User:Gabriel Balmus

Gabriel BALMUS, DVM
Born 15 August 1980, in Targu Neamt, Romania.

Dr. Balmus graduated from Universitatea de Stiinte Agricole si Medicina Veterinara, Iasi, Romania in 2007. He started his research career in 2001 in Iasi under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Marius Cirlan. He also performed research at Universita degli Studi di Naploi, Italy, in the Laboratory of Prof. Dino Di Berardino and at the University of Cambridge Centre for Comparative Genomics under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Malcolm Ferguson-Smith. In 2007 he joined Cornell University, where he is a fifth-year graduate student in the field of Molecular and Integrative Physiology. As a member of the Weiss Lab, Dr. Balmus is interested in the DNA damage response, focusing on interactions between the DNA damage checkpoint pathways directed by ATM and ATR.

Publications
1. Holloway J.K., Mohan S., Balmus G., et al. (2011) Mammalian BTBD12 (SLX4) localizes to meiotic chromosome cores and is essential for normal spermatogenesis– PLoS Genet. 7(6): e1002094

2. Jinadasa R., Balmus G., Gerwitz L., et al. (2011) Derivation of Thymic Lymphoma T-cell Lines from Atm-/- and p53-/- Mice. J Vis Exp. 3;(50).

3. Balmus G and Trifonov VA et al.(2007) Cross-species chromosome painting among camel, cattle, pig and human: further insights into the putative Cetartiodactyla ancestral karyotype.Chromosome Res. 15(4):499-515

4. Di Berardino D, Nicodemo D, Coppola G, King AW, Ramunno L, Cosenza GF, Iannuzzi L, Di Meo GP, Balmus G, Rubes J. (2006) Cytogenetic characterization of alpaca (Lama pacos, fam. Camelidae) prometaphase chromosomes. Cytogenet Genome Res. 115(2):138-44.

5. Basset P, Yannic G, Yang F, O'Brien PC, Graphodatsky AS, Ferguson-Smith MA, Balmus G, Volobouev VT, Hausser J. (2006) Chromosome localization of microsatellite markers in the shrews of the Sorex araneus group. Chromosome Res. 14(3):253-62