{"id":19322,"date":"2025-09-24T07:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/?post_type=profile&p=19322"},"modified":"2025-12-22T09:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:22:05","slug":"elizaveta-berson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/profiles\/elizaveta-berson\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizaveta Berson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally from Moscow, Russia, I came to the US for high school. I went on to completing my B.S. in Medical and Molecular Biology at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS) where my love for science and biology thrived. During my college years, I worked in Dr. Monica Colaiacovo\u2019s lab at Harvard Medical school studying post-translational regulation of chromosome synapsis during meiosis in C. elegans. After graduation I worked as an EMT for a year and then I returned to Dr. Colaiacovo\u2019s lab as a research assistant. At that time I was researching the regulation of chromosome dynamics and DNA double-strand breaks. As a PhD student in the PiBS program, I joined Dr. Valentina Perissi\u2019s and Dr. Stefan Isaac\u2019s labs. I am interested in understanding the role of subpopulation of mitochondria that localizes near the nucleus. I am developing purification system to isolate perinuclear subpopulation of mitochondria and will be characterizing it using genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics approaches.<\/p>\n

Representative Publications<\/h4>
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  1. Lascarez-Lagunas LI, Nadarajan S, Martinez-Garcia M, Quinn JN, Todisco E, Thakkar T, Berson E, Eaford D, Crawley O, Montoya A, Faul P, Ferrandiz N, Barroso C, Labella S, Koury E, Smolikove S, Zetka M, Martinez-Perez E, Colai\u00e1covo MP. ATM\/ATR kinases link the synaptonemal complex and DNA double-strand break repair pathway choice. Current Biology (2022); 32(21):4719-4726.e4.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Lascarez-Lagunas LI, Martinez-Garcia M, Nadarajan S, Diaz-Pacheco BN, Berson E, Colai\u00e1covo MP. Chromatin landscape, DSB levels, and cKU-70\/80 contribute to patterning of meiotic DSB processing along chromosomes in C. elegans. PLoS Genet. (2023); 19(1):e1010627.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Martinez-Garcia M, Naharro PR, Skinner MW, Baran KA, Lascarez-Lagunas LI, Nadarajan S, Shin N, Silva-Garcia CG, Saito TT, Beese-Sims S, Diaz-Pacheco BN, Berson E, Casta\u00f1er AB, Pacheco S, Martinez-Perez E, Jordan PW, Colai\u00e1covo MP. GRAS-1 is a novel regulator of early meiotic <span>chromosome dynamics in C. elegans. PLoS Genet. (2023); 19(2):e1010666.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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