Maria Barna

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
genetics
Canary Center at Stanford
United States of America

Academician Genetics
Biography

Maria Barna is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Developmental Biology and Genetics at Stanford University. Dr. Barna obtained her B.A. in Anthropology from New York University and her Ph.D. from Cornell University, Weill Graduate School of Medicine.Dr. Barna has received a number of distinctions including being named a Pew Scholar, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, and top ’40 under 40’ by the Cell Journal. She has received the Basil O’ Connor Scholar Research Award and the NIH Directors New Innovator Award. In 2016, she was the recipient of the Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award, an award given to two female scientist in the world every three years in the field of genetics and the American Society for Cell Biology Emerging Leader Prize.

Research Intrest

intricate control of gene expression and cell signaling is regulated on a minute-by-minute basis to give rise to the remarkable diversity of cell types and tissue

List of Publications
Shi Z, Fujii K, Kovary KM, Genuth NR, Röst HL, Teruel MN, Barna M. Heterogeneous Ribosomes Preferentially Translate Distinct Subpools of mRNAs Genome-wide. Molecular Cell. 2017 Jun 15.
Fujii K, Shi Z, Zhulyn O, Denans N, Barna M. Pervasive translational regulation of the cell signalling circuitry underlies mammalian development. Nature Communications. 2017;8.
Simsek D, Tiu GC, Flynn RA, Byeon GW, Leppek K, Xu AF, Chang HY, Barna M. The mammalian ribo-interactome reveals ribosome functional diversity and heterogeneity. Cell. 2017 Jun 1;169(6):1051-65.