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Aurelien
Tartar
Postdoctoral
Research Associate Clark
University Biology
Department 950 Main
Street Worcester,
MA 01610 Ph: (508)
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Research interests
My research interests range from molecular evolution of eukaryotes to evolution of parasitism and host-pathogen interactions. At Clark, I use glutamine synthetase (GS) genes to infer evolutionary relationships in and between various major eukaryotic groups. Preliminary data suggest that two distinct GS-encoding genes (GS2 and GS3) may be used to confirm recent progress in eukaryote evolution and shed lights on secondary endosymbiosis hypotheses.
Education
2000-2004: Ph.D., University
of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
1995-1998: M.S., Institut National Agronomique
Paris-Grignon,
Paris, France.
Publications
Tartar, A., Shapiro, A.M., Scharf, D.W. & Boucias, D.G. (2005). Differential expression of chitin synthase (CHS) and glucan synthase (FKS) genes correlates with the formation of a modified, thinner cell wall in in vivo-produced Beauveria bassiana cells. Mycopathologia 160, 303-314. PDF - Pubmed Abstract
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Koning, A.P., Tartar, A., Boucias, D.G. & Keeling, P.J. (2005).
Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) survey of the highly adapted green algal parasite, Helicosporidium.
Protist 156, 181-190. PDF
Tartar,
A. & Boucias, D.G. (2004). A pilot-scale Expressed Sequence Tag
analysis of Beauveria bassiana
gene expression reveals a tripeptidyl peptidase that is differentially
expressed in vivo. Mycopathologia 158, 201-209. PDF
- Pubmed
Abstract
Tartar, A. (2004). Helicosporidium. In: Encyclopedia of Entomology, Volume 2, pp. 1060-1062. Edited by J.L. Capinera. Kluwer Academic Press.
Tartar,
A. & Boucias, D.G. (2004). The non-photosynthetic, pathogenic green
alga Helicosporidium sp. has
retained a modified, functional plastid genome. FEMS Microbiol Lett 233,
153-157. PDF - Pubmed
Abstract
Wattanalai,
R., Boucias, D.G., Tartar, A. & Wiwat. C. (2004). Chitinase gene of
the dimorphic mycopathogen Nomuraea rileyi. J Invertebr Pathol 85, 54-57. PDF
Tartar,
A., Boucias, D.G., Becnel, J.J. & Adams, B.J. (2003). Comparison of
plastid 16S rDNA (rrn16) genes
from Helicosporidium spp.:
evidence supporting the reclassification of Helicosporidia as green algae
(Chlorophyta). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53, 1719-1723. PDF
- Pubmed
Abstract
Maimala,
S., Tartar, A., Boucias, D.G. & Chandrapatya. A. (2002). Detection
of the toxin Hirsutellin A from Hirsutella thompsonii. J Invertebr Pathol 80,
112-126. PDF - Pubmed
Abstract
Tartar,
A., Boucias, D.G., Adams, B.J. & Becnel, J.J. (2002). Phylogenetic
analysis identifies the invertebrate pathogen Helicosporidium sp. as a green alga (Chlorophyta). Int J Syst
Evol Microbiol 52, 273-279. PDF
- Pubmed
Abstract - Cover thumbnail - Microbiology
Today commentary
Links
The Helicosporidia Project Online
includes my doctoral research on the invertebrate pathogenic genus Helicosporidium.
Part of my
Ph.D. dissertation involved the generation of Expressed Sequence Tags from
Helicosporidium sp.. This work has been performed in collaboration with Patrick
Keeling and his lab (University of British Columbia), and our ESTs are now available as part as the Protist
EST Program.
Some societies my work has affinities with (in no particular order): Society for Invertebrate Pathology; International Society for Evolutionary Protistology; Phycological Society of America; International Society of Protistologists; Mycological Society of America; Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.
For Optimal
Research Performance (O.R.P.), I listen to Sirius
channel 26 and 22,
as well as Soma FM while working. Also, my
phylogenetic calculations are really slow because my laptop is overloaded with
free MP3s from Epitonic.
Questions/Comments: email me
Last update: January 2006