About Oleksandr

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Scientific Interests:

  • Computational structural biology, grid and high-performance computing, 2D/3D scientific results visualization.

Education:

  • 2010 – 2017 PhD in Molecular Biology. Protein Engineering and Bioinformatics Department, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IMBG of NAS of Ukraine).
    Advisor: Prof. Alexander I. Kornelyuk, Corresponding Member of NAS of Ukraine, Head of Protein Engineering and Bioinformatics Department in same Institute.
    PhD Thesis: Computational modeling and molecular dynamics simulations of H. sapiens tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase and its mutant forms.

Work Experience:

  • 05.2022 – now Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Drug Discovery, Design, and Optimization For Novel Therapeutics, Department of Neuroscience, Department of Computational Biology (Div of Health Sciences), Mayo Clinic, Florida, USA. (https://www.mayoclinic.org/).
  • 03.2019 – 06.2019 Postdoctoral Research in Bioinformatics and High Performance Computing Research Group, Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM, South East Spain) supported by HPC-Europa3. Project Title: The Role of Connective Peptide 1 in Human Tyrosyl-tRNA Synthetase and its Mutant Forms, Associated with Charcot-Marie-Tooth Neuropathy.
  • 09.2018 – 09.2018 Subject Matter Expert in Computational Biology and Biotechnology invited by The Association of Guangdong Science and Technology Enterprise Cooperation. Consulting for industry companies (Guangzhou, Qingyuan, Yunfu, Xinghua cities of China).
  • 04.2012 – 12.2016 Subject Matter Expert in Computational Structural Biology in collaboration with EGI.eu. Consulting IT developers based on requirements of the scientific community (MD simulations in GROMACS and NAMD software in GRID and CLOUD with GPU calculations).
  • 2018 – now Senior Researcher of Protein Engineering and Bioinformatics Department, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
  • 10.2016 – 04.2018 Researcher of Protein Engineering and Bioinformatics Department, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
  • 03.2011 – 10.2016 Junior Researcher of Protein Engineering and Bioinformatics Department, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
  • 07.2008 – 03.2011 Engineer of Protein Engineering and Bioinformatics Department, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

● Supervising the research activities in Computational and Structural Biology. ● Working on computational methods in research of human tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase and its mutant forms, associated with Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy. ● Development of computer services for the Molecular Dynamics simulations and trajectories analysis in the MolDynGrid virtual laboratory as a part of European Grid Infrastructure (EGI). ● HPC support. ●Control of the group’s budget. ●International collaboration with multidisciplinary groups and hardware vendors.

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