Antoine MIALON

*Since 04/03: PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Jukka Westermarck at the Turku Centre for Biotechnology (Role and function of the c-Jun protein complex in cancer.)

Publications:
-Holmström, TH, Mialon A, Kallio M, Mannermaa M, Johansson H, Holm T, Black E, Gillespie DA, Langel U, Valdez BC, and Westermarck J; The Transcription Factor c-Jun Promotes Ribosomal RNA Processing by Direct Interaction with the Nucleolar RNA Helicase DDX21. Submitted.

-Koivusalo R., Mialon A., Pitkänen H., Westermarck J. and Hietanen S.; Activation of p53 in cervical cancer cells by HPV E6 RNA interference is transient, but can be sustained by inhibiting endogenous nuclear export-dependent p53 antagonists. Cancer Res. 2006; 66 (24).

-Mialon A., Sankinen M., Soderstrom H., Junttila T.T., Holmstrom T., Koivusalo R., Papageorgiou A.C., Johnson R.S., Hietanen S., Elenius K., Westermarck J.; DNA topoisomerase I is a cofactor for c-Jun in the regulation of epidermal growth factor receptor expression and cancer cell proliferation. Mol Cell Biol. 2005 Jun;25(12):5040-51.

*01/00-07/03: Master degree under the supervision of Daniel Chourrout at the Sars Centre, University of Bergen (Characterization and expression patterns of Otx genes in the Urochordate Oikopleura dioica.)

Publication:
-Edvardsen R.B., Seo H.C., Jensen M.F., Mialon A., Mikhaleva J., Bjordal M., Cartry J., Reinhardt R., Weissenbach J., Wincker P, Chourrout D.; Remodelling of the homeobox gene complement in the tunicate Oikopleura dioica. Curr Biol. 2005 Jan 11;15(1):R12-3.

*2002-2003 Norplus exchange program at the University of Turku (Finland).
*07/01-06/02: Part time research assistant under the responsability of Hee-Chan Seo in the group of Daniel Chourrout at the Sars Centre, University of Bergen (Cloning, sequencing and preliminary analysis of genomic clones from the atlantic salmon Salmo salar)

*1999-2000 Guest student at the University of Bergen.

*03/99-01/00: Training work in the group of Niels Aarsaether at the PKI, University of Bergen (PCR, cloning, cell culture).

*1998-1999 Licence (B.Sc.) in Biochemistry at the University of Caen (France) during an inter-university exchange year at the University of Bergen.

*1996-1998 DEUG of Biology at the University of Caen.
*1994-1996 Medical School at the University of Caen.

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