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Silviu L. Faitar

Assistant Professor
Biology and Mathematics (Academic Department)
DYouville College
United States of America

Professor Mathematics
Biography

Dr. Silviu Faitar began teaching at D’Youville in the Fall of 2007. His primary teaching duties are in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Cell Biology. In addition, he taught the Pharmacogenomics course for the Pharm.D. program. Dr. Faitar developed and continues to teach the Medical Genetics and Genomics module for the Physician Assistant program, and the new Genomics and Proteomics course for the Biology program.

Research Intrest

Dr. Silviu Faitar’s research interests are in the areas of molecular and cellular biology, cell cycle regulation, and cancer research. He is also interested in the study of intracellular trafficking, gene expression, and signal transduction. Dr. Faitar is the founder of The Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Laboratory at D'Youville, where he currently uses modern microscopy techniques, DNA recombinant technologies, mammalian cell culture, protein analysis, and bioinformatics approaches.

List of Publications
Bangur, C. S., Faitar, S. L., Folster, J. P., & Ponticelli, A. S. (1999). An interaction between the N-terminal region and the core domain of yeast TFIIB promotes the formation of TATA-binding protein-TFIIB-DNA complexes. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 274(33), 23203-23209.
Matsui, S. I., Faitar, S. L., Rossi, M. R., & Cowell, J. K. (2003). Application of spectral karyotyping to the analysis of the human chromosome complement of interspecies somatic cell hybrids. Cancer genetics and cytogenetics, 142(1), 30-35.
Faitar, S. L., Dabbeekeh, J. T., Ranalli, T. A., & Cowell, J. K. (2005). EVI5 is a novel centrosomal protein that binds to α-and γ-tubulin. Genomics, 86(5), 594-605.
Faitar, S. L., Sossey-Alaoui, K., Ranalli, T. A., & Cowell, J. K. (2006). EVI5 protein associates with the INCENP-aurora B kinase-survivin chromosomal passenger complex and is involved in the completion of cytokinesis. Experimental cell research, 312(12), 2325-2335.
Faitar, S. L., Brodie, S. A., & Ponticelli, A. S. (2001). Promoter-specific shifts in transcription initiation conferred by yeast TFIIB mutations are determined by the sequence in the immediate vicinity of the start sites. Molecular and cellular biology, 21(14), 4427-4440.
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