Asia Mendelevich

Research advisor: Professor Mikhail Gelfand

Program entry year: 2017

Graduated from NRU HSE, Mathematics department in 2017
Diploma work: “Surgery on Cobordisms of K3-surfaces”

Research project: Statistical methods of analysis of Allelic Imbalance of Gene expression

Research interests: allele-specific expression, transcriptomics

Conferences:

• CGSI (Computational Genomics Summer Institute), Los Angeles, USA, July 11 – August 3, 2018
• ITaS (Information technologies and systems), Innopolis, Russia, September 26-30, 2018, poster
• RECOMB, Washington, DC,USA, May 4-8, 2019, talk at RECOMB Genetics: “Accurate estimation of transcriptome-wide differential allelic expression”
• ISMB/ECCB, Basel, Switzerland, July 21-25, 2019, poster
• MCCMB (Moscow Conference on Computational Molecular Biology), Moscow, Russia, July 27-30, 2019, poster
• ITaS (Information technologies and systems), Perm, Russia, September 18-19, 2019, poster
• Variant To Function program seminar, Broad Institute, Boston, MA, USA, October 22, 2019, talk (zoom)
• Harvard Medical School Genetics Retreat 2020, Boston, MA, USA, February 23-24, 2020, poster
• HMS Department of Genetics’ Data club, Boston, MA, USA, June 26, talk (zoom)

Academic mobility & collaborations:

• Gimelbrant lab,
  Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA, Boston (2017 — present)
  Dates of internships:   March – June 2018;   February – June 2019;  Jan 2020 – present