Curriculum Vitae
Olga Zhaxybayeva

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Bioinformatics Senior Scientist
Environmental Proteomics NB, Inc.
Phone: (506) 364-2233
http://www.environmentalproteomics.ca/
E-mail: o...@dal.ca

Personal: Born in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Education:
01/2006-04/2007. Certificate in Computer Graphics, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), Halifax, NS, Canada.
09/1998 - 11/2004. Ph.D. in Genetics (Adv.: J. Peter Gogarten),
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of Connecticut.
09/1993 - 06/1997. Bachelor's Degree in Applied Mathematics
(cum laude),
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics,
Al-Faraby Kazakh State National University.
09/1990 - 06/1993. Physicomathematical Lycée of Almaty - high school with advanced education in Physics and Mathematics.
Work
Experience:
Sept.1, 2009 - June 30, 2012 Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, Canada
Aug. 1, 2009 - present Bioinformatics Senior Scientist, Environmental Proteomics NB, Inc.
Jan. 3, 2005 - Jul. 31, 2009 Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
2/11/2004- 12/31/2004 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut
Fall 1999 - Spring 2004
Teaching Assistant in:
  • MCB 396-42 (Perl for Biologists) - Spring 2004

  • MCB 221 (Intro to Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics) - Fall 2003

  • MCB 396 (Computer Applications in Genomics) - Summer 2000, 2001, 2002

  • MCB 372 (Computer Methods in Molecular Evolution) - Spring 2000, Spring 2002,

  • MCB 232C (Computer Applications in Molecular and Cell Biology) - Fall 2000

  • MCB 200 (Human Genetics) - Fall 1999
Fall 1998 - 1/11/2004 Research Assistant. University of Connecticut.
09/1999 - 08/2004. Webmaster of MCB Home Page
09/08/1997 - 10/12/1997. Work under the supervision of Prof. Erwin M. Friedlander of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA within the framework of his Project Cascade
07/07/1997 - 09/07/1997. Planetary Biology Internship in the lab of Peter Gogarten, University of Connecticut, USA. The project was "The effect of among site rate variation on phylogenetic reconstruction". Poster summarizing the project is available here.
02/03/1997 - 03/21/1997. Pre-diploma practice at Institute of Gene Biology in Moscow, Russia. Worked on development of the software for the search of specific positions/motifs in DNA sequences.
09/1995 - 12/1996. Research assistant, Mechanics and Mathematics Research Institute (NII MM), Almaty, Kazakstan. Worked on development of the software for analysis of DNA sequences.
Membership
in Scientific
Societies:		 Associate Member of International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life (ISSOL) since 1996.
Fellowships, Travel
Awards and Honors:
07/2005-07/2008 Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Postdoctoral Fellowship
05/2005-05/2007 Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dalhousie University
03/2005 Recipient of NSF travel award to attend World Sumit on Evolution, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, June 9-12, 2005
Summer 2004 Predoctoral fellowship, Graduate School, University of Connecticut
04/2002 Recipient of a travel grant to attend 2nd Astrobiology Science Conference at NASA's Ames Research Center April 7-11, 2002
Summer 2001 Recipient of the Professor Claire M. Berg Fellowship in Genetics, University of Connecticut
04/2001 Recipient of a travel grant to attend 2001 meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington DC, April 10-12, 2001
10/2000 Recipient of a grant to attend Short Course on the Mathematics of Biological Complexity: Complexity in Evolutionary Biology: Genetic Algorithms, Cellular Automata and Adaptive Landscapes.
07/1997 - 08/1997 Recipient of the NASA Planetary Biology Internship
07/1996 Recipient of a travel grant from ISSOL to attend ISSOL'96 meeting.
Publications in refereed journals:
  1. W. Ford Doolittle and Olga Zhaxybayeva: "Metagenomics and the units of biological organization", BioScience (in press).

