Marina obtained her Master in bioengineering and bioinformatics at Moscow State University in Russia. She joined Prof.Dr.Petra Beli laboratory for Ph.D. at Institute for Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, Germany. Her thesis was focuseda on the p38-MK2 regulated pathway upon UV light. Since 2018 she joined the group of Ivan Dikic as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She is investigating now mechanisms of selective autophagy activation as well as supports the colleagues with mass-spectrometry expertise and CRISPR/Cas9 screen assays.