Ilia Kurochkin

Research Adviser: Philipp Khaitovich

Program entry year: 2014

Graduated from Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2013.

Research project: Comparative analysis of human brain based on mass spectrometry data

Research interests: human brain evolution,  brain organization, metabolomics, lipidomics, single cell transcriptomics.

Publications:

• Yu Q, He Z, Zubkov D, Huang S, Kurochkin I, Yang X, Halene T, Willmitzer L, Giavalisco P, Akbarian S, Khaitovich P. Lipidome alterations in human prefrontal cortex during development, aging, and cognitive disorders. Mol Psychiatry. 2018 Aug 8. doi: 10.1038/s41380-018-0200-8.
• Khrameeva E*, Kurochkin I*, Bozek K, Giavalisco P, Khaitovich P. Lipidome Evolution in Mammalian Tissues. Mol Biol Evol. 2018 May 11. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msy097.

^* Authors contributed equally to this work.

Conference presentations:

• Molecular signatures of autism in prefrontal cortex. Kurochkin I, Khrameeva E, Tkachev A, Khaitovich P. SMBE 2018, the 50th Annual Conference of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. July 8 – 12, 2018, Yokohama, Japan. Poster presentation
• Metabolic changes in prefrontal cortex of humans, chimpanzees and macaques during postnatal development. Kurochkin I, Khaitovich P.  Metabolomics 2016, the 12th Annual Conference of the Metabolomics Society. June 27 – 30, 2016, Dublin, Ireland. Poster presentation