Univesity of Maryland: Department of Biology
University of Maryland
CRISTIAN CASTILLO-DAVIS
Assistant Professor
email:castill0@umd.eduphone:
301.405.2005 (office)
301.405.5613 (lab)
fax:301.314.9358
office:2128 Bioscience Research Building
graduate programs: Biology, BEES
visit lab page most recent publicationsRESEARCH INTERESTS
The genetic basis of phenotypic change, the evolution of gene regulation and gene networks, computational biology and statistics.
Representative Publications
Landry C.R.*, C. I. Castillo-Davis*, A. Ogura, Jun S. Liu, D. L. Hartl. 2007. Systems-level analysis and evolution of the phototransduction network in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(9):3283-3288.
Ma P*, Castillo-Davis CI*, Zhong W, Liu JS. 2006. A data-driven clustering method for time course gene expression data. Nucleic Acids Research 34: 1261-1269. *contributed equally
Castillo-Davis CI. 2005. The evolution of noncoding DNA: how much junk, how much func? Trends in Genetics 21(10): 533-536.
Castillo-Davis CI, Hartl DL, Achaz G. 2004. cis-regulatory and protein evolution in orthologous and duplicate genes. Genome Research 14(8): 1530-1536.
Castillo-Davis CI*, Kulathinal RJ*, Kondrashov FA, Hartl DL. 2004. The functional genomic distribution of protein divergence in two animal phyla: coevolution, genomic conflict, and constraint. Genome Research 14(5):802-811. *contributed equally
Ranz JM, Castillo-Davis CI, Meiklejohn CD, Hartl DL. 2003. Sex-dependent gene expression and the evolution of the Drosophila transcriptome. Science. 300(5626): 1742-1745.
Castillo-Davis CI and Hartl DL. 2003. GeneMerge- post-genomic analysis, data-mining and hypothesis testing. Bioinformatics 19(7): 891-892.
Castillo-Davis CI, Mekhedov SL, Hartl DL, Koonin EV, Kondrashov FA. 2002. Selection for short introns in highly expressed genes. Nature Genetics. 31(4): 415-418.