System Biology Fellowship

Systems Biology Program Winners 2019

Konstantin Zaitsev (ITMO University) “Identification and separation of sources of transcriptional vatriability in single-cell RNA-seq data”

Sofya Kasatskaya (Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Russian Academy of Sciences, Department of Genomics of Adaptive Immunity) “Origin of helper T cell diversity in human immunity: the study of TCR repertoires”

Daria Artamonova (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology) "Investigation of T. thermophilus Type III CRISPR-Cas mediated bacterial defense mechanisms”

Alexandr Artyuhov (Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University) "Direct reprogramming of human skin fibroblasts into insulin-producing cells using CRISPR/dCas9- SunTag-VP64 effector epigenome editing systems"

Evheny Klimuk (RAS Institute of Molecular Genetics) “Rational design of chimeric portal proteins of viruses”

Please join us on May 28th in the new Skoltech Campus (E-B4-3007) at 10 am at the award ceremony and a reporting seminar given by the Program’s 2017 and 2018 fellows

What is the Fellowship?

The Systems Biology Program is a support in a form of Fellowship (not less than 600 000 RUR per year) of young scientists’ research with annual prolongation for up to three years.

The Fellowship is aimed to stimulate Russian research in systems, molecular and cell biology and to minimize bureaucratic load on the Fellows.

The Systems Biology Fellows are to submit only annual scientific reports and to participate in Skoltech seminars once or twice a year with short reports or posters.

The main evaluation criteria are articles in peer-reviewed journals or conferences reports.

The final three-year research report is hosted by PMI in Neuchatel, Switzerland

The program is hosted by Skoltech with a generous support from Philip Morris Sales and Marketing.
The 2018 Fellows and their Projects could be found here
The 2017 Fellows and their Projects could be found here
The results of the first (2016) five completed Fellowships could be found here

Who can apply

A young scientist (35 years or younger), having at least 2 publications in international peer-reviewed scientific journals with an impact factor not less than 2.0, with at least one such publication with primary (first or last) authorship, working in a Russian Scientific Institution.

Our Winners

2018

Aleksandra Galitsyna from Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology with the project “Interpretable model for chromatin interaction probability prediction”
Sergey Shmakov from Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology with the project “Comprehensive characterization of CRISPR-linked genes”
Alexander Gordeev from the Protein Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the project “Suppression of reverse transcriptase-driven chimeric cDNA synthesis”
Artem Gureev from Voronezh State University with the project “The study of Mildronate effect on mitochondrial metabolism during physical exercise”
Pavel Kos from Lomonosov Moscow State University with the project “Bi-directional research of chromatin organization in eukaryotic cell nucleus”

2017

Evgeny Egorov from the Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry with the project “Age-associated alterations in the structure of naive TCR repertoire”
Anna Klepikova from Moscow State University, with the project “Gene regulatory networks controlling transition to flowering: evidence from time-series expression data”
Alexey Orlov from Prokhorov General Physics Institute with the project “Development of high-throughput label-free method for experimental protein interactomics”
Alexey Sergushichev from ITMO University with the project “Integrating transcriptomics and metabolomics data for studying dynamic rewiring of the metabolic fluxes during immune response”
Dmitry Svetlichnyy from Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology with the project “Deciphering splicing code using machine learning methods and Next-generation sequencing data”

2016

Ekaterina Khrameeva from Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology with the project “Molecular signatures of normal and aberrant development, aging and longevity in the human brain”
Ilya Vorontsov from the Vavilov Institute of General Genetics with the project “Prioritizing non-coding variants by transcription regulatory potential”
Sergei Ryazansky from the Institute of molecular genetics with the project “Biological role of polymorphism of small RNA expression in Drosophila”
Mikhail Pogorelyy from the Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry with the project “High throughput sequencing of identical twins TCR repertoires after yellow fever vaccination”
Anastasiya Ivanova from the Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry with the project “High throughput study of the genetic network controlled by the secreted regulator of the brain development and regeneration, Ag1, which was lost in higher vertebrates

What areas of research could be supported?

· Systems Biology

· Molecular biology

· Cell biology

· Bioinformatic Algorithms

· Methods development

· Molecular evolution

· Comparative bioinformatics

· Genome-wide studies, Omics

· Big-data analysis

· Genomic medicine

· Metagenomics.

Application

What documents should be submitted for application?

A project proposal
A Letter of Consent for processing personal data
Recommendations from two scientists specializing in the field of research (letters of recommendation from foreign scientists are a plus)
A letter from research supervisor to consenting to admit Program Member to implement the Project. For the last 5 (Five) years the research supervisor must have published, as a corresponding author, at least 3 articles in peer-reviewed international scientific journals with an impact factor of no less than 2.0
All documents should be in English.

Procedure

Complete applications are evaluated by international scientists with expertise in the research area

The Board of Experts reviews the applications and the evaluations. No more than 5 young scientists receive the Fellowship per year, a research contract is signed

The Fellows are to submit annual scientific reports and to participate in the specially-organized seminars. The Project’s support is prolonged upon the Reports approval by the experts