Associate Professor Katherine Belov

Associate Professor in Animal Genetics
Faculty of Veterinary Science
The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia
P +61 2 9351 3454
F +61 2 9351 3957
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Office 313, Lab 311, B19 - R.M.C. Gunn

Qualifications

BSc(Hons) PhD

Teaching Areas

• Genetics and Genomics

Administration

• Postgraduate Coordinator
• Coordinator of Fourth Year Animal and Veterinary Bioscience Genetics Research Projects

Research

• Evolution of the adaptive immune system
• Marsupial and monotreme immune genes
• MHC Diversity and Conservation
• Marsupial and monotreme genomics
• Comparative Genomics
• Genetics of Tasmanian Devil facial tumour disease

Selected Publications

1. Belov K, Deakin JE, Papenfuss AT, Baker ML, Siddle HV. Gouin N, Goode DL, Sargeant TJ, Robinson MD, Wakefield MJ, Mahony S, Cross JGR, Benos PV, Samollow PB, Speed TP, Graves JAM, Miller RD. Reconstructing an Ancestral Mammalian Immune Supercomplex from a Marsupial MHC. PLoS Biol. Jan 31;4(3):e46. 2005
2. Mikkelsen TS, Wakefield MJ, Belov K, et al Genome of the marsupial Monodelphis domestica reveals innovation in non-coding sequences. Nature. 447(7141):167-77. 2007
3. Belov K, Sanderson CE, Deakin JE, Wong ES, Assange D, McColl KA, Gout A, de Bono B, Barrow AD, Speed TP, Trowsdale J, Papenfuss AT. Characterization of the opossum immune genome provides insights into the evolution of the mammalian immune system. Genome Res. 17(7):982-91. 2007
4. Siddle HV, Sanderson C, Belov K. Characterization of major histocompatibility complex class I and class II genes from the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii). Immunogenetics. 59(9):753-60. 2007
5. Siddle HV, Kreiss A, Eldridge MD, Noonan E, Clarke CJ, Pyecroft S, Woods GM, Belov K. Transmission of a fatal clonal tumour by biting occurs due to depleted MHC diversity in a threatened carnivorous marsupial. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 104(41):16221-6. 2007