  2. Olga Zhaxybayeva, W. Ford Doolittle, R. Thane Papke and J. Peter Gogarten: "Intertwined Evolutionary Histories of Marine Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus marinus", Genome Biology and Evolution, 2009, 1: 325–339. [Open Access]

  3. W. Ford Doolittle and Olga Zhaxybayeva: "On the origin of prokaryotic species", Genome Research 2009, 19:744-56. [PubMed]

  4. Olga Zhaxybayeva, Kristen Swithers, Pascal Lapierre, Greg Fournier, Derek Bickhard, Robert T. DeBoy, Karen E. Nelson, Camilla L. Nesbo, W. Ford Doolittle, J. Peter Gogarten and Kenneth M. Noll: "On the Chimeric Nature, Thermophilic Origin and Phylogenetic Placement of the Thermotogales", Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2009, 106:5865-70. [PubMed]

  5. Camilla L. Nesbo, Eric Bapteste, Bruce Curtis, Hakon Dahle, Philippe Lopez, Dave Macleod, Marlena Dlutek, Sharen Bowman, Angie Lewis, Olga Zhaxybayeva, Nils-KÃ¥re Birkeland and W. Ford Doolittle: "The genome of Thermosipho africanus TCF52B: lateral genetic connections to the Firmicutes and Archaea", J.Bact. 2009, 191:1974-8. [PubMed]

  6. Lutz Hamel, Neha Nahar, Maria S. Poptsova, Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: "Unsupervised Learning in Detection of Gene Transfer", Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, 2008, 2008: 472719. [Open Access]

  7. Adrian K. Sharma, Olga Zhaxybayeva, R. Thane Papke and W.Ford Doolittle: "Actinorhodopsins: proteorhodopsin-like gene sequences found predominantly in non-marine environments", Environmental Microbiology, 2008, 10: 1039-1056. [PubMed]

  8. Jeremy Koenig, Yan Boucher, Robert Charlebois, Camilla Nesbo, Olga Zhaxybayeva, Eric Bapteste, Matthew Spencer, H. W. Stokes and W. Ford Doolittle: "Integron-associated gene cassettes in Halifax Harbour: assessment of a mobile gene pool in marine sediments", Environmental Microbiology, 2008, 10: 1024-1038. [PubMed]

  9. J Peter Gogarten, Gregory Fournier and Olga Zhaxybayeva: "Gene transfer and the reconstruction of life's early history from the molecular record", Space Science Reviews, 2008, 135: 115-131.

  10. Lutz Hamel, Neha Nahar, Maria S. Poptsova, J. Peter Gogarten and Olga Zhaxybayeva "Unsupervised Learning in Spectral Genome Analysis", Proceeding of the IEEE Conference Frontiers in the Convergence of Bioscience and Information Technologies (FBIT 2007), October 2007, pp317 - 321, IEEE Press, ISBN 0-7695-2999-2. [Reprint]

  11. R. Thane Papke, Olga Zhaxybayeva, Edward Feil, Katrin Sommerfeld, Denise Muise, W. Ford Doolittle: "Searching for species in haloarchaea", PNAS 2007 104: 14092-14097.

  12. Olga Zhaxybayeva, J Peter Gogarten and W. Ford Doolittle: "A hyperconserved protein in Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus", FEMS Microbiol Lett, 2007, 274: 30-34. [Pre-review MS]. The definitive version of the manuscript is available: [Reprint]

  13. W. Ford Doolittle and Olga Zhaxybayeva: "Evolution: reducible complexity - the case for bacterial flagella", Current Biology, 2007, 17: R510-R512.

  14. Sara Cuadros-Orellana, Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado, Boris Legault, Giuseppe D'Auria, Olga Zhaxybayeva, R. Thane Papke, Francisco Rodriguez-Valera: "Genomic Plasticity in Prokaryotes: the Case of the Square Haloarchaeon", ISME Journal, 2007, 1, 235-245.[Reprint]

  15. Olga Zhaxybayeva, Camilla L. Nesbo and W.Ford Doolittle: "Systematic overestimation of gene gain through false diagnosis of gene absence", Genome Biology, 2007, 8:402. [Open Access]

  16. "The Astrobiology Primer: An Outline of General Knowledge. Version 1, 2006". Editors: L.J. Mix, J.C. Armstrong, A.M. Mandell, A.C. Mosier, J. Raymond, S.N. Raymond, F.J. Stewart, K. von Braun, and O. Zhaxybayeva, Authors: L. Billings, V. Cameron, M. Claire, G.J. Dick, S.D. Domagal-Goldman, E.J. Javaux, O.J. Johnson, C. Laws, M.S. Race, J. Rask, J.D. Rummel, R.T. Schelble, and S. Vance, Astrobiology, 2006, 6: 735-813. [Open Access]

  17. Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten, Robert L. Charlebois, W. Ford Doolittle and R. Thane Papke: "Phylogenetic Analyses Of Cyanobacterial Genomes: Quantification Of Horizontal Gene Transfer Events", Genome Research, 2006, 16:1099-1108. [Supplementary Data]

  18. Camilla L. Nesbo, Marlena Dlutek, Olga Zhaxybayeva and W. Ford Doolittle: "Evidence for the existence of mesotogas - members of the Thermotogales adapted to low temperature environments", Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2006, 72:5061-5068.

