4444 Forest Park Boulevard St. Louis, MO 63108 Phone: + 1 314 286-2005 Fax: + 1 314 286-1810 E-mail: mmitreva@watson.wustl.edu

EDUCATION

• Wageningen University and Research centre , Wageningen , The Netherlands.
  Doctor of Plant Sciences ( PhD), 1997 - 2001
  Title: Population and molecular genetics of root-knot nematodes.
• University of Skopje , Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics , Skopje, Macedonia
  Master of Biological Sciences (MSc), 1991 - 1994.
  Title: Morphological and physiological changes among tomato and tobacco plants caused by Meloidogyne spp.
• University of Skopje , Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics , Skopje, Macedonia
  Bachelor of Biology, 1986 - 1990.
  Graduated Biologist.
• High School - Jane Sandanski Strumica, Macedonia
  Technician of Physics
  Attended 1982 - 1986.
• Primary School - Marsal Tito Strumica, Macedonia
  Attended: 1974 - 1982.

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

• 2002 - to date.
  Genome Sequencing Center , Washington University School of Medicine , St. Louis, MO, USA
  Assistant Director, The Genome Center, 2008 - to date
  Research Assistant Professor, 2007 - to date
  Research Instructor in Genetics, 2005 - 2007
  Senior Scientist, Genome Sequencing Center 2004 – 2005
  Research Associate, Genome Sequencing Center 2002 – 2004
  
  • Leading the world's largest effort aimed at sequencing human, animal, and plant parasitic nematodes. Generated over 290,000 Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) from 32 nematode species and over 580,000 Genome Survey Sequences (GSSs) from the two main soil-transmitted helminths, hookworm and Ascaris. Initiated and currently lead the major programme on decoding the genomes of 10 parasitic nematodes. Funding provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease at NIH., National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH, National Science Foundation, the Max Planck Institute, and the British Medical Research Council.
  • Parasitic nematode genetics and genomics, http://www.nematode.net
  • Genomic analysis of eukaryotic pathogens and vectors of human diseases, http://genome.wustl.edu
  
  
• 2001 - 2002.
  Plant Research International , Wageningen, The Netherlands
  Researcher, Bio-diversity and Identity,
  
  • Identification of celiac disease epitopes in alpha-gliadin genes from the A, B, and D genomes of wheat;
  • Developing mew molecular profiling techniques that generate markers related to specific traits;
    
  • Assessment of genetic polymorphisms based on highly informative multiple marker approaches.
    
  • Involved in writing project reports and co-ordinating and directing already existing project;
    
• 1998 - 2001.
  University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Skopje, Republic of Macedonia,
  Institute of Southern Crops Strumica,
  Department of Plant Protection,
  Instructor in Plant Protection.
  
• 1995 - 1997.
  Vrijland Trading Monster, The Netherlands
  Manager, Cultivation Department
  
  • Managed the human and financial resources of the Cultivation department of the company;
    
  • Co-ordinating and directing the work of the employees;
    
  • Preparing draft contracts and researching for new clients and partners for co-operation;
    
  • Handling negotiations with clients and partners;
    
  • Preparation of financial structure for various projects;
    
  • Developing and organising marketing strategies;
    
  • Served as a head of Glasshouses production projects;
    
  • Purchasing of glasshouses spare parts, seed materials, fertilisers, bio-pesticides etc.;
    
  • Preparation of programs for integrated pest management;
    
  • Organised presentations on implementation of biological control of pests;
    
  • Organised workshops for Dutch experts on the agricultural sector in Macedonia;
    
  • Introduction of innovations from Holland to Macedonia in the field of agriculture.
    
• 1991 - 1995.
  Agro- Protect (Agricultural Development Centre) Strumica, Macedonia
  Plant Protection Advisor
  
  • Advised individual agricultural producers on proper crop management and crop protection in plastic tunnels, glasshouse and for outdoor production. Permanent clients used my supervision for successful growth of the crop from seed to the final product;.
    
