Master Degree in Molecular Biology, Immunology, Embryology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Genetics or Bioinformatics
Practical Skills in a Methods of Molecular and Cell Biology
Data Analysis Skills (e.g. Python Programming)
Soft Skills
Teamwork Skills
Research highlights
Relevant research projects and methods
High quality laboratory equipment and all necessary facilities for an outstanding world level research
Projects in collaboration with world leading universities and research centers, e.g. Harvard University (USA), Uppsala University (Sweden), Lions Eye Institute (Australia)
Main publications
Wen, L., Ley, R. E., Volchkov, P. Y., Stranges, P. B., Avanesyan, L., Stonebraker, A. C., … Chervonsky, A. V. (2008). Innate immunity and intestinal microbiota in the development of Type 1 diabetes. Nature, 455(7216), 1109–1113.doi:10.1038/nature07336
Yurkovetskiy, L., Burrows, M., Khan, A. A., Graham, L., Volchkov, P., Becker, L., … Chervonsky, A. V. (2013). Gender Bias in Autoimmunity Is Influenced by Microbiota. Immunity, 39(2), 400–412.doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2013.08.013
Riddell, J., Gazit, R., Garrison, B. S., Guo, G., Saadatpour, A., Mandal, P. K., … Rossi, D. J. (2014). Reprogramming Committed Murine Blood Cells to Induced Hematopoietic Stem Cells with Defined Factors. Cell, 158(1), 226. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2014.06.014
Lagarkova, M. A., Volchkov, P. Y., Lyakisheva, A. V., Philonenko, E. S., & Kiselev, S. L. (2006). Diverse Epigenetic Profile of Novel Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines. Cell Cycle, 5(4), 416–420.doi:10.4161/cc.5.4.2440
Buzdin, A., Gogvadze, E., Kovalskaya, E., Volchkov, P., Ustyugova S., et al (2003). The human genome contains many types of chimeric retrogenes generated through in vivo RNA recombination. Nucleic Acids Research, 31(15), 4385–4390.doi:10.1093/nar/gkg496