  19. Olga Zhaxybayeva, Pascal Lapierre and J. Peter Gogarten: "Ancient Gene Duplications and the Root(s) of the Tree of Life", Protoplasma, 2006, 227:53-64.

  20. Alessia Morandi, Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten and Joerg Graf: "Evolutionary and Diagnostic Implications of Intragenomic Heterogeneity in the 16S rRNA Gene in Aeromonas Strains", J. Bact., 2005, 187:6561-4.

  21. Lutz Hamel, Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: "PentaPlot: A software tool for the illustration of genome mosaicism", BMC Bioinformatics, 2005, 6: 13.
    [Open Access Article] [Accompanying Software - PentaPlot]

  22. Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten. Review of "Cladistics: a practical primer on CD-ROM" by Peter Skelton and Andrew Smith. Origin of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 2005, 35: 69-71

  23. Brianna L. Sollod, David Wilson, Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten, Roger Drinkwater, and Glenn F. King: "Were arachnids the first to use combinatorial peptide libraries?", Peptides, 2005, 26: 131-139.

  24. Zhaxybayeva, O., Lapierre, P. and Gogarten J.P.: "Genome Mosaicism and Organismal Lineages", Trends in Genetics, 2004, 20(5): 254-260. [DOI link]

  25. O. Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life. Trends in Genetics 2004, 20(4): 182-187. [DOI link]

  26. Olga Zhaxybayeva, Lutz Hamel, Jason Raymond, and J. Peter Gogarten: Visualization of Phylogenetic content of Five Genomes with Dekapentagonal Maps. Genome Biology 2004, 5: R20
    [Open Access Article] [Accompanying Software - PentaPlot]

  27. Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten. Spliceosomal Introns: New Insights into Their Evolution. Current Biology 2003, 13: R764-766 [Abstract]

  28. Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten. An Improved Probability Mapping Approach to Assess Genome Mosaicism, BMC Genomics 2003 4: 37 [Free Online Version]

  29. Jason Raymond, Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten and Robert E. Blankenship. Evolution of photosynthetic prokaryotes: a maximum-likelihood mapping approach. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 2003, 358: 223-230. [Abstract]

  30. RAYMOND, J.#, ZHAXYBAYEVA, O.#, GOGARTEN, J.P., GERDES, S., BLANKENSHIP, R.E.: Whole Genome Analysis of Photosynthetic Prokaryotes. Science 2002, 298: 1616-1620.
    [Reprint] [Supplementary Data]

    #- these authors contributed equally to the published work

  31. J. Peter Gogarten, Alireza G. Senejani, Olga Zhaxybayeva, Lorraine Olendzenski, and Elena Hilario. Inteins: Structure, Function, and Evolution. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 2002, 56: 263-287 [reprint]

  32. Olga Zhaxybayeva, J Peter Gogarten. Bootstrap, Bayesian probability and maximum likelihood mapping: exploring new tools for comparative genome analyses. BMC Genomics 2002, 3:4. [Free Online Version] [Supplementary Data]

  33. Olendzenski, L., Liu, L., Zhaxybayeva, O., Murphey, R., Shin, D.G., and Gogarten, J.P. 2000. Horizontal Transfer of Archaeal Genes into the Deinococcaceae: Detection by molecular and computer based approaches. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 51(6): 587-599. [PubMed]. Data is available here.
Book Chapters:
  • Zhaxybayeva, O.: Detection and quantitative assessment of horizontal gene transfer (2009), chapter 11 in "Horizontal Gene Transfer: Genomes in Flux" (Eds. M. Gogarten, L. Olendzenski and JP Gogarten), Humana Press. [Online Access] [PubMed]

  • Zhaxybayeva, O., Gogarten, J.P. and Olendzenski, L. (2008): Orthologs, Paralogs, and Xenologs in Human and Other Genomes (version 2.0), in "Encyclopedia of Life Sciences", John Wiley and Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0005298.pub2. [Online Access]

  • Gogarten JP and Zhaxybayeva O. (2008): The role of gene transfer in microbial evolution. Chapter 6 in "Computational Methods for Understanding Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes" (eds. Y.Xu and J. P. Gogarten), World Scientific Publishing.

