Dr. rer. nat. Chemestry Aleksandr Zlobin
PHD
de.NBI German Network in Bioinformatics Lab, Transcriptome Bioinformatics
aleksandr.zlobin@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
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ACADEMIC CAREER
- 2025 - 2027 PhD, Scientist IZBI, Leipzig University
- 2024 DR. RER. NAT. IN CHEMISTRY, Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Leipzig University. Magna cum laude (1,3), title: Enhanced sampling and multiscale simulations for computational enzymology.
- 2020 – 2023 Lead Bioinformatician, Lactocore Group Managing the development of Reptide platform for high-throughput computational structure-based discovery of small peptide binders. Recruiting and organizing a team. Planning software and hardware acquisitions. Supporting the development of current assets.
- 2020 – 2023 Lecturer, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Updating and teaching compulsory courses, “Introduction to structural bioinformatics” and “Structural bioinformatics”). Curriculum development for “Structural enzymology” and “Protein design” courses. Supervising undergraduate research projects, 13 projects defended to date.
- 2013 – 2019 Specialist (combined BSc+MSc) in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Moscow State University Thesis: Design of organophosphatase activity and stereoselectivity in proteins.
SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
- Computational enzymology,
- structural bioinformatics,
- enzyme design,
- molecular dynamics simulations,
- QM/MM,
- enhanced sampling methods,
- biomolecular modeling