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.

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

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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.

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

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

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• The program is hosted by Skoltech with a generous support from Philip Morris Sales and Marketing.

• The results of the first Five completed Projects could be found here

• The 2018 Fellows and their Projects could be found here

• The 2017 Fellows and their Projects could be found here

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Please read more in Russian about the program on biomolecula.ru

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 no less than 2.0, with at least one such publication with primary (first or last) authorship), working in Russian Scientific Institution.

Our Winners

You can find presentations with current results via links below

2020

• Alexey Gurevich (St. Petersburg State University) "Integration of genomics and metabolomics data for discovery of small natural products"

• Maria Andrianova (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology) "Mechanistic model of mutation accumulation based on differential kinetics of DNA repair"

• Yury Barbitoff (St. Petersburg State University) "Investigation of the genetic architecture of human traits on the phenome scale"

• Aleksey Agapov (Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Science) "Transcriptional interference by RNA-guided DNA-binding proteins"

• Anna Shiriaeva (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology/ St. Petersburg Branch of
  Vavilov Institute of General Genetics,
  Russian Academy of Science) "High-throughput analysis of short DNA fragments generated in vivo in Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae"

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"

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

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?

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 expressing willingness to host the implementation of 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

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Applications should be submitted to v.rybko@skolteсh.ru

Procedure

• The complete applications will be evaluated by scientists with expertise in the research area

• The Program Council will review the applications and it’s evaluations. No more than 5 Projects will be chosen for Systems Biology Fellowship in 2020

• The Fellows are to submit annual scientific reports. The main evaluation criteria – articles in peer-reviewed journals or conferences participation. The Project’s support is prolonged upon the Reports approval by the experts.

Program Council 

Systems Biology Program Experts

Dr. Dalia Cohen, Founder and CSO of “The RNA Medicines Company”

Prof. Manuel Peitsch, Chief Scientific Officer of Philip Morris International

Prof. Konstantin Severinov, Skoltech

Contact us

Vera Rybko, Industry Project Manager

Center of Life Sciences

Tel: + 7 495 280 14 81 ext 3475

E-mail:

http://www.skoltech.ru/en