Team:Moscow/Team
Team Moscow
Meet our team
We are very excited to introduce our Team Moscow to you!
Julia Kacher
Student leader
Julia is a very responsible person who has brought us together. This year Julia got her BSc in
Biology
(Bioengineering)
Petr Zaytsev
Student leader
Petr is a talented, bold and enthusiastic Biologist. He worked in Research Center for Advanced
Science and
Technology,
The University of Tokyo and now he is a PhD student at MSU
Max Bokov
SMM, PR
Max has graduated from Biophysics department of MSU. Then he got his MSc in Grenoble University. He
is very
interested
in synthetic biology studies
Iunona Pospelova
Dry lab, SMM
Iunona has just obtained her BSc degree in Biology. She is a very open-minded person and she is
interested
in
Epigenetics and Bionics
Anna Gribkova
Dry Lab, Human Practice
This year Anna has graduated from MSU and obtained her MSc degree in Biology. She is also
responsible for
the
public
engagement
Andrey Buynevich
Sponsorship, HumanPractice
Andrey obtained his BSc degree in Biology (Physiology of Higher Nervous Activity) two years ago and
right now he is
studying Bioeconomics
Irina Talyzina
Wet lab, Human Practice
Irina is a fourth year student at Bioorganical Chemistry department, Faculty of Biology
Alexandra Greshnova
Dry and Wet Lab
Alexandra is a senior student at Bioengineering department of MSU. She always spends a lot of time in
the lab and
knows everything about it!
Roman Novikov
Dry Lab
Roman is a second year student at Bioengineering department of MSU. Roman is very interested in
synthetic biology
Nikita Kosarim
Wet lab
Nikita is a BSc student. His fields of interest are molecular biology and genetics
Nikolay Kristovsky
Dry lab and engineering
Nikolay is a fourth year student at Bioengineering department of MSU. He is creating a portable
spectrophotometer!
Anna Vakhrusheva
Design and Wet lab
Anna is a very creative and talented PhD student at MSU
Nikolay Chechulin
Manager
Owner of pet-shop "Planet Exotica"
Alexander Kuznetsov
Wet lab
Alex is a first year MSc student. He’s a passionate researcher in virology with a strong experimental
focus.
Adil Kabylda
Dry lab
Adil is a last year study student at Faculty of Chemistry. He is experienced at theoretical chemistry
and computer
modeling
Renat Vinnikov
Dry lab
Renat is an eleventh-grade student at AESC - Kolmogorov's boarding school. He is interested in
bioinformatics and
molecular biology
Sergey Dumpis
Wet lab
Sergey is third year student at Department of Biological and Medical Physics of MIPT. He is interested
in molecular
biology and cancer biology
Pavel Vorobyev
Wet lab
Second year of Master’s degree at MIPT, major at molecular biology. and biophysics. Previously, have
earned medical
degree at MSMU
Alex Milenkin
Dry lab
Alex is a very enthusiastic biologist from MIPT, he is good at genetic engineering. His Bachelor thesis
was
connected to CRISPR/Cas system
Meet our supervisors
Alexey Shaytan
Primary Investigator (PI)
PhD in Physics and Mathematics. Leading research scientist at the Bioengineering department, Faculty of
Biology,
MSU. Head of Integrative Biology Group
Dmitry Karpov
Secondary PI
PhD in Biology. Senior research scientist at Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology (EIMB),
Laboratory of
Intracellular Proteolysis Regulation
Meet our instructors
Grigory Glukhov
Wet Lab Instructor
PhD in Biology. Junior research scientist at the Bioengineering department, Faculty of Biology
Grigory Armeev
Dry Lab Instructor
PhD in Physics and Mathematics. Senior research scientist at the Bioengineering department, Faculty
of
Biology
Ekaterina Marilovtseva
Wet Lab Instructor
PhD in Biology. Junior research scientist at the Bioengineering department, Faculty of Biology
Our advisors
Mikhail P. Kirpichnikov
Dean of Faculty of Biology at MSU; Head of Bioengineering Department at Faculty of Biology; Professor;
Member of
the Russian Academy of Sciences
Nikolay I. Briko
Head of Epidemiology and Evidence Based Medicine Department, Sechenov Medical University; Professor;
Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Chief epidemiologist, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Elena Krasilnikova
Head of the Centre for Studies and analysis of Population, Demography and Healthcare Issues, EAEU
Institute
Sergey Shmakov
Research Scientist at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology; expert in the field of CRISPR-Cas
systems
Vasily M. Studitsky
Professor; Head of Laboratory of Transcription and Replication Regulation, Faculty of Biology, MSU
Alexey V. Feofanov
Professor; Head of Laboratory of Optical Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Biomolecules, Faculty of Biology,
MSU
Olga S. Sokolova
Professor; Head of Structural Biotechnology Group, Faculty of Biology, MSU
Vera Bashmakova
Head of Biohacking Laboratory at Polytechnical Museum; Chief Editor at Biomolecula.ru
Nikolay Lomov
Research Scientist, Department of Molecular Biology, MSU; Jury Member of Russian Competition of Young
Biologists
Sponsors
Helicon
Official
Sponsor of iGEM Team Moscow Helicon Company LLC.
