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Dr. Yury Belyi

Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology
Microbiology

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP Fellow)
March – Arpil 2018

E-Mail: belyi@gamaleya.org

Last Update: 31.08.2018

Curriculum Vitae

I was born in Moscow, Russia (14.11.1960). During 1976 – 1983 I studied medicine at Pirogov Medical University, Moscow, Russia. After graduation in 1983 I got post-graduate position at Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow, Russia. In 1987 I successfully finished my PhD thesis “Characterization of a cytolysin produced by Legionella pneumophila”. In 2000 I got my second doctorate degree with a thesis “Role of protein molecules in intracellular parasitism of Legionella and Listeria”. Since 2000 I am a head of the laboratory of molecular pathogenesis, and since 2009 – a head of the department of bacterial infections at Gamaleya Research Institute.  My areas of interest are microbiology, molecular biology, infectious diseases, bacterial virulence mechanisms, toxins and molecular mechanisms of their activities. I am a member of American society for microbiology, American society for biochemistry and molecular biology, The American association for the advancement of science as well as a member of the scientific council at the Gamaleya Research Center. I am married and have one boy, also a scientist.

Selected Publications

FRIAS Project