Dr. Igor V. Sharakhov

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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Entomology
Assistant ProfessorAppointed: 2004
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Mailing Address

Department of Entomology
216A Price Hall
Virginia Tech
MC 0319
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (540) 231-7316
Fax: (540) 231-9131
igor@vt.edu
http://web.ento.vt.edu/ento/personalPage.jsp?uuid=1287546

Qualifications

Ph.D., Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Genetics, 1996.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Biological Sciences, Cytogenetics, DNA, Entomology, Genetics, Genomics, Malaria, Molecular Genetics, Tropical Medicine.

Additional Terms:

Anopheles Funestus, Anopheles Gambiae, Anopheles Stephensi, Chromosome, Cytogenetic Map, Drosophila, FISH, Gene Order, Genetics, Genome Rearrangement, Genomics, Heterochromatin, Inversion Breakpoint, Inversions, Lamin, MAR/SAR DNA, Malaria Mosquito, Microsatellite, Nuclear Architecture, Nuclear Envelope, Physical Map, Polytene Chromosome, cDNA.

Memberships

American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Entomological Society of America
Genetics Society of America
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society

Honors and Awards

2000, Individual Development Award, Center Chapter Professional Development Committee, SUNY at Buffalo
1999-2000, Scholarship for International Collaboration, Highest Education Committee, Russia
1998, International Conference Travel Award, Highest Education Committee, Russia
1997-1998, Young Investigator Award, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
1996, Young Investigator Prize, Academia Europaea, London, UK
1995-1996, Soros Student Scholarship, International Soros Science Education Program, Open Society Institute, New York, NY
1993, Individual Grant, International Science Foundation, New York, NY

Previous Positions

2001-2004, Research Associate, University of Notre Dame, College of Science, Biological Sciences, Center for Tropical Disease Research and Training
1999-2001, Research Instructor, University at Buffalo, College of Arts and Sciences, Biological Sciences
1996-1999, Staff Scientist, Tomsk State University, Institute of Biology and Biophysics

