Oksana Ivanova is a student of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology masters programme at ITMO University, Russia. She investigated fundamental mechanisms of skeletal muscle regeneration and development at laboratory of Almazov National Medical Research Centre.
Under guidance of Renata Dmitrieva and Anna Kostareva, Oksana and her research group described the effects of adipogenic signal on myoblast line differentiation and showed that myosatellites taken from heart failure patients doesn't lose regenerative potential. Currently, combining the results from both studies, the group is investigating the effect of exercise therapy on skeletal muscles using bioinformatics methods/approach.
