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Valeriia TELIZHENKO

PhD student Department of Evolutionary Morphology, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 15 Bogdan Khmelnytskyi Street Kyiv, 01030 Ukraine E-mail: valeriia.dccclxiv@gmail.com

Education:

since 2020 – PhD student at Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, project “Genetic factors of change in ontogeny rate and longevity of cetaceans”, scientific advisor P. Gol’din.

2014-2020 – student at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, faculty of biotechnology and biotechnics.

Additional education:

2022-2023 – visiting scholar at the University of St Andrews

Research interests:

Genetic basis of morphological evolution

Animals lifespan

Computational biology, biostatistics, machine learning

Publications

Conference abstracts:

Telizhenko V., McGowen M., Gol’din P. 2022. Evolution of HOXD13 gene in cetaceans shows lifting selective constraints for limb patterning. – In: Abstract book 24th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA. – P. 629, 630.

Telizhenko V. Relaxation of purifying selection in Hoxd13 gene in cetaceans // Тези доповідей конференції “Зоологія в сучасному світі: виклики XXI століття” – 2021. – Київ, 2021. – P. 43.

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