Anatoli Slepenkin

Anatoli completed his PhD in Biotechnology at the Russian Academy of Sciences.  From 1995 until 2017, he worked in the lab of Ellena Peterson, in the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UCI, studying the type III secretion system of Chlamydiae and developing putative type III secretion inhibitors as microbicide candidates.  From 2017 until 2019, he worked in the lab of Anthony James in the department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at UCI, developing transgenic mosquitoes using CRISPR-Cas9, establishing a mouse malaria model, testing anti-malaria effector molecules, and examining gene expression in the lab’s mosquito strains.

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Anatoli worked as a part-time staff scientist and lab manager for our lab, from Aug 2019 through Sept 2021, while concurrently working part time with the de la Maza lab (another lab working on Chlamydiae, in close collaboration with Ellena Peterson's lab).  In October 2021, Anatoli returned to working full time on Chlamydiae in the de la Maza lab.