Koonin Group: Members

	Ben Busby PhD Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2009) University of Maryland, Baltimore Phone: (301) 594-2698 Email: ben.busby@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Research interests: Domain structure in proteins; mechanisms of horizontal gene transfer; network robustness and integrity; complex signals in untranslated regions of RNA, and other places in sequence space.
	Diana Chernikova B.A. Operations Research & Management Science (2009) University of California, Berkeley Phone: (301) 594-6478 Email: cherniko@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
	Michael Galperin PhD Microbiology (1987) Moscow State University Phone: (301) 435-5910 Email: galperin@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov WWW: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Complete_Genomes/ Research interests: Microbial genomics, particularly, reconstruction of biochemical pathways in poorly characterized organisms; COG database. Find Michael's publications in Entrez.
	Sivakumar Kannan PhD Bioinformatics (2008) University of Montreal, Canada Phone: (301) 435-7802 Email: kannan2@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Research interests: Comparative genomics; evolution of mitochondrial genomes. Find Sivakumar's publications in Entrez.
	Georgy Karev Phone: (301) 451-6722 Email: karev@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Find Georgy's publications in Entrez.
	Eugene V. Koonin PhD Molecular Biology (1983) Moscow State University Phone: (301) 435-5913 Email: koonin@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov WWW: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/Koonin/ Research interests: See research interest on the home page. Find Eugene's publications in Entrez.
	David M. Kristensen PhD Structural and Computational Biology (2007) Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Phone: (301) 496-5599 Email: David.Kristensen@nih.gov Research interests: Protein evolution, especially of conserved orthologs in viruses (POGs database). Bioinformatics algorithms, comparative genomics, and large-scale studies of biological systems. Find David's publications in Entrez.
	Alexander Lobkovsky Meitiv PhD Physics (1996) University of Chicago Phone: (301) 496-9313 Email: meitiv@mail.nih.gov Research Interests: Structural determinants of protein evolution, epistasis in substitution networks. Find Alexander's publications in Entrez.
	Kira S. Makarova PhD Genetics (1996) Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novisibirsk, Russia Phone: (301) 435-5912 Email: makarova@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Research interests: Investigating structure, function and evolution of different protein families; comparative genomics. Find Kira's publications in Entrez.
	David Managadze PhD Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat., 2007) University of Bochum, Germany Phone: (301) 594-3323 Email: david.managadze@nih.gov Research interests: Computational large-scale analysis of biological databases and genomes; data mining; study of trans-splicing, recombination, chimeric proteins and their roles in tumor biology; long non-coding RNA, their evolution and functions. Find David's publications in Entrez.
	Sergei Mekhedov PhD Molecular Biology (1986) Institute of Industrial Microorganisms, Moscow, Russia Phone: 301) 402-3358 Email: mekhedov@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Research interests: COG database. Find Sergei's publications in Entrez.
	Anastasia Nikolskaya Phone: (301) 402-8113 Email: nikolska@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
	Pere Puigbo PhD Biochemistry (2007) Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona. Phone: (301) 496-9196 Email: puigboap@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov WWW: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/Postdocs/PuigboAvalos Resources: OPTIMIZER (codon usage optimizer); HEG-DB (database of predicted highly expressed genes); CAIcal (codon usage analysis); TOPD/FMTS (comparison of phylogenetic trees). Research interests: Evolutionary genomics; comparative genomics; phylogenomics. Find Pere's publications in Entrez.
	Igor Rogozin PhD Biology (1990) Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, USSR Academy of Sciences Phone: (301) 594-4271 Email: rogozin@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Research interests: Comparative studies of completely sequenced genomes; computational analysis of functional regions and signals in biological sequences; evolutionary analysis of sequences; theoretical analysis of mutagenesis. Find Igor's publications in Entrez.
	Svetlana Shabalina Phone: (301) 594-5693 Email: shabalin@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Find Svetlana's publications in Entrez.
	Sergey Smirnov Phone: (301)451-6727 Email: smirnov@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Find Sergey's publications in Entrez.
	Alexander Sorokin Phone: (301)451-6717 Email: sorokin@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Find Alexander's publications in Entrez.
	Nobuto Takeuchi PhD Life Science (2010) Utrecht University Phone: (301) 402-7898 Email: takeuchi@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Research interests: Computational studies of prebiotic evolution. Find Nobuto's publications in Entrez.
	Yuri I. Wolf PhD Genetics (1996) Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novisibirsk, Russia Phone: (301) 435-5911 Email: wolf@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Research interests: Genome-scale evolution of protein families. Find Yuri's publications in Entrez.
	Natalya Yutin PhD Molecular Biology (2006) Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel TIA Phone: (301) 402-8434 Email: yutinn@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Research interests: Archaeal ancestor(s) of the eukaryotic genome; the origin of eukaryotes; evolution of eukaryotic large nucleo-cytoplasmic DNA viruses. Find Natalya's publications in Entrez.

Ben Busby

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Diana Chernikova

Michael Galperin

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Sivakumar Kannan

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Georgy Karev

Eugene V. Koonin

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David M. Kristensen

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Alexander Lobkovsky Meitiv

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Kira S. Makarova

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David Managadze

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Sergei Mekhedov

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Anastasia Nikolskaya

Pere Puigbo

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Igor Rogozin

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Svetlana Shabalina

Sergey Smirnov

Alexander Sorokin

Nobuto Takeuchi

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Yuri I. Wolf

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Natalya Yutin

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