Ryszard Maleszka

Molecular Genetics and Evolution Group
Research School of Biological Sciences
GPO Box 475
Canberra ACT 2601
ph: +61 (02) 6125 0451
fax: +61 (02) 6125 3784

email: ryszard.maleszka@anu.edu.au

Information for prospective students

Current position

Professor

Research interests

Molecular and cellular aspects of learning, memory and behavioural development in insects. Functional genomics. Mechanisms of evolution. Epigenetics.

Selected Publications

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Kucharski, R, Maleszka, J., Foret, S. Maleszka, R (2008) Nutritional control of reproductive status in honey bees via DNA methylation. Science. 319:1827-1830.

Barron, A.B., Maleszka, R., Vander Meer, R. and G.E. Robinson. (2007) Octopamine modulates honey bee dance behavior. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104, 1703-1707.

Wang, Y, Jorda, M. Jones, PL, Maleszka, R, Robertson, HM, Mizzen, CA, Peinado, M Robinson, GE (2006) Functional CpG Methylation System in a Social Insect. Science. 314, 645-647.

Foret, S. and Maleszka, R. (2006) Function and evolution of a gene family encoding odorant binding-like proteins in a social insect, the honey bee (Apis mellifera). Genome Res. 16, 1401- 1413.

Robinson G.E., Evans, J.D., Maleszka, R., Robertson, H. M, Weaver, D. B, Worley, K, Gibbs, R.A. & Weinstock, G. M. (2006) Sweetness and Light: Illuminating the Honey Bee Genome. Insect Mol Biol. 15, 535-539.

Drapeau, M.D., Albert, S. Kucharski, R. Prusko, C., Maleszka, R. (2006) Evolution of the Yellow / Major Royal Jelly Protein family and the emergence of social behavior in honeybees. Genome Res. 16, 1385-1394.

 

Honey Bee Genome Consortium (2006) Insights into social insects from the genome of the honey bee Apis mellifera. Nature, 443, 931-949.

Si, A., Zhang, S. W. and Maleszka, R. (2005) Effects of caffeine on olfactory and visual learning in the honey bee ( Apis mellifera ). Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 82, 664-672.

Kucharski, R. and Maleszka, R. (2005) Microarray and rtPCR analyses of gene expression in the honey bee brain following caffeine treatment. J. Mol. Neurosci. 27:269-276.

Kucharski, R. and Maleszka, R., (2002) Evaluation of differential gene expression during behavioural development in the honeybee using microarrays and northern blots", Genome Biology 3, research0007.1-0007.9.

Miklos GL, Maleszka R. (2000) Deus ex genomix. Nature Neurosci. 3:424-425.

 

CMGD:

http://www.cmgd.adelaide.edu.au/research/mol_dev_neu/Maleszka.html

NGED:

 

http://www.nged.adelaide.edu.au/member_profiles/Maleska_Ryszard.html

 

 

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