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Current projects:
Functional Analysis of Shewanella, a cross genome comparison.
Funded by DOE, 2004-09-01 to 2007-08-31.

Education:
1983 - 1985 Biomedical Engineer, Microbiology/Immunology/Pathology Bergen School of Engineering, Bergen, Norway
1985 - 1987 Candidata magisterii (B.S. equivalent) in Biology/Microbiology University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
1988 - 1995 Ph.D. in Bacteriology University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Research Activities: Microbial physiology of Actinomycetes, focusing on ADP-ribosylation in Mycobacterium smegmatis.
1996 - 1996 Postdoctoral Scientist Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Research Activities: Molecular analyses of the Escherichia coli toxin, alpha- Hemolysin.
1996 - 1998 Forsker (Research Scientist) Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Research Activities: Analysis of and assay development for protein phosphatase targeting cyanobacterial toxins
1999 - 2001 Postdoctoral Scientist Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Research Activities: Functional analysis of the Escherichia coli genome focusing on annotation and classification of microbial gene products by metabolic pathways and physiological roles.
Academic appointments:
2001 - 2004 Staff Scientist I Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Resarch Activities: Functional analysis of the genomes of Escherichia coli and Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 focusing on annotation and sequence-related protein groups.
2004 - present Assistant Research Scientist Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.
Research Activities: Functional analysis of the genomes of Escherichia coli and several Shewanella species focusing on annotation and sequence-related protein groups.
Professional memberships:
American Society for Microbiology
Sigma XI Scientific Research Society
Distinctions and awards:

 

Other activities:

 

Patents:

Serres, MH, Fladmark, KE, Døskeland, SO. Cyanobacterial toxin detection assay. WP File no: 67505.598

Publications:

Liang P., M. H. Serres and M. Riley: Genes and Proteins of Escherichia coli K-12 (GenProtEC), Nucl. Acids. Res., (2000). Link >>

Riley, M. and M. Serres: Genomics and Metabolism in Escherichia coli, in The Prokaryotes, Springer-Verlag, New York, (2000). Link >>

Serres, M. and M. Riley: Interim report on genomics of E. coli, Ann. Rev. Microbiol., 54:341-411 (2000).

Serres, M. and M. Riley : MultiFun, a multifunctional classification scheme for Escherichia coli K-12, Microbial and Comparative Genomics, 5(4):205-222 (2001).

Serres, M.H., M. Gopal, L. Nahum, T., P. Liang, T. Gaasterland and M. Riley : A functional update of the E. coli K-12 genome, Genome Biology , 2(9):research0035.1-0035.7. Data included in (2001). Link >>

Serres M.H. and M. Riley: Structural domains, protein modules, and sequence similarities enrich our understanding of the Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 proteome, OMICS, 8:306-321 (2004).

Serres M.H., S. Goswami and M. Riley: GenProtEC: an updated and improved analysis of functions of Escherichia coli K-12 proteins, Nucleic Acids Res., 32:D300-2 (2004).

Kolker E, A.F. Picone, M.Y. Galperin, M.F. Romine, R. Higdon, K.S. Makarova, N. Kolker, G.A. Anderson, X. Qiu, K.J. Auberry, G. Babnigg, A.S. Beliaev, P. Edlefsen, D.A. Elias, Y.A. Gorby, T. Holzman, J.A. Klappenbach, K.T. Konstantinidis, M.L. Land, M.S. Lipton, L.A. McCue, M. Monroe, L. Pasa-Tolic, G. Pinchuk, S. Purvine, M.H. Serres, S. Tsapin, B.A. Zakrajsek, W. Zhu, J. Zhou, F.W. Larimer, C.E. Lawrence, M. Riley, F.R. Collart, J.R. Yates 3rd, R.D. Smith, C.S. Giometti, K.H. Nealson, J.K. Fredrickson, J.M. Tiedje: Global profiling of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1: expression of hypothetical genes and improved functional annotations, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 102:2099-2104 (2005).

Serres, M.H. and M. Riley: Gene fusions and gene duplications: relevance to genomic annotation and functional analysis, BMC Genomics, 6:33-40 (2005).

Serres MH, Riley M. Genomic analysis of carbon source metabolism of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1: Predictions versus experiments. J Bacteriol., 2006 Jul;188(13):4601-9.

Riley M, Abe T, Arnaud MB, Berlyn MK, Blattner FR, Chaudhuri RR, Glasner JD, Horiuchi T, Keseler IM, Kosuge T, Mori H, Perna NT, Plunkett G 3rd, Rudd KE, Serres MH, Thomas GH, Thomson NR, Wishart D, Wanner BL. Escherichia coli K-12: a cooperatively developed annotation snapshot--2005. Nucleic Acids Res., 2006 Jan 5;34(1):1-9. Print 2006.

 
     
Supported by NIH, NSF, NASA, The Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation, W.M. Keck Foundation, G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation, and Department of Energy.
Unless otherwise stated, all material © 2007 Bay Paul Center, MBL.