Demakov SA - Curriculum Vitae

1986 – Diploma in Biology, Leningrad State University, USSR

1986-1988 – Research assistant, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, USSR

1988-1990 – Junior research fellow, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, USSR

1990-1995 – Research fellow, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia

1995 – PhD degree in Biology. Project title “Molecular and genetic analysis of interband DNA in Drosophila polytene chromosomes”, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia

1995-2007 – Senior research fellow, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia

2007-2009 – Head of the laboratory, Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia

2008 – DSc degree in Biology. Project title “Molecular and genetic organization of interbands in Drosophila melanogaster polytene chromosomes” , Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk, Russia

2009-2011 – Head of the laboratory, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia

2011-2017 – Head of the laboratory, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Novosibirsk, Russia 

since 2017 – Director of the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Novosibirsk, Russia
 

1990 - Visiting Scientist, Genetics Institute, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary

1992 – Visiting Scientist, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

1996 – Visiting Scientist, Centro de Biologia Molecular, Autonoma Universidad de Madrid, Spain

1998-1999 - Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland

1999 – Visiting Scientist, Institute of Biology, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany 

2000 - Visiting Scientist, Institute of Biology, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

2003 – Visiting Scientist, Centro de Biologia Molecular, Autonoma Universidad de Madrid, Spain

2004 - Visiting Scientist, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
 

Member of Editorial Board of the Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breeding, Novosibirsk, Russia

Member of  the Thesis Committee D003.074.01, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Novosibirsk, Russia 

Expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences (№2016-01-7192-0493)
 

Genetics, Cytogenetics, Structure and Function of Interphase Chromosomes
 

Semeshin VF, Demakov SA, Perez Alonso M, Belyaeva ES, Bonner JJ, Zhimulev IF. Electron microscopical analysis of Drosophila polytene chromosomes. V. Characteristics of structures formed by transposed DNA segments of mobile elements. Chromosoma 97: 396-412, 1989

Demakov SA, Semeshin VF, Zhimulev IF. Cloning and molecular genetic analysis of Drosophila melanogaster interband DNA. Mol Gen Genet 238: 437-443, 1993

Schwartz YB, Ioudinkova ES, Demakov SA, Razin SV, Zhimulev IF. Interbands of Drosophila melanogaster polytene chromosomes contain matrix association regions. J Cell Biochem 72: 368-372, 1999

Schwartz YB, Demakov SA, Zhimulev IF. Polytene chromosome interband DNA is organized into nucleosomes. Mol Genet Genomics 265: 311-315, 2001

Demakov S, Gortchakov A, Schwartz Y, Semeshin V, Campuzano S, Modolell J, Zhimulev I. Molecular and genetic organization of Drosophila melanogaster polytene chromosomes: evidence for two types of interband regions. Genetica 122: 311-324, 2004

Zhimulev IF, Belyaeva ES, Semeshin VF, Koryakov DE, Demakov SA, Demakova OV, Pokholkova GV, Andreyeva EN. Polytene chromosomes: 70 years of genetic research. Int Rev Cytol 241: 203-275, 2004

Belyaeva ES, Demakov SA, Pokholkova GV, Alekseyenko AA, Kolesnikova TD, Zhimulev IF. DNA underreplication in intercalary heterochromatin regions in polytene chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster correlates with the formation of partial chromosomal aberrations and ectopic pairing. Chromosoma 115: 355-366, 2006

Demakova OV, Pokholkova GV, Kolesnikova TD, Demakov SA, Andreyeva EN, Belyaeva ES, Zhimulev IF. The SU(VAR)3-9/HP1 complex differentially regulates the compaction state and degree of underreplication of X chromosome pericentric heterochromatin in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 175: 609-620, 2007

Semeshin VF, Demakov SA, Shloma VV, Vatolina TY, Gorchakov AA, Zhimulev IF. Interbands behave as decompacted autonomous units in Drosophila melanogaster polytene chromosomes. Genetica 132: 267-279, 2008

Pindyurin AV, Boldyreva LV, Shloma VV, Kolesnikova TD, Pokholkova GV, Andreyeva EN, Kozhevnikova EN, Ivanoschuk IG, Zarutskaya EA, Demakov SA, Gorchakov AA, Belyaeva ES, Zhimulev IF. Interaction between the Drosophila heterochromatin proteins SUUR and HP1. J Cell Sci 121: 1693-1703, 2008

Berkaeva MB, Demakov SA, Schwartz YB, Zhimulev IF. Functional analysis of Drosophila polytene chromosomes decompacted unit: the interband. Сhromosome Res 17: 745-754, 2009

Andreyenkova NG, Kokoza EB, Semeshin VE, Belyaeva ES, Demakov SA, Pindyurin AV, Andreyeva EN, Volkova EI, Zhimulev IF. Localization and characteristics of DNA underreplication zone in the 75C region of intercalary heterochromatin in Drosophila melanogaster polytene chromosomes. Chromosoma 118: 747-761, 2009

Demakov SA, Vatolina TYu, Babenko VN, Semeshin VF, Belyaeva ES, Zhimulev IF. Protein composition of interband regions in polytene and cell line chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster. BMC Genomics 12: 566, 2011

Vatolina TYu, Boldyreva LV, Demakova OV, Demakov SA, Kokoza EB, Semeshin VF, Babenko VN, Goncharov FP, Belyaeva ES, Zhimulev IF. Identical functional organization of cell line interphase and polytene chromosomes in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS ONE 6(10): e25960, 2011

Zhimulev IF, Belyaeva ES, Vatolina TYu, Demakov SA. Banding patterns in Drosophila melanogaster polytene chromosomes correlate with DNA-binding protein occupancy. BioEssays 34: 498-508, 2012

Zhimulev IF, Zykova TYu, Goncharov FP, Khoroshko VA, Demakova OV, Semeshin VF, Pokholkova GV, Boldyreva LV, Demidova DS, Babenko VN, Demakov SA, Belyaeva ES. Genetic organization of interphase chromosome bands and interbands in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS ONE 9(7): e101631, 2014

Pokholkova GV, Demakov SA, Andreenkov OV, Andreenkova NG, Volkova EI, Belyaeva ES, Zhimulev IF. Tethering of CHROMATOR and dCTCF proteins results in decompaction of condensed bands in the Drosophila melanogaster polytene chromosomes but does not affect their transcription and replication timing. PLoS ONE 13(4): e0192634, 2018

Volkova EI, Andreyenkova NG, Andreyenkov OV, Sidorenko DS, Zhimulev IF, Demakov SA. Structural and functional dissection of the 5’ region of the Notch gene in Drosophila melanogaster. Genes 10(12): 1037, 2019

Demakova OV, Demakov SA, Boldyreva LV, Zykova TYu, Levitsky VG, Semeshin VF, Pokholkova GV, Sidorenko DS, Goncharov FP, Belyaeva ES, Zhimulev IF. Faint gray bands in Drosophila melanogaster polytene chromosomes are formed by coding sequences of housekeeping genes. Chromosoma 129(1): 25-44, 2020