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Silvia Calo

Profesora a Tiempo Completo

Correo electrónico: s.calo@ce.pucmm.edu.do

Oficina: Edificio Ciencias Básicas II, al lado de la secretaría, campus de Santiago. Santiago, R.D.

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Publicaciones
  • Calo, S., Nicolás, F., Soo Chan Lee, Ana Vila, Maria Cervantes, Santiago Torres-Martinez, Rosa M. Ruiz-Vazquez, Maria E. Cardenas, and Joseph Heitman (2017). "A non-canonical RNA degradation pathway suppresses RNAi-dependent epimutations in the human fungal pathogen Mucor circinelloides. PLOS Genetics. 13:e1006686.
  • Soo Chan Lee, Alicia Li, Silvia Calo, Makoto Inoue, Nam K. Tonthat, Judith M. Bain, Johanna Louw, Mari L. Shinohara, Lars P. Erwig, Maria A. Schumacher, Dennis C. Ko, Joseph Heitman (2015). Calcineurin orchestrates dimorphic transitions, antifungal drug responses and host-pathogen interactions of the pathogenic mucoralean fungus Mucor circinelloides. Mol Microbiol. 97:844-65.
  • Trung Anh Trieu, Silvia Calo, Francisco E. Nicolás, Ana Vila, Simon Moxon, Tamas Dalmay, Santiago Torres-Martínez, Victoriano Garre and Rosa M. Ruiz-Vázquez (2015). A Non-Canonical RNA Silencing Pathway Promotes mRNA Degradation in Basal Fungi. PLOS Genetics 11:e1005168.
  • Silvia Calo, Cecelia Shertz, Soo Chan Lee, Robert J. Bastidas, Francisco E. Nicolás, Joshua A. Granek, Piotr Mieczkowski, Santiago Torres-Martinez, Rosa M. Ruiz-Vazquez, Maria E. Cardenas, and Joseph Heitman (2014). Antifungal drug resistance evoked via RNAi-dependent epimutations. Nature 513:555-8.
  • R. Blake Billmyre, Silvia Calo, Marianna Feretzaki, Xuying Wang and Joseph Heitman (2013). RNAi function, diversity, and loss in the fungal kingdom. Chromosome Res 21:561–572.
  • Silvia Calo, R. Blake Billmyre, and Joseph Heitman (2013). Generators of phenotypic diversity in the evolution of pathogenic microorganisms. PLOS Pathogens’ Pearls 9:e1003181.
  • Soo Chan Lee, Alicia Li, Silvia Calo, and Joseph Heitman (2013). Calcineurin plays key roles in the dimorphic transition and virulence of the human pathogenic zygomycete Mucor circinelloides. PLOS Pathogens 9:e1003625.
  • Silvia Calo, Francisco E. Nicolás, Ana Vila, Santiago Torres-Martínez and Rosa M. Ruiz-Vázquez. (2012). Two distinct RNA-dependent RNA polymerases are required for initiation and amplification of RNA silencing in the basal fungus Mucor circinelloides. Molecular Microbiology. 83: 379–394.
  • Nicolás, F.E., Moxon, S., de Haro, J.P., Calo, S., Grigoriev, I.V., Torres-Martínez, S., Moulton, V., Ruiz-Vázquez, R.M. & Dalmay, T. (2010). Endogenous short RNAs generated by Dicer 2 and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 1 regulate mRNAs in the basal fungus Mucor circinelloides. Nucleic Acid Research 38:5535-41.
  • de Haro, J.P., Calo, S., Cervantes, M., Nicolás, F.E., Torres-Martínez, S., Ruiz-Vázquez, R.M. (2009). A single dicer gene is required for efficient gene silencing associated with two classes of small antisense RNAs in Mucor circinelloides. Eukaryotic Cell 8: 1486-97.
  • Nicolás, F.E., Calo, S., Murcia-Flores, L., Garre, V., Ruiz-Vázquez, R.M. & Torres-Martínez, S. (2008). A RING-finger photocarotenogenic repressor involved in asexual sporulation in Mucor circinelloides. FEMS Microbiology Letters 280: 81-8.