Marek Sliwinski

Department of Botany

430 Lincoln Drive

University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI 53706-1381

Office:338 Birge Hall
Phone: (608) 890-0430

Fax: (608) 262-7509
Email: mksliwin@wisc.edu

Educational Background:

BS in Microbiology, BA in Psychology, University of California, San Diego

Ph.D. in Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Interests:

Plant evolution and development.

Current Projects:

The role of LFY in the evolution of  inflorescence architecture in Brassicaceae
 

Publications

Sliwinski, M. K., Goodman, R. M. (2004) Spatial heterogeneity of crenarchaeal assemblages within mesophilic soil ecosystems as revealed by PCR-single-stranded conformation polymorphism profiling. Appl. Env. Micro. 70:1811-1820.

Sliwinski, M. K., Goodman, R. M. (2004) Comparison of crenarchaeal consortia inhabiting the rhizosphere of diverse terrestrial plants with those in bulk soil in native environments. Appl. Env. Micro. 70:1821-1826.

Paulsen, I. T., Nguyen, L., Sliwinski, M. K., Rabus, R., Saier, M. H. (2000) Microbial genome analyses: Comparative transport capabilities in eighteen prokaryotes. J. Mol. Biol. 301:75-100.

Saier, M. H., Jr., Eng, B. H., Fard, S., Garg, J., Haggerty, D. A., Hutchinson, W. J., Jack, D. L., Lai, E. C., Nusinew, D. P., Omar, A. M., Pao, S. S., Paulsen, I. T., Quan, J. A., Sliwinski, M., Tseng, T-. T., Wachi, S., and Young, G. B. (1999) Phylogenetic characterization of novel transport protein families revealed by genome analyses. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1422: 1-56.

Paulsen, I. T., Sliwinski, M. K., Nelissen, B., Goffeau, A., and Saier, M. H., Jr. (1998) Unified inventory of established and putative transporters encoded within the complete genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEBS Letters 430:116-125.

Paulsen, I. T., Sliwinski, M. K., Reizer, J., and Saier, M. H., Jr. (1998) Microbial genome analyses: Global comparisons of transport capabilities based on phylogenies, bioenergetics and substrate specificities. J. Mol. Biol. 277:573-592.

Saier, M. H., Jr., Paulsen, I. T., Sliwinski, M. K., Pao S. S., Skurray R. A., and Nikaido H. (1998) Evolutionary origins of multidrug and drug-specific efflux pumps in bacteria. FASEB J. 12:265-274.