Curriculum vitae Alexander Eskandrian

Haig Alexander ESKANDARIAN

Citizenship :            French / American
Professional adress :    Institut Pasteur, Unité des Interactions Bactéries-Cellules. INRA USC2020, INSERM U604, 28 rue du Docteur Roux 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France.

Present position and status :    PhD student
Scholarship: Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale

UNIVERSITARY EDUCATION

2009-present : PhD student, Frontiéres du Vivant
2007-2009 :      Master of Sciences, Developmental Biology, New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
2003-2007 :      Bachelor of Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond College, School of Arts and Sciences


Posters and Presentations

2009         Eskandarian; HA, Grabowski, P, Eichenberger, P. “The Interactome of the Spore Coat Morphogenetic Protein SafA in Bacillus subtilis.” 3rd Prokaryotic Development Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. Poster

2009         Microbial Evolution and Genomics Symposium. New York University. “The spore coat protein interaction network in B. subtilis.” Presentation.

2007         Annual Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology in Toronto, Canada.  “Investigation of the sufABCDSE Operon in the Human Pathogen Shigella flexneri.”

PUBLICATION LIST

2008              Runyen-Janecky, L., Daugherty, A., Lloyd, B., Wellington, C., Eskandarian, H., Sagransky, M. “Role and Regulation of iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis genes in Shigella flexneri virulence.” Infection & Immunity 76(3). p. 1083-1092

2009              Wang KH, Isidro AL, Domingues L, Eskandarian HA, McKenney PT, Drew K, Grabowski P, Chua MH, Barry SN, Guan M, Bonneau R, Henriques AO, Eichenberger P. “The coat morphogenetic protein SpoVID is necessary for spore encasement in Bacillus
                       subtilis.” Molec. Microb. 74(3):634-49

2010              McKenney, PT, Driks, A, Eskandarian, HA, Grabowski, P, Guberman, J, Wang, KH, Gitai, Z, Eichenberger, P. “A Distance-Weighted Interaction Map Reveals a Preaviously Uncharacterized Layer of the B. subtilis Spore Coat.” Current Biology 20(10):934-8