  • Gathering samples of plants with evident abnormalities and analyzing them in order to diagnose the disease or determine the pest that has caused such abnormalities;
    
  • Training the growers to recognise specific abnormalities in crop growth, introducing them to the main characteristics of various types of pests and the way these pests inflict injuries upon plants and cause damage to individual plants and the crop, procedures of diagnosis of pest responsible for crop injury, identification of the cause of crop injury, biology of pest development;
    
  • Develop and use a simple methods for crop loss assessment;
    
  • Formulating threshold levels for control methods;
    
  • Use and introduction of improvements to methods of chemical control in an ecologically safe and efficient way;
    
  • Introducing contemporary techniques and methods leading towards successful integrated pest management that I have acquired by attending the IPM program at the International Agricultural Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
    

PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS

2009

• 64. Zhengyuan Wang, John Martin, Sahar Abubucker, Yong Yin, Robin B. Gasser, Makedonka Mitreva. Systematic analysis of insertions and deletions specific to nematode proteins and their proposed functional and evolutionary relevance, 2009, BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9:23.
• 63. John Martin, Sahar Abubucker, Todd Wylie, Yong Yin, Zhengyuan Wang and Makedonka Mitreva. Nematode.net update 2008: improvements enabling more efficient data mining and comparative nematode genomics, 2009 Nucleic Acids Research, 37(Database issue):D571-8.

2008

• 62. Zarlenga DS, Rosenthal B, Hoberg E, Mitreva M. 2008. Integrating genomics and phylogenetics in understanding the history of Trichinella species, 2008, Veterinary Parasitology, Oct 22. [Epub ahead of print], PMID: 19046815.
• 61. Todd Wylie, John Martin, Sahar Abubucker, Yong Yin, David Messina, Zhengyuan Wang, James P. McCarter and Makedonka Mitreva. NemaPath: online exploration of KEGG-based metabolic pathways for nematodes, 2008, BMC Genomics, 9(1):525.
• 60. Makedonka Mitreva, Geert Smant and Hans Helder. Role of lateral gene transfer in the evolution of plant parasitism among nematodes, In HGT - Genomes in flux,, 2008, in-press (invited book chapter).
• 59. Makedonka Mitreva and Elaine R. Mardis. Large-scale sequencing and analytical processing of ESTs. In Methods in Molecular Biology, 2008, in-press (invited book chapter).
• 58. Sandra W. Clifton and Makedonka Mitreva. Strategies for undertaking Expressed Sequence Tags projects. Expressed Sequence Tags: Generation and Analysis Methods. In Methods in Molecular Biology, 2008, in press. (invited book chapter).
• 57. Dieterich C, Clifton SW, Schuster LN, Chinwalla A, Delehaunty K, Dinkelacker I, Fulton L, Fulton R, Godfrey J, Minx P, Mitreva M, Roeseler W, Tian H, Witte H, Yang SP, Wilson RK, Sommer RJ. The Pristionchus pacificus genome provides a unique perspective on nematode lifestyle and parasitism. Nat Genet. 2008 Oct;40(10):1193-8. Epub 2008 Sep 21. PMID: 18806794.
• 56. Erwin Roze, Hanse B, Makedonka Mitreva, Bartel Vanholme, Jaap Bakker and Geert Smant. Mining the secretome of the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne chitwoodi for candidate parasitism genes. Molecular Plant Pathology, 2008; 9(1): 1-10.
• 55. Yong Yin, John Martin, Sahar Abubucker, Alan L. Scott, James P. McCarter, Richard K. Wilson, Douglas P. Jasmer, and Makedonka Mitreva, Intestinal Transcriptomes of Nematodes: Comparison of the Parasites Ascaris suum and Haemonchus contortus with the Free-living Caenorhabditis elegans, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2008, 2: e269.
• 54. Makedonka Mitreva and Douglas P. Jasmer. Advances on sequencing the genome of the Clade I nematode Trichinella spiralis. Parasitology, 2008, 135: 869-80 (Review).
• 53. Wesley C. Warren... Makedonka Mitreva...and Richard K. Wilson, Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution, Nature, 2008, 453(7192):175-183
• 52. Joachim Jacob, Makedonka Mitreva , Bartel Vanholme, Godelieve Gheysen. Exploring the transcriptome of the burrowing nematode Radopholus similis, Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2008, 280:1-17.
• 51. Sahar Abubucker, John Martin, Yong Yin, Lucinda Fulton, Shiaw-Pyng Yang, Kym Hallsworth-Pepin, J. Spencer Johnston, John Hawdon, James P. McCarter, Richard K. Wilson and Makedonka Mitreva. The canine hookworm genome: analysis and classification of Ancylostoma caninum survey sequences. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology,, 2008: 157(2): 187-192.

