Professional Training and Experience

• Assistant Professor: Department of Veterinary Biosciences, The Ohio State University
• Adjunct Professor: The School of Public Health and Veterinary Microbiology Department, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
• Principal investigator: Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO), University of Saskatchewan, Canada
• Postdoctoral Fellow: McMaster University, Hamilton and Toronto General Research Institute, University Health Network, Canada
• Ph.D.: Virology, Ghent University, Belgium
• Researcher (trainee): Virology and Epidemiology, Institute of Experimental Veterinary Sciences, Belarus
• Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM): Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine, Belarus

Research Interests

• Virus genome biology
• Interactions of wild-type and dinucleotide-recoded viruses with host proteins
• Development live vaccines
• Development oncolytic viruses
• Flavivirus pathogenesis
• Non-vector flavivirus transmission
• Virus interactions with pregnant host and fetus

Selected Awards and Honors

• 2021    The Bhagirath Singh Early Career Prize in Infection and Immunity. Highest-ranked new investigator in the field of Infection and Immunity in the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project Grant competition.
• 2017    Santé Excellence Award, Top Establishment Grant, Biomedical Research, Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation, Canada.
• 2015    Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellowship.
• 2014    Toronto General Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship.
• 2011    BOF Ph.D. Grant, Special Research Fund (BOF), Ghent University, Belgium.
• 2009    BOF Ph.D. Grant, Special Research Fund (BOF), Ghent University, Belgium.
• 2007    INTAS Young Scientist Fellowship, EU Commission.