Dr. Oleksandr Maistrenko
Current projects: Population genomics of Archaea.
Other duties: PostDoc representative at MMB department.
Main research interests: evolution and ecology; evolution of evolvability, metagenomics; pangenomics, host-microbiome interactions; pathogen detection in human and animal microbiomes, diet-microbiome and eukaryome - prokaryome interactions.
Education:
2020 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) European Molecular Biology Laboratory and Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg, Germany.
Thesis title: Pangenome analysis of bacteria and its application in metagenomics.
2016 M.Sc. in Genomics & Bioinformatics (Fulbright Scholarship), North Dakota State University, USA.
Thesis title: Variation in Core and Accessory Parts of Genome of Escherichia coli Isolated from Soil from Riparian Areas in New York State
2015 M.Sc. in Genetics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine.
Thesis title: Genetic diversity of Wolbachia in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster in Ukraine.
2013 B.Sc. in Biology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine.
Thesis title: Expression of the human interferon alpha gene under the control of tissue-specific and constitutive promoters in transgenic tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum L.)
External collaborations:
European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)
National Antarctic Scientific Center of Ukraine
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
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