Mikhail V Matz

Mikhail V Matz, Ph.D.

  • Position:
    Assistant Professor

    Integrative Biology

    University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D., Biochemistry, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry (Moscow, Russia)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Sergey A Lukyanov (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    Andrei L Osterman (as Graduate Student - Masters)
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  • Research:
    My lab uses molecular approaches to study biofluorescence, evolution of diversity and complexity in GFP-like fluorescent proteins, and adaptation or reef corals to climate change.

    www.bio.utexas.edu/research/matz_lab/matzlab/Research/Research.html

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  • Other Experience:

    2001-2006 Research Asistant Professor, Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida

    1991-1995 acoustic bass

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Phylogenetic tree of the coral fluorescent proteins drawn on a Petri dish using bacterial cultures expressing resurrected ancestral proteins and present-day proteins. Note that the complex red color evolved from the simple green ancestor gradually.


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