Team:MEPhI/People
People
Team members
We are happy to introduce team MEPhI to you!
Meet our supervisors:
Dmitry Sosin (Primary PI) - Ph.D. in Biology. His main research interests are related to the study of the influence of the environment on the built-in mechanisms of adaptation of living beings.
Klabukov Ilya (Secondary PI) - Ph.D. in pathological physiology. He is the head of the Department of Regenerative Technologies and Biofabrication of the National Medical Research Radiological Center.
Denis Baranovsky(Secondary PI) - Doctor in Medicine at the University of Basel. Currently, he is practicing in the clinic of thoracic surgery and continuing his scientific activities in the department of cell technologies at RUDN University.
Our student team:
Olesya Galanova
-Lesya is a responsible and talented person. She fully organizes and controls the work in the team. She is also engaged in collaborations in our team and actively interacts with members of other iGEM teams.
Alina Levushkina - Alina is a charming girl from the Altai Territory of Russia. She is very responsible and hardworking. Her main roles are the development of our Human Practices and writing our wiki page.
Alexey Kanashtarov - Alexey is a student of the Faculty of Biology. He is very interested in the fundamental sciences: biology, mathematics, physics, and chemistry in their contact with each other. He looks with interest at astrobiology, bioinformatics, and microbiology.
Alena Smirnova - Alena has a BS in Analytical Chemistry. Nowadays she is studying for a Master of Biology. Therefore, she works very well in the lab.
Bertha Yliana Valdez Fernandez (The theory, Lab work) - Bertha is a Mexican Biologist currently a student at MEPhI, Russia, Master of Biology. She very quickly copes with her tasks and works perfectly with the information received.
Anastasia Nikolaeva - This year Nastya will get her BS in Biology. Nastya is well versed in bioengineering issues. She is a real treasure of our team.
Rimma Shatalova - Rimma has a BS in Biology. At now she studies at Sirius University in Sochi. Rimma plans to connect her professional activity with radiobiology. Rimma is very cool not only in biology but also well versed in graphics. and she is the author of our logo and poster. Moreover, our best posts were created by her.
Elena Goruynova - She is a creative person. Together with Rimma, they create content for our social networks.
Anton Mamedov - Previously, Anton was a student of the medical faculty. He has experience working with people, including cancer patients. Nowadays he is a 3d year student of the profile nanomaterials for biology and medicine.
Ksenia Kravchenko-Rapathskaya - She is a newcomer to our team. But because of this, she is no less a valuable member of the team than everyone else. Ksenia helped us a lot with writing the text for our Presentation Video and many other purposes. By the way, she also helped us write this page.
Ivan Pavlenko - He is well versed in writing various programs. He is also fond of creating games and in our project, he laid the foundation for this idea and helped make a cool game.
Ayat Rakhimzhanov - Ayat is a cheerful, sunny, and talented person. He likes programming and writing websites. He was engaged in the creation of our wiki page and its design.
Sergey Sysoev - A person whose confession is recorded here as a gender identity. He is very passionate about his work and has quietly joined our team. Also engaged in the creation of our wiki.
Sponsors
Atlas Biomed is an official sponsor of iGEM team MEPhI. Atlas Biomedical Holding is an international company of personalized medicine. This company uses modern technologies, genetic testing and microbiota research to help effectively manage health.
Sergey Musienko is CEO of Atlas Biomed company. Sergey is a bioinformatician, a graduate of MIPT, MGIMO, and Singularity University — a Silicon Valley research center that includes educational programs and a business incubator. At Atlas, Sergey gathered a team of experienced scientists and bioinformatics specialists to create personalized medicine products for a wide range of people. Currently, the team supports and develops a Genetic Test and a Microbiota Test that help users take care of their health and control the risks of diseases. Sergey Musienko is an official sponsor of iGEM team MEPhI.
New England BioLabs - Established in the mid-1970s, 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.
SkyGen
- Official Sponsor of iGEM team MEPhI. SkyGen company.SkyGen LLC is a Russian & CIS life science distributor company that aims to aims to be committed to supporting life science researchers. We are currently an exclusive product distributor of New England Biolabs, 10x Genomics, Nimagen, BioMolecular 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.
Institute of Human Stem Cells - Official Sponsor of iGEM team MEPhI. The first company in Russia to perform clinical trials and market the gene-therapy technologies for chronic limb ischemia (Neovasculgen).
Artur Isaev is a biotechnology entrepreneur who does innovation business and breakthrough startups in gene therapy and cell products.
Yuri Khait represents the scientific and practical group Radical Life Extension. He is extremely impressed by young scientists who have devoted themselves to molecular biology. This is the reason why Yuri is a sponsor of our team.
