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Oleksandr (Oleks) M. Maistrenko
Work address:
Group Biosystems Data Analysis,
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences,
Faculteit der Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Informatica,
Universiteit van Amsterdam,
Science park 904 | 1098 XH Amsterdam | The Netherlands
University page
https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/m/a/o.maistrenko/o.maistrenko.html
Professional Career
Oleks Maistrenko obtained his BSc degree in Biology, specialising in Genetics, at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine in 2013. Thesis title: “Expression of the human interferon alpha gene under the control of tissue-specific and constitutive promoters in transgenic tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum L.)”.
In 2016 he completed a Msc in Genomics and Bioinformatics at the North Dakota State University, USA (Fulbright fellowship). Thesis title: “Variation in Core and Accessory Parts of Genome of Escherichia coli Isolated from Soil from Riparian Areas in New York State”.
In 2020 Oleks received his PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) title at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany. Thesis title: “Pangenome analysis of bacteria and its application in metagenomics”.
Between 2021 and 2024 he did a postdoc at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Marine Research. His research focused on the population genomics of Archaea and the symbiosis between Archaea and other organisms.
Since 2025 he started a postdoc at the Biosystems Data Analysis team with the MicroHealth Consortium https://www.microhealth.nl/en.
Research
Oleks’s current research interests encompass several disciplines: omics data integration, modelling, microbiomes, soil-crop-gut-health axis, pangenomics, diet-microbiome and eukaryome – prokaryome interactions; ecology and evolution; evolvability.