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Adrian Reyes Prieto

Department of Biological Sciences

Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics
University of Iowa

468 Biology Building,
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: 319-335-1214
Fax: 319-335-1069
E-mail: adrian-reyes@uiowa.edu

 

EDUCATION/TRAINING
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

DEGREE

YEAR
FIELD OF STUDY

Sciences School , National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
B.S.
1997
Biology

Cellular Physiology Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
Ph. D.
2002
Biochemistry, mitochondrial evolution

Botany Department, Institute for Biology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
 
2003
Seed plant molecular phylogenetics

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
 
2005 - present
Phylogenomics and plastid evolution

 

POSITIONS AND EMPLOYMENT

6/05-present
Post-doctoral fellow, D. Bhattacharya Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States.  
6/03-5/05  
Research Associate C, Botany Department, Institute for Biology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
 
01/04-5/05  
Protist and Phycology Teaching Professor, Sciences School, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
 
       


SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

1. Adrián Reyes-Prieto, Mohammed El-Hafidi, Rafael Moreno-Sánchez and Diego Gonzalez-Halphen. (2002).

  Characterization of oxidative phosphorylation in the colorless chlorophyte Polytomella sp.
Its mitochondrial respiratory chain lacks a plant-like alternative oxidase. Biochimica et Biophysica
Acta 1554: 170-179


2. Soledad Funes, Edgar Davidson, Adrián Reyes-Prieto, Susana Magallón, Pascal Herion, Michael P. King,

  and Diego González-Halphen. (2002) A green algal apicoplast ancestor. Science 298: 2155.

3. Soledad Funes, Edgar Davidson, Adrián Reyes-Prieto, Susana Magallón, Pascal Herion, Michael P. King,
  and Diego González-Halphen. (2003). A response to a comment to on A Green Algal
Apicoplast Ancestor. Science 301: 49

4. Soledad Funes, Adrián Reyes-Prieto, Xochitl Pérez-Martínez, and Diego González-Halphen. (2004).
  On the evolutionary origins of apicomplexan parasites: is the rhodophyte versus chlorophyte
controversy legitimate? Microbes and Infection 6: 305-311

5. Diego Gonzalez-Halphen, Soledad Funes, Xochitl Perez-Martinez, Adrián Reyes-Prieto, M. Gonzalo Claros,
  Edgar Davidson and Michael P. King. (2004). Genetic correction of mitochondrial diseases:
using the natural migration of mitochondrial genes to the nucleus in chlorophyte algae as a
model system. Ann N Y Acad Sci.1019: 232-239.

6. Adrián Reyes-Prieto, Hwan Su Yoon and Debashish Bhattacharya (2006)
Phylogenomics and its Growing Impact on Algal Phylogeny and Evolution. Algae Volume 21(1): 1-10, 2006 PDF
 
7. Yoon, H.S., A. Reyes-Prieto, M. Melkonian and D. Bhattacharya. 2006.
  Minimal plastid genome evolution in the Paulinella endosymbiont. Curr Biol. 2006 Sep 5;16(17):R670-2. PDF
   
8. Reyes-Prieto, A., J.D. Hackett, M.F. Bonaldo, M.B. Soares, and D. Bhattacharya. 2006.
  Cyanobacterial contribution to algal nuclear genomes is primarily limited to plastid functions.
2006 Dec 5;16(23):2320-5.
PDF
   
9. Reyes-Prieto A , Weber AP, Bhattacharya D. 2007
  The Origin and Establishment of the Plastid in Algae and Plants. Annu Rev Genet . 2007 Jun 28; PDF
 
10. Hackett JD, Yoon HS, Li S, Reyes-Prieto A, Rummele SE, Bhattacharya D.
  Phylogenomic analysis supports the monophyly of cryptophytes and haptophytes and the
association of rhizaria with chromalveolates. Mol Biol Evol. 2007 Aug;24(8):1702-13. PDF
 
11. Reyes-Prieto A, Bhattacharya D.
  Phylogeny of Nuclear Encoded Plastid Targeted Proteins Supports an Early Divergence of
Glaucophytes within Plantae. Mol Biol Evol. 2007 Sep 6; PDF
 
12. Reyes-Prieto A, Bhattacharya D.
  Phylogeny of Calvin cycle enzymes supports Plantae monophyly. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2007 Oct;45(1):384-91. PDF
   
13. Bhattacharya, D., J.M. Archibald, A.P.M. Weber, and A. Reyes-Prieto. 2007.
  How do endosymbionts become organelles? Understanding early events in plastid evolution.
  BioEssays 2007 Dec;29(12):1239-46.