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Tufts University, Massachusetts, United States
I am currently a professor and White Family Chair in Biology at Tufts University. I earned a BS/MS degrees in Genetics from the Moscow State University, Russia. I then earned my PhD studies in Molecular Biology at the Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences. My postdoctoral studies at the same Institute with Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii resulted in the discovery of the three-stranded H-DNA structure. I moved to the US as a Fogarty International Fellow in 1989. I joined the faculty of the Department of Genetics at University of Illinois at Chicago in 1990 and worked there until 2006 rising to the rank of Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics. In 2007, I joined Tufts University as a professor and the White Family Chair in Biology. My main contributions to science include the discovery of the first multi-stranded DNA structure (H-DNA), detection of dynamic non-B DNA structures in vivo, establishing that structure-prone DNA repeats stall DNA replication driving their expansions that are responsible for numerous hereditary diseases in humans, and unraveling the mechanisms and consequences of transcription-replication collisions.
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