Dr. Heather L. Fiumera

Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
Binghamton University
United States of America

Academician General Science
Biography

Dr. Heather L. Fiumera is working as Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Binghamton University.Heather began her research in yeast mitochondrial genetics under postdoctoral training with Dr. Thomas D. Fox at Cornell University. She holds degrees in Microbiology (PhD, University of Georgia) and Chemistry (BA, Smith College).

Research Intrest

Mitochondrial protein biogenesis, mitochondrial genetics, intracellular communication

List of Publications
Bonnefoy N, Fiumera HL, Dujardin G, Fox TD. Roles of Oxa1-related inner-membrane translocases in assembly of respiratory chain complexes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell Research. 2009 Jan 31;1793(1):60-70.
Wolters JF, Chiu K, Fiumera HL. Population structure of mitochondrial genomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. BMC genomics. 2015 Jun 11;16(1):451.
Paliwal S, Fiumera AC, Fiumera HL. Mitochondrial-nuclear epistasis contributes to phenotypic variation and coadaptation in natural isolates of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics. 2014 Nov 1;198(3):1251-65.

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