Viktoriia Belousova

PhD Student

Coming from an interdisciplinary background, Viktoriia obtained her B.Sc degree in Biophysics from Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University in Russia, where she studied the assembly of a giant bacteriophage phiKZ. In 2020 she moved to Belgium, where she studied Biochemistry and Biotechnology at KU Leuven and graduated with an M.Sc in 2022 with a thesis about neuropeptide signalling in C. elegans. During her Masters studies she participated in the iGEM synthetic biology competition as a part of the KU Leuven team, where she discovered her interest for bottom-up synthetic biology. In summer 2022 she joined the Schwille department as a part of the IMPRS-LS graduate program, where she is currently working on gene expression in vesicles using in vitro transcription-translation system.

 

Research Interests

Bottom-Up Synthetic Biology, in vitro Gene Expression, Genetic Circuits

 

Publications

Danilova, Y.A., Belousova, V.V., Moiseenko, A.V., Vishnyakov, I.E., Yakunina, M.V., Sokolova, O.S.
Maturation of Pseudo-Nucleus Compartment in P. aeruginosa, Infected with Giant phiKZ Phage.
Viruses (2020) doi.org/10.3390/v12101197