Dr. Mikhail Biryukov is a Group Leader in antibiotic discovery in the Department of Microbiology at Lomonosov Moscow State University and also holds a joint position as a Group Leader at the Scientific and Technological University "Sirius" in Sochi, Russia. He received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2006, where his doctoral research focused on microbial physiology and secondary metabolism. Over the past two decades, his research interests have expanded to encompass microbial genomics, bioinformatics, metabolomics, and the biogeochemistry of natural products. He currently leads two research teams working on the discovery of novel antibiotics from actinobacteria, with a particular emphasis on genome mining and the functional characterization of biosynthetic gene clusters. The author of more than 70 peer-reviewed publications in international journals covering topics in microbiology, biogeochemistry, and metabolomics, his expertise lies at the intersection of bioinformatics and microbial genetics, and he is actively involved in the development of computational approaches for natural product discovery.