Lilya V. (Semeonova) Matyunina
955 Juniper St # 2128
Atlanta, GA, 30309
Ph. (404)805-3189
School of Biology
Georgia Institute of Technology
315 Ferst Dr.
Atlanta, GA, 30332
Ph. (404)385-6629
Fax (404)894-2291
e-mail lilya@gatech.edu
Education and degree:
1987 Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics
N.I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Thesis title: "Multiple transpositions of mobile elements in Drosophila"
1981
M.S. in Biochemistry
Altay State University, Barnaul, Russia.
Professional employment:
2004- present Research Scientist II
School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
1993- 2004
Post Doctoral Associate
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
1991-1993
Post Doctoral Fellow
Institute of Gene biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
1988-1991
Research Assistant
Siberian Institute of Horticulture, Barnaul, Russia.
1985-1988
Research Assistant
Altay Institute of Cattle Breeding, Barnaul, Russia.
Publications:
Moreno CS, Matyunina L, Dickerson EB, Schubert N, Bowen NJ, Logani S, Benigno BB, McDonald JF.
Evidence that p53-Mediated Cell-Cycle-Arrest Inhibits Chemotherapeutic Treatment of
Ovarian Carcinomas.PLoS ONE. 2007 May 16;2:e441.
Menendez L, Walker D, Matyunina LV, Dickerson EB, Bowen NJ, Polavarapu N, Benigno BB, McDonald
JF.Identification of candidate methylation-responsive genes in ovarian cancer.
Mol Cancer. 2007 Jan 25;6:10.
Jordan IK, MatyuninaLV, McDonald JF. 1999. Evidence for the recent horizontal
transfer of long terminal repeat retrotransposon. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci 96:12621-12625.
Wilson S.,Matyunina LV, McDonald JF. 1998. An enhancer-like region withing the
copia untraslated leader which is variable in natural populations contains binding sites for
Drosophila regulatory proteins. Gene, 209:239-246.
McDonald JF, Matyunina LV, Wilson S, Jordan IK, Bowen NJ, and Miller WJ, 1997.
LTR retrotransposons and the evolution of eukaryotic enhacers. in Evolution and the role
of transposable elements., Genetica, 100: 3-13.
Matyunina LV, Jordan IK, and McDonald JF. 1996. Naturally occurring variation in
copia expression is due to both element (cis) and host (trans) regulatory variation. Proc.
Natl. Acd. Sci. 93: 7097-7102
Gerasimova TI, MatyuninaLV, Mizrokhi LY, Georgiev GP. 1985. Successive
transposition explosion in Drosophila melanogaster and reverse transposition of mobile
dispersed genetic elements. The EMBO Journal, 4: 3773-3779.
Matyunina LV, Gerasimova TI. 1985. Study of spontaneous sex-linked lethal mutations
in the unstable line ctMR2 of Drosophila melanogaster. DIS, 61: 119-120.
Gerasimova TI, Matyunina LV. 1985. Unstable mutations at the locus yellow induced by
the mobile element MDG2. DIS, 61: 78.
Gerasimova TI, Matyunina LV. 1985. Simultaneous reversion of three unstable alleles at
loci yellow, white, singed. DIS, 61: 77.
Matyunina LV, Mizrokhi LY, Gerasimova TI, Georgiev GP. 1985. Transposition
explosions in series of mutational transposition in Drosophila melanogaster unstable
strains. Genetika, 21: 1608-1617. (in Russian).
Gerasimova TI, Matyunina LV, Ilyin YV, Georgiev GP. 1984. Simultaneous
transpositions of different mobile elements: relation to multiple mutagenesis in
Drosophila melanogaster. MGG, 194: 517-522.
Gerasimova TI, Matyunina LV, Mizrokhi LY, Ilyin YV, Georgiev GP. 1984. Multiple
transposition events in separate germ cells in unstable strains of Drosophila
melanogaster. Genetika, 21: 1434-1443. (in Russian).
Gerasimova TI, Ilyin YV, Mizrokhi LY, Semeonova LV. 1984. Mobilization of
transposable element MDG4 by hybrid dysgenesis and resulting in appearance of
unstable alleles at cut locus in Drosophila melanogaster. MGG, 193:488-492.
Gerasimova TI, Ilyin YV, Mizrokhi LY, Semeonova LV. 1983. The direct demonstration
a mobile element MDG4 movement and it's role in unstable mutations arising in
Drosophila. Doclady AN SSSR (Proc. of Russian Ac. of Sci.) 271: 977-980. (in Russian).