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The University of Iowa
Department of Biological Sciences
Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics
Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Genetics
Faculty Member (Evolutionary/Comparative Genetics): Faculty of 1000
Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences
Adjunct Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole MA 02543
446 Biology Building
Iowa City, IA 52242
Tel: (319) 335-1977
Fax: (319) 335-1069
Email: debashi-bhattacharya@uiowa.edu

Funding sources:
NSFJGINIHUSDANASA
Endosymbiotic Origin of
Algal and Plant Plastids


- Public blast web site (Dragonblast) now open
- Debashish hosts workshop to discuss the
"Future of the Tree of Life Program"
  Press release:
Debashish elected 2007 AAAS Fellow

Upcoming Papers:

Bhattacharya, D., and T. Nosenko. Accepted.
Endosymbiotic and horizontal gene transfer in
chromalveolates. J. Phycol.


Reyes-Prieto, A., H.S. Yoon, and D. Bhattacharya.
Provisionally accepted. Marine protist (algal)
genomics and evolution. Encyclopedia of
Life Sciences.


Yoon, H.S., J. Grant, Y.I. Tekle, M. Wu, B.C. Chaon,
J.C. Cole, J.M. Logsdon, D.J. Patterson,
D. Bhattacharya, and L.A. Katz. Provisionally
accepted. Broadly sampled multigene trees
of eukaryotes. BMC Evol. Biol.


Recent Papers:
Jeferson Gross, Jorg Meurer and Debashish
Bhattacharya. Evidence of a chimeric genome in
the cyanobacterial ancestor of plastids.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:117 (23 Apr 2008)


Ahmed Moustafa and Debashish Bhattacharya,
PhyloSort: a user-friendly phylogenetic sorting
tool and its application to estimating the
cyanobacterial contribution to the nuclear genome
of Chlamydomonas.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:6 (2008)


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.


Nosenko T. and Debashish Bhattacharya.
Horizontal gene transfer in chromalveolates.
BMC Evol. Bio. 2007 Sep 25;7(1):173
PDF

Tyra H. M., M. Linka , A.P.M. Weber, D. Bhattacharya. Host Origin of Plastid Solute Transporters in the
First Photosynthetic Eukaryotes.
Genome Biol. 2007 Oct 5;8(10):R212 PDF

Haugen P., D. Bhattacharya, J.D. Palmer, S. Turner,
L.A. Lewis and K.M. Pryer. Cyanobacterial
ribosomal RNA genes with multiple,
endonuclease-encoding group I introns.
BMC Evol. Bio. 2007 Sep 8;7:159. PDF

Zhang, H., D. Bhattacharya, and S. Lin. Accepted.
A three-gene phylogeny suggests monophyly of
Prorocentrales and a basal position for
Amphidinium and Heterocapsa. J. Mol. Evol. 2007
Oct;65(4):463-74.
PDF

Nosenko, T., B. Boese, and D. Bhattacharya.
Pulsed field gel electrophoresis analysis of
genome size and structure in Pavlova gyrans
and Diacronema sp. (Haptophyta).
J. Phycol. 43,763–767 (2007).
PDF

Reyes Prieto, A., and D. Bhattacharya.
Phylogeny of Calvin cycle enzymes supports
Plantae monophyly. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2007
Oct;45(1):384-91.
PDF

Reyes-Prieto A., Bhattacharya D. 2007. Phylogeny
of Nuclear Encoded Plastid Targeted Proteins
Supports an Early Divergence of Glaucophytes
within Plantae. Mol Biol Evol. 2007 Nov;24(11):
2358-61.
PDF

Hackett, J.D., H.S. Yoon, S. Li, A. Reyes-Prieto,
S.E. Rummele, and D. Bhattacharya.
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

Reyes-Prieto, A., A.P.M. Weber, and D. Bhattacharya. 2007. Plastid endosymbiosis: The origin and
establishment of the plastid in algae and plants.
Annu Rev Genet . 2007 Jun 28. PDF

Patterson, D.J., D. Bhattacharya, J. Cole,
M. Dunthorn, J. Logsdon, L. Katz and
L.Wegener Parfrey. Classifying protists.
Microbiology Today 2007 February:44-45.
PDF

Reyes-Prieto, A., J.D. Hackett, M.F. Bonaldo,
M.B. Soares, and D. Bhattacharya.
Cyanobacterial contribution to algal nuclear
genomes is primarily limited to plastid functions.
Curr. Biol. 2006 Dec 5;16(23):2320-5.
PDF

Reeb, V., P. Haugen, D. Bhattacharya
and F. Lutzoni. Evolution of Pleopsidium
(lichenized Ascomycota) S943 group I introns
and the phylogeography of an intron-encoded
putative homing endonuclease.
JME. 2007 Feb. 8. PDF





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PDB ID: 1VCR
Chlorophyll A/B protein complex from pea chloroplast thylakoid membranes, resolution: 9.50 angstroms
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