Rate My Professor Yulia Medvedeva

Prior to joining MBZUAI, Professor Medvedeva led research groups in medical bioinformatics and omics technologies at the Endocrinology Research Center and in regulatory transcriptomics and epigenomics at the Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She also served as Head of the Laboratory of Bioinformatics for Cell Technologies and lectured at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Her academic background includes a Ph.D. in Computational Molecular Biology from the Research Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms in Russia, a Bachelor with Honors from Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and a Specialist Diploma from Lomonosov Moscow State University. She completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute of Personal and Predictive Medicine of Cancer in Spain and the Computational Bioscience Research Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Key publications include works on scATAC-seq preprocessing (2024), EpiFactors database (2023), functional annotation of long non-coding RNAs (2020), RADICL-seq (2020), and CpG traffic lights (2019).