Anna Akhmanova

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Full Name	Anna Akhmanova
Occupation	Cell Biologist
Date Of Birth	May 11, 1967(1967-05-11)
Age	57
Birthplace	Moscow
Country	Russia
Horoscope	Taurus

Anna Akhmanova Biography

Anna Akhmanova is one of the most popular and richest Cell Biologist who was born on May 11, 1967 in Moscow, Russia. Anna Akhmanova was born on 11 May 1967 in Moscow, Russia, to an eminent group of scientist parents. Her mother had been an English and professor of linguistics. Her father was is a professor of physics as was her mother. Both of them and her brother now hold PhDs in Physics as well. She has a passion for the natural world from a young age , and says she says that “a career in science was a very natural choice” for her. She was a student at Moscow State University, where she took biology classes in the then-standard five-year course to earn her masters. Through this program, she was able to study the basics of biology, as well as biochemistry and cell biology. The thesis she wrote in her fifth year was written in the lab of Alexander Mankin, where she was studying the halophilic archaebacteria. She acknowledges Mankin as the one who taught her the majority of her molecular biology expertise. She earned her master’s degree in the year 1989.

In the year 2011, Akhmanova and Hoogenraad continued to collaborate in research and moved their labs into Utrecht University, where they started running in the Division of Cell Biology. In 2018, she remains an instructor in cell biology of Utrecht University, where she is continuing to research intracellular transport, specifically with microtubule protein.

Another of their projects concerns the mechanisms involved in microtubule- based vesicle transport. They identified several structures that link the microtubule motors, kinesin and dynein, to vesicles, and they developed procedures to show the function of the linkers when gathering motor proteins to associate with membrane organelles. Inside the cell, kinesin and dynein protein motors are required for long-range transport along microtubules. Akhmanova’s team focuses mainly on dynein, the motor that moves toward the minus end of the microtubule, and how it is linked to the various organelles and vesicles it transfers. They also study how dynein coordinates with kinesin, the motor that moves toward the plus end of the microtubule, when they are attached to the same organelle or vesicle, and they study the different signaling pathways that affect these motors. As of 2016, they were examining the protein Bicaudal D and its role in dynein-dependent transport, as it has been found to be important for dynein-dependent transport of mRNA in flies and of exocytotic vesicles in mammals. Bicaudal D was also found to be important for the positioning of the centrosomes and nucleus during mitosis, as the positioning is facilitated by dynein and kinesin.

Akhmanova has received several awards, including the NWO Spinoza Prize in 2018, the ALW Vernieuwingsimpuls VIDI award in 2001, and the VICI award in

2007. In 2013, she and her colleague Marileen Dogterom received a European Research Council Synergy grant of 7.1 million euro. The grant was given for research on cell division and cell movement.

Akhmanova is an active part of both the European Molecular Biology Organization (2010) as well as The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015), and is Chair of the board of directors for the Netherlands Society for Microscopy. She also serves an editor for numerous journals like eLife, Journal of Cell Science, BMC Cell Biology, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Traffic, and BioArchitecture.

Anna Akhmanova Net Worth

Anna Akhmanova is one of the richest Cell Biologist from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Anna Akhmanova 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Anna Sergeevna Akhmanova (born 11 May 1967) is a professor of Russian origin in cell Biology in Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She is most famous for her work with microtubules and the proteins, referred to as TIPs which stabilize a particular end of tubules. In addition to the awards she’s received she was among the winners in the award ceremony for 2018’s Spinoza Prize, the highest distinction given to Dutch scientists.

After having graduated at Moscow State, Akhmanova left Russia to pursue studying in Netherlands. Her initial plan was to pursue doctoral programs in Russia but “the salaries were very low, there was absolutely no funding to do research, and the country as a whole was experiencing problems.” At the time it was evident that there was a sense that Soviet strategy of the perestroika had a negative impact on the research and university programs in the country, leading Akhmanova’s decision in the Netherlands with her daughter to complete her PhD. In the Netherlands, she was employed by Radboud University Nijmegen (RU) in a laboratory under Wolfgang Hennig. Her research was then focused on the acquisition of the genetic mutations that affect histone genes. She earned her PhD in 1997 at RU.

The team studies specific proteins that interact on the plus and minus ends of the microtubules, specifically the plus end tracking proteins (+TIPs), which associate with the plus end of the microtubule to regulate its dynamics, and how the +TIPs interact with other structures in the cell. More recently, they have started researching “the biochemical properties and functional roles of the proteins” which organize minus end tracking proteins (-TIPs). There is far less information about –TIPs, and they are still not fully understood; however, recent research on CAMSAP, a type of –TIP, has shown that it plays an important role for organizing and stabilizing microtubules during interphase. Akhmanova’s group now focus on finding how CAMSAP contributes to the organization and stabilization of non-centrosomal microtubules during cell division.

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Anna Ranked on the list of most popular Cell Biologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Anna Akhmanova celebrates birthday on May 11 of every year.