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13 Facts About Anna Akhmanova

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Anna Sergeevna Akhmanova was born on 11 May 1967 and is a Russian-born professor of Cell Biology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

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Anna Akhmanova is best known for her research regarding microtubules and the proteins, called TIPs, that stabilize one specific end of the tubules.

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Anna Akhmanova was born on 11 May 1967 in Moscow, Russia, to a family of scientists.

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Anna Akhmanova's grandmother was an English and linguistics professor, her father a physics professor, and her mother and now her brother hold PhDs in physics as well.

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Anna Akhmanova cites an interest in nature from an early age and that "a career in science was a very natural choice" for herself.

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Anna Akhmanova attended Moscow State University, where she studied biology in the country's then-standard five-year program to receive her masters.

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Anna Akhmanova completed two postdoctoral projects, the first of which was at RU, where she worked with anaerobic organisms for the Department of Microbiology.

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Anna Akhmanova worked in Niels Galjart's lab in the Department of Cell Biology which Frank Grosveld headed; her research focused on gene regulation and transcription.

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Anna Akhmanova worked with one transcription factor using two-hybrid screening and was asked by Casper Hoogenraad for help with screening CLIP-115, a microtubule-binding protein that Hoogenraad was working with.

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Anna Akhmanova's team focuses mainly on dynein, the motor that moves toward the minus end of the microtubule, and how it is linked to the various organelles and vesicles it transfers.

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Anna Akhmanova has received several awards, including the NWO Spinoza Prize in 2018, the ALW Vernieuwingsimpuls VIDI award in 2001, and the VICI award in 2007.

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Anna Akhmanova is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and she is the chair of the board for the Netherlands Society for Microscopy.

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Anna Akhmanova is on the editorial board for various publications such as eLife, Journal of Cell Science, BMC Cell Biology, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Traffic, and BioArchitecture.