Sharief Barends

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About Sharief Barends

DEGREES: Ph.D. Leiden University, 2003 (cum laude) Master’s at Utrecht University, 1998 OTHER: Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (2014) PRESENTATIONS: Kluyver symposium - Netherlands: 2013 (invited speaker) ISBA - Mexico: 2011 (invited speaker) RNA meeting: 2005, 2006, 2007 tRNA workshop: 2002, 2003, 2006 EF-Tu workshop: 1998, 2001 SELECTED SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS: Ramos et al.(2011) The Aspergillus niger multicopper oxidase family: analysis and overexpression of laccase-like encoding genes. Microb Cell Fact, 10, 78. Martin et al.(2011) Cap-assisted internal initiation of translation of histone H4. Mol Cell, 11, 197-209. Barends et al.(2010) Advanced Review: The tmRNA-tagging mechanism and the control of of gene expresion. WIREs RNA. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wrna.48. Barends et al.(2010) tmRNA specifically controls the translation of cell-cycle and stress proteins in Streptomyces. EMBO Rep, 11, 119-25. Rigali et al.(2008) Feast or famine: the global regulator DasR links nutrient stress to antibiotic production by Streptomyces. EMBO Rep, 9, 670-5. Maheswari et al.(2006) The square-planar cytotoxic [Cu(II)(pyrimol)Cl] complex acts as an efficient DNA cleaver without reductant. JACS 128, 710-1. Rudinger et al.(2006) Idiosyncratic behaviour of tRNA-like structures in translation of plant viral RNA genomes. J Mol Biol 355, 873-8. Barends et al.(2003) Entrapping ribosomes for viral translation: tRNA mimicry as a molecular Trojan horse. Cell 112, 123-9.