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Name: Sergei Mirkin
Title: Professor, White Family Chair in Biology
Departmental Affiliation: Biology Department
Degrees: M.S., Genetics, Moscow State University, 1978
Ph.D., Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1983
Expertise: Genetics and Molecular Biology
Major Awards: International Advisory Board for Molecular Biology (Mosk), 2005 - present, Managing Editor for Frontiers in Bioscience, 2005 - present
E-mail: Sergei.Mirkin@tufts.edu

Other websites: http://ase.tufts.edu/biology/faculty/mirkin
Scholarship & Research: Mirkin, E.V., Mirkin, S.M. (2007) Replication fork stalling and natural impediments. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 71, 13-35.

Krasilnikova, M.M., Kireeva, M.L., Petrovic, V., Knijnikova, N., Kashlev, M., Mirkin, S.M. (2007) Effects of Friedreich’s ataxia (GAA)n.(TTC)n repeats on RNA synthesis and stability. Nucleic Acids Res. 35, 1075-1084.

Mirkin, S.M. (2006) DNA structures, repeat expansions and human hereditary disorders. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 16, 1-8.

Mirkin, E. V., Castro Roa D., Nudler E., Mirkin, S.M. (2006) Transcription regulatory elements are punctuation marks for DNA replication. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 7276-7281.

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