Maria Vibranovski
mdv at uchicago.edu
Association:
University of Chicago, Ecology and Evolution
Reseach:
Two important observations regarding the evolution of sex chromosomes in Drosophila are the excess of genes retroposed from X chromosome to autosomes and the paucity of male biased genes in the X chromosome. A possible explanation for such observations is X chromosome inactivation during meiosis in the male. The main interest of my post-doctoral research is to investigate the male germline X-inactivation in Drosophila melanogaster by monitoring X-linked gene expression during developmental phases of spermatogenesis.
my CV
Publications:
9. Vibranovski M.D. , Sakabe N.J. and Long M. (2007) Birth and Evolution of Human Exons. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (in press).
8. Havlioglu N., Wang J., Fushimi K., Vibranovski M.D. , Kan Z., Gish W., Fedorov A., Long M., Wu J.Y. (2007) An intronic signal for alternative splicing in the human genome. PLoS ONE 2:e1246. pdf
7. Fan C., Vibranovski M.D. , Chen Y., Long M. (2007) A Microarray-Based genomic hybridization method for identification of new genes in plants: case analyses of Arabidopsis and Oryza . Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 49:915-926. pdf6. Parmigiani R.B., Bettoni F.*, Vibranovski M.D.* , Lopes M.H., Martins W.K., Cunha I.W., Soares F.A, Simpson A.J.G., de Souza S.J., Camargo A.A. (2006) Characterization of a cancer/testis (CT) antigen gene family capable of eliciting humoral response in cancer patients. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103:18066-71 (* Equally contributed). pdf
5. Vibranovski M.D.*, Sakabe N.J.*, and de Souza S.J. (2006) A possible role of exon-shuffling in the evolution of signal peptides of human proteins. FEBS Lett. 580:1621-1624. (* Equally contributed) pdf
4. Vibranovski M.D., Sakabe N.J., de Oliveira R.S., and de Souza S.J. (2005) Signs of Ancient and Modern Exon-Shuffling Are Correlated to the Distribution of Ancient and Modern Domains Along Proteins. J Mol Evol. 61:341-350. pdf
3. Sakabe N.J., Vibranovski M.D. and de Souza, S.J. (2004) A bioinformatics analysis of alternative exon usage in human genes coding for extracellular matrix proteins, Gent. Mol. Res. 3(4):532-544. pdf
2. Carvalho A. B., Vibranovski M. D., Carlson J. W., Celniker S. E., Hoskins R. A., Rubin G. M., Sutton G. G., Myers E. W., Adams M. D. and Clark A. G. (2003). Y chromosome and other heterochromatic sequences of the Drosophila melanogaster genome: how far can we go? Genetica 117: 227-237. pdf
1. Carvalho A.B., Dobo, B.A., Vibranovski M.D., and Clark A. G. (2001). Identification of five new genes on the Y-chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98: 13225-13230. pdf