2007

• 50. Laha T, Loukas A, Wattanasatitarpa S, Somprakhon J, Kewgrai N, Loukas A, Sithithaworn P, Kaewkes S, Mitreva M, Brindley PJ, The bandit transposon, a mariner-like mobile genetic element from the genome of the hookworm, Ancylostoma caninum: inferred horizontal transmission between host and parasite,. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2007.[link]
• 49. Ghedin E, Wang S, Spiro D, Caler E, Zhao Q, Crabtree J, Allen J, Mitreva M, Scott A et al., Genome Sequence of the Parasitic Nematode Brugia Malayi, , The Biology of Parasitism, Science 2007, 317(5845):1756-60 [link]
• 48. Axel A. Elling, Makedonka Mitreva, Justin Recknor, Xiaowu Gai, John Martin, Thomas R. Maier, Jeffrey P. McDermott, Tarek Hewezi, David McK. Bird, Eric L. Davis, Richard S. Hussey, Dan Nettleton, James P. McCarter, and Thomas J. Baum, Divergent evolution of arrested development in the dauer stage of Caenorhabditis elegans and the infective stage of heterodera glycines. Genome Biol. 2007 Oct 5;8(10):R211 [link]
• 47. D.S. Zarlenga, B. Rosenthal, E. Hoberg, and M. Mitreva. Integrating genomics and phylogenetics in understanding the history of Trichinella species, 2007, submitted.
• 46. Joachim Jacob, Makedonka Mitreva, Bartel Vanholme, Godelieve Gheysen. Exploring the transcriptome of the burrowing nematode Radopholus similis, 2007, submitted.
• 45. Mitreva M. and Jasmer, D.P. 2007. Advances on sequencing the genome of the Clade I nematode Trichinella spiralis. Parasitology, Submitted. (invited review paper).
• 44. Mitreva M. and E. R. Mardis. 2007. Large-scale sequencing and analytical processing of ESTs. In Methods in Molecular Biology, Submitted (invited book chapter).
• 43. Clifton W. S. and Mitreva M. 2007. cDNA sequencing Overview. In Methods in Molecular Biology, Submitted (invited book chapter).
• 42. Roze E, Hanse B, Mitreva M, Vanholme B, Bakker J and Smant G. 2007. Mining the secretome of the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne chitwoodi for candidate parasitism genes. Molecular Plant Pathology.[link]

2006

• 40. Mitreva M. and Jasmer, D.P. 2006. Biology and Genome of Trichinella spiralis. (November 23, 2006) WormBook, ed. The C. elegans Research Community, WormBook, doi/10.1895/wormbook.1.124.1, www.wormbook.org
• 39. Mitreva M, Michael C. Wendl, John Martin, Todd Wylie, Yong Yin, John Parkinson, Mark Blaxter, Robert H. Waterson and James P. McCarter. 2006. Codon usage patterns in Nematoda: analysis based on over 25 million codons in thirty-two species. Genome Biology, 7(8):R75 [link]
• 38. Li BW, Rush AC, Weil GJ, McCarter JP, Mitreva M. Brugia Malayi: Effects of radiation and culture on gene expression in infective larvae. Mol. Biochem Parasitol. 2006 Jun 22; [link]
• 37. Yin Y., Martin J., McCarter P.J., Clifton S.W., Wilson R.K., and Mitreva M. 2006. Identification and analysis of genes expressed in the adult filarial parasitic nematode Dirofilaria immitis. International Journal for Parasitology. 2006 Jun;36(7):829-39. Epub 2006 Mar 31. [link]
• 36. M. Mitreva-Dautova, E. Roze, H. Overmars, Graaff L., Schots A., Helder J., Goverse A., J. Bakker and Geert Smant. 2006. A Symbiont-Independent Endo-1,4-ß-xylanase from the Plant-Parasitic Nematode Meloidogyne incognita. Molecular Plant-microbe Interactions. Vol. 19, No. 5, 2006, pp. 521-529. [link]
• 35. T.W.J.M. van Herpen, S.V. Goryunova, J. van der Schoot, M. Mitreva, E. Salentijn, O. Vorst, M. Schenk, P.A. van Veelen, F. Koning, L. van Soest, B. Vosman, D. Bosch, R.J. Hamer, L.J.W.J. Gilissen, M.J.M. Smulders. 2006. Alpha-gliadin genes from the A, B, and D genomes are distinct in sequence conservation and celiac disease epitope content in diploid as well as hexaploid Triticum, BMC Genomics, 7:1-13. [link]
• 34. Vanholme B., Mitreva M., Criekinge W. V., Logghe, M Bird, D. M., McCarter J. P. and Gheysen G. Detection of proteins secreted by the plant-parasitic nematode Heterodera schachtii based on Expressed Sequence Tags analysis. Parasitology Research,2006 Apr;98(5):414-24. Epub 2005 Dec 28 [link]

