Ph.D., Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Washington, and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle. 2006 Dissertation: Nuclear Division in the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila
M.S., Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. 1996
B.S., Applied Microbiology, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, Texas. 1994
2020 Cervantes MD, Zufall R, White T, Rowland N, Andersland J, Shreve M.
Description of a new tetrahymenid species, Tetrahymena veternosa, most
closely related to known histophagous species. In preparation.
2022 Zhang L*, Cervantes MD*, Pan S,Lindsley J, Dabney A, Kapler GM.
Transcriptome analysis of the binucleate ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila
with asynchronous nuclear cell cycles. Mol Biol Cell 34(2). doi:
https://doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E22-08-0326 *Shared first authorship
2020 Buonaccorsi A, Cervantes MD, Chalker DI, Goytia M, Leung W, Lorenz
L, Reed L, Rosenwald A, Schroeder AM, Wiley E, Williams J. Genomics
Lessons with GEA – RNA-Seq CURES. Cultivating Scientific Curiosity, QUBES
Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/S21R-9364
2020 Buonaccorsi A, Cervantes MD, Chalker DI, Rosenwald A, Wiley E,
Williams J. Genomics Education Alliance: A Collection of Posters for the 2020
BIOME Institute. Version 1.0 – published on 23 Jul 2020 doi:10.25334/90HY-
1188
2019 Enerson RL, Cervantes M, Determining if Mating Type Proteins Play a
Role in Immaturity of the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila. The FASEB
Journal. 33(1_supplement):777-6
2015 Ariatti A, Cervantes M, Kapler G, Guerrier S. A Potential Role for
TtSNX4 in Macronuclear Degradation in Tetrahymena thermophila
conjugation. Mol Biol Cell. 26
2013 Cervantes MD, Hamilton E, Xiong J, Lawson MJ, Yuan D,
Hadjithomas, M, Miao W, Orias E. Selecting One of Several Mating Types
through Gene Segment Joining and Deletion in Tetrahymena thermophila. PLOS Biology 11 (3), e1001518. Cover, F1000Prime https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001518
2012 Frontini M, Kukalev A, Leo E, Ng Y-M, Cervantes MD, Cheng C-W,
Holic R, Dormann D, Tse E, Pommier Y, Yu V. The CDK Subunit CKS2
Counteracts CKS1 to Control Cyclin A/CDK2 Activity in Maintaining
Replicative Fidelity and Neurodevelopment. Dev Cell 23, 356-70
2011 Orias E, Cervantes MD, Hamilton EP. Tetrahymena thermophila: A
Unicellular Eukaryote with Germline and Somatic Genomes. Res Microbiol.
162, 578-86. doi: 10.1016/j.resmic.2011.05.001
2006 Cervantes MD, Coyne RS, Xi X, Yao MC. The condensin complex is
essential for amitotic segregation of bulk chromosomes, but not nucleoli, in
the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila. Mol Cell Biol. 26, 4690-700.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1489118/pdf/2315-05.pdf
2006 Cervantes MD, Xi X, Vermaak D, Yao MC, Malik HS. The CNA1 histone
of the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila is essential for chromosome
segregation in the germline micronucleus. Mol Biol Cell. 17, 485-97.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1345684/pdf/0485.pdf
2000 Cervantes M(D), Farah J and Smith G. Meiotic DNA breaks associated
with recombination in S.pombe. Molecular Cell 5, 883-888.
http://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/pdf/S1097-2765(00)80328-7.pdf
