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Amit C Vas Post-doctoral Associate |
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| Curriculum Vitae, 2005 |
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| Education • B.Sc., Honors, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, India, 1994-1997 • Ph.D., DNA replication in fission yeast. SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook NY. Thesis advisor, Dr. J. Leatherwood 1997-2002 • Post-doctoral, DNA replication and silencing in fission yeast. Advisor Dr J. Leatherwood, 2002-2003 • Post-doctoral, Chromosome structure in budding yeast. Advisor Dr. D. J. Clarke, University of Minnesota, 2003-present |
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| Awards & Honours • Abrahams Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement by a graduate Student in the Department of Microbiology, SUNY at Stony Brook, 2002 |
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| Publications 1. Vas A and Leatherwood J (2000). Where does DNA replication start in Archae? Genome Biology 1(3): 1020.1-1020.4 2. Vas A, Mok W, Leatherwood J (2001). Control of DNA rereplication via Cdc2 phosphorylation sites in the Origin Recognition Complex. Molecular and Cellular Biology 21(17): 5767-5777 3. Leathewood J and Vas A (2003). Connecting ORC and heterochromatin: Why? Cell Cycle 2(6): 573-575 4. Andrews CA, Giménez-Abián JF, Díaz-Martínez LA, Guacci V, Vas AV and Clarke DJ (2005). Evidence that the yeast spindle assembly checkpoint has a target other than the anaphase promoting complex. Cell Cycle, 4(11): 1553-1555. 5. Lang S, Vas A, Roth J, Ip D and Leatherwood J. ORC binds Cdc2 that lacks Y-15 phosphorylation. Manuscript in preparation. 6. Vas A, Averbeck N, Mickle K and Leatherwood J. Cell cycle regulation of silencing. Manuscript in preparation. 7. Vas A, Roth J and Leatherwood J. Binding of Cdc2 kinase to replication origins facilitates initiation of DNA replication. Manuscript in preparation. |
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