I am interested in the biophysical characterization of transcription. I study the intracellular dynamics of transcriptional activators and co-activators by single-molecule tracking. I developed a live imaging system to observe the specific binding of a transcriptional activator Ace1p on the promoter of the metallothionein gene CUP1 of the yeast. I graduated from St Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg, Russia) with a Ph.D. in Genetics. I am a member of the Genetics Society of America (GSA), and the American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB). I am working as a Head of the Optical Microscopy Core at NIH/NCI.