Publications

  • White BJ, Santolamazza F, Kamau L, Pombi M, Grushko O, Mouline K, Brengues C, Guelbeogo W, Coulibaly M, Kayondo J, Sharakhov IV, Simard F, Petrarca V, della Torre A, and Besansky NJ (2007) Molecular Karyotyping of the 2La Inversion in Anopheles gambiae, J Am Soc Trop Med & Hyg, 76 (2), 334-339
  • Sharakhova MV, Xia A, McAlister SI, and Sharakhov IV (2006) A Standard Cytogenetic Photomap for the Mosquito Anopheles stephensi (Diptera: Culicidae) - Application for Physical Mapping, Journal of Medical Entomology, 43 (5), 861-866
  • Sharakhov IV, White BJ, Sharakhova MV, Kayondo J, Lobo N, Santolamazza F, della Torre A, Simard F, Collins FH, Besansky NJ. (2006) Breakpoint structure reveals the unique origin of an interspecific chromosomal inversion (2La) in the Anopheles gambiae complex., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103 (16), 6258-6262
  • Grushko OG, Rusakova AY, Sharakhova MV, Sharakhov IV, Stegnii VN (2006) Localization of repetitive DNA sequences in the pericentromeric heterochromatin of malarial mosquitoes of the "Anopheles maculipennis" complex, Tsitologiya (Cytology), 48 (3), 240-245
  • Sharakhov IV, Baricheva EM, Bogachev SS, Fisher PA, Lapik ER, Rogachev VA, Sebeleva (2005) Specific DNA sequences are associated with nuclear envelopes of pseudonurse cells in Drosophila melanogaster otu 11, Tsitologiya (Cytology), 47 (3), 243-248
  • Bojkova TV, Sharakhov IV, Kopyl SA, Volkova E, Fisher PA, Rogachev VA, Sebeleva TE, Bogachev SS (2005) A combined approach to mapping the proximal border of the right arm of polytene chromosome 2 in Drosophila melanogaster otu 11, Tsitologiya (Cytology), 47 (3), 249-254
  • Sharakhov I, Braginets O, Grushko O, Cohuet A, Guelbeogo WM, Boccolini D, Weill M, Costantini C, Sagnon N, Fontenille D, Yan G, Besansky NJ (Jan-Feb 2004) A microsatellite map of the African human malaria vector Anopheles funestus., The Journal of Heredity, 95 (1), 29-34 Abstract
  • Pai A., Sharakhov IV, Braginets O., Costa C., Yan G, Identification of microsatellite markers in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, Molecular Ecology Notes, 3(3), 425-427, March 2003
  • Sharakhov IV, Serazin AC, Grushko OG, Dana A, Lobo N, Hillenmeyer ME, Westerman R, Romero-Severson J, Costantini C, Sagnon N, Collins FH, Besansky NJ, Inversions and gene order shuffling in Anopheles gambiae and A. funestus, Science, 298(5591), 182-5, October 2002 Abstract
  • Grushko OG, Sharakhov IV, Stegnii VN, [Chromosome localization of the lambda20p1.4 clone of the Drosophila melanogaster nuclear lamina DNA in the melanogaster species subgroup of the genus Drosophila (Sophophora)], Genetika, 38(4), 483-8, April 2002 Abstract
  • Sharakhov IV, Braginets O., Mbogo CM, Yan G, Isolation and characterization of trinucleotide microsatellites in African malaria mosquito Anopheles funestus, Molecular Ecology Notes, 1, 289-292, December 2001
  • Sharakhov IV, Sharakhova MV, Mbogo CM, Koekemoer LL, Yan G, Linear and spatial organization of polytene chromosomes of the African malaria mosquito Anopheles funestus, Genetics, 159(1), 211-8, September 2001 Abstract
  • Sharakhova MV, Sharakhov IV, Gosteva LG, Kotlikova IV, Stegnii VN, [Pericentromeric and intercalating alpha-heterochromatin of polytene chromosomes of the malaria mosquito], Genetika, 36(2), 175-81, February 2000 Abstract
  • Erenpreisa JA, Cragg MS, Fringes B, Sharakhov I, Illidge TM, Release of mitotic descendants by giant cells from irradiated Burkitt's lymphoma cell line, Cell Biology International, 24(9), 635-48, 2000
  • Burlak VA, Sharakhova MV, Sharakhov IV, Lapik ER, Sibataev AK, [Variability of pericentromeric chromatin in chromosome 2 of ovarian nurse cells during inbreeding in Anopheles atroparvus V.Tiel], Genetika, 34(7), 992-5, July 1998 Abstract
  • Erenpreisa JA, Selivanova G, Cragg MS, Fringes B, Sharakhov IV, Illidge TM (1998) Apoptosis and nuclear segmentation in radioresistant Burkitt's lymphoma cells, Electronic Journal of Pathology and Histology, 4.4 (12), 984-03.txt
  • Sharakhov IV, Stegnii VN, Bogachev SS, Baricheva EM, Lapik ER, Fisher PA, [Structure of blocks of pericentromeric heterochromatin at chromosomes 3 and 4 in pseudonurse cells from larvae of Drosophila melanogaster line OTU], Doklady Akademii Nauk/[rossiiskaia Akademii Nauk], 353(2), 281-3, March 1997
  • Sharakhov IV, Bogachev SS, Fisher PA, [Chromosomal localization of M/SAR from DNA of the clone lambda20p1.4 in Drosophila melanogaster salivary glands], Genetika, 33(2), 277-80, February 1997 Abstract
  • Sharakhov IV, Vasserlauf IE, Stegnii VN, [Attachment of polytene chromosomes to the nuclear envelope in ovarian pseudonurse cells in Drosophila melanogaster], Genetika, 33(2), 189-95, February 1997 Abstract
  • Sharakhova MV, Sharakhov IV, Stegnii VN, [Chromocenter organization in salivary glands of the malaria mosquito Anopheles messeae Fall.], Genetika, 33(2), 196-201, February 1997 Abstract
  • Baricheva EA, Berrios M, Bogachev SS, Borisevich IV, Lapik ER, Sharakhov IV, Stuurman N, Fisher PA, DNA from Drosophila melanogaster beta-heterochromatin binds specifically to nuclear lamins in vitro and the nuclear envelope in situ, Gene, 171(2), 171-6, June 1996 Abstract
  • Bogachev SS, Borisevich IV, Fisher PA, Shturman N, Sharakhov IV, [Beta-heterochromatin in Drosophila: molecular organization and function. Molecular biological analysis of a MAR/SAR DNA sequence in centromere heterochromatin of Drosophila melanogaster], Genetika, 32(2), 240-51, February 1996 Abstract
  • Baiborodin SI, Baricheva EM, Bogachev SS, Borisevich IV, Strotz OV, Filippova MA, Sharakhov IV, Shilov AG, A molecular and cytogenetic analysis of lambda 20p7 fragment DNA from the proximal beta-heterochromatin of Drosophila melanogaster, Gene, 134(2), 175-81, December 1993 Abstract
  • Baiborodin SI, Baricheva EM, Bogachev SS, Borisevich IV, Strots OV, Filippova MA, Sharakhov IV, Shilov AG, [Drosophila beta-heterochromatin: molecular organization and function. Cloning and molecular biological analysis of the lambda 20 DNA fragment from Drosophila melanogaster beta-heterochrom, Genetika, 29(3), 403-16, March 1993 Abstract
  • Sharkhov IV, Filippova MA, Strots OV, Borisevich IV, Bogachev SS, Baricheva EM, Shilov AG, [Drosophila beta-heterochromatin: molecular organization and function. Characteristics of the DNA sequences from proximal beta-heterochromatin, associated with the nuclear envelope of Dros, Genetika, 29(3), 393-402, March 1993 Abstract

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