Kseniya Lubova

Russian, English

Membrane proteins, structural biology, ion channels, transporters

Awards:

Best Oral Presentation. XXXV International Winter School "Current Trends in Physicochemical Biology and Biotechnology", 2023
Winner of the Young Scientists` competition, XXXIII International Winter School for Young Scientists "Current Trends in Physicochemical Biology and Biotechnology", 2021
Winner of the Young Scientists` competition. II Joint life sciences forum, 2019
FEBS OpenBio Poster Prize winner, 2018
Professor Yu.A. Ovchinnikov's scholarship, 2018
MSU International Biology Universiade, awardee, 2016
MSU Academic scholarship, awardee (х2), 2015, 2017

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Education

Period	Coyntry, city	University	Additional info
2017–2019	Russia, Moscow	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Masters in Biochemistry. Graduated with honors (4.82/5.0)
2013–2017	Russia, Moscow	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Bachelor of Biochemistry. Graduated with honors (5.0/5.0)

2021–2024	Junior research fellow	Laboratory of neuroreceptors and neuroregulators
2019–2023	Postgraduate	Department of Postgraduate Studies

Molecular biology techniques: DNA&RNA extraction and manipulation, PCR techniques, in vitro RNA synthesis, site-directed mutagenesis, reverse transcription
Recombinant protein production: gene design, expression in E.coli, L.lactis, M.smegmatis, fusion protein purification and cleavage
Protein purification: affinity chromatography, HPLC, FPLC, SPE, SDS-PAGE, western blotting, immunoprecipitation
Electrophysiology: Xenopus laevis oocytes injection, two-microelectrode voltage clamp
Spectrometry: mass photometry, DLS, spectrophotometry
Structural biology: Cryo-EM, crystallization
Computation skills: working with genome sequences (searching in databases, online and offline tools, SnapGene), working with protein structures (searching in databases, PyMol, Phenix, UCSF Chimera, CryoSPARC, Relion, Coot), data processing (Excel, GraphPad Prism, Origin, ClampFit), working with literature (PubMed, Google Scholar, Mendeley)

Structure-functional relationships in membrane transporters

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