Viktor Yurevych

Graduate Student

David Haussler, University of California, Santa Cruz

Pronouns: he/him

Hi! I'm Viktor, a PhD student at the Haussler-Salama Lab at UCSC working on liquid biopsy approaches to assess human cortical organoid homeostasis.

Over the course of my studies, I had the chance to dive into the human non-coding transcriptome, learned how transcriptional networks and RNA translation can be manipulated in the context of human cancers and looked into the so-called "shadow translatome" of pepdide-producing long non-coding RNAs using ribosome profiling.

I am primarily interested in functional lncRNA biology and its application in treatment of human diseases, with a strong focus on the intersection between coding and non-coding genes. From an evolutionary biology standpoint, I am interested in de novo gene emergence that could lead to formation of protein-coding genes with no known homologs or functions; while from a disease biology standpoint I am interested in how previously un-annotated genes could contribute to human diseases.