Marina Alekseevna Naoumkina, Ph.D.
Plant Biology Division
Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
2510 Sam Noble Parkway
Ardmore, OK  73401 USA

1-580-224-6128
e-mail: manaoumkina@noble.org
 

Postdoctoral fellow, Dixon Laboratory, Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation. 

• Biosynthesis and transcriptional regulation of plant bioactive natural products such as flavonoids, isoflavonoids and triterpenes.
• Molecular mechanisms controlling plant responses to pathogen attack. Defining the role WRKY transcription factors in plant defense.

Membership of Professional Societies

• American Society of Plant Biologist

1. Naoumkina, M. and Dixon, R.A. (2008) Subcellular localization of flavonoid natural products- a signaling function? Plant Signaling and Behavior, in press.
2. Naoumkina, M., Vaghchhipawala, S., Tang, Y., Ben, Y., Powell, R.J. and Dixon, R.A. (2008) Metabolic and genetic perturbations accompany the modification of galactomannan in seeds of Medicago truncatula expressing mannan synthase from guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba L.) Plant Biotechnology Journal, in press.
3. Naoumkina, M., Torres-Jerez, I., Allen, S., He, J., Zhao, P. Dixon, R.A. and May, G.D. (2007) Analysis of cDNA libraries from developing seeds of guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub). BMC Plant Biology 7, 62 (online).
4. Naoumkina, M., Mohamed A. Farag, M.A., Sumner, L.W., Tang, Y., Liu, C.-J.  and Dixon, R.A. (2007) Different mechanisms for phytoalexin induction by pathogen and wound signals in Medicago truncatula. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104, 17909-17915.
5. Farag, M.A., Deavours, B.E., De-Fatima, A., Naoumkina, M., Dixon, R.A. and Sumner, L.W. (2007) Integrated metabolite and transcript profiling identifies peroxidases involved in aurone biosynthesis in Medicago truncatula cell cultures. Plant Cell, in review.
6. Modolo, L., Blount, J.W., Achnine, L., Naoumkina, M., Wang, X. and Dixon, R.A. (2007) A functional genomics approach to (iso)flavonoid glycosylation in the model legume Medicago truncatula. Plant Mol. Biol. 64, 499-518.
7. Deavours, B.E., Liu, C.-J., Naoumkina, M.A., Tang, Y., Farag, M.A., Sumner, L.W., Noel, J.P. and Dixon, R.A. (2006). Functional analysis of members of the isoflavone and isoflavanone O-methyltransferase enzyme families from the model legume Medicago truncatula. Plant Molecular Biology 62, 715-733.
8. Dixon, R.A., Achnine, L., Deavours, B.E. and Naoumkina, M. (2006). Metabolomics and gene identification in plant natural product pathways. In: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, “Plant Metabolomics”, edited by K. Saito, R. A. Dixon and L. Willmitzer, Springer, pp 243-259.
9. Suzuki H, Reddy S, Naoumkina M, Aziz N, May G, Huhman D, Sumner L, Blount J, Mendes P, Dixon R. Methyl jasmonate and yeast elicitor induce differential genetic and metabolic re-programming in cell suspension cultures of the model legume Medicago truncatula. Planta, 2005, 220:698-707.
10. Ivashuta S, Naumkina M, Gau M, Uchiyama K, Isobe S, Mizukami Y, Shimamoto Y. Genotype-dependent transcriptional activation of novel repetitive elements during cold acclimation of alfalfa (Medicago sativa). Plant J. 2002 Sep; 31(5):615-627.
11. Zabrodina M., Khodoun M., Naumkina M., Khavkin E. NBS and LRR homologies of genes of vertical resistance to fungi diseases of annual and perennial rye (Secale L), Doclady RASHN, 2000, vol. 3, p 16-18, in Russian.

1.  Naoumkina M., Dixon R. Plant & Animal Genomes XII Conference. San Diego, CA, US January 10-14, 2004, P815. "Microarry-Based Exploration of Yeast-Elicitor Induced Genes in Medicago truncatula."
2. Naumkina M., Ivashuta S. and Gau M. First International Conference on Legume Genomics and Genetics: Translation to Crop Improvement. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, 2-6 June, 2002, p. 132. «Active Retrotransposons in Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.)
3. Pantushenko M., Naumkina M., Nedosekov V., Cibanov S., Vishnyakov I International Conference devoted to 40- years VNIIVViM, Pokrov, Russia, November, 1998, p. 80. «A heminested polymerase chain reaction for the detection of Yakutia rabies isolates from Arctic foxes».
4. Pantushenko M., Naumkina M., Nedosekov V., Cibanov S., Vishnyakov I Conference Relevance problems of biotechnology, agricultural, animal, veterinary, VNIISB, Moscow, Russia, October, 1997, p.62. «Rabies virus detection by RT-PCR in decomposed naturally infected brains».
5. Naumkina M., Pantushenko M., Nedosekov V., Cibanov S., Vishnyakov I. International Conference devoted to 30- years ZNIVI, «Modernity condition and perspectives of integration science and practice veterinary in condition reform region Prikaspiyskiy», ZNIVI, Maxachkala, Russia, March, 1996, p. 34-35. «Strain properties rabies virus of difference of restriction analysis of PCR produce. 

Genebank Database

1. Ivashuta,S., Naumkina,M., Gau,M., Uchiyama,K., Isobe,S., Mizukami,Y. and Shimamoto,Y. Medicago sativa retrotransposon polyprotein gene interrupted by LTR retroelement MCIRE, complete sequence.
   Accession numbers # AF439380; AF439379
2. Naumkina,M. and Ivashuta,S. Medicago sativa retrotransposon MIRE1,
   complete sequence. Accession number # AY196987