Biography:

1995-2000 Indiana University Biology Department, Bloomington Ph.D. in Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, 1994-1995 Indiana University, Bachelor of Science, Biology 1990-1994 Kazakh National University, Biology Department

Graduate and Postdoctoral Training

8/04-8/06: Instructor of Developmental Biology, Dept. of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
7/00-8/04: Postdoctoral Fellow, laboratory of Dr. Clifford Tabin, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
4/96-5/00: Graduate student, laboratory of Dr. Thomas Kaufman Biology Department and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington
9/93-6/94: Research Assistant, laboratory of Dr.R. Bersimbaev, Department of Biology, Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Honors and Fellowships

2007-2010: NSF grant Developmental Basis for Evolution of Beaks in Darwins Finches 2007: William F. Milton Fund of Harvard University Grant Roles for miRNAs in Dermal Bone Development 2006-2008: 2 postdoctoral Balzan Foundation fellowships from Dr. Peter Grant, Princeton University 2005-2006: Harvard School of Dental Medicine Fellowship in honor of Aina M. Auskaps, D.M.D. (The Eleanor and Miles Shore Fellowships of Harvard Medical School) 2004-2005: Deans Award of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine 2000-2003: Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Cancer Research Fund

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