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CRISTINA IFTODE

Associate Professor

Office: Science Hall 201I
Email:iftode@rowan.edu
Phone: 856-256-4500, ext.3586
Webpage

Coordinator, Pre-Graduate School Advising Program
Manager, Science Hall Cell Culture Facility

Courses

Fall 2011: Genetics; Special Topics in Biological Sciences

Spring 2012: Biology 2: Concepts in Genetics

Education

1999, Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology, New York University Medical Center, NY
1995, M.S. in Cell and Molecular Biology, New York University Medical Center, NY
1983, B.S. in Biochemistry, University of Bucharest, Romania

Research Interests

Stem cell applications to tissue regeneration

Regulation of gene expression in adenoviruses


Publications

• Iftode, C., and Flint, J. (2007). Analysis of the efficiency of adenovirus transcription. In Wold, W.S.M., and Tollefson, A.E. (ed) Adenovirus Methods and Protocols, Second Edition (Methods in Molecular Medicine series). Humana Press Inc. Totowa, NJ, 131 (2), 1-14. First page.

• Iftode, C., and Flint, J. Viral DNA synthesis-dependent titration of a cellular repressor activates transcription of the human adenovirus type 2 IVa2 gene. (2004) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101(51), 17831-17836. Full text.

• Iftode, C., and Borowiec, J.A. (2000) 5’-3’ molecular polarity of human replication protein A (hRPA) binding to pseudo-origin DNA substrates. Biochemistry. 39 (39), 11970-11981. Abstract.

• Iftode, C., Daniely, Y., and Borowiec, J.A. (1999) Replication protein A (RPA): the eukaryotic SSB. Crit. Rev. Biochem. Mol. Biol. 34(3), 141-180. Abstract.

• Borowiec, J.A., Gillette, T.G., Smelkova, N.V., and Iftode, C. (1999) Analysis of DNA replication complexes by DNA probing. In S. Cotterill (ed.) Eukarytioc DNA replication. (The Practical Approach Series, series ed: B.D., Hames). Oxford Univ. Press. New York, NY, 245-273.

• Iftode, C. and Borowiec, J.A. (1998) Unwinding of origin-specific structures by human replication protein A occurs in a two-step process. Nucl. Acids Res. 26(24), 5636-5643. Full text.

• Iftode, C. and Borowiec, J.A. (1997) Denaturation of the SV40 origin of replication mediated by human replication protein A. Mol. Cell. Biol. 17(7), 3876-3883. Full text.