chromatography applications at Pall Corporation, Thermo-Fisher Scientific and JNC Corporation.