Mikhail Martchenko

Honors and Awards

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, FRSQ - Research and Health Funds of Quebec (2007-2009)
• Ph.D. Scholarship, FRSQ - Research and Health Funds of Quebec (2004-2007)
• Prize in recognition for achievement and dedication, National Research Council of Canada (2004)
• Ph.D. Scholarship, National Research Council of Canada (2003-2007)
• M.Sc. Scholarship, FRSQ - Research and Health Funds of Quebec (2002-2003)
• M.Sc. Scholarship, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada (2002)
• Undergraduate Student Research Award, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (2000-2001)
• In-Course Bursary, Concordia University (1999)

Professional Education

• B. Sc., Concordia University Biochemistry (2002)
• Doctor of Philosophy, McGill University (2007)

Faculty Advisor

• Stanley Cohen

Community & International Work

• Yeast Genetics & Genomics Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2006, Instructor Assistant More »

Web Site Links

• S.N.Cohen Lab Web Site

Research Interests

Fungal and bacterial pathogens and their interactions with mammalian hosts.

Publications

• Transcriptional rewiring of fungal galactose-metabolism circuitry. Martchenko M,  Levitin A, Hogues H, Nantel A, Whiteway M.  Curr Biol.  2007; 17 (12): 1007-13
• Assembly of the Candida albicans genome into sixteen supercontigs aligned on the eight chromosomes. van het Hoog M,  Rast TJ, Martchenko M, Grindle S, Dignard D, Hogues H, Cuomo C, Berriman M, Scherer S, Magee BB, Whiteway M, Chibana H, Nantel A, Magee PT.  Genome Biol.  2007; 8 (4): R52
• Transcriptional activation domains of the Candida albicans Gcn4p and Gal4p homologs. Martchenko M,  Levitin A, Whiteway M.  Eukaryot Cell.  2007; 6 (2): 291-301
• A human-curated annotation of the Candida albicans genome. Braun BR,  van Het Hoog M, d'Enfert C, Martchenko M, Dungan J, Kuo A, Inglis DO, Uhl MA, Hogues H, Berriman M, Lorenz M, Levitin A, Oberholzer U, Bachewich C, Harcus D, Marcil A, Dignard D, Iouk T, Zito R, Frangeul L, Tekaia F, Rutherford K, Wang E, Munro CA, Bates S, Gow NA, Hoyer LL, Köhler G, Morschhäuser J, Newport G, Znaidi S, Raymond M, Turcotte B, Sherlock G, Costanzo M, Ihmels J, Berman J, Sanglard D, Agabian N, Mitchell AP, Johnson AD, Whiteway M, Nantel A.  PLoS Genet.  2005; 1 (1): 36-57
• Superoxide dismutases in Candida albicans: transcriptional regulation and functional characterization of the hyphal-induced SOD5 gene. Martchenko M,  Alarco AM, Harcus D, Whiteway M.  Mol Biol Cell.  2004; 15 (2): 456-67
• Postgenomic Studies of Candida Albicans Martchenko Mikhail,  Vdm Verlag Dr Mueller E K, Germany..  2008;