2004

Lidia Vasiljeva

Currently a faculty member in the Dept. of Biochemistry, Oxford University, Lidia is from Krasnoyarsk, a very beautiful city in the middle of Siberia, Russia. She earned a Masters of Science from the Institute of Protein Research, RAN, in Pushchino, Russia. She went on to earn a PhD from the University of Helsinki, where she studied the replication of positive strand RNA viruses. Her work in the Buratowski lab connected RNA synthesis and termination to quality control by the exosome.