HELICON COMPANY, LLC is one of the leading suppliers of molecular and cell biology lab equipment, reagents and consumables for scientific labs and applied markets throughout Russia since 1997. The focus of the company is the quick introduction of newly developed methods into Russian laboratory practice. With its first-class service, reliability and excellent qualification of the staff, HELICON is the right partner to choose – whether you are building up a new laboratory, implementing a new method in your daily routine work or if you just don't want to worry about the delivery of your favorite reagents.
Besides being a distributor of more than 40 global brands, such as Bio-Rad, Beckman Coulter, QIAGEN, MGI, Eppendorf, Fluidigm, BMGLabtech, Merck, SSI, etc., HELICON COMPANY manufactures its own products: equipment, consumables and accessories for vertical and horizontal electrophoresis, gel- documentation systems, racks for tubes and dispensers, etc. Regional offices in St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Rostov-on-Don, Vladivostok and Yekaterinburg help in serving science rapidly and accurately across all Russia.
iGEM Team Moscow thanks Heliсon for support!
HELICON COMPANY, LLC is one of the leading suppliers of molecular and cell biology lab equipment, reagents and consumables for scientific labs and applied markets throughout Russia since 1997. The focus of the company is the quick introduction of newly developed methods into Russian laboratory practice. With its first-class service, reliability and excellent qualification of the staff, HELICON is the right partner to choose – whether you are building up a new laboratory, implementing a new method in your daily routine work or if you just don't want to worry about the delivery of your favorite reagents.
Besides being a distributor of more than 40 global brands, such as Bio-Rad, Beckman Coulter, QIAGEN, MGI, Eppendorf, Fluidigm, BMGLabtech, Merck, SSI, etc., HELICON COMPANY manufactures its own products: equipment, consumables and accessories for vertical and horizontal electrophoresis, gel- documentation systems, racks for tubes and dispensers, etc. Regional offices in St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Rostov-on-Don, Vladivostok and Yekaterinburg help in serving science rapidly and accurately across all Russia.
iGEM Team Moscow thanks Heliсon for support!
Nanolek
Official
Sponsor of iGEM Team Moscow NANOLEK company.
NANOLEK is a modern biopharmaceutical company, created in 2011 with the participation of RUSNANO Group of Companies with its own high-tech full-cycle production in accordance with ISO and GMP standards in the Kirov region. The NANOLEK production site is a technological complex consisting of three autonomous production buildings with advanced high-tech equipment. The complex provides for the use of several full-cycle production technologies: biotechnological production in syringes and bottles, production of solid dosage forms.NANOLEK specializes in the production of import-substituting and innovative drugs, both of its own design and those created with the involvement of international partners, with a focus on the prevention and treatment of socially significant diseases.The NANOLEK portfolio is formed within the framework of the most important therapeutic areas regarding import substitution. These are drugs for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, antitumor drugs, innovative vaccines, including the cell vaccine against the influenza virus and the first domestic inactivated polio vaccine. Currently, a number of innovative biotechnological preparations are under development. NANOLEK partners are the largest international pharmaceutical companies: Sanofi Pasteur (France), Merck (Germany), Celltrion (South Korea), Egis (Hungary), Green Cross (South Korea), Aspen (South Africa), TEVA (Israel), etc.
iGEM Team Moscow thanks NANOLEK for support!
