Position: Postdoctoral researcher, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire.
Address: 1 rue Laurent Fries, 4025, BP 10142, 67404 Illkirch CEDEX, France
Phone: +33 (0)3 88 65 34 48 (prof.), +33 (0)6 28 68 66 57 (pers.)
E-mail: yavit<AT>yahoo.com, yavit<AT>igbmc.fr

2007 Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA. 

Scientific interests:

• Transcriptional activation
• Chromatin dynamics
• Nuclear receptors
• DNA diagnostics

Selected publications:

1. Vitrenko YA, Pavon ME, Stone SI, Liebman SW. Propagation of the [PIN+] prion by fragments of Rnq1 fused to GFP. Curr Genet. 2007 May;51(5):309-19. Epub 2007 Apr 6.
2. Vitrenko YA, Gracheva EO, Richmond JE, Liebman SW. Visualization of aggregation of the Rnq1 prion domain and cross-seeding interactions with Sup35NM. J Biol Chem. 2007 Jan 19;282(3):1779-87. Epub 2006 Nov 22.