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

Publications:

• Sigalova OM, Chaplin AV, Bochkareva OO, Shelyakin PV, Filaretov VA, Akkuratov EE, Burskaia V, and Gelfand M. 2019. Chlamydia pan-genomic analysis reveals balance between host adaptation and selective pressure to genome reduction. BMC Genomics, 20: 710

Conference presentations:

• Evidence of Positive Selection in Parallel Evolution of Closely Related Gammarus Species Genomes. Burskaia V, Naumenko S, Bazykin G. 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. Burskaia V, Fedonin G, Bazykin G, Neverov A. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution annual meeting, Yokohama, Japan, July 2018. Poster presentation.
• Tree Incongruence in Closely Related Gammarid Species Genomes. Burskaia V, Naumenko S, Shelkunov M, Neretina T, Yampolsky L, Bazykin G. Origins of Adaptive Radiation, Waimea, Hawaii, USA, July 2018. Oral presentation.
• Applying phylogenetic tree-based approach to genome-wide association studies in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Burskaia V, Fedonin G, Bazykin G, Neverov A. ITAS, Kazan, Russia, September 2018. Poster presentation.
• The search for bird mitochondrial genome adaptations to high altitude, migration, diving, wintering and flight. Burskaia V, Potapova N, Artyushin I, Bazykin G. MCCMB, Moscow, Russia, July 2019. Poster presentation.