Tsapkova Larisa Alexandrovna

• Postgraduate studies: from 2004 to 2007 she studied full-time at Belgorod State University, majoring 03.00.15 - "Genetics".
• In 2006 she was awarded the Certificate of honor “The best graduate student".
• In 2006 she was awarded a scholarship by the Governor of the Belgorod region.
• 2007. awarded a scholarship of the Government of the Russian Federation.
• In 2008, she defended her PhD thesis on "Y-chromosome polymorphism among the population of the Belgorod region" on the basis of the Scientific Council of the RUDN University, Moscow.

Academic degree: Candidate of Biological Sciences

Work experience:

• From 1997 to 1998 Belgorod State University - laboratory assistant of the Department of Normal Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology.
• From 1998 to 2004 Belgorod State University - laboratory assistant of the Department of Medical and Biological Disciplines.
• From 2004 to 2009 Belgorod State University – assistant, then senior lecturer of the Department of Medical and Biological Disciplines.
• From 2009 to 2010 he was a research associate at the Institute of Molecular Biology. Engelhardt.
• From 2010 to 2011 he was a researcher at the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Russian Center for Forensic Medical Examination".
• Since 2011, Head of the DNA Genealogy department of the BioPapa Laboratory LLC “Sever-Torg".
• From 2012 to 2013 Head of the laboratory "BioPapa” LLC “Sever-Torg".
• From 2013 to 2021, the head and expert geneticist of the laboratory of Genetic Expertise LLC.
• From 2021 to the present, Senior researcher at the Laboratory of Oncogenetics and Hereditary Diseases of the Center for Personalized Medicine MCSC named after. Loginova DZM.

Professional development:

• 2008 Federal State Institution "Russian Center of Forensic Medical Examination" of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Moscow. Advanced training in the program "Basic methods of identification and identification of kinship using autosomal DNA analysis".
• 2007  Belgorod State University, Belgorod. Advanced training in the direction of "Laboratory genetics" certification cycle with the assignment of the specialty doctor "laboratory geneticist".
• 2013 RMAPO, Moscow. Advanced training in the program “DNA diagnostics of hereditary diseases".
• 2023 ANO “Institute of Synthetic Biology". Advanced training in the professional program “Intensive annotation options".
• 2024 LLC “Academy of professional education of personnel” Professional retraining in the specialty “Biologist”.
• 2025 FGAOU HE “National Research State Nizhny Novgorod University named after N.I. Lobachevsky", Nizhny Novgorod.  Primary accreditation in the specialty “Biologist".
• 2025 Federal State Institution "Russian Center for Forensic Medical Examination" of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Moscow. Advanced training in the program “Forensic medical examination. New technological approaches to DNA analysis in forensic medical examination”.
• 2025 FGAOU HE “Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogov" of the Ministry of Health of Russia. Advanced training in the program “Fundamentals of building a DNA sequencer with optical measurement of the fluorescence signal".

Professional activity: performing molecular genetic studies by RT-PCR, fragment analysis and Sanger sequencing. Design of primers and oligonucleotides. Development and implementation of diagnostic molecular genetic test systems. Analysis and interpretation of the results of PCR, fragment analysis, Sanger sequencing. Implementation of molecular genetic studies in the field of oncogenetics and hereditary human diseases, identification of personality, establishment of ownership of biological material, establishment of kinship, research on origin.

Scientific activity: participation in Russian and international scientific conferences. Participation in scientific projects of the department. Registration of research results in the form of publications, patents. Research interests: molecular biology, molecular genetics, oncogenetics, identity identification, establishment of kinship, DNA genealogy.

Member of the NGO "Moscow Society of Medical Genetics".

Author of 46 scientific publications, author and co-author of six patents for the invention.

Hirsch index: 4.