Miodrag Grbic, Phd
Associate Professor, Arthropod Genomics/ Evolution
Department of Biology
University of Western Ontario
Canada
Biography
Miodrag Grbic, PhD Associate Professor, Arthropod Genomics/ Evolution of developmental mechanisms in Arthropods/ Biotechnology, of Department of Biology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Research Interest
We are examining the functions and expression patterns of genes analogous to Drosophila segmentation genes in Copidosoma floridanum, an insect with a radically derived mode of early development. We are using in-situ hybridisation, antibody staining and ds RNAi to determine how the role of these genes may have changed over evolutionary time.
Publications
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Demaeght P, Osborne EJ, Odman-Naresh J, Grbić M, Nauen R, Merzendorfer H, Clark RM, Van Leeuwen T. High resolution genetic mapping uncovers chitin synthase-1 as the target-site of the structurally diverse mite growth inhibitors clofentezine, hexythiazox and etoxazole in Tetranychus urticae. Insect biochemistry and molecular biology. 2014 Aug 31;51:52-61.
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Pace RM, Eskridge PC, Grbić M, Nagy LM. Evidence for the plasticity of arthropod signal transduction pathways. Development genes and evolution. 2014 Dec 1;224(4-6):209-22.
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Martel C, Zhurov V, Navarro M, Martinez M, Cazaux M, Auger P, Migeon A, Santamaria ME, Wybouw N, Diaz I, Van Leeuwen T. Tomato whole genome transcriptional response to Tetranychus urticae identifies divergence of spider mite-induced responses between tomato and Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 2015 Mar;28(3):343-61.
