Education
Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 2002
Current position
Ana Traven is a Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University in Melbourne. Ana leads a lab that studies the pathogenic fungus Candida albicans
Publications
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Hewitt, V. L., Heinz, E., Shingu-Vazquez, M., Qu, Y., Jelicic, B., Lo, T. L., Beilharz, T. H., Dumsday, G., Gabriel, K., Traven, A.# and Lithgow, T.# (2012). A model system for mitochondrial biogenesis reveals evolutionary rewiring of protein import and membrane assembly pathways. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109(49): E3358-3366.(#co-corresponding authors)
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Uwamahoro, N., Qu, Y., Jelicic, B., Lo, T. L., Beaurepaire, C., Bantun, F., Quenault, T., Boag, P. R., Ramm, G., Callaghan, J., Beilharz, T. H., Nantel, A., Peleg, A. Y. and Traven, A. (2012). The functions of Mediator in Candida albicans support a role in shaping species-specific gene expression. PLoS Genet 8(4): e1002613.
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Qu, Y., Jelicic, B., Pettolino, F., Perry, A., Lo, T. L., Hewitt, V. L., Bantun, F., Beilharz, T. H., Peleg, A. Y., Lithgow, T., Djordjevic, J. T. and Traven, A. (2012). Mitochondrial sorting and assembly machinery subunit Sam37 in Candida albicans: insight into the roles of mitochondria in fitness, cell wall integrity, and virulence. Eukaryot Cell 11(4): 532-544.
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Dagley, M. J., Gentle, I. E., Beilharz, T. H., Pettolino, F. A., Djordjevic, J. T., Lo, T. L., Uwamahoro, N., Rupasinghe, T., Tull, D. L., McConville, M., Beaurepaire, C., Nantel, A., Lithgow, T., Mitchell, A. P. and Traven, A. (2011). Cell wall integrity is linked to mitochondria and phospholipid homeostasis in Candida albicans through the activity of the post-transcriptional regulator Ccr4-Pop2. Mol Microbiol 79(4): 968-989.