NANOLEK is a modern biopharmaceutical company, created in 2011 with the participation of RUSNANO Group of Companies with its own high-tech full-cycle production in accordance with ISO and GMP standards in the Kirov region. The NANOLEK production site is a technological complex consisting of three autonomous production buildings with advanced high-tech equipment. The complex provides for the use of several full-cycle production technologies: biotechnological production in syringes and bottles, production of solid dosage forms.NANOLEK specializes in the production of import-substituting and innovative drugs, both of its own design and those created with the involvement of international partners, with a focus on the prevention and treatment of socially significant diseases.The NANOLEK portfolio is formed within the framework of the most important therapeutic areas regarding import substitution. These are drugs for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, antitumor drugs, innovative vaccines, including the cell vaccine against the influenza virus and the first domestic inactivated polio vaccine. Currently, a number of innovative biotechnological preparations are under development. NANOLEK partners are the largest international pharmaceutical companies: Sanofi Pasteur (France), Merck (Germany), Celltrion (South Korea), Egis (Hungary), Green Cross (South Korea), Aspen (South Africa), TEVA (Israel), etc.
iGEM Team Moscow thanks NANOLEK for support!
SkyGen
Official
Sponsor of iGEM Team Moscow SkyGen company.SkyGen LLC is a Russian & CIS life
science distributor company totally committed to supporting life science researchers. We
are currently an exclusive product distributor of New England Biolabs, 10x Genomics,
Nimagen, Bio Molecular Systems and an official product distributor of QIAGEN, Agilent
Technologies, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, BioSan, Sigma-Aldrich, Thermo Fisher
Scientific.
Founded in 2012, SkyGen was established from a vision to improve the Russian & CIS researcher experience by making researchers' jobs easier and more efficient, celebrating their research successes and standing up for their needs.
For more than 6 years we have been providing more than 3000 Russian and CIS labs with plenty of life science equipment and reagents. Our customers are leading research scientists both in Russian & CIS universities, hospitals, biotechnology companies, pharmaceutical companies and accredited laboratories.
We search, develop and implement new modern solutions in molecular biology. We believe being a researcher is a valuable contribution to the community, and it is a challenging field to work in. It is our mission to provide you with more personalised support, greater choice of products, to calibrate and verify your measuring means, validate clean rooms and to organize reagents & consumables delivery as fast as possible.
We are known. We are trusted. We are recommended.
iGEM Team Moscow thanks SkyGen for support!
Founded in 2012, SkyGen was established from a vision to improve the Russian & CIS researcher experience by making researchers' jobs easier and more efficient, celebrating their research successes and standing up for their needs.
For more than 6 years we have been providing more than 3000 Russian and CIS labs with plenty of life science equipment and reagents. Our customers are leading research scientists both in Russian & CIS universities, hospitals, biotechnology companies, pharmaceutical companies and accredited laboratories.
We search, develop and implement new modern solutions in molecular biology. We believe being a researcher is a valuable contribution to the community, and it is a challenging field to work in. It is our mission to provide you with more personalised support, greater choice of products, to calibrate and verify your measuring means, validate clean rooms and to organize reagents & consumables delivery as fast as possible.
We are known. We are trusted. We are recommended.
iGEM Team Moscow thanks SkyGen for support!
Qiagen
Official
Sponsor of iGEM Team Moscow QIAGEN company.
QIAGEN serves more than 500,000 customers around the globe, all seeking insights from the building blocks of life – DNA, RNA and proteins. We deliver Sample to Insight solutions for molecular testing, propelling QIAGEN customers from start to finish to unlock new insights. This is how QIAGEN makes improvements in life possible.
Doctors look to QIAGEN's solutions to diagnose diseases and gain precise insights for better treatment decisions. Researchers rely on company's cutting-edge expertise to conquer scientific frontiers and translate genomic insights into new medicines. Forensic investigators, veterinarians and food safety labs depend on QIAGEN's applied technologies.
Today some 4,700 QIAGEN employees, based in more than 25 countries, provide expertise and service to customers nearly everywhere. These people share a collaborative, truly global culture – plus a commitment to making improvements in life possible.
As a public company listed on the New York Stock and Frankfurt Prime Standard exchanges, QIAGEN embraces transparency, accountability and good corporate governance.
iGEM Team Moscow thanks QIAGEN for support!
