Education:
1990 - B.S. Second Moscow Medical School, Moscow, Russia
1994 - M.Sc. Department of Microbiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
1999 - Ph.D. Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Academic Appointments:
1999-2003 Research Fellow, Dr. Kenneth Kosik lab, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
2003 -2006 Instructor, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
2006- Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Editorial Boards:
Served as a reviewer for Neuron, Nature, Nature Genetics, PNAS, MCB, JBC, FEBS Letters, RNA and other journals
Invited Talks:
2003 - "Applications of RNA Interference" Meeting, San Diego, CA
2003 - First International "RNA Interference" Meeting, Boston, MA
2003 - Cell Signaling Technology, Beverly, MA
2003 - Max Plank Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
2004 - Annual Retreat of the Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine, Puerto Rico
2004 - "RNA Interference - Applications to Neural Systems" Workshop in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Neurochemistry, New York City, NY
2004 - Institute Andre Lwoff, CNRS, Villejuif, France
2005 -Third International "RNA interference: chemical biology to therapeutic development" Meeting, Boston, MA
2005 - "RNA control of neuronal function" EMBO International Meeting, Kfar Blum, Israel
2005 - Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2005 - Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA
2006 - "Cell Signaling World 2006: Signal Transduction Pathways as therapeutic targets", Luxembourg
2006 - Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
2006 - "miRNAs and genome regulation in eukaryotes: expression patterns, genetic targets and mechanisms of action" (Inserm Workshop), Toulon, France
2007 - Keystone "RNAi and miRNA" meeting
2007 - Invited seminar at Amgen,Thousand Oaks, CA
2007 - International meeting of the Oligonucleotides Society in Berlin, Germany
2007 - Society for Neuroscience, San Diego: "Non-coding RNAs in the Brain" SfN/NIDA Minisymposium
2007 - Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, short course "RNAi and noncoding RNA in Neuroscience"
