Epernicus: Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, Ph.D.

Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, Ph.D.

Positions:
Term Assistant Professor

Biology

Barnard College, Columbia University

Research Associate

Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics

American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY)
Degrees:

Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Columbia University (New York, NY)

M.Phil., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Columbia University (New York, NY)

M.A., Environmental Policy, Columbia University (New York, NY)

M.A., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Columbia University (New York, NY)

B.Sc., Biology of Populations and Ecosystems, Université Paris-Sud XI

B.Sc., Biology of Organisms, Université Paris-Sud XI

Dipl. Bio., Biological and Natural Sciences, Université Montpellier II
Past Advisors:

George Amato (as Post Doctoral Fellow)

Rob Desalle (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)

Julio A Rozas Liras (as Visiting Student)

Eleftherios Zouros (as Visiting Student)

Jacqui A Shykoff (as Undergraduate Student)

Montserrat Aguadé (as Visiting Student)
Research:
Other Experience:
2011 US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics Workshop, Walnut Creek, CA

2009 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Programming for Biology Course, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

2003 Fieldwork, African forest elephants, West and Central Africa

Communities:

Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis's Genealogy

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Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis's Publications (21)

A functional phylogenomic view of the seed plants.
Lee EK, Cibrian-Jaramillo A, Kolokotronis SO, Katari MS, Stamatakis A, Ott M, Chiu JC, Little DP, Stevenson DW, McCombie WR, Martienssen RA, Coruzzi G, Desalle R

PLoS genetics. 2011 Dec;7(12):e1002411
Random Addition Concatenation Analysis: A Novel Approach to the Exploration of Phylogenomic Signal Reveals Strong Agreement between Core and Shell Genomic Partitions in the Cyanobacteria.
Narechania A, Baker RH, Sit R, Kolokotronis SO, Desalle R, Planet PJ

Genome biology and evolution. 2011 Nov 16
The Fish Barcode of Life (FISH-BOL) special issue.
Hanner R, Desalle R, Ward RD, Kolokotronis SO

Mitochondrial DNA. 2011 Oct;22 Suppl 1:1-2
Bayesian estimation of substitution rates from ancient DNA sequences with low information content.
Ho SY, Lanfear R, Phillips MJ, Barnes I, Thomas JA, Kolokotronis SO, Shapiro B

Systematic biology. 2011 May;60(3):366-75
Reconciling apparent conflicts between mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenies in African elephants.
Ishida Y, Oleksyk TK, Georgiadis NJ, David VA, Zhao K, Stephens RM, Kolokotronis SO, Roca AL

PloS one. 2011;6(6):e20642
Genetic variation in avocado stem weevils Copturus aguacatae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Mexico.
Engstrand RC, Cibrián Tovar J, Cibrián-Jaramillo A, Kolokotronis SO

Mitochondrial DNA. 2010 Dec;21 Suppl 1:38-43
The MexBOL initiative.
Escalante P, Desalle R, Kolokotronis SO

Mitochondrial DNA. 2010 Dec;21 Suppl 1:1-2
DNA barcodes reveal species-specific mercury levels in tuna sushi that pose a health risk to consumers.
Lowenstein JH, Burger J, Jeitner CW, Amato G, Kolokotronis SO, Gochfeld M

Biology letters. 2010 Oct 23;6(5):692-5
Evolutionary dynamics of endogenous feline leukemia virus proliferation among species of the domestic cat lineage.
Polani S, Roca AL, Rosensteel BB, Kolokotronis SO, Bar-Gal GK

Virology. 2010 Sep 30;405(2):397-407
The Diploblast-Bilateria Sister hypothesis: parallel revolution of a nervous systems may have been a simple step.
Schierwater B, Kolokotronis SO, Eitel M, Desalle R

Communicative & integrative biology. 2009 Sep;2(5):403-5
Wild bird's-eye view of influenza virus A(H1N1) phylogenetic evolution.
Piaggio AJ, Clark L, Franklin AB, Kolokotronis SO

EcoHealth. 2009 Sep;6(3):346-50
Concatenated analysis sheds light on early metazoan evolution and fuels a modern "urmetazoon" hypothesis.
Schierwater B, Eitel M, Jakob W, Osigus HJ, Hadrys H, Dellaporta SL, Kolokotronis SO, Desalle R

PLoS biology. 2009 Jan 27;7(1):e20
Genetic variation at hair length candidate genes in elephants and the extinct woolly mammoth.
Roca AL, Ishida Y, Nikolaidis N, Kolokotronis SO, Fratpietro S, Stewardson K, Hensley S, Tisdale M, Boeskorov G, Greenwood AD

BMC evolutionary biology. 2009;9:232
The impact of outgroup choice and missing data on major seed plant phylogenetics using genome-wide EST data.
de la Torre-Bárcena JE, Kolokotronis SO, Lee EK, Stevenson DW, Brenner ED, Katari MS, Coruzzi GM, DeSalle R

PloS one. 2009;4(6):e5764
The real maccoyii: identifying tuna sushi with DNA barcodes--contrasting characteristic attributes and genetic distances.
Lowenstein JH, Amato G, Kolokotronis SO

PloS one. 2009;4(11):e7866
Phylogenetic and evolutionary analyses of St. Louis encephalitis virus genomes.
Baillie GJ, Kolokotronis SO, Waltari E, Maffei JG, Kramer LD, Perkins SL

Molecular phylogenetics and evolution. 2008 May;47(2):717-28
Historical mammal extinction on Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) correlates with introduced infectious disease.
Wyatt KB, Campos PF, Gilbert MT, Kolokotronis SO, Hynes WH, DeSalle R, Ball SJ, Daszak P, MacPhee RD, Greenwood AD

PloS one. 2008;3(11):e3602
Mitochondrial genomes reveal an explosive radiation of extinct and extant bears near the Miocene-Pliocene boundary.
Krause J, Unger T, Noçon A, Malaspinas AS, Kolokotronis SO, Stiller M, Soibelzon L, Spriggs H, Dear PH, Briggs AW, Bray SC, O'Brien SJ, Rabeder G, Matheus P, Cooper A, Slatkin M, Pääbo S, Hofreiter M

BMC evolutionary biology. 2008;8:220
Elevated substitution rates estimated from ancient DNA sequences.
Ho SY, Kolokotronis SO, Allaby RG

Biology letters. 2007 Dec 22;3(6):702-5
Detection of mitochondrial insertions in the nucleus (NuMts) of Pleistocene and modern muskoxen.
Kolokotronis SO, Macphee RD, Greenwood AD

BMC evolutionary biology. 2007;7:67
Effects of male sterility on reproductive traits in gynodioecious plants: a meta-analysis.
Shykoff JA, Kolokotronis SO, Collin CL, López-Villavicencio M

Oecologia. 2003 Mar;135(1):1-9

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Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, Ph.D.

Term Assistant Professor

Research Associate

Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis's Genealogy

Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis's Publications (21)

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