QIAGEN serves more than 500,000 customers around the globe, all seeking insights from the building blocks of life – DNA, RNA and proteins. We deliver Sample to Insight solutions for molecular testing, propelling QIAGEN customers from start to finish to unlock new insights. This is how QIAGEN makes improvements in life possible.
Doctors look to QIAGEN's solutions to diagnose diseases and gain precise insights for better treatment decisions. Researchers rely on company's cutting-edge expertise to conquer scientific frontiers and translate genomic insights into new medicines. Forensic investigators, veterinarians and food safety labs depend on QIAGEN's applied technologies.
Today some 4,700 QIAGEN employees, based in more than 25 countries, provide expertise and service to customers nearly everywhere. These people share a collaborative, truly global culture – plus a commitment to making improvements in life possible.
As a public company listed on the New York Stock and Frankfurt Prime Standard exchanges, QIAGEN embraces transparency, accountability and good corporate governance.
iGEM Team Moscow thanks QIAGEN for support!
Evrogen
Evrogen
(Russian Federation) is an innovation-driven company founded by scientists dedicated to
making successful ideas widely available as efficient products and services for life
science research.
Established in 2000 and constantly developing, Evrogen invents, develops and offers novel technologies and means in the field of molecular and cell biology. Scientists ourselves, we aim at maintaining quality and efficiency of our solutions. We aspire to provide all our expertise to meet customer needs.
Evrogen uses proven biotechnological approaches as well as novel proprietary to deliver reliable, reproducible results.
iGEM Team Moscow thanks Evrogen for support!
Established in 2000 and constantly developing, Evrogen invents, develops and offers novel technologies and means in the field of molecular and cell biology. Scientists ourselves, we aim at maintaining quality and efficiency of our solutions. We aspire to provide all our expertise to meet customer needs.
Evrogen uses proven biotechnological approaches as well as novel proprietary to deliver reliable, reproducible results.
iGEM Team Moscow thanks Evrogen for support!
Chroma Technology
With 25
years of experience serving the scientific, biomedical and photonics communities, Chroma
Technology know how to design and deliver optical filters that do precisely what our
customers need. Whether it’s long-term, high-volume production or a one-off custom
solution, they create exactly what you need to help make your next product a
success.
iGEM Team Moscow thanks Chroma Technology for support!
iGEM Team Moscow thanks Chroma Technology for support!
Twist Bioscience
At Twist
Bioscience, people work in service of customers who are changing the world for the
better. In fields such as medicine, agriculture, industrial chemicals and data storage,
by using our synthetic DNA tools, customers are developing ways to better lives and
improve the sustainability of the planet.
iGEM Team Moscow thanks Twist Bioscience for support!
iGEM Team Moscow thanks Twist Bioscience for support!
Integrated DNA Technologies
IDT is a
leader in development and manufacturing of products for research and diagnostic life
science markets. The world's largest supplier of custom nucleic acids, IDT serves
academic research, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical development communities with
products that support applications including: next generation sequencing (NGS), gene
amplification, SNP detection, expression profiling, gene quantification, and synthetic
biology. Platform-independent NGS products (xGen® Lockdown®Probesfor improved target
capture, custom adaptors, fusion primers, Molecular Identifier tags—MIDs) are available
in addition to DNA and RNA oligonucleotides, qPCR assays, siRNA duplexes, gBlocks® Gene
Fragments for gene construction, and custom gene synthesis.
New England BioLabs
Established in the mid 1970's, New England Biolabs, Inc. (NEB) is the industry leader in
the discovery and production of enzymes for molecular biology applications and now
offers the largest selection of recombinant and native enzymes for genomic research. NEB
continues to expand its product offerings into areas related to PCR, gene expression,
sample preparation for next generation sequencing, synthetic biology, glycobiology,
epigenetics and RNA analysis. Additionally, NEB is focused on strengthening alliances
that enable new technologies to reach key market sectors, including molecular
diagnostics development. New England Biolabs is a privately held company, headquartered
in Ipswich, MA, and has extensive worldwide distribution through a network of exclusive
distributors, agents and seven subsidiaries located in Canada, China, France, Germany,
Japan, Singapore and the UK. For more information about New England Biolabs visit www.neb.com.
