Education and degrees completed

26th August 2014 Ph.D. in Medicine (Molecular Virology), Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland. Topic: "Influenza virus-host interactions and their modulation by small molecules".

29th June 2007 M.Sc. in Biology (Molecular Biology) (Hons.), Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Topic: "Development of genomic approach for high-throughput analysis of CCWGG methylation".

09.2005 – 05.2007 training at the Molecular Biology Education Centre, Institute of Protein Research, Pushchino, Russia, included in MSc degree. Topic: "Cloning and purification of site-specific endonuclease EcoRIIC".

Current position

01.2015 – present Postdoctoral researcher at Turku Bioscience Centre, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.

Previous work experience

06.2011 – 05.2014 PhD researcher, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki, Finland.

10.2008 – 10.2011 Researcher, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Pushchino, Russia.

09.2007 – 10.2008 Researcher, Institute of Protein Research, Pushchino, Russia.

Career breaks

05.2016 – 08.2017 Maternity leave.