  • Doolittle WF, Nesbo CL, Bapteste E and Zhaxybayeva O (2007): Lateral Gene Transfer. In "Evolutionary Genomics and Proteomics" (eds. M Pagel and A Pomiankowski), Sinauer Associates.

  • J. Peter Gogarten, Olga Zhaxybayeva (2007). Horizontal gene transfer, gene histories and the root of the tree of life. Chapter 9 in "Planetary systems and the Origins of Life", RE Pudritz, PG Higgs and J Stone (eds.), Cambridge University Press.

  • OLENDZENSKI, L. ZHAXYBAYEVA, O., and GOGARTEN JP. (2004) A Brief History on Views of Prokaryotic Evolution and Taxonomy. In "Microbial Genomes", CM Fraser, T Read and KE Nelson (eds), Humana Press, pp. 143-154 [Humana Press Catalog Entry]

  • OLENDZENSKI, L., ZHAXYBAYEVA, O., and GOGARTEN, J.P. (2003): Orthologs, Paralogs and Xenologs in Human and other Genomes. In "Encyclopedia of the Human Genome", Nature Publishing Group [Online Version][Catalog Entry]

  • Olendzenski, L., Zhaxybayeva, O., and Gogarten, J.P. 2002. Horizontal Gene Transfer: A new taxonomic principle? Chapter 34 in: Horizontal Gene Transfer 2nd ed., Syvanen, M. and Kado C.I. (eds.) Academic Press, London. [AP Catalog Entry]

  • Olendzenski, L., Zhaxybayeva, O., and Gogarten, J.P. 2001. What's in a Tree?: Does Horizontal Gene Transfer Determine Microbial Taxonomy? In: Cellular Origin and Life in Extreme Habitats, Vol 4:Symbioses, Seckbach, J. (ed.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands. p. 65-78. [Kluwer Catalog Entry]
Theses:
  • Olga Zhaxybayeva. "Horizontal Gene Transfer and Innovation in Genome Evolution", Ph.D. Thesis, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2004.
Non-refereed Published Abstracts (incomplete):
  • Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: "Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life", Astrobiology, 4(2), 2004.

  • Pascal Lapierre, Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten. "Whole genome analyses on the class levels: is there a consensus phylogeny?", International Journal of Astrobiology, Supplement 1, 2004: p.48

  • Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: "Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life", International Journal of Astrobiology, Supplement 1, 2004: p.52

  • O. Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: "Detecting Ancient Duplications Using Whole Genome Data", Astrobiology, 2(4): 475-476. Poster presented at NASA Astrobiology Institute General Meeting, Tempe, AZ, February 10-12, 2003

  • O. Zhaxybayeva, L. Olendzenski and J.P. Gogarten: "Mosaicism in Genes and Genomes", poster presented at the 10th Issol Meeting in Oaxaca, Mexico, June 30 - July 5, 2002, Origin of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, 32, 498-499.

  • O. Zhaxybayeva, L. and J.P. Gogarten: "Bootstrap, Bayesian Probability and Maximum Likelihood Mapping: Exploring New Tools for Comparative Genome analyses", poster presented at the 10th Issol Meeting in Oaxaca, Mexico, June 30 - July 5, 2002, Origin of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, 32, 497-498.

