Supervisor: Olga Dontsova
Olga graduated with honours from Moscow State University, Chemistry Department, in 2009 and stayed for PhD project devoted to investigation of transcription regulation by small noncoding RNAs in bacteria. She has got PhD degree in 2014 and continued her scientific and teaching activities in MSU as a staff researcher.
During her PhD research she was a member of the joint Russian-German programme “International Research Training Group” funded by RFBR-DFG and regularly worked at Philipps-University Marburg and University of Giessen (Germany). Olga took part in a set of projects funded by RFBR and RSF grants and has authored a number of scientific publications.
Olga joined Skoltech in 2017 for a new project devoted to investigation of novel long noncoding RNAs in liver.