Irina St. Louis earned her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Ural State Medical Academy, Yekaterinburg, Russia. She completed her residency in lab pathology at Russian Medical Academy for Postgraduate Education, Moscow. Dr. St. Louis joined the Department of Microbiology, at University of Minnesota, as a postdoctoral trainee, followed by fellowships at the University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute and Lymphoma Research Foundation. In 2013, Dr. St. Louis was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine. The research in her Lab is centered on the area of post-transcriptional gene expression regulation, specifically through messenger RNA degradation.  Irina St. Louis earned her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Ural State Medical Academy, Yekaterinburg, Russia. She completed her residency in lab pathology at Russian Medical Academy for Postgraduate Education, Moscow. Dr. St. Louis joined the Department of Microbiology, at University of Minnesota, as a postdoctoral trainee, followed by fellowships at the University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute and Lymphoma Research Foundation. In 2013, Dr. St. Louis was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine. The research in her Lab is centered on the area of post-transcriptional gene expression regulation, specifically through messenger RNA degradation. 

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