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Fyodor started his research career in the year 2000 in the lab of Eugene Koonin at NCBI, NIH after his BA degree. The main focus of his research was evolutionary genomics and bioinformatics. In 2003 Fyodor continued on to University of California at Davis graduating with an MA degree. In 2005 with the help of an NSF Graduate Fellowship he started his PhD in University of California at San Diego graduating in 2008. During the course of his PhD, Fyodor became interested in field work in the Arctic working with endangered endemic bird species, which continues to be an important aspect of his research. 

After starting his lab in 2008 at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, Fyodor began to combine theoretical, computational and experimental biology. Over the years, Fyodor’s work morphed into an interdisciplinary concoction of interwoven research directions. Combining theory, computation, field work, experimental and synthetic biology approaches, the work of the Evolutionary and Synthetic Biology Unit strives, in equal measure, to understand the evolution of living forms and to use that understanding to design novel biological systems.

I am a senior computational biologist in fungal biology and plant-microbe interactions. My expertise is visual integrative omics and development of analytical tools. I have been involved in over 20 international fungal genome projects. I am a researcher with over ten years of post-doc experience (worked in Australia, France, and Germany). Before joining the lab at OIST, I was a departmental bioinformatician at Max Planck Institute in Germany. I am expanding the field of comparative visual multi-omics. Please follow me for the latest developments in visual omics.

My research interest is the study and protection of migratory bird species including the study of genomic patterns of rare and endangered species. I have also been the field team leader for the conservation of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper in Chukotka for 10 years. My role is to organize and develop field research of rare and endangered bird species. In my spare time I enjoy reading, hiking, and traveling.

I am a postdoctoral researcher specializing in computational fungal biology and plant pathology. My expertise spans omics data analysis, fungal population genetics, and taxonomy, supported by extensive experience in fieldwork, molecular biology, microscopy, and programming.

I have contributed to several international research projects and am particularly interested in applying computational approaches to uncover novel features in fungal genomes. I am eager to continue expanding my skills in bioinformatics and to collaborate with researchers worldwide.

I am an interdisciplinary scientist focused on addressing questions of biology using methods informed by physics.  In particular, I am interested in the molecular basis of mutation and evolution in microbes, and some of my current research topics include how microbes use environmental information to change their mutation rates, mapping fitness landscapes of interesting proteins, and novel microfluidic techniques.

Before joining OIST I was a software architect in a banking sector. In the unit I apply my experience to help colleagues to improve their high computational models, write software to automate experiments and share my knowledge of good practices in the software developing area that will help them in their research. During my free time I raise a daughter, make a lot of photos and study new software development technologies to improve my skills.

I have experience with bacteria and have been involved in the scaling processes of microorganisms for many years. I also participated in expeditions in Chukotka for many years, where I was engaged in the preservation of a rare species of birds.

My responsibilities in the Unit include supporting colleagues with their experiments and managing the lab to ensure smooth operation. Beyond work, I enjoy reading and spending time with my family and friends.

My role is to support the unit members to achieve their objectives from the administrative side and to ensure smooth running of the unit. I enjoy getting to know everyone's projects and the opportunity to meet people from all over the world. Originally from Okinawa, I spent 10 years living in London, UK. With a background in post-production, I have a wide-ranging administrative experience as subtitle coordinator. Outside of work, I enjoy art, travel and spending time with my family and friends.

I graduated from Moscow State University as a molecular biologist. Since then, I've worked as a junior researcher, a biology teacher, a museum scientific consultant, and a research unit technician at OIST. I started PhD in the 2024 batch and plan to study protein evolution using my molecular biology skills. Outside work, I enjoy reading, playing computer or board games, observing sea creatures, and walking in the forest.

I'm interested in molecular evolution, in particular - the ways of evolutionary and artificial exploration of sequence space. In the lab, I focus on studying protein fitness landscapes using available genetic data and (soon) experiments.
I like weird sea creatures, mountains and traveling.