Artem Kasianov

I am a bioinformatician with a strong interest in Molecular evolution, Human population genetics, and history. I earned my PhD in Molecular Biology in 2012 from V.A. Engelhardt's Institute of Molecular Biology in Moscow, Russia. Additionally, I hold a Master's degree in Applied Mathematics and Informatics. Thus, my first experience with biological sciences was connected with developing pipelines, software, and algorithms for processing NGS data. I have also been involved in numerous de novo genome and transcriptome assembly projects. My favorites of them are the Shepherd's Purse (C.bursa-pastoris), buckwheat (F.esculentum) genome assembly project,  medicinal leech (H. medicinalis) transcriptome and genome assembly project, transcriptome assembly of land snail (H.lucorum) and grey whale (E. robustus).

From 2012 to 2022, I worked in several Russian Academy of Sciences institutes. However, especially important for me was participation in the work of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University. During that period of my career, I had a lot of experience in genome assembly topics and clearly understood that obtaining a perfect genome sequence is not a final point in biological studies. Main consumers of new non-model species de novo assembled sequences were colleagues involved in evolutionary studies. Consequently, I quickly became involved in such analyses and developed a keen interest in molecular evolution, which, along with my passion for historical sciences, eventually formed the basis of my current scientific interests.

Since 2024, I have been a member of the "HumanEVOL - Human Evolutionary Genetics” group, where I have become involved in research projects focusing on the population history of the humans living along the Okavango River Basin. Additionally, I am greatly interested in immunogenetics and in developing bioinformatics algorithms and approaches for addressing population genetics questions.