Christian Tellgren-Roth

croth5@uwyo.edu



Nationality:    Swiss

Birthdate:      11. January 1971

Languages:    German (mother tongue), English, French, Norwegian (bokmål), Swedish and Italian



Titles:

25. Oct. 2001    Dr. ès sciences (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

25. April 1996   Dipl. Natw. ETH (Biology, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)



Education:

Sep. 2006 - ...     Service Scientist in Bioinformatics at the Center for Rural Health Research and Education at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, (USA)



Oct. 2004 - June 2006     Post-Doc at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University (Sweden), in the laboratory of Prof. Elzbieta Glaser, and at the Computational Biology Unit, University of Bergen (Norway), and at the Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie (USA), in the laboratory of Prof. David Liberles. Subject: "Characterisation of recent gene duplicates in Arabidopsis thaliana"



Oct. 2002 - Sep. 2004     Post-Doc (FNS) at the Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, Stockholm University (Sweden), and at the Computational Biology Unit, University of Bergen (Norway), in the laboratory of Prof. David Liberles. Subject: "Adaptive evolution in higher plants"



2001 – 2002     Post-Doc (Premier assistant) at the Institut d'Ecologie - Biologie et Physiologie végétales, Université de Lausanne (Switzerland), in the laboratory of Prof. Yves Poirirer. Subject: "Characterisation of two putative anion transporters in Arabidopsis thaliana"



1996 – 2001     Ph.D. thesis at the Institut d'Ecologie – Biologie et Physiologie végétales, Université de Lausanne (Switzerland), in the laboratory of Prof. Yves Poirier. Subject: "Characterisation of two putative anion transporters in Arabidopsis thaliana"



1995 – 1996     Diploma in biotechnology at the Institut für Biotechnologie, ETH Zürich (Switzerland), in the laboratory of Prof. Bernhard Witholt. Subject: "Expression and purification of rubredoxin mutants of Pseudomonas oleovorans"



Training courses:

Sep. 2005                      University of Bergen (Norway), Computational Biology Unit, Service Group

                                      "Beginners course in Protein Structure Prediction"

July - Oct. 2000             University of Cologne (Germany), Botanik, Lehrstuhl II, Arbeitsgruppe Flügge.

                                      "Transport of anions into proteoliposomes"

Feb. 1999                      University of Cologne (Germany), Botanik, Lehrstuhl II, Arbeitsgruppe Flügge

                                      "In vitro import of proteins into chloroplasts"



Seminars:

Apr. 2005                      BFYS2005, Randsvangen (Norway), "Adaptive Evolution in Higher Plants"

Mar. 2003                      BFYS2003, Vatnahalsen (Norway), "Adaptive Evolution in Higher Plants"

May 2002                       Stockholm (Sweden), "Characterisation of two putative anion transporters from

                                       Arabidopsis thaliana"

Sep. 1999                       Les Geneveys sur Coffrane (Switzerland), "Characterisation of two putative anion transporters from

                                       Arabidopsis thaliana"

Mar. 1999                      Neuchâtel (Switzerland), "Characterisation of two putative anion transporters from

                                      Arabidopsis thaliana"



Posters:

June 2006                         Bioinformatics2006, Århus (Denmark), "Recent Gene Duplications in Arabidopsis thaliana"

June 2005                         Bioinformatics2005, Tartu (Estonia), "Adaptive Evolution in Higher Plants"

May 2005                        ICPMB2005, Obernai (France), “Gene Duplication in Plants”

Apr. 2005                        BFYS2005, Randsvangen (Norway), "Adaptive Evolution in Higher Plants"

June 2004                         Bioinformatics2004, Linköping (Sweden), "Adaptive Evolution in Higher Plants"

May 2003                        Bioinformatics2003, Helsinki (Finland), "Adaptive Evolution in Higher Plants"

Mar. 2003                        BFYS2003, Vatnahalsen (Norway), "Adaptive Evolution in Higher Plants"



Publications:

Peer-reviewed articles:

Roth, C., Rastogi, S., Arvestad, L., Dittmar, K., Light, S., Ekman, D., Liberles, D.A. (2006) Evolution after gene duplication: models, mechanisms, sequences, systems, and organisms. J. Exp. Zool. (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 308B: 58-73.

Roth, C., Liberles, D.A. (2006), A systematic search for positive selection in higher plants (Embryophytes). BMC Plant Biol. 6:12.

Bhushan, S., Kuhn, C., Berglund, A.-K., Roth, C. and Glaser, E. (2006), The role of the N-terminal domain of chloroplast targeting peptides in organellar protein import and miss-sorting. FEBS Lett. 580: 3966-3972.

Bhushan, S., Ståhl, A., Nilsson, S., Lefebvre, B., Seki, M., Roth, C., McWilliam, D., Wright, S.J., Liberles, D.A., Shinozaki, K., Bruce, B., Boutry, M. and Glaser, E. (2005), Catalysis, subcellular localization, expression and evolution of the targeting peptides degrading protease, AtPreP2. Plant Cell Physiol. 46: 985-996.

Roth, C., Betts, M.J., Steffansson, P., Sælensminde, G. and Liberles, D.A. (2005), The Adaptive Evolution Database (TAED): a phylogeny based tool for comparative genomics. Nucleic Acids Res. 33 Database Issue:D495-D497.

Roth, C., Menzel, G., MacDonald-Comber Petétot, J., Rochat-Hacker, S. and Poirier, Y. (2004), Characterisation of a protein of the plastid inner envelope having homology to animal inorganic phosphate, chloride and organic anion transporters. Planta 218: 406-416.

van Beilen, J.B., Neuenschwander, M., Smits, T.H.M., Roth, C., Balada, S.B. and Witholt, B. (2002), Rubredoxins involved in alkane oxidation. J. Bacteriol. 184: 1722-1732.



Review articles, book chapters, books:

Roth, C., Betts, M.J., Liberles, D.A. (2005), Protein content in chordate and embryophyte genomes. Trends in Bioinformatics Research, Volume 1, Nova Science Publishers (New York), pp 95-118.

Roth, C., and Hughes, T. (2003), From microarrays to genome duplications. Genome Biology 4:332.

Roth, C. (2001), Characterisation of two putative anion transporters in Arabidopsis thaliana. Ph.D. thesis, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.