  • O. Zhaxybayeva, L. Olendzenski and J.P. Gogarten: "Bootstrap, Bayesian Probability and Maximum Likelihood Mapping: Exploring New Tools for Comparative Genome analyses." Poster at the 2nd Astrobiology Science Conference at NASA's Ames Research Center April 7-11, 2002. Published in International Journal of Astrobiology (2002), 1: 87-176

  • Jason R. Raymond, Robert E. Blankenship, Olga Zhaxybayeva, and J. Peter Gogarten: "Whole Genome Analyses of Photosynthetic Bacteria and the Evolution of Photosynthesis", Poster presented at the Second Astrobiology Science Conference, NASA AMES Research Center, April 7 - 11, 2002. Published in International Journal of Astrobiology (2002), 1: 87-176

  • Blankenship RE, Raymond J, Lince M, Larkum AWD, Jermiin LS, Lockhart PJ, Zhaxybayeva O, Gogarten JP. Evolution of photosynthetic antennas and reaction centers. In: PS2001 Proceedings: 12th International Congress on Photosynthesis. PL13 [2001] (CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, Australia) (ISBN 0643 067 116)

  • 2001 meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington DC, April 10-12, 2001:

    * Olga A. Zhaxybayeva, Lorraine Olendzenski, J. Peter Gogarten: Mosaicism in 16S rRNA genes

    * Lorraine Olendzenski, Olga A. Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten: How Much Did Horizontal Gene Transfer Contribute to Early Evolution?: Quantifying Archaeal Genes in Two Bacterial Lineages

    * Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Maximum Likelihood Mapping as Tool for Comparative Genome Analyses


    • Abstracts are published in Astrobiology 1(3)

Invited
Talks
  • "Evolutionary Bioinformatics in Postgenomic and Metagenomic Eras", Computer Science and Biology Departments, Memorial University, St. John's, NL, March 30, 2009

  • "Tree, Coral or Potato of Life", Invited seminar at Biology Department, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, October 28, 2008

  • "Tree of Life in the Genomic Era", Invited seminar at Centre de recherche du CHUL, Laval University, Quebec City, March 2, 2007

  • "Tree of Life in the Genomic Era", Invited seminar at Biology Department of the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, September 6, 2006

  • "Evolutionary Bioinformatics: How Tree-like is the Tree of Life?", Invited seminar at Biology Department of St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, October 6, 2005

  • "Spectral Analyses of Cyanobacterial Genomes", Invited talk at Annual Meeting of CIAR Program in Evolutionary Biology, Vancouver Island, BC, September 15-19, 2005

  • "Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life", Invited seminar at 1st Astrobiology Graduate Conference (ABGradCon2004), Tucson, AZ, January 7-10, 2004

  • "Visualization of Genome Mosaicism", Invited lecture at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Bethesda, MD, December 16, 2003

  • "Reconstructing Tree/Web of Life", Invited Lecture at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, October 27, 2003
Poster
Presentations
at Scientific
Meetings:
  • Olga Zhaxybayeva, Camilla L. Nesbo, J. Peter Gogarten, Kenneth M. Noll and W. Ford Doolittle: Thermoadaptation in Thermotogales: a Computational Assessment, 74th Symposium: Evolution - The Molecular Landscape, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, May 27- June 1, 2009.

  • Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten, Maria Poptsova, R. Thane Papke and W. Ford Doolittle: Evolution of Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus: an update , CIFAR Integrated Microbial Biodiversity program meeting, Vancouver, BC, October 9-12, 2007.

  • Olga Zhaxybayeva, J Peter Gogarten and W. Ford Doolittle: A hyperconserved protein in Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus, UConn's MCB Department Annual Retreat, September 8, 2007, Tolland, CT.

  • R. Thane Papke, Olga Zhaxybayeva, Edward J. Feil, Katrin Sommerfeld, Denise Muise, W. Ford Doolittle: Fuzzy Haloarchaeal Species, SMBE annual meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 24-28, 2007. Winner of the Postdoctoral Poster Presentation Award.

  • Olga Zhaxybayeva, J Peter Gogarten and W. Ford Doolittle: A hyperconserved protein in Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus, SMBE annual meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 24-28, 2007.

  • Jeremy Koenig, Yan Boucher, Camilla Nesbo, Robert Charlebois, Olga Zhaxybayeva, Eric Bapteste, Matthew Spencer, Michael Joss, Hatch Stokes and Ford Doolittle: Diversity and Distribution of a Mobile Gene Pool in Bacteria: Analysis of Wild Integron Gene Cassettes in Nova Scotia. Annual Environmental Research Symposium. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, November 2006.

  • Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten, Robert L. Charlebois, W. Ford Doolittle and R. Thane Papke: Phylogenetic Analyses of Cyanobacterial Genomes: Quantification of Horizontal gene Transfer Events, Phylogenomics Conference, Sainte-Adele, Quebec, March 15-19, 2006.

  • Olga Zhaxybayeva, R. Thane Papke, W. Ford Doolittle and J. Peter Gogarten: Spectral Analyses of Cyanobacterial Genomes: Quantification of Horizontally Transferred Genes, Annual Meeting of CIAR Program in Evolutionary Biology, Vancouver Island, BC, September 15-19, 2005.

  • Olga Zhaxybayeva, R. Thane Papke, W. Ford Doolittle and J. Peter Gogarten: Spectral Analyses of Cyanobacterial Genomes: Quantification of Horizontally Transferred Genes, World Summit on Evolution, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, June 9-12, 2005.

  • Olga Zhaxybayeva, R. Thane Papke, W. Ford Doolittle and J. Peter Gogarten: Spectral Analyses of Cyanobacterial Genomes: Quantification of Horizontally Transferred Genes, Astrobiology and the Origins of Life Conference, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, May 24-28, 2005.

  • Olga Zhaxybayeva, R. Thane Papke, W. Ford Doolittle and J. Peter Gogarten: Spectral Analyses of Cyanobacterial Genomes: Quantification of Horizontally Transferred Genes, International Conference on Microbial Genomes, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, April 13 - 16, 2005.

  • Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Spectral Analyses of Completely Sequenced Genomes using Bipartitions and Embedded Quartets, at the 15th Annual New England Evolutionary Biologists Meeting (NEMEB), Tufts University, Medford, MA, November 6, 2004.

  • Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Spectral Analyses of Completely Sequenced Genomes using Bipartitions and Embedded Quartets, Annual Meeting of the CIAR Evolutionary Biology Program, Hotel du Lac Carling, Pine Hill, Quebec, October 13-17, 2004.

  • Posters presented at the Annual Retreat of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Crandall Lodge, Tolland, CT, August 28, 2004:

      *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life

      *Pascal Lapierre, Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten. Whole genome analyses on the class levels: is there a consensus phylogeny?

  • Poster presented at the First meeting of Cuatrocienegas researchers, Coahuila, Mexico, 13-14 August, 2004

      *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life (Cladogenesis, coalescencia y la evolucion de los tres dominios de vida)

  • Posters presented at Genomes and Evolution Meeting, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, June 17-20, 2004:

      *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life

      *Pascal Lapierre, Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten. Whole genome analyses on the class levels: is there a consensus phylogeny?

  • Poster presented at the meeting on "Lateral Gene Transfer and the Origins of Eukaryotes", Harrison Hot Springs Resort, B.C., May 5-9, 2004:

      *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life

  • Posters presented at Astrobiology Science Conference 2004, NASA Ames, March 28-April 1, 2004:

      *Pascal Lapierre, Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten. Whole genome analyses on the class levels: is there a consensus phylogeny?

      *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life

  • Poster presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Evolution, Ventura, CA, February 1-6, 2004:

      *Pascal Lapierre, Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten. Whole genome analyses on the class levels: is there a consensus phylogeny?

  • Poster presented at the Evolutionary Genomics Meeting, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, January 15-17, 2004:

      *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Visualization of Genome Mosaicism: New And Improved Methods

  • Posters presented at the 14th Annual New England Evolutionary Biologists Meeting (NEMEB), University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, November 1, 2003:

      *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life

      *Olga Zhaxybayeva, Lutz Hamel, and J. Peter Gogarten: An Improved Probability Mapping Approach

  • Posters presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Evolutionary Biology Program at White Point Beach, Nova Scotia, Canada September 10-14, 2003:

      *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Detecting Ancient Duplications Using Whole Genome Data

      *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life

      *Olga Zhaxybayeva, Lutz Hamel, and J. Peter Gogarten: An Improved Probability Mapping Approach

  • Posters presented at the Annual Retreat of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Crandall Lodge, Tolland, CT, September 6, 2003:

      *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Detecting Ancient Duplications Using Whole Genome Data

      *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life

      *Olga Zhaxybayeva, Lutz Hamel, and J. Peter Gogarten: An Improved Probability Mapping Approach

  • Posters presented at Exobiology Principal Investigators' Seventh Triennial Science Conference, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, August 25-29, 2003:

      *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Detecting Ancient Duplications Using Whole Genome Data

      *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life

      *Olga Zhaxybayeva, Lutz Hamel, and J. Peter Gogarten: An Improved Probability Mapping Approach

      *Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Bootstrap, Bayesian Probability and Maximum Likelihood Mapping: Exploring New Tools for Comparative Genome Analyses

  • Posters presented at the Gordon Research Conference on the Origin of Life, Bates College, Maine, July 13-18, 2003:

      *O. Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: "Detecting Ancient Duplications Using Whole Genome Data".

