D. Moira Glerum
Professor
Biology
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Prof/ Dr. D. Moira Glerum, has recived her PHD in Biochemistry, University of Toronto, 1990. Currently she is working as a Professor in University of Waterloo. She is awarded with Jack Carlson Teaching Award, Department of Biology (2015), Senior Scholar, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (2003-2010), Scholar, Canadian Genetic Diseases Network (2001-2002), New Investigator, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (1998-2003). She is a member of American Society for Microbiology, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Canadian Society of Molecular BioSciences.
Research Interest
Physiology, Cell and Developmental Biology Molecular Genetics Microbiology
Publications
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Antonicka H, Mattman A, Carlson CG, Glerum DM, Hoffbuhr KC, Leary SC, Kennaway NG, Shoubridge EA. Mutations in COX15 produce a defect in the mitochondrial heme biosynthetic pathway, causing early-onset fatal hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 2003 Jan 31;72(1):101-14.
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Glerum DM, Shtanko A, Tzagoloff A. SCO1 and SCO2 act as high copy suppressors of a mitochondrial copper recruitment defect in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 1996 Aug 23;271(34):20531-5.
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Glerum DM, Shtanko A, Tzagoloff A. Characterization of COX17, a yeast gene involved in copper metabolism and assembly of cytochrome oxidase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 1996 Jun 14;271(24):14504-9.
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Papadopoulou LC, Sue CM, Davidson MM, Tanji K, Nishino I, Sadlock JE, Krishna S, Walker W, Selby J, Glerum DM, Coster RV. Fatal infantile cardioencephalomyopathy with COX deficiency and mutations in SCO2, a COX assembly gene. Nature genetics. 1999 Nov 1;23(3).
