Maldonado

GROUP LEADER NAME (as it appears in publications): Ernesto Maldonado

AFFILIATION: Departamento de Biología Celular y del Desarrollo, Instituto de Fisiología Celular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM.

TEL:* 55-56225639

FAX:* 55-56225639

EMAIL:* emaldona@ifc.unam.mx

WEB: www.ifc.unam.mx

GROUP NAME / RESEARCH INTEREST IN FEW WORDS:

Development and Evolution of the neural system, epidermis and the notochord

SHORT SUMMARY OF RESEARCH INTEREST (MAX. 200 WORDS):

Note: please attach at the end of the form a longer description, with a maximum of 2000 words.

LIST OF UP TO FIVE RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS:

1- Golling, G., Amsterdam, A., Sun Z., Antonelli, M., Maldonado, E., Chen, W., Burgess, S., Haldi, M., Artzt, K., Farrington, S., Lin, S-Y., Nissen, R. and Hopkins, N. (2002) Insertional Mutagenesis in Zebrafish Identifies Novel Genes Essential for Early Vertebrate Development. Nature Genetics. 31, 135-140

2- Maldonado, E., Hernandez, F., Lozano, C., Castro M. and Navarro, R.E. (2006) The zebrafish Mutant vps18 as a Model for Vesicle-Traffic Related Hypopigmentation Diseases. Pigment Cell Research. 19, 315-326

Número de citas = 10. - Indice de Impacto 2009 = 4.34

3- Villava, C.E., Arellano-Torres, A., Navarro R.E. and Maldonado, E. (2007) Freeze-crack Technique to Study Epidermal Development in Zebrafish Using Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) Microscopy and Fluorescent Markers. BioTechniques. 43, 313-319

4- Navarro, R.E., Ramos-Balderas. J.L., Guerrero, I., Pelcastre, V. and Maldonado, E. (2008) Pigment Dilution Mutants from Fish Models with Connection to Lysosome-Related Organelles and Vesicular Traffic Genes. Zebrafish. 5, 309-318

5- Bezares-Calderón, L., Becerra, A., Salinas, L.S., Maldonado, E. and Navarro, R.E. (2010). Bioinformatic analysis of P granule-related proteins: insights into germ granule evolution in nematodes. Dev. Genes and Evol. 220, 41-52

GROUP MEMBERS (NAME, POSITION, EMAIL):*

1- Samantha Carrillo Graduate Student (Master) scarrillo@ifc.unam

2- Aída Guzmán Graduate Student (Ph.D) aguzman@unam.mx

3- Abigail Díaz Graduate Student (Ph.D) abigail_Diaz@yahoo.com

4- Cecilia Zampedri Graduate Student (Ph.D) cecilia_zampedri@yahoo.com.ar

5- Carlos Buen Abad Graduate Student (Ph.D) fernandobuenabad@ciencias.unam.mx

FISH FACILITIES (TYPE OF FISH SYSTEM/TANKS, CAPACITY, ETC.)*

Two stand alone systems from Aquatic Habitats. Each with capacity for 800 adult fish.

FISH LINES KEPT IN STOCK:*

Tab-14

WIK

Islet-1-GFP

Kca6 (histone-GFP)

Hi1463

Hi2499A

OTHER EQUIPMENT RELATED TO ZEBRAFISH RESEARCH*

Microinjection, hibridization, fluorescence and DIC microscopy, incubators, water purification.

LAB EXPERTISE AND TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES (RELATED TO ZEBRAFISH RESEARCH)*

Morpholino, RNA and DNA microinjection, histology, RT-PCR, quantitative PCR, immunostaining, in situ hibridization.

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION:*

We may have funding for student or researchers academic visits for short periods of time (weeks – 3 momths)