Alexey Vatlin was born December 25th, 1991, in Moscow. In 2017, he defended his Ph.D. thesis studying the genetic mechanisms of resistance and sensitivity of Streptomyces Fradiae Atcc 19609 strain to Oligomycin A and its derivatives. Currently, he works in the Institute of Ecology, at Рeoples’ Friendship University of Russia and in the Laboratory of Bacterial Genetics, at Vavilov Institute of General Genetics Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a microbiologist.