2005

• 33. Mitreva M, Blaxter ML, Bird DM, McCarter JP. 2005. Comparative Genomics of Nematodes. Trends in Genetics. 2005 Oct;21(10): 573-81. Review. [link]
• 32. McCarter, Bird, D. McK., M. Mitreva, 2005. Nematode Gene Sequences: Update for December 2005, Journal of Nematology, 37(4):417-421. [link]
• 31. Bird, DMcK., Blaxter, M.L., McCarter, J.P., Mitreva M., Sternberg P.W. and W.K. Thomas, 2005. A White paper on nematode comparative genomics, Journal of Nematology, 37(4):408-416. [link]
• 30. Mitreva M, Appleton J, McCarter JP, Jasmer. 2005. Expressed sequence tags from life cycle stages of Trichinella spiralis: application to biology and parasite control. Vet Parasitol 132: 13-7. Review. [link]
• 29. Ben-Wen Li, AC Rush, SD Crosby, W Warren, SA Williams, M. Mitreva, GJ Weil. 2005. Profiling of gender-regulated gene transcripts in the filarial nematode Brugia malayi by cDNA oligonucleotide array analysis. Mol Biochem Parasitol 143: 49-57 [link]
• 28. F. J. Thompson, M. Mitreva, G.L.A. Barker, J. Martin, R.H. Waterson, J.P. McCarter, and M.E. Viney. 2005. An expressed sequence tag analysis of the life-cycle of the parasitic nematode Strongyloides ratti. Mol Biochem Parasitol 142: 32-46 [link]
• 27. Makedonka Mitreva, James P. McCarter, Prema Arasu, John Hawdon, John Martin, Mike Dante, Todd Wylie, Jian Xu, Jason E. Stajich, Wadim Kapulkin, Sandra W. Clifton, Robert H. Waterston and Richard K. Wilson. 2005. Investigating hookworm genomes by comparative analysis of two Ancylostoma species. BMC Genomics, 6(1): 58 [link]

2004

• 26. Parkinson J, Mitreva, M, Whitton C, Thomson M, Daub J, Martin J, Schmid R, Hall N, Barrell B, Waterston RH, McCarter JP and Blaxter ML. 2004. A transcriptomic analysis of the Phylum Nematoda. Nature Genetics , 36(12):1259-67 [link]
• 25. Douglas P. Jasmer, Makedonka Mitreva, James P. McCarter. 2004. mRNA sequences for Haemonchus contortus intestinal cathepsin B-like cysteine proteases display an extreme in abundance and diversity compared with other adult mammalian parasitic nematodes. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 137: 297-305.[link]
• 24. Makedonka Mitreva, Douglas P. Jasmer, Judith Appleton, John Martin, Mike Dante, Todd Wylie, Sandra W. Clifton, Robert H. Waterston and James P. McCarter. 2004. Gene Discovery in the adenophorean nematode Trichinella spiralis : an analysi of transcription from three life stages. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 137: 277-291. [link]
• 23. Makedonka Mitreva, A.A. Elling, Mike Dante, A.P. Kloek, A. Kalyanaraman, S. Aluru, Sandra W. Clifton, D.McK. Bird, T.J. Baum and James P. McCarter. 2004. A survey of SL1-spliced transcripts from the root-leason nematode Pratylenchus penetrans. Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 272(2): 138-148 [link]
• 22. Makedonka Mitreva, James P. McCarter, John Martin, Mike Dante, Todd Wylie, Brandi Chiapelli, Deana Pape, Sandra W. Clifton, Thomas B. Nutman, and Robert H. Waterston. 2004. Comparative Genomics of Gene Expression in the Parasitic and Free-living Nematodes Strongyloides stercoralis and Caenorhabditis elegans. Genome Research, 14: 209-220, [PDF file].
• 21. Todd Wylie, John C. Martin, Michael Dante, Makedonka Mitreva, Sandra W. Clifton, Asif Chinwalla, Robert H. Waterston, Richard K. Wilson, James P. McCarter. 2004. Nematode.net: A Tool for Navigating Sequences from Parasitic and Free-Living Nematodes. Nucleic Acids Research, 32: D423-6, [PDF file]

