Anna Chirkova, PhD

EMail: anna.chirkova@i-med.ac.at
Tel.: +43/(0)512/9003 70255
Fax: +43/(0)512/9003 73100

Born 1983
Citizenship: Russian

Workgroup

  • Molecular biology of ribonucleoprotein complexes
  • Anna Chirkova

    State of training

    School

    1993-2000 Primary/Secondary/High school in Izhevsk, Russia

    Academic training

    2000-2005 Studies of Biochemistry at the Moscow State University, Department of Molecular Biology in Pushchino
    2004-2005 M.Sc. research work at the Department of Biochemistry, Udmurtia State University, Izhevsk and the Laboratory for Structural Studies of the Translational Apparatus, Pushchino
    06/2005 graduation as Master of Science in Biochemistry from the Udmurtia State University, Izhevsk
    2005-2006 Post-graduate research training in the Laboratory for Structural Studies of the Translational Apparatus, Pushchino
    07/2006 start of the PhD thesis at the Innsbruck Biocenter, Division of Genomics and RNomics, Innsbruck Medical University, in the group of Norbert Polacek
    16/04/2010 graduation to PhD

    Publications

    1. Chirkova, A., Erlacher, M. D., Micura, R., and Polacek, N. (2010). Chemically engineered ribosomes: a new frontier in synthetic biology. 14:148-161. Curr. Org. Chem. 14:148-161.
    2. Clementi,N., Chirkova, A., Puffer, B., Micura, R., and Polacek, N. (2010). Atomic mutagenesis reveals A2660 of 23S ribosomal RNA as key to EF-G GTPase activation. Nature Chem. Biol. 6:in press.
    3. Chirkova, A., Erlacher, M. D., Clementi, N., Zywicki, M., Aigner, M., and Polacek, N. (2010). The role of the universally conserved A2450-C2063 base pair in the ribosomal peptidyl transferase center. Nucleic Acids Res. :in press.
    Division of Genomics and RNomics
    Innsbruck Biocenter
    Innsbruck Medical University
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