Biography

• BSc in Biology, V.N. Karazin’s Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine (2000-
2004)
• MSc in Biochemistry, V.N. Karazin’s Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
(2004-2005)
• PhD in Molecular Cell Biology with Kirill Alexandrov, the University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia (2012)
• Postdoctoral fellow with Brett Collis and Robert Parton, the University of
Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (2012-2015)
• Postdoctoral fellow with John Briggs, EMBL Heidelberg and MRC Laboratory for
Molecular Biology (2015-2021)
• Max-Planck Research Group Leader, MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen,
Germany (since 2021)

I am interested in molecular mechanisms of membrane trafficking, and want to
understand how vesicular coats function as sorting and membrane remodelling
molecular machines enabling multiple trafficking routes between cellular organelles.
Cryo-electron tomography is the central technique allowing capturing vesicular
coats in their active membrane-assembled state in vitro and in situ. In addition, my group use sbiophysical and cellular assays to complement structural studies. The group's current research projects decipher how the retromer and other vesicular coats drive
cargo retrieval in endosomal compartments, the major cellular transport hub.