EDUCATION:
1978 - 1984
Candidate of Biology (PhD) (Evolutionary Genetics) from Research Computing
Center, Pushchino 1973 - 1978
Diploma of Higher Education (MSc) (Zoology and Genetics) from Lomonosov Moscow
Federal University
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
2006 - Andrei
R. Skovoroda Collegiate Professor, Life Sciences Institute and Department of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University
of Michigan
1999 - 2006
Senior Investigator, National
Center for Biotechnology Information,
NIH
1993 - 1999
Assistant and Associate (1996) Professor, Section of Ecology and Systematics, Cornell University
1990 - 1992
Associate Visiting Scientist, Lab. of Genetics, U. of Wisconsin, Madison;
Research Associate, Department of Ecology and Evolution, U. of Chicago;
Research Associate, Department of Biology, U. of Oregon,
Eugene
1978 - 1990
Junior Researcher and Researcher (1986), Research Computing Center, Pushchino, USSR
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2006 – present University of Michigan. Evolution (a junior-level
required course and an introductory graduate course), Population and Quantitative
Genetics (senior-level elective course).
1993 - 1999
Cornell University. Evolution (two sophomore-level courses: for biology majors
and for non-majors); Population and Evolutionary Ecology (advanced
undergraduate course, with D. Winkler); Population Genetics (advanced
undergraduate course); Theoretical Population Genetics (introductory graduate course);
Mathematical Ecology (introductory graduate course, with C. Castillo-Chavez);
Evolutionary Genetics of Reproduction (graduate course); Genetics of Structured
Populations (graduate course, with R. Durret and C. Green); Speciation
(advanced graduate course).
1991 University of Chicago. Evolution of Reproduction (with
B. and D. Charlesworth and S. Pruett-Jones)
1984 - 1990
Moscow State University. Population Genetics; Mathematical and Computer Methods
in Biology, Moscow
State University
(a team course)
1981 - 1989
Pushchino High School. Advanced Biology (with S. I.Rozanov)
GRANTS:
1995 - 1998 PI
to NSF grant "Evolutionary Genetics of Deleterious Mutations"
1996 - 1998 PI
to NSF grant "The Effect of Relaxed Selection on Population Fitness"
1999 - 2002
co-PI (later, consultant) to NSF grant "Recessive Lethals in Wild Fish
Populations" 2010 - 2012 PI to Russian Government grant № 11.G34.31.0008
GEOGRAPHY OF INVITED PRESENTATIONS:
Baku
(Azerbajan); Montreal, Toronto (Canada); Beijing (China); San Jose (Costa Rica);
Cologne, Heidelberg, Seewiesen (Germany); Debrecen (Hungary); Sde Boker, Eilat,
Haifa, Tel Aviv, Rehovot (Israel); Riga (Latvia); Ignalina, Vilnius
(Lithuania); Cisinau (Moldova); Chernogolovka, Dubna, Moskva, Novosibirsk,
Primorskiij, Pushchino, Sankt-Piterburg (Russia); El Escorial (Spain);
Stockholm (Sweden); Bath, Brighton, Cambridge, Edinburgh, London, Liverpool,
Oxford, Warwick (UK); Ann Arbor, Asilomar, Baltimore, Bethesda, Blacksburg,
Boston, Boulder, Cold Spring Harbor, Atlanta, Davis, DeKalb, Madison, New
Haven, Raleigh, Rochester, Salt Lake City, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Snowbird,
St. Paul, Stony Brook (USA); Samarkand (Uzbekistan).
PUBLICATIONS DURING THE LAST 5 YEARS:
- Donmez N.,
Bazykin G. A., Brudno M. and Kondrashov A. S. (2009). Polymorphism
due to multiple amino acid substitutions at a codon site within Ciona savignyi. Genetics 181, 685-690.
- Assis R.
and Kondrashov A. S. (2009). Rapid repetitive element-mediated expansion of
piRNA clusters in mammalian evolution. Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences USA 106, 7079-7082.
- Kondrashov
A. S., Povolotskaya I. S., Ivankov D. N. and Kondrashov F. A. (2010). Rate of
sequence divergence under constant selection. Biology
Direct 5:5.
- Meer M. V.,
Kondrashov A. S., Artzy-Randrup Y. and Kondrashov F. A. (2010).
Compensatory evolution in mt-tRNAs navigates valleys of low fitness. Nature 464, 279-282.
- Kondrashov
F. A. and Kondrashov A. S. (2010). Measurements of spontaneous rates of
mutations in the recent past and the near future. Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society of London
B 365, 1169-1176.
- Adzhubei I.
A., Schmidt S., Peshkin L., Ramensky V. E., Gerasimova A. V., Bork P.,
Kondrashov A. S. and Sunyaev S. R. (2010). A method and server for predicting
damaging missense mutations. Nature Methods 7, 248-249.
- Kondrashov
A. S. and Assis R. (2010). Bridges: a tool for identifying local similarities in
long sequences. Bioinformatics. 26(16) 2055-56
- Bazykin GA, Kondrashov AS. Detecting Past Positive Selection through Ongoing Negative Selection. Genome Biol Evol. 2011;3:1006-13
- Assis R, Kondrashov AS. A strong deletion bias in nonallelic gene conversion. PLoS Genet. 2012 Feb;8(2):e1002508.
- Leushkin EV, Bazykin GA, Kondrashov AS. Insertions and deletions trigger adaptive walks in Drosophila proteins.Proc Biol Sci. 2012 Aug 7;279(1740):3075-82.
