Konstantin Yu. Popadin
Ph.D. (biol.), Researcher

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2007 - present. Fellow Research, IPPI
2005 - 2007. Fellow Research, Department of Genetics, Biological Faculty of MV Lomonosov Moscow State University
2001 - 2005. PhD student, Department of general Ecology, Biological Faculty of MV Lomonosov Moscow State University
1996 - 2001. Student, Department of Vertebrae Zoology, Biological Faculty of MV Lomonosov Moscow State University

Research interests:

- the evolution of sex
- evolutionary and population genetics
- evolution and the theory of games
- genetic programming (programming of computers by means of natural selection)

Publications:

Guo X, Popadin K.Y, Markuzon N, Orlov Y.L, Kraytsberg Y, Krishnan K.J, Zsurka G, Turnbull D.M, Kunz W.S, Khrapko K. Repeats, longevity and the sources of mtDNA deletions: evidence from 'deletional spectra'. Trends Genet. In press. PubMed  PDF

Nikolaev SI, Montoya-Burgos JI, Popadin K, Parand L, Margulies EH. Life-history traits drive the evolutionary rates of mammalian coding and noncoding genomic elements. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007, 104(51):20443-8. PubMed  PDF

Popadin KY, Mamirova LA, Kondrashov FA. A manually curated database of tetrapod mitochondrially encoded tRNA sequences and secondary structures. BMC Bioinformatics. 2007, 8(1):441 PubMed  PDF

Popadin K, Polishchuk LV, Mamirova L, Knorre D, Gunbin K. Accumulation of slightly deleterious mutations in mitochondrial protein-coding genes of large versus small mammals. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2007, 104(33):13390-5. PubMed   PDF

 Mamirova L, Popadin K, Gelfand MS. Purifying selection in mitochondria, free-living and obligate intracellular proteobacteria. BMC Evol Biol. 2007, 7(1):17. PubMed  PDF

K. Popadin, L. Mamirova. [The history of a single chromosome]. Priroda. 2004, 9: 11-16. Russian. PDF

Popad'in KIu. [Evolution of sex: role of deleterious mutation and mobile elements]. Zh Obshch Biol. 2003, 64(6):463-78. Russian. PubMed   PDF