Laura Díaz-Martínez

Graduate Student

Awards & Honours
• APROBEE Scholarship for Honor students (1996-2001)
• CONACyT (Mexican National Council for Science and Technology) partial fellowship. 2002-2005
• DOD Breast Cancer Research Program graduate student fellowship. 2005-2007
• Veneziale-Steer Award. 2006
• Bacaner Research Award. 2006

Publications
1 . Diaz-Martinez L and Clarke DJ (2003). Self-Regulating model for control of replication origin firing in budding yeast. Cell Cycle 2(6): 576-578.

2. Giménez-Abián JF, Díaz-Martínez LA, Wirth K, Andrews CA, Giménez-Martín G and Clarke DJ (2005). Regulated Separation of Sister Centromeres depends on the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint but not on the Anaphase Promoting Complex/Cyclosome. Cell Cycle, 4(11): 1559-1573.

3. Giménez-Abián JF, Díaz-Martínez LA, Waizenegger IC, Giménez-Martín G and Clarke DJ (2005). Separase is required at multiple pre-anaphase cell cycle stages in human cells. Cell Cycle, 4(11): 1574-1582.

4. Giménez-Abián JF, Díaz-Martínez LA, Wirth K, De la Torre C and Clarke DJ (2005). Proteasome activity is required for centromere separation independently of securin degradation in human cells. Cell Cycle, 4(11): 1556-1558.

5. 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.

6. Clarke DJ, Díaz-Martínez LA and Giménez-Abián JF (2005). Anaphase Promoting Complex or Cyclosome? Cell Cycle, 4(11): 1583-1590.

7. Kang Y, Vossler R, Diaz-Martinez LA, Winter NS, Clarke DJ and Walters KJ (2006). UBL/UBA ubiquitin receptor proteins bind a common tetraubiquitin chain. J Mol Biol, 356(4):1027-1035.

8.Andrews CA, Vas ACJ, Meier B, Giménez-Abián JF, Díaz-Martínez LA, VanderWaal K, Hsu W-S, Erickson S and Clarke DJ. A Mitotic Topoisomerase II Checkpoint in Budding Yeast is required for Genome Stability but acts independently of Pds1/Securin. Genes & Dev. In Press