Dr. Baldev Vig
Emeritus Professor
Cytogenetics; human and medical genetics; mechanisms of chromosome migration, centrome and kinetochore structure and function.

Khalsa College, Armitsar, India
1957, B.S.,
Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
1961, M.S., Genetics and Bioemetry
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1967, Ph.D., Genetics

Selected Publications
Vig, B.K. and Henderson, A (1998) Aneuploidy in Indian mun tjac is limited to the Y2 chromosome. Mutagenesis 12:33-37

Faulkner, N., Vig, B.K.,Echeverri, C., Wordeman, L., and Vallee, R. (1998) Localization of motor proteins and associated complexes to active but not inactive centromeres. Human Molecular Genetics 7: 671-677.

Vig, B.K. (1998) Recognition of mammalian centromeres by anti-dynein and anti-dynactin components. Mutagenesis 13:391-396.

Vig, B.K. (1998) Centromere: A candidate for facelift. Molecular and Environmental Mutagenesis 32:197-200.

Vig, B.K. and Willcourt, M (1998) Decondensation of pericentric heterochromatin alters the sequence of centromere separation in mouse cells. Chromosoma 107:417-423.

Sugimoto,K., Tsutsui, M., AuCoin D and Vig, B.K.(1999) Visualization of prekinetochore locus on the centromeric region of highly extended chromatin fibers: does kinetochore autoantigen CENP-C constitute a kinetochore organizing center? Chromosome Research 6: 7:9-19

Garcia-Ord, A., Vig, B.K. and Aucoin, D. (2000)Sequence of replication of pericentric heterochromatin: Lack of relationship with quantity and sequence of centromere separation. Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics 120:18-24.

Vig, B.K. and Hallett, W. (2000) 5-Azacytidine and Hoechst-induced aneuploidy in Indian muntjac cells. Mutation Research 466:79-86

Rodriguez, M. J., Lopez, M., Garcia-Orad, A. and Vig, B.K. (2001) Sequence of centromere separation: effect of 5-azacytidine-induced epigenetic alteration. Mutagenesis 16:109-114.

Garcia-Orad, A., Gomez, P., and Vig, BK (2001) Histone H3 phosphorylation of mammalian chromosomes. Chromosome Research 9:487-494.

Gomez-Vargas, P,. Vig, B.K. (2002) Differential induction of numerical chromosome changes by sodium butyrate in two transformed cell lines. Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics

University of Nevada, Reno
Biology Department m/s 314
Reno, NV 89557

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775-784-6188
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775-784-1302