2000-2003

• 20. James P. McCarter, Makedonka Mitreva, Sandra W. Clifton, David McK. Bird, and Robert H. Waterston. 2003. Nematode Gene Sequences: Update for December 2003, Journal of Nematology, 35: 465-9, [PDF file].
• 19. Parkinson J, Mitreva M, Hall N, Blaxter M and McCarter JP (2003) 400000 nematode ESTs on the Net. Trends in Parasitology, 4922: 132-136 [PDF file]
• 18. McCarter JP, Dautova Mitreva M, Martin J, Dante T, Wylie T, Rao U, Pape D, Bowers Y, Theising B, Murphy C, Kloek AP, Chiapelli BJ, Clifton SW, Bird MD and Waterston RH (2003) Analysis and Functional Classification of Transcripts from the Nematode Meloidogyne incognita. Genome Biology, 4: R26: 1-19 [PDF file]
• 17. Dautova Mitreva M, McCarter JP, Martin J,Murphy C, Clifton SW, and Waterston RH (2003) Comparative genomics of gene expression in parasitic and free-living nematodes. Journal of Nematology, 35(3): p332 [Abstract]
• 16. Dautova M, Overmars H, Bakker J, Smant G and Gommers FJ (2002) Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA polymorphism of root-knot nematodes Meloidogyne spp. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 108: 209-220 [PDF file]
• 15. Dautova M, Florack DEA, Smulders MJM, van Soest LJM, Bosch HJ, Drijfhout JW, Koning F, Hamer RJ, Mulder Cjj and Gilissen LJWJ (2002) Profiling gluten genes and proteins in wheat species and cultivars with respect to coeliac disease, Abstracts of Lectures and Posters, TNO International Food Allergy Forum, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, pp. 71 [Abstract]
• 14. Dautova M (2001) Population and molecular genetics of root-knot nematodes. PhD thesis, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
• 13. Dautova M, Rosso MN, Abad P, Gommers FJ, Bakker J and Smant G (2001) Single pass cDNA sequencing – a powerful tool to analyse gene expression in preparasitic juveniles of the southern root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita. Nematology 3(2): 129-139 [PDF file]
• 12. Dautova M, Overmars HA, Schots A, Gommers FJ, Bakker J, de Graaf L. and G. Smant (2001) A novel cell wall degrading enzymein the plant parasitic nematode Meloidogyne incognita. Phytopathology 91:S21. [Abstract]
• 11. Dautova M and Smant G (2000) Genes expressed in infective stage of root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita. Book of abstracts ‘Durable disease resistance, Key to sustainable agriculture: Durable resistance’, Ede Wageningen, The Netherlands pp. 65.
• 10. Dautova M and Gommers F (2000) Meloidogyne spp. in Macedonia: Distribution and virulence for Mi resistance in tomato. Nematologia Mediterranea 28: 121-128

1994-1999

• 9. Dautova M and Pejcinovski F (1999) Comparison of classical and contemporary methods for identification of root-knot nematodes, Meloidogyne spp. Yearbook for plant protection -Skopje 9: 173-183 [PDF file]
• 8. Dautova M and Gommers FJ (1999) Variation in mitochondrial DNA in Meloidogyne incognita, M. javanica and M. arenaria. Proceedings of ‘51st International Symposium on Crop Protection’, Gent, Belgium pp. 54
• 7. Dautova M, Pelivanoska V and Vuckov R (1997) Investigation on the elements dynamic, yield and quality of tobacco infected with root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.). Tobacco 47 (7-12): 88-99
• 6. Dautova M, Spasenovski M and Vuckov R (1996) Morphologic characteristics, content of plant pigments, quality and yield of tobacco infected with root-knot nematodes, Meloidogyne spp. Yearbook for plant protection - Skopje 7: 37-47
• 5. Trpeski V, Kocevski V, Jekic M, Jakinov D and Dautova M (1995): The effect of organic and mineral fertilisers on yield and quality of pepper cv Kurtovska Kapija, Yearbook of the Faculty of Agriculture – Skopje 40: 115-122
• 4. Dautova M, Spasenovski M and Vuckov R (1995) Comparative investigation of tomato changes (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill) caused by phytoparasitic nematodes. Yearbook for plant protection - Skopje 6: 141-14
• 3. Dautova M (1994) Morphological and physiological changes among tomato and tobacco plants caused by Meloidogyne spp. MSc thesis, Faculty of mathematics and natural sciences, University of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.
• 2. Dautova M, Spasenovski M and Vuckov R (1994) The effect of root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) on the dynamic of plant pigments and on the yield of tomato plants. Yearbook for plant protection - Skopje 5: 149-156
• 1. Dautova M, Spasenovski M and Vuckov R (1994) The effect of root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) on the morphological characteristics and on the water content of tomato plants in relation to growth. Review of works for 1993 pp: 275-282