Ravil Rakhmatulin is a founder of an Al business intelligence startup InfoCore, located in Toronto. Ravil supports young, progressive innovators such as MEPhI iGEM team as he believes that BioTech is a crucial part of establishing sustainable communities.
Andrii Gavrylenko is an analyst at Google, who is interested in longevity and supported a fantastic biotechnology project.
Attributions
We believe that the topic we are developing in this project can change the world. But along with a great idea, we also got a difficult project to implement. We have made great progress in our endeavor. But we would not have been able to do this without all those people who had a hand in our project.
We say thank you to everyone who helped us.
| Name | Responsible | Helped |
| Olesya Galanova | Student Leader, Work organization, Collaborations, Wiki, Human practices | Finances, Social Networks, Establishing iGEM at the university |
| Alina Levushkina | Work in the lab with silicon nanoparticles, Wiki, Education&Communication | Creating the theoretical part of the project |
| Alexey Kanashtarov | Education&Communication | Lab work, Creating the theoretical part of the project |
| Alena Smirnova | Lab work, Education&Communication | Creating the theoretical part of the project |
| Bertha Yliana Valdez Fernandez | Lab work | Creating the theoretical part of the project, Presentation Video, Promotion Video |
| Anastasia Nikolaeva | Lab work, Creating the theoretical part of the project, Wiki, Collaboration | Promotion Video, Finances, Work organization, Social Networks |
| Rimma Shatalova | Social Networks, Design of a logo | Creating the theoretical part of the project, Lab work |
| Elena Goruynova | Social Networks, Education&Communication | Creating the theoretical part of the project, Work organization, Human Practices |
| Anton Mamedov | Social Networks, Translation | Creating the theoretical part of the project |
| Ksenia Kravchenko | Translation | Wiki, Presentation Video, Collaboration |
| Ivan Pavlenko | Contribution | Creating an idea for the game, Wiki Design |
| Ayat Rakhimzhanov | Wiki programming | |
| Sergey Sysoev | Wiki design | Wiki programming |
Principal Investigators
Ilya Klabukov (Pathological physiology)
for making it possible to participate in the iGEM competition as well as providing sponsors.
Thank you for your wonderful idea about the project
Dmitry Sosin(Biology)
for providing us with a workplace and all the materials we need, helping with work in the
laboratory. Thank you for your help, understanding, and attention.
Denis Baranovsky (Doctor in Medicine at the University of Basel)
for your contribution. You are full of knowledge and ideas. It became a real boost for our teamwork
Advisors.
Maxim Bokov
Maxim has been with us from the very "birth" of the team. Thank you for your constant
support, attention, advice, and desire to help us. You have made a significant contribution to our work
Dr. Vasily Stepanenko(Ph.D., Head of Bio Pilot Plant, Institute of bioorganic chemistry - IBCh RAS)
Made a crucial contribution to creating genetically engineered plasmids and provided assistance in
affording the project with ideas and materials for research.
Special thanks to…
Alexey Shaytan and Anastasia Kislova (team Moscow)
for sharing your experience and knowledge about iGEM. They helped us to start and continue our
work efficiently. A lot would not have happened without their advice.
Rana Salah, our iGEM mentor,
for daily support, advice, and faith in our success, for help with all our questions about iGEM, and for
your time spent with us on Google Meet.
Orlova Olga
for your competent opinion about our project, for supporting us, and for helping us make it better.
Rasskazova Marina
Marina Mikhailovna allowed us to work with schoolchildren. Tell them about cloning methods,
biobricks, and other topics that are very important in iGEM and also about our project itself.
Tsygurov Denis
Denis is the creator of our video game. Thanks to him, our work was made easier to understand and
spread information to a great amount of people.
Elizaveta Svyatenko
for creating our promotion video
Ruslan Vnukov and Dmitry Gulyaev
for direct assistance in creating a mathematical model
Center for Youth Innovative Creativity of Obninsk and its managers Dmitry Churyukin and Sergey Astapov
for providing us with a platform and opportunities for filming videos and conducting educational lectures for students.
Andrii Gavrylenko
for helping us with Proposed Implementation criteria
Rafael García Gómez
He is a participant of igem 2019. Before and after the mentor appeared on our team, he was
happy to share his experience and help make our work better.
Nikolas Elvins
for helping us with writing our wiki
Shchukin Danil and Ivanov Artemiy (team Siberia)
for the exchange of experience and the possible help that you provided us during our work.
Dr. Pavel Makarevich, Ph.D., MD, contributes to cell viability assessment and provides the necessary lab consumables. в special thank to