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Curriculum Vitae: Marina Naoumkina
 
 
     

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
 

Current Position

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

 
Research Interests
  • 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.
Education
1986-1991

M.Sc. Biochemistry
Moscow Veterinary Academy,
Biological Department (Moscow, Russia)

1995-1998

Ph.D.  Molecular Biology
National Research Institute of Veterinary Virology And Microbiology,
Lab of biophysics (Pokrov, Russia)

 
Professional Training
1996

Moscow State University, Puschino division
Advanced course of molecular biology
Pushino, Moscow region, Russia

1998

Litex, Inc. (Laboratory of Clinical diagnostics)
Advanced Training in PCR techniques
Moscow, Russia

2000        

Eppendorf GmbH (Germany)
Training in modern molecular biology techniques
Moscow, Russia

 
Honors and Awards
1999

Golden Medal and First Prize of All-Russia Achievement Exhibition for Rabies virus PCR diagnostic design

2000

Gold Medal of National State Exhibition for the project "Biochip for nucleic acid analysis"

2000        

Award of STA fellowship. Host institute is National Agricultural Research Center for Hokkaido Region, Sapporo, Japan.

 
Professional Appointments
1991-1996

Research assistant
Lab of biophysics
All-Russia  Research  Institute of Veterinary Virology And Microbiology
Pokrov, Russia

1998-2000

Research Scientist
Lab of DNA diagnostics and biochip
All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Biotechnology
Moscow, Russia
 
Collaboration:
Lab of biophysics
National Research Institute of Veterinary Virology And Microbiology
Pocrov, Russia

11.2000-
11.2002

Ph.D STA Fellow Researcher
Forage Legume Breeding Laboratory
National Agricultural Research Center for Hokkaido Region
Sapporo, Japan


Membership of Professional Societies

  • American Society of Plant Biologist

Publications
  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.
 
Professional Meetings and Presentations
  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
 
         
       
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