SELECTED SPEAKER

• ASP&ARC/NHMRC Research Network for Parasitology Annual Conference, 2-5/07/06, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia,
  • Poster and oral presentation: Identification and characterization of coding nematode-specific multy-species conserved sequences.
• 45th Annual meeting of the Society of Nematologists, 18-21/06/06, Kauai, Hawaii,
  • Oral presentation: Nem-fam: a database of coding nematode-specific multi-species conserved sequences.
• 53rd Annual meeting of the ASTMH, 7-11/11/04, Miami Beach, Florida,
  • Poster: New information on gene expression in Brugia malayi.
• SON annual meeting, 12-17/07/2003, Ithaca, New York,
  • Oral presentation: Comparative genomics of gene expression in parasitic and free-living nemtodes.
• Plant & Animal Genome XI, 11-15/01/2003, San Diego, California,
  • Poster: Revealing genes expressed in parasitic nematodes by single pass cDNA siquencing
• TNO International Food Allergy Forum, 15-15/04/2002, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands,
• Poster: Profiling gluten genes and proteins in wheat species and cultivars with respect to celiac disease.
• APS/SON/MPS Join Meeting, 24-30/08/2001, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA,
• Oral presentation: A novel cell wall degrading enzyme in the plant parasitic nematode Meloidogyne incognita.
• Durable disease resistance, Key to sustainable agriculture: Durable resistance, 28/11 – 01/12/2000, Ede-Wageningen, The Netherlands,
  • Poster: Genes expressed in infective stage of the root knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita.
• Characterization of endoparasitic nematode secretions, their role in pathogenesis, Spid Meeting, 10/10/1999 – 15/10/1999, Antibes, France,
  • Oral presentation: Cell wall degrading enzyme in the root knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita.
• Plant Responses to Physical, Chemical and Biotic Constraints, International graduate program workshop, 22/09/99 – 24/09/99, Retzbach, Germany,
  • Oral presentation: Variable Number tandem repeats (VNTRs) in mitochondrial DNA of Meloidogyne spp.
• 51st International Symposium on Crop Protection, 04/05/1999, Gent, Belgium,
  • Oral presentation: Variation in mitochondrial DNA in Meloidogyne incognita, M. javanica and M. arenaria.
• 23rd Conference for Plant Protection, 10/11/1998 - 12/11/1998, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia,
  • Oral presentation: Comparison of classical and contemporary methods for identification of root-knot nematodes, Meloidogyne spp.
• 23rd Plant Protection Symposium, 1998, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia,
  • Oral presentation: Comparison of classical and contemporary methods for identification of root-knot nematodes, Meloidogyne spp.
• 20th Plant Protection Symposium, 1995, Ohrid - Republic of Macedonia,
  • Oral presentation: Morphologic characteristics, content of plant pigments, quality and yield of tobacco infected of root-knot nematodes, Meloidogyne spp.
• 18th Tobacco symposium, 1995, Ohrid - Republic of Macedonia,
  • Oral presentation: Investigation on the elements dynamic, yield and quality of tobacco infected with root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.).
• 19th Plant Protection Symposium, 1994, Ohrid - Republic of Macedonia,
  • Oral presentation: Comparative investigation of tomato changes (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill) caused by phytoparasitic nematodes.
• 18th Plant Protection Symposium, 1993, Ohrid - Republic of Macedonia,
  • Oral presentation: The effect of root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) on the dynamic of plant pigments and on the yield of tomato plants.
• The 1st International symposium, New Technologies in Vegetables and Flowers Production, 1993, Ohrid - Republic of Macedonia,
  • Oral presentation: The effect of root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) on the morphological characteristics and on the water content of tomato plants in relation to growth.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• Serve on a grant panel or reviewed grants for
  • USDA National Research Initiative Program;
  • National Science Foundation (NSF);
  • Welcome Trust.
• Peer reviewed for several journals including
  • Genome Research
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • BMC Genomics
  • International Journal for Parasitology
  • Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
  • Experimental Parasitology
  • Plant Protection
  • Infection, Genetics and Evolution
  • The Royal Society, Biology Letters; etc.
  • Veterinary Parasitology (Adhoc for Veterinary Parasitology)

