Evolutionary Genomics

BIOINFORMATICS AND GENOMICS

GROUP LEADER:
Fyodor Kondrashov (ICREA Research Professor)

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS:
Peter Vlasov, Dmitry Ivankov, Ekaterina Putintseva, Karen Sarkisyan, Ana Gutierrez, Natalia Bogatyreva (staying until December 2018), Maria Plyushcheva (staying until December 2018)

PHD STUDENTS:
Carla Bello (until December 2017)

TECHNICIANS:
Louisa Somermeyer, Pilar Baldominos, Lorena Espinar

VISITING SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS:
Maria Tutukina, Sepand Riyahi, Georgy Antonov , Lilya Fakhranurova, Laura Aviño, David Cerny, Margarita Samborskaya, Júlia Urgell

*NOTE: This group left the CRG on September 2017

Summary

Our group is interested in all aspects of genome evolution, structure and function. We typically use computational and theoretical methods to address various evolutionary issues. In the last year, we have made steps to expand our experimental capabilities, in part thanks to several collaborations.

Research Projects

In the last year, we have:

Experimentally assayed binding of the nucleoid protein Dps to bacterial chromosomes (publication 1).
Moved our laboratory to the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria

Selected Publications

Antipov SS, Tutukina MN, Preobrazhenskaya EV, Kondrashov FA, Patrushev MV, Toshchakov SV, Dominova I, Shvyreva US, Vrublevskaya VV, Morenkov OS, Sukharicheva NA, Panyukov VV, Ozoline ON.
“The nucleoid protein Dps binds genomic DNA of Escherichia coli in a non-random manner”.
PLoS One, 12(8):e0182800 (2017).