Ivan Shatsky - Curriculum Vitae#

EDUCATION/TRAINING

• Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Chemistry, Moscow, Russia, M.S. 1965, Molecular Biology
  

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Belozersky Inst. of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow, Russia, Ph.D. 1971, Molecular Biology

• Institut de Recherches Scientific sur le Cancer, Paris, France, Post-doc 1972-1973, Molecular Biology
  
• Lomonosov Moscow State University, Belozersky Inst. of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow, Russia, D.Sci. 1985, Molecular Biology

FOREIGN LANGUAGES:

• English
• French
  

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

For the whole period of his scientific career, Dr. Shatsky has been interested in basic mechanisms of RNA biology. Until 1989, he was working in the field of the structure of bacterial ribosomes. Since 1989, he started working in the area of translation initiation and its regulation in eukaryotes, first as a group leader and then as a head of Laboratory of Protein Synthesis Regulation at the Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology. Currently, the main focus of his research is non-canonical mechanisms of translation initiation in eukaryotes that are employed under stress conditions and development of tumor resistance to therapeutics.

TEACHING ACTIVITY

A special half-year course for students of Department of Biology of MSU "Basics of Gene Engineering"

RESEARCH SUPPORT (last years)

• 2008-2010 - Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), grant 08-04-00399-а Non-standard functions of some components of the translation initiation apparatus in mammalian cells, PI.
  
• 2011-2013 - RFBR, grant 11-04-01010-а, “Mechanisms of translation initiation of mammalian mRNAs with highly structured 5’ untranslated regions” , PI;
  
• 2011-2013 – RFBR, grant 11-04-91335-NNIO_а, “Proteomic studies on the IRES element of poliovirus RNA”, PI.