      *O. Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: "Cladogenesis, Coalescence and the Evolution of the Three Domains of Life"

  • O. Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: "Detecting Ancient Duplications Using Whole Genome Data". Poster presented at NASA Astrobiology Institute General Meeting, Tempe, AZ, February 10-12, 2003. One of the 12 finalists for the Best Student Poster Presentation Award.

  • Posters presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Evolutionary Biology Program at Harrison Hot Springs Resort, BC, Canada September 28th - October 2nd, 2002:

    *O. Zhaxybayeva and J.P. Gogarten: "Bootstrap, Bayesian Probability and Maximum Likelihood Mapping: Exploring New Tools for Comparative Genome analyses"

    *O. Zhaxybayeva, L. Olendzenski and J.P. Gogarten: "Mosaicism in Genes and Genomes"

  • Posters presented at the 14th Annual Molecular and Cell Biology Retreat, September 7, 2002, Crandall Lodge, Tolland, CT:

    *O. Zhaxybayeva and J.P. Gogarten: "Bootstrap, Bayesian Probability and Maximum Likelihood Mapping: Exploring New Tools for Comparative Genome analyses"

    *O. Zhaxybayeva, L. Olendzenski and J.P. Gogarten: "Mosaicism in Genes and Genomes"

  • O. Zhaxybayeva and J.P. Gogarten: "Bootstrap, Bayesian Probability and Maximum Likelihood Mapping: Exploring New Tools for Comparative Genome analyses", poster presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Genomics and Structural/Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, July 28 - August 2, 2002

  • O. Zhaxybayeva, L. Olendzenski and J.P. Gogarten: "Mosaicism in Genes and Genomes", poster presented at the 10th Issol Meeting in Oaxaca, Mexico, June 30 - July 5, 2002

  • O. Zhaxybayeva and J.P. Gogarten: "Bootstrap, Bayesian Probability and Maximum Likelihood Mapping: Exploring New Tools for Comparative Genome analyses", poster presented at the 10th Issol Meeting in Oaxaca, Mexico, June 30 - July 5, 2002

  • Robert E. Blankenship, Jason R. Raymond, Olga Zhaxybayeva, and J. Peter Gogarten: "Whole Genome Analyses of Photosynthetic Bacteria and the Evolution of Photosynthesis", Discussion Meeting: Comparative functional genomics of chloroplasts, mitochondria and their bacterial homologues - new perspectives on symbiosis in cell evolution, The Royal Society of London, Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th June 2002.

  • Jason R. Raymond, Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten, and Robert E. Blankenship: "Whole Genome Analyses of Photosynthetic Bacteria and the Evolution of Photosynthesis", Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis, June 16-21, 2002, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI.

  • O. Zhaxybayeva, L. Olendzenski and J.P. Gogarten: "Bootstrap, Bayesian Probability and Maximum Likelihood Mapping: Exploring New Tools for Comparative Genome analyses.". Poster at the 2nd Astrobiology Science Conference at NASA's Ames Research Center April 7-11, 2002. A one page summary will be published in "International Journal of Astrobiology"

  • Jason R. Raymond, Robert E. Blankenship, Olga Zhaxybayeva, and J. Peter Gogarten: "Whole Genome Analyses of Photosynthetic Bacteria and the Evolution of Photosynthesis", Poster presented at the Second Astrobiology Science Conference, NASA AMES Research Center, April 7 - 11, 2002. A one page summary will be published in "International Journal of Astrobiology". Winner of the Student Poster Competition (2nd place).

  • Posters presented at the 2002 Gordon Research Conference on the Origin of Life in Ventura (CA):

    * O. Zhaxybayeva, L. Olendzenski and J.P. Gogarten: Mosaicism in ribosomal RNA genes.

