User:Damian Ekiert
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Damian C. Ekiert The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology dcekiert at scripps dot edu
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Hello, I am a graduate student in the Wilson Lab at The Scripps Research Institute.
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Research Interests
- Structure-function studies of hemagglutinin receptor specificity (H5N1 avian viruses, 2,3 vs. 2,6 sialic acids)
- Directed evolution/Display technology
- Synthetic biology
Education
B.A. in Biology, The University of Chicago
Past Lab Work
- Undergraduate honors thesis in Bernard Strauss's Lab, where we were investigating the coordination of DNA replication and cell division in E. coli.
- Year abroad at the University of Paris, working in the labs of Miroslav Radman and Masamichi Kohiyama on mismatch-stimulated killing and the localization of replication forks in E. coli.
- A "gap-year" in Michael Glotzer's Lab working on cytokinesis in mammalian cells.
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Publications
- Strauss B, Kelly K, and Ekiert D. Cytochrome oxidase deficiency protects Escherichia coli from cell death but not from filamentation due to thymine deficiency or DNA polymerase inactivation. J Bacteriol 2005 Apr; 187(8) 2827-35. doi:10.1128/JB.187.8.2827-2835.2005 pmid:15805529.
- Matic I, Ekiert D, Radman M, and Kohiyama M. Generation of DNA-free Escherichia coli cells by 2-aminopurine requires mismatch repair and nonmethylated DNA. J Bacteriol 2006 Jan; 188(1) 339-42. doi:10.1128/JB.188.1.339-342.2006 pmid:16352851.
- Strauss B, Kelly K, Dincman T, Ekiert D, Biesieda T, and Song R. Cell death in Escherichia coli dnaE(Ts) mutants incubated at a nonpermissive temperature is prevented by mutation in the cydA gene. J Bacteriol 2004 Apr; 186(7) 2147-55. pmid:15028700.
