Abdelali Barakat

Research Associate

Office: 402 Life Sciences
Phone: 863-6413
Contact: Abdelali Barakat
Lab: Floral Genome Project, dePamphilis Lab

Research Interests

My research work to date has covered a wide range of approaches in functional and structural genomics. A part of my previous work dealt with the distribution of genes and repeated sequences in plant genomes, the methylation in genomes of Gramineae, the structure and evolution of plant genomes. I am also particularly interested in gene family organization and evolution as well as genetic and molecular process involved in gene duplication as well as their structural and functional divergence. I have also been working on different functional genomic projects. These latter concern the identification of genes involved in soybean resistance to soybean mosaic virus and genes involved in the development of the rice grain as well as their functional analysis. My actual research activities are a part of a research program (Floral Genome Project) which aims to identify and investigate genes involved in the diversification of angiosperm flower development. I am particularly analyzing, the organization and evolution of some gene families playing a key role in flower development. I am also working on a microRNA project aiming to identify and investigate the function of microRNA involved in the regulation of flower development.

Selected Publications

A. Barakat, N. Carels and G. Bernardi. (1997) The gene distribution in Gramineae genomes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 94, 6857-6861.
A. Barakat and G. Bernardi. (1998). Distribution of genes in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome and its implication in the genome organisation of plant. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 95, 10044-10049.
A. Barakat, P., Gallois, M. Raynal, D. Mestre-Ortega, C. Sallaud, E. Guiderdoni, M. Delseny, and G. Bernardi. (2000). The distribution of T-DNA in the genomes of transgenic Arabidopsis and rice. FEBS Letters, 471, 161-164.
G. Blanc, A. Barakat, R. Guyot, R. Cooke and M. Delseny. (2000). Extensive duplication and reshuffling in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. Plant Cell, 12, 1093-1102.
A. Barakat, K. Szick-Miranda, I. Chang, R. Guyot, G. Blanc,R. Cooke, M. Delseny and J. Bailey-Serres. (2001) The Organization of Cytoplasmic Ribosomal Protein Genes in the Arabidopsis Genome. Plant physiol. 127, 1-18.
A. Badula, D. Kaczmarek, A. Barakat, M. Delseny, C.F. Quiros (2003) Comparative mapping of Brassica olereacea and Arabidopsis thaliana chromosomes based on ESTs from A. thaliana. Mol Genet Genomics, 268, 656-65.
I. Dominguez, E. Graziano, C. Gebhardt, A. Barakat, S. Berry, P. Arùs, M. Delseny and S. Barnes. (2003). Plant genome archeology: evidence for conserved ancestral chromosome segments in dicotyledonous plant species.Plant Biotechnology Journal, 1, 91-99.
L. Cui, P. K. Wall, J. H. Leebens-Mack, B. G. Lindsay, D. E. Soltis, J. J. Doyle, P. S. Soltis, J. E. Carlson, K. Arumuganathan, A. Barakat, V. A. Albert, H. Ma and C. W. dePamphilis. (2006). Widespread genome duplications throughout the history of flowering plants. Genome Research, 16, 738-749.
A. Barakat, K. Wall, J. Leebens-Mack, Y. Wang, J. Carlson, C.W. dePamphilis. (2007). Large-scale identification of microRNAs from a basal eudicot (Eschscholzia californica) and conservation in flowering plants. Plant Journal. In press.
A. Barakat, K. F. Muller and L. E. Saenz-de-Miera. (2007). Molecular evolutionary analyses of Arabidopsis L7 ribosomal protein gene family. Gene. In press.

Last modified: 30 August 2007