Myriam Calonje
Curriculum vitae
Dept. Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley
361 Koshland Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
e-mail: mcalonje@nature.berkeley.edu
Phone: 1-510-642-0404
Education
| 1998 | Ph.D. in Biology (cum laude) Department of Microbiology, University Complutense, Madrid, Spain. |
| 1994 | Diploma Thesis (first class) Department of Microbiology, University Complutense, Madrid, Spain. |
| 1992 | Bachelor of Sciences in Biology, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. |
Research experience
| 2003-present | Postdoctoral fellow |
| 2000-2003 | Postdoctoral fellow Department of Biotechnology, University Politecnica, E.T.S.I.A., Madrid, Spain Goal: Study of MADS-box transcription factors implicated in flower development in grapevine. |
| 1998-1999 | Postdoctoral training |
| 1994-1998 | Graduate student |
| 1992-1994 | Graduate student |
Publications
Calonje M., Chen LJ, Sanchez R. and Sung ZR. EMF1 functions as PRC1 in maintaining flower homeotic gene silencing during Arabiodpsis vegetative growth (in preparation).
Calonje M. and Sung ZR. Complexity beneath the silence. Curr Opin Plant Biol. (Submitted)
Calonje M., Cubas P., Mart¨ªnez-Zapater J. M. and Carmona M. J. (2004). Floral meristem identity genes are expressed during tendril development in grapevine. Plant Physiol. 135(3):1491-501.
Calonje M., Bernardo D., Novaes-Ledieu M., Perez Cabo A. and Garc¨ªa Mendoza C. (2002). Purification and some properties of an hydrophobin secreted by the mycopathogenic fungus Verticillium fungicola. Can. J. Microbiol. 48(11):1030-4.
Calonje M., Garc¨ªa Mendoza C., P¨¦rez Cabo A. and Novaes-Ledieu M. (2000). Interaction between the mycoparasite Verticillium fungicola and the vegetative mycelial phase of Agaricus bisporus. Mycol. Res. 104, 988-992.
Calonje M., Garc¨ªa Mendoza C., Ahrazem O., Bermardo D. and Novaes-Ledieu M. (2000). Chemical components of Verticillium fungicola cell wall. Can. J. Microbiol. 46 (2), 101-109.
Gal¨¢n B., Garcia Mendoza C., Calonje M. and Novaes-Ledieu M. (1999). Production, purification and properties of an endo-1,3-beta-glucanase from the basidiomycete Agaricus bisporus. Current Microbiol. 38 (3), 190-193.
Bernardo D., Garc¨ªa Mendoza C., Calonje M. and Novaes-Ledieu M. (1999). Chemical analysis of lamella walls of Agaricus bisporus fruit bodies. Current Microbiol. 38 (6), 364-367.
Calonje M., Garcia Mendoza C., Gal¨¢n B. and Novaes-Ledieu M. (1997). Enzymatic activity of the mycoparasite Verticillium fungicola on Agaricus bisporus fruit body cell walls. Microbiology 143, 2999-3006.
Calonje M., Garcia Mendoza C., and Novaes-Ledieu M. (1996). New contributions to the wall polysaccharide structure of vegetative mycelium and fruit body cell walls of Agaricus bisporus. Microbiologia SEM 12. 599-606.
Garcia Mendoza C., Perez-Cabo A., Calonje M. Gal¨¢n B., and Novaes-Ledieu M. (1996). Chemical and structural differences in cell wall polysaccharides of two monokariotic strains and their resulting dikarion of Agaricus bisporus. Current Microbiol. 33, 211-215.
Calonje M., Garcia Mendoza C., Novaes-Ledieu M. and Labarere J. (1995). Characterization of two commercial Agaricus bisporus strains by cell-wall structure, isozyme patterns, nuclear and mitochondrial restriction fragment length polymorfism (RFLP). Science and Cultivation of Edible Fungi, 133-140.
