Dr. Jeffrey Silberman

I conduct basic research on anaerobic protists (single cell eukaryotes) at the Institute of Parasitology, Laboratory of Genomics and Diversity of Protists. I discover new organisms, culture them, isolate nucleic acids for transcriptome and genome determination for phylogenentic/phylogenomic analyses as well as bioinformatic mining of genetic data.

Postdoc in the lab of Dr. Andrew Roger Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Molecular phylogenetic analyses of various protistan lineages

Joint postdoc: 6 months at UCLA / 6 months at Dalhousie. NASA Astrobiology Institute, UCLA Dept. Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics and Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics. Laboratories of Patricia Johnson (UCLA) & Andrew Roger (Dalhousie University). - Molecular phylogenetic analyses of various protistan lineages

Postdoc with Dr. Mitchell Sogin. - Molecular phylogenetic analyses of various protistan lineages

Dissertation title: Molecular Variation in the Spiny Lobster Panularus argus: Recruitment Aspects. Analyzed the population structure of the Caribbean spiny lobster via mitochondrial DNA haplotype analysis. Developed non-destructive molecular species identification of larval spiny lobsters.

Thesis title: Characterization of the apparent specific integration of the retrovirus, the Baboon Endogenous Virus, into the human genome.

Thesis title: Mitochondrial genetics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Selection and isolation of new mutations (ω) that effect recombination in yeast mitochondrial DNA.

Biology major, Chemistry minor.