Valentina Burskaia

Research advisor: Professor Georgii Bazykin

Program entry year: 2016

Graduated from: MSU, Biology Department in 2009

Research project: Positive selection in parallel evolution

Research interests: molecular evolution, genomics, speciation, hybridization, drug resistance

Conference presentations:

• Evidence of Positive Selection in Parallel Evolution of Closely Related Gammarus Species Genomes. Valentina Burskaya, Sergey Naumenko, Georgii Bazykin. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution annual meeting, Austin, Texas, July 2017. Poster presentation.
• Applying phylogenetic tree-based approach to genome-wide association studies in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Valentina Burskaya, Gennady Fedonin, Georgii Bazykin, Alexey Neverov. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution annual meeting, Yokohama, Japan, July 2018. Poster presentation.
• Tree Incongruence in Closely Related Gammarid Species Genomes. Valentina Burskaya, Sergey Naumenko, Mikhail Shelkunov, Tatyana Neretina, Lev Yampolsky, Georgii Bazykin. Origins of Adaptive Radiation, Waimea, Hawaii, USA, July 2018. Oral presentation.
• Applying phylogenetic tree-based approach to genome-wide association studies in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Valentina Burskaya, Gennady Fedonin, Georgii Bazykin, Alexey Neverov. ITAS, Kazan, Russia, September 2018. Poster presentation.