Unstoppable Technologies
It a channel about the future of technology and society. Artificial Intelligence, Genetic Engineering, Neuroscience, Biohacking, Blockchain and even Sharing economy. All this and much more we will discuss here, with absolutely different people from all over the world, who are from science and technology, but are engaged in their interesting work. Perhaps, at the junction of people's real problems and the advanced achievements of scientists, we will find the best use for their inventions and make the world a better place.
BioSchool "Piligrim"
Career guidance and integration of talented, motivated children in scientific and technological communities worldwide. We create an educational environment for students interested in biology, ecology, medicine.
Attributions
The reason our Team was simply called
Moscow mainly based on the fact that we accumulated people from different establishments:
Academic universities, Scientific Institutes and other places. From some point of view, our
Team unified these people to achieve a particular goal. And though only several members had
an opportunity to participate in the Giant Jamboree, we would like to state the impact of
other members in the Team progress.
Fundraising support and
advice
At the first place, the main person who
inspired us to launch that project was Dr. Alexei Shaytan. By introducing the Course of
Synthetic Biology into the curriculum of undergraduate students of our Department, he
actually told the core of our Team about iGEM competition and offered to participate in it
in 2019. However, though the core of our Team was formed to the end of Spring, none was
experienced enough to propose a concrete plan of action. And as it usually happens in
Russia, things started to work by the impulse from a strong person – that person was Dr.
Elena Krasilnikova. Being the advisor of the previous Russian team in 2017, she showed us
the best strategy to start working toward fulfilling iGEM targets.
Through the whole process, from Fed to Oct, Alexei Shaytan together guiding the Team through most of the administrative issues. He took the mission of making appointments with those who could provide us with administrative support, such as our Dean Office at the Moscow State University or specialists from other places. As the result, Alexei managed to provide us with the benchplace to start our wetlab experiments. When other Team members started to take some of these responsibilities on their own, Alexei Shaytan carefully checked their emails and documents in order to achieve the best result possible.
Simultaneously, Petr Zaytsev and Nickolay Chechulin established organization and hierarchy within the Team. In particular, they organized accounts in applications required for work, such as Slack, Google Drive and Trello. Besides that, Petr Zaytsev and Nickolay Chechulin set a schedule for meeting to discuss Team's administrative and project plans and progress.
Through the whole process, from Fed to Oct, Alexei Shaytan together guiding the Team through most of the administrative issues. He took the mission of making appointments with those who could provide us with administrative support, such as our Dean Office at the Moscow State University or specialists from other places. As the result, Alexei managed to provide us with the benchplace to start our wetlab experiments. When other Team members started to take some of these responsibilities on their own, Alexei Shaytan carefully checked their emails and documents in order to achieve the best result possible.
Simultaneously, Petr Zaytsev and Nickolay Chechulin established organization and hierarchy within the Team. In particular, they organized accounts in applications required for work, such as Slack, Google Drive and Trello. Besides that, Petr Zaytsev and Nickolay Chechulin set a schedule for meeting to discuss Team's administrative and project plans and progress.
Project planning and support
Since the formation of the Team core,
members have been brainstorming lots of ideas in order to choose a propriate topic for iGEM
project. Whatever idea we had, first it always passed through the critical review of Alexei
Shaytan, who stood as our Primary PI. But in order to supply our ideas with opinion of
specialist with great experience in wetlab biology, we welcomed Dr. Dmitriy Karpov and Dr.
Grigoriy Glughov as Secondary PI and Instructor for our Team, correspondingly. Dmitriy
Karpov and Grigoriy Glughov not only participated in idea discussion at the beginning of our
work, but also supervised all our molecular cloning and protein purification experiments, as
well as provided our Team with a bench places and reagents to perform the required
experiments. At the middle of our wetlab part, we have invited Dr. Ekaterina Marilovtseva to
be another Instructor, as she kindly agreed to assist us in protein binding assay with
advice and materials for work.
Since our project also included the engineering part, Dr. Grigoriy Armeev kindly agreed to guide our Team members through this process, as well as generously shared his facilities to perform the construction.
Since our project also included the engineering part, Dr. Grigoriy Armeev kindly agreed to guide our Team members through this process, as well as generously shared his facilities to perform the construction.