Brief Bio
Oleg graduated from the Department of Biology at Moscow State University in Russia. For his Ph.D. project, he studied ATP synthase from the marine bacterium Vibrio alginolyticus under Vladimir Skulachev. Oleg's interest in the mechanism of ATP synthase continued through his postdoctoral studies as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow in the laboratory of Karlheinz Altendorf at the University of Osnabrück, and then through many years of bench research in the laboratory of Bob Fillingame at the University of Wisconsin. One memorable day on UW campus, Oleg crossed the street and discovered protein NMR at the National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison. Membrane transport proteins and protein NMR became the main interests in his laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Saskatchewan, which he joined in 2005.