Research advisor: Professor Mikhail Gelfand
Program entry year: 2019
Graduated from MSU, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics in 2019
Research project: Evolutionary analysis of heritable processes affecting transmission of biological information
Research interests: adaptation of low-polymorphic populations, RNA editing evolution, evolution of protein phosphorylation and acetylation, genetics of ribosomal frameshifts, genetic assimilation, pangenomic analysis of prokaryotes, RNA structure prediction, short-range epistasis in proteins, sex-chromosome evolution
Publications:
Moldovan MA and Gelfand MS (2018). Pangenomic Definition of Prokaryotic Species and the Phylogenetic Structure of Prochlorococcus spp. Front. Microbiol. 9:428. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.00428
Moldovan MA, Petrova SA, Gelfand MS. (2018). Comparative genomic analysis of fungal TPP-riboswitches. Fungal Genetics and Biology 114, 34–41
Conference presentations:
Adaptive evolution at mRNA editing sites in soft-bodied cephalopods. Moldovan MA. Online CephRes’20. Oral Presentation
Grants:
PhD Graduate 2017
MSc student graduate 2019
MSc student graduate 2019
MSc graduate 2019
MSc graduate 2019
MSc graduate 2019
MSc graduate 2020
MSc student graduate 2019
Joint PhD Program with The University of Strasbourg
MSc student graduate 2019
MSc student