Ekaterina Savitskaya
Senior Research Scientist
Material Science
Skoltech
Russian Federation
Biography
Ekaterina was graduated from Biological department of Moscow State University, in 1998. She completed her postgraduate project at the Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, and defended the thesis entitled “Mechanism of action of Drosophila melanogaster Su(Hw) insulator” in 2001. Ekaterina joined Skoltech in 2013 to study CRISPR-Cas prokaryotic immunity, she’s mainly interested in details of the adaptive CRISPR spacer acquisition process, and in the interactions of CRISPR-Cas systems with cell genome maintaining machinery.
Research Interest
CRISPR-Cas prokaryotic immunity Genome mobility vs genome maintenance High throughput approaches in molecular genetics
