Staff Profile

Research Interests

Molecular bases of weeds resistance to herbicides

Current Work

I am interested in the molecular bases of multiple-herbicide resistance in black grass. My work focuses on proteins of the GST and ABC transport families that are up regulated in resistant populations and I am trying to understand the specific roles of those proteins and their contribution to the resistance phenotype.

• Freibert SA, Goldberg AV, Hacker C, Molik S, Dean P, Williams TA, Nakjang S, Long SJ, Sendra K, Bill E, Heinz E, Hirt RP, Lucocq JM, Embley TM, Lill R. Evolutionary conservation and in vitro reconstitution of microsporidian iron–sulfur cluster biosynthesis. Nature Communcations 2017, 8, 13932.
• Heinz E, Hacker C, Dean P, Mifsud J, Goldberg AV, Williams TA, Nakjang S, Gregory A, Hirt RP, Lucocq JM, Kunji ER, Embley TM. Plasma Membrane-Located Purine Nucleotide Transport Proteins are Key Components for Host Exploitation by Microsporidian Intracellular Parasites. PLoS Pathogens 2014, 10(12), e1004547.
• Heinz E, Williams TA, Nakjnag S, Noël CJ, Swan DC, Goldberg AV, Harris SR, Weinmaier T, Markert S, Becher D, Bernhardt J, Dagan T, Hacker C, Lucocq JM, Schweder T, Rattei T, Hall N, Hirt RP, Embley TM. The Genome of the Obligate Intracellular ParasiteTrachipleistophora hominis: New Insights into Microsporidian Genome Dynamics and Reductive Evolution. PLoS Pathogens 2012, 8(10), e1002979.
• Hjort K, Goldberg AV, Tsaousis AD, Hirt RP, Embley TM. Diversity and reductive evolution of mitochondria among microbial eukaryotes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2010, 365(1541), 713-727.
• Goldberg AV, Molik S, Tsaousis AD, Neumann K, Kuhnke G, Delbac F, Vivares CP, Hirt RP, Lill R, Embley TM. Localization and functionality of microsporidian iron-sulphur cluster assembly proteins. Nature 2008, 452(7187), 624-628.
• Tsaousis AD, Kunji ERS, Goldberg AV, Lucocq JM, Hirt RP, Embley TM. A novel route for ATP acquisition by the remnant mitochondria of Encephalitozoon cuniculi. Nature 2008, 453(7194), 553-556.
• Goldberg AV, Romanowski V, Federici BA, Sciocco de Cap A. Effects of the Epap granulovirus on its host, Epinotia aporema (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 2002, 80(3), 148-159.
• Sciocco-Cap A, Parola AD, Goldberg AV, Ghiringhelli PD, Romanowski V. Characterization of a granulovirus isolated from Epinotia aporema Wals. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) larvae. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2001, 67(8), 3702-3706.
• Emelyanov VV, Goldberg AV. Fermentation enzymes of Giardia lamblia, pyruvate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase and hydrogenase, do not localize to its mitosomes. Microbiology. vol 157 p. 1602-11 (2011). Microbiology 2011, 157, 1602-11.