HONORS AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

• 1991 Talented Students Scholarship, Ministry of Science, Macedonia
• 1997 Awarded Graduate Scholarship, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
• 2000 Storm-van der Chijs Stipendium, creativity and self-initiative in scientific research, The Netherlands.
• 2001 Best Ph.D. student paper award, Society of Nematologists, USA.
• 2003-present WormBase, Member as a Person, www.wormbase.org.
• 2004-present Society of Nematology, Member of the White paper Committee on Nematode Genomics.
• 2004-present Member of the International Helminth Genome Consortium.
• 2005-present Adhoc for Veterinary Parasitology (special fields reviewer).
• 2005-2007 Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO FUNDED PROJECTS GRANT PROPOSALS

• National Institute of Health, NHGRI Proposal, PI Richard K. Wilson, Makedonka Mitreva - Investigator, 2003
• National Institute of Health, NIAID Research Proposal, PI Richard K. Wilson, Makedonka Mitreva - Group Leader, 2004
• National Institute of Health, NHGRI Proposal, PI Richard K. Wilson, Makedonka Mitreva - Investigator, 2006
• National Institute of Health, NHGRI white paper, International Consortium, Makedonka Mitreva - Leading Author 2006
• National Institute of Health, General Medicine, (under review), Makedonka Mitreva – Principal Investigator 2007
• US Department of Agriculture, Population and evolutionary process, Makedonka Mitreva, Co-investigator 2007

COLLABORATORS

• Judith Appleton, Cornell University, Trichinella spiralis
• Prema Arasu, N. Carolina State Univ., Ancylostoma caninum, Toxocara canis, and Dirofilaria immitis
• David Artis, University of Pennsylvania, Trichuris muris
• Thomas Baum, Iowa State Univ., Heterodera glycines
• David Bird, N. Carolina State Univ., Meloidogyne incognita, M. javanica, and M. arenaria
• Vivian Blok, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Globodera pallida
• Mark Blaxter, University of Edinburgh, Coordination of GSC and Sanger Centre Parasitic EST Projects
• Monica Britton, UC Davis, Pratylenchus vulnus
• Bernadette Connolly, University of Aberdeen, Trichinella spiralis
• Richard Davis, City University of New York, Ascaris suum
• Rick Davis, North Carolina State University, Heterodera glycines
• Robin Gasser, University of Melbourne, Strongylida species
• Tim Geary, Pharmacia Corporation, Ascaris suum
• Godelieve Gheysen, Ghent University, Heterodera schachtii
• Warwick Grant and Chuck Shoemaker, Ag Research Inc, New Zealand, Parastrongyloides trichosuri
• John Hawdon and Peter Hotez, George Washington Univ., Ancylostoma caninum, and A. ceylanicum
• Doug Jasmer, Washington State Univ., Trichinella spiralis
• John J. Jones, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Xiphinema index
• Vadim Kapulkin, Univ. of Colorado, Ancylostoma ceylanicum
• Andrew Kloek, Divergence Inc., Meloidogyne incognita, M. javanica, and Zeldia punctata
• Thomas Nutman, NIH-NIAID, Strongyloides stercoralis
• Charlie Opperman, N. Carolina State Univ., Heterodera glycines
• Shoba Ranganathan, Macquarie University, Strongylida species
• Alan Scott, Johns Hopkins Univ., Ascaris suum
• Geert Smant, Wageningen Univ., Globodera rostochiensis
• Ralf Sommer, Max Plank Institute, Germany, Pristionchus pacificus
• Paul Sternberg, Caltech, Incorporation of Parasite ESTs into C. elegans ACEDB
• Gary Weil, Washington University, Brugia malayi
• Valerie Williamson, University of California at Davis, Meloidogyne hapla
• Mark Viney, Univ. of Bristol, U.K., Strongyloides ratti
• Dante Zarlenga, USDA, Beltsville Station, Ascaris suum

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