    * O. Zhaxybayeva, L. Olendzenski and J.P. Gogarten: "Bootstrap, Bayesian Probability and Maximum Likelihood Mapping: Exploring New Tools for Comparative Genome analyses."

  • 3rd Georgia Tech - Emory International Conference on Bioinformatics: In silico Biology: Bioinformatics after Human Genome, Atlanta, GA, November 15-18, 2001

    Olga Zhaxybayeva, Lorraine Olendzenski and J. Peter Gogarten: Maximum Likelihood Mapping as Tool for Comparative Genome Analyses


  • New England Molecular Biologists Meeting (NEMEB) 2001, Smith College, MA, Nov. 3, 2001

    * Olga A. Zhaxybayeva, Lorraine Olendzenski, J. Peter Gogarten: Mosaicism in 16S rRNA genes

    * Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Maximum Likelihood Mapping as Tool for Comparative Genome Analyses


    • * Jeremy Draghi, Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Resistor and Diode Networks as a Tool to Study Genome Evolution

  • 2001 meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington DC, April 10-12, 2001:

    * Olga A. Zhaxybayeva, Lorraine Olendzenski, J. Peter Gogarten: Mosaicism in 16S rRNA genes

    * Lorraine Olendzenski, Olga A. Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten: How Much Did Horizontal Gene Transfer Contribute to Early Evolution?: Quantifying Archaeal Genes in Two Bacterial Lineages

    * Olga Zhaxybayeva and J. Peter Gogarten: Maximum Likelihood Mapping as Tool for Comparative Genome Analyses


  • International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS) May 21-26, 2000 in Nashua, NH; Olga Zhaxybayeva, Lorraine Olendzenski , Peter Gogarten, Dong-Guk Shin, Lei Liu. Comparative Analysis Of The Deinococcus Genome Indicates Infrequent Horizontal Transfer Between The Three Domains Of Life.

  • First Astrobiology Science Conference meeting at NASA Ames, April 2nd to April 5th, 2000: Lorraine Olendzenski, Olga Zhaxybayeva, Peter Gogarten, Dong-Guk Shin, Lei Liu. Comparative Analysis Of The Deinococcus Genome Indicates Infrequent Horizontal Transfer Between The Three Domains Of Life.

  • Olga Zhaxybayeva, Lorraine Olendzenski, Peter Gogarten, Lei Liu. Comparative Analysis Of The Deinococcus Genome Indicates Infrequent Horizontal Transfer Between The Three Domains Of Life. Presented at the 1999 meeting of the New England Molecular Evolutionary Biologists at SUNY Albany (Nov. 6)

  • Comparative Analysis Of The Deinococcus Genome Indicates Infrequent Horizontal Transfer Between The Three Domains Of Life. 12-th. Intern. Conference on the Origins of Life-Book of Abstracts.July 11-16, 1999, San Diego, CA, USA. Online version of poster is available here.

  • Olga Zhaxybayeva and Peter Gogarten. The Effects of Among Site Rate Variation on Phylogenetic Reconstruction from Amino Acid Sequences. Poster presented at the First Internet-Extended Bioinformatics Conference, April 14 to April 24, 1998. Online version is available here.

  • J. Peter Gogarten and Olga Zhaxybayeva. The Effects of Among Site Rate Variation on Phylogenetic Reconstruction from Amino Acid Sequences. IXth Symposium on Chemical Evolution and the Origin and Evolution of Life at the NASA Ames Research Center meeting at NASA Ames, November 17-20, 1997 and at the NEMEB'97 meeting at Yale University (Nov. 2nd).

  • Olga Zhaxybayeva, Tatyana P. Tourova. Search For Specific Motifs In Nucleotide Sequences For Reconstruction Of Evolutionary History Of Organisms. Gordon Research Conference on Origins of Life, Henniker, NH, July 27-August 1, 1997.

  • On Estimation of formal regularities of the Universal Genetic Code. Book of Abstracts. 1st Congress of Mathematicians of Kazakstan, Shymkent, September 11-15, 1996.

  • Statistical Estimation of Rumer's Transformation of the Universal Genetic Code. 11-th. Intern. Conference on the Origins of Life-Book of Abstracts. Orleans, France July 7-12, 1996.

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