- Assis R, Kondrashov AS.Nonallelic gene conversion is not GC-biased in Drosophila or primates.Mol Biol Evol. 2012 May;29(5):1291-5.
- Naumenko SA, Kondrashov AS. Rate and breadth of protein evolution are only weakly correlated. Biol Direct. 2012 Feb 15;7:8.
- Seplyarskiy VB, Kharchenko P, Kondrashov AS, Bazykin GA. Heterogeneity of the Transition/Transversion Ratio in Drosophila and Hominidae Genomes. Mol Biol Evol. 2012. 29(8): 1943 - 1955.
- Kondrashov AS (2012). Genetics: the rate of human mutation. Nature (news and views)
- 488,
- 467–468
- Bazykin GA, Kondrashov AS. Major role of positive selection in the evolution of conservative segments of Drosophila proteins. Proc Biol Sci. 2012. 279(1742):3409-17
- Naumenko SA, Kondrashov AS, Bazykin GA. Fitness conferred by replaced amino acids declines with time. Biol Lett. 2012 Oct 23;8(5):825-8. Epub 2012 May 23.
- Leushkin EV, Bazykin GA, Kondrashov AS. Strong mutational bias toward deletions in the Drosophila melanogaster genome is compensated by selection. Genome Biol Evol. 2013;5(3):514–24.abstract+fulltext(pdf)
- Vakhrusheva OA, Bazykin GA, Kondrashov AS. Genome-Level Analysis of Selective Constraint without Apparent Sequence Conservation. Genome Biol Evol. 2013;5(3):532–41.
- Terekhanova NV, Bazykin GA, Neverov A, Kondrashov AS, Seplyarskiy VB. Prevalence of multinucleotide replacements in evolution of primates and Drosophila. Mol Biol Evol. 2013 Jun;30(6):1315–25. abstract+fulltext(pdf)
- Leushkin EV, Sutormin RA, Nabieva ER, Penin AA, Kondrashov AS, Logacheva MD. The miniature genome of a carnivorous plant Genlisea aurea contains a low number of genes and short non-coding sequences. BMC Genomics. 2013 Jul 15;14(1):476. abstract+fulltext(pdf)
- Flot JF, ..., Bazykin GA, ..., Kondrashov AS, ..., Vakhrusheva OA et al. (39 co-authors). Genomic evidence for ameiotic evolution in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga. Nature. 2013 Aug 22;500(7463):453–7. fulltext(pdf)
- Flegontov P, Votýpka J, Skalický T, Logacheva MD, Penin AA, Tanifuji G, Onodera NT, Kondrashov AS, Volf P, Archibald JM, Lukes J. Paratrypanosoma is a novel early-branching trypanosomatid. Curr Biol 2013 Sep 23;23(18):1787–93. abstract
- Assis R, Kondrashov AS. Conserved proteins are fragile. Mol Biol Evol. 2014 Feb;31(2):419-24. doi: 10.1093/molbev/mst217.
- Denisov SV, Bazykin GA, Sutormin R, Favorov AV, Mironov AA, Gelfand MS, Kondrashov AS. Weak negative and positive selection and the drift load at splice sites. Genome Biol Evol (2014) doi: 10.1093/gbe/evu100
- Neverov AD, Lezhnina KV, Kondrashov AS, Bazykin GA. Intrasubtype Reassortments Cause Adaptive Amino Acid Replacements in H3N2 Influenza Genes. PLoS Genet. 2014 Jan 9;10(1):e1004037
TEN MOST
SIGNIFICANT EARLIER PUBLICATIONS: - Kondrashov
A. S. (1988). Deleterious mutations and the evolution of sexual reproduction. Nature 336, 435-440.
- Kondrashov
A. S. and Crow J. F. (1991). Haploidy or diploidy: which is better? Nature 351, 314-315.
- Kondrashov
A. S. (1994). The asexual ploidy cycle and the origin of sex. Nature 370, 213-216.
- Shabalina S.
A., Yampolsky L. Y. and Kondrashov A. S. (1997). Rapid decline of fitness in
panmictic populations of Drosophila under relaxed selection. Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences USA
94, 13034-13039.
- Kondrashov
A. S. and Kondrashov F. A. (1999). Interactions among quantitative traits in the
course of sympatric speciation. Nature 400, 351- 354.
- Shabalina S.
A., Ogurtsov A. Y., Kondrashov V. A. and Kondrashov A. S. (2001).
Selective constraint in intergenic regions of human and mouse genomes. Trends in Genetics 17, 373-376.
- McCune A.
R., Fuller R. C., Aquilina A. A., Dawley R. M., Fadool J. M., Houle D., Travis J.
and Kondrashov A. S. (2002). A low genomic number of recessive lethals in natural
populations of bluefin killifish and zebrafish. Science
296, 2398-2401.
- Kondrashov
A. S., Sunyaev S. and Kondrashov F. A. (2002). Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities
in protein evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences USA 99, 14878-14883.
- Kondrashov
F. A., Ogurtsov A. Y. and Kondrashov A. S. (2004). Bioinformatical assay of human
gene morbidity. Nucleic Acids Research 32, 1731-1737.
- Bazykin G.
A., Kondrashov F. A., Sunyaev S., Ogurtsov A. Y. and Kondrashov A. S. (2004).
Positive selection at sites of multiple amino acid replacements since rat-mouse divergence. Nature 429, 558-562.
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