Kseniia Safina

Research advisor: Georgii Bazykin

Program entry year: 2017

Graduated from Moscow State University, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics in 2017

Research project: H3N2 influenza virus fitness prediction

Research interests: adaptive evolution, viral phylodynamics

Publications:

• Ksenia R. Safina, Andrey A. Mironov, Georgii A. Bazykin (2017) Compensatory Evolution of Intrinsic Transcription Terminators in Bacillus Cereus. Genome Biol Evol; 9 (2): 340-349
• Olga A. Kudryavtseva, Ksenia R. Safina, Olga A. Vakhrusheva, Maria D. Logacheva, Aleksey A. Penin, Tatiana V. Neretina, Viktoria N. Moskalenko, Elena S. Glagoleva, Georgii A. Bazykin, and Alexey S. Kondrashov (2019) Genetics of adaptation of the ascomycetous fungus Podospora anserina to submerged cultivation.  Genome Biol Evol; https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evz194
• Allele-specific nonstationarity in evolution of influenza A virus surface proteins. Anfisa V. Popova, Ksenia R. Safina, Vasily V. Ptushenko, Anastasia V. Stolyarova, Alexander V. Favorov, Alexey D. Neverov, and Georgii A. Bazykin. PNAS, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1904246116

Awards:

• Young Investigator Award, SMBE2019
• Undergraduate Travel & Mentoring award, SMBE 2017

Conferences:

• SMBE2019. Alexey Neverov, Kseniia Safina, Georgii Bazykin. “Epistatic interactions in protein sites that contribute to H5N1 virulence in mammals.”
• MCCMB2019. Alexey Neverov, Kseniia Safina, Georgii Bazykin. “Epistatic interactions in protein sites that contribute to H5N1 virulence in mammals.”
• SMBE 2018. Ksenia Safina, Pavel Dvurechensky, Alexey Neverov, Alexander Gasnikov, Alexander Favorov, Georgii Bazykin. “H3N2 influenza virus fitness prediction”
• ITaS 2018. Ksenia Safina, Pavel Dvurechensky, Alexey Neverov, Alexander Gasnikov, Alexander Favorov, Georgii Bazykin. “H3N2 influenza virus fitness prediction”
• ITaS 2017. Ksenia Safina, Olga Kudryavtseva, Olga Vakhrusheva, Georgii Bazykin, Igor Mazheika, Ekaterina Budanova, Olga Kamzolkina, Alexey Kondrashov “Identification of genetic changes acquired by replicate lineages of Podospora anserina during long-term submerged cultivation”
• GenY 2017.  Safina K., Dvurechensky P., Neverov A., Gasnikov A., Bazykin G. “H3N2 influenza virus fitness prediction”
• SMBE 2017. Ksenia Safina, Olga Kudryavtseva, Olga Vakhrusheva, Georgii Bazykin, Igor Mazheika, Ekaterina Budanova, Olga Kamzolkina, Alexey Kondrashov “Experiment on the long-term submerged cultivation of Podospora anserina: identification of acquired mutations
• ITaS 2016. Сафина К.Р., Вахрушева О.А., Базыкин Г.А., Мажейка И., Буданова Е., Камзолкина О., Кудрявцева О., Кондрашов А.С. “Экспериментальная эволюция аскомицетного гриба Podospora anserina”
• ITaS 2015. Сафина К.Р., Базыкин Г.А. “Анализ коррелированной эволюции РНК структур прокариот”