Dr. Tamara Khlebodarova graduated from the Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia; then received her Ph.D. and Doctor of Sciences degrees in Genetics from the Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Systems Biology Department, Novosibirsk, Russia, in 1978 and 2001, respectively. Currently, she is a leading researcher in the Laboratory of Molecular Genetic Systems at the Department of Systems Biology, Institute of Cytology and Genetics. Her research interests include systems biology, dynamic modeling of metabolic and gene networks, bacterial metabolism, methanotrophy and C1 utilization. Scopus page: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7005614194