Ekaterina graduated from Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia, in 2001 with a major in Cell Biology. She received her PhD in 2007 working on chromosome segregation and kinetochore assembly with Drs. A. Arnaoutov and M. Dasso at NICHD/NIH in Bethesda, MD, USA. She conducted postdoctoral research on chromatin organization and epigenetic regulation during vertebrate development, first with Dr. G. Almouzni at Institut Curie, then with Dr. S. Ait-Si-Ali at the Epigenetic and Cell Fate Unit, Université Paris Diderot. In 2016, she obtained a permanent research engineer position at CNRS, continuing work on histone H3 variants in Dr. Almouzni’s team. Ekaterina joined the Epigenetic and Cell Fate Unit in 2020 and is currently a member of Dr. Ait-Si-Ali’s team and manager of the Vectorology and Genetic Engineering in Epigenetics (GENIE) platforms.
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