Who are we?
We are a team of scientists from Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and the Center for Marine Research of Moscow State University. Our main focus is metagenomic research.

We organize expeditions to collect samples from seas, hot springs and volcanoes across Russia, isolate and culture bacteria and viruses, sequencing them and conducting bioinformatics research.

Our laboratory, where we do wet research and analyze data, is located at Skoltech.

An important area of our work is citizen science; we involve schoolchildren and undergraduate students in projects, give lectures and develop courses on bioinformatics and metagenome analysis.
Team
  • Artem Isaev
    Head of Lab
  • Dmitrii Sutormin
    Head of Bioinformatics
  • Daria Slonova
    Research Scientist
  • Matvei Kolesnik
    Research Scientist
  • Anna Trofimova
    Research Scientist
  • Vadim Molodtsov
    Research Scientist
  • Maksim Ri
    Senior Research Engineer
  • Andrei Sobolev
    Research Engineer
  • Mikhail Solovei
    Research Engineer
  • Yulia Dmitrieva
    Student
  • Mikhail Skutel
    PhD Student
  • Oksana Kotovskaia
    PhD Student
  • Svetlana Kozlova
    PhD Student
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