Larissa Savelyeva is a post-doc in the Department of Tumour Genetics. She received Master degree at the Department of Biochemistry, St. Petersburg State University (Russia), and PhD degree in the Institute of Cytology Academy of Sciences of Russia (St. Petersburg , Russia). In 1991 Larissa joined the laboratory of Prof. Manfred Schwab. Her general research interests are primarily focused on investigating the molecular mechanisms of genomic instability in normal and cancer cells. Since 2005 Larissa is involved in the FRAGILOME project, which aims to determine the full repertoire of common fragile sites in the human genome and define the significant genetic rearrangements caused by expression of the fragile sites as possible risk damages for human disorders.