María Angélica Bravo Núñez
Visiting Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics AS
María Angélica Bravo Núñez is a Provost’s New Faculty Fellow (2023-2025) and an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (2025). Her research interests include ploidy dynamics, sexual reproduction, and genome instability.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Biology
Stowers Institute for Medical Research - 2020
Bachelor of Science, Genomic Sciences
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) - 2014
Bravo Núñez MA, Sabbarini IM, Eide LE, Unckless RL, Zanders SE. Atypical meiosis can be adaptive in outcrossed Schizosaccharomyces pombe due to wtf meiotic drivers. eLIFE. 2020;9:e57936. doi:10.7554/eLife.57936
Bravo Núñez MA, Sabbarini IM, Eickbush MT, Liang Y, Lange JJ, Kent AM, and Zanders SE. Dramatically diverged S. pombe wtf meiotic drivers all display high gamete-killing efficiency. PLOS Genetics, 2020;16(2): e1008350
Bravo Núñez MA, Lange JJ, and Zanders SE, A suppressor of a wtf poison-antidote meiotic driver acts via mimicry of the driver’s antidote. PLOS Genetics 2018;12(11):e1007836
Nuckolls, NL*, Bravo Núñez, MA*, Eickbush, MT, Young, JM, Lange, JJ, Yu, JS, Smith, GR, Jaspersen, SL, Malik, HS, and Zanders, SE, wtf genes are prolific dual poison-antidote meiotic drivers. eLIFE, 2017. 6.
Contact Information
107 Biotechnology Building
Ithaca, NY 14853
mb2799 [at] cornell.edu