Curriculum vitae
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Amy J. Reese |
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| Cedar Crest College Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences 100 College Drive Allentown PA 18104-6196 |
email: ajreese@cedarcrest.edu |
| Education |
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| The College of Wooster (Wooster, OH), B.A. chemistry,
music minor |
1993 | |
| University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN), Ph.D.
biochemistry |
2001 | |
| Washington University (St. Louis, MO), postdoctorate,
microbiology |
2004 | |
| Research and Professional experience |
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| The College of Wooster,
Senior Independent Study thesis “The Determination of the
Three-Dimensional Crystal Structure of the Coenzyme B12 Model Compound:
[((CH3)2CHCH2)Co(III)((DO)(DOH)bn)H2O]+PF6-”. Virginia
Pett, thesis advisor. |
1992-1993 | |
| Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital Medical Research Department, Protein
purification and analysis.
Theodore Peters, Jr. and Roberta Reed, research coordinators. |
1992-1993 | |
| University of Minnesota, Ph.D. thesis “Adipocyte
Lipid Binding Protein (ALBP) Mutations: In Search of Binding Specificity
Determinants”. Leonard J. Banaszak, thesis advisor. |
1994-2000 | |
| Washington University, postdoctoral work “The Mechanism
of Capsule Attachment in Cryptococcus neoformans”. Tamara L. Doering,
postdoctoral advisor |
2001-2004 | |
| Marine Biologicl Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, Course
on “Molecular
Mycology: Current Approaches to Fungal Pathogenesis” Marine Biological
Laboratory |
2002 | |
| Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA, advisor
for undergraduates research projects. “Got glucan? Synthesis and Regulation
of Alpha-1,3-glucan Required for Capsule Binding in Cryptococcus neoformans” |
2004 - present | |
| Teaching Experience |
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| The College of Wooster, Laboratory assistant in
undergraduate chemistry labs, teaching assistant for First Year Seminar. |
1989 - 1993 | |
| University of Minnesota, Teaching assistant and
curriculum development for Protein Structures and Function, teaching
assistant for Protein Structures and Folding, laboratory mentor
for high school student. |
1994 - 2000 | |
| Washington University, Co-lab instructor for Biomedical
Research Apprentice Program, High school student tutor and high
school teacher curriculum coach for Young Scientist Program,
course director and curriculum design for lecture and laboratory of 437
DNA Manipulation summer course |
2000 - 2004 | |
| Cedar Crest College, Bio
227 Microbiology lecture and lab sections, Bio
121 Principles of Biology lab section,
Bio 127 Introduction to Microbiology lecture
and lab, and Bio 362 Microbial
Pathogenesis lecture and lab |
2004 - present | |
| Awards | ||
| Herrick L. Johnson Chemistry Scholarship |
1989 | |
| College Scholar Scholarship |
1989 | |
| Lavell M. Henderson Award |
1994 | |
| Cyrus P. Barnum, Jr. Memorial Teaching Award |
1996 | |
| NIH Molecular Biophysics Training Grant, T32-GM08277,
Pre-Doctoral |
1996-8 | |
| Graduate Student Leadership Award |
1999 | |
| Travel awards to meetings: Biophysical Society
(1997), American Crystallographic
Association (1998, 2000), and Protein Society (1999) |
1997 - 2000 | |
| NIH NRSA Institutional Research Training Grant, Infectious
Disease Division, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Wash. Univ. #5 T32 AI07172-22 |
2001 - 2002 | |
| Travel awards to meetings: 102nd American Society
for Microbiology (2002), 5th International Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis
(2002), 10th Midwest Pathogenesis (2003) |
2002 - 2003 | |
| Travel awards to meetings: 12th American
Society for Microbiology Curriculum for Undergraduate Education (2005),
6th International Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis (2005) |
2004 - 2005 | |
| Faculty Development Awards: to attend
the 12th American Society for Microbiology Curriculum for Undergraduate
Education and the 105th American Society for Microbiology meetings (2005)
and the 6th International Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis meeting (2005) |
2004 - 2005 | |
| Professional Society Memberships | ||
| American Crystallographic Association | 1998 - 2000 | |
| Association for Women in Science | 1998 - present | |
| Graduate Women in Science, Sigma delta epsilon | 1998 -2000 | |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2002 - present | |
| National Postdoctoral Association | 2002 - 2004 | |
| Council on Undergraduate Research |
2004 - present | |
| Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences | 2004 - present | |
| Academic Service & Participation |
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| College of Wooster, Women in Science group, president | 1991 - 1993 | |
| University of Minnesota, Biochemistry graduate student body, co-president,
Structural Biology Journal Club, seminar coordinator, Women in Science
and Engineering co-director, Council of Graduate Students, Vice-President,
External Relations |
1996 - 2000 | |
| Washington University, co-director of new St. Louis chapter of Association
for Women in Science |
2001 - 2004 | |
| Cedar Crest College, Committee for Health and Wellness, Creativity subcommittee (04); Animal Use and Care Committee (05), Pre-Med Club advisor (05) | 2004 - present | |
| Publications | ||
| Thompson, J., Ory, J., Reese-Wagoner, A., and Banaszak, L. "The
liver fatty acid binding protein- comparison to cavity properties of intracellular
lipid-binding proteins." Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry. (1999)
192: 9-16. |
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| Thompson, J., Reese-Wagoner, A., and Banaszak, L. "Liver fatty acid
binding protein: species variation and the accommodation of different ligands." Biochimica
et Biophysica Acta (1999) 1441: 117-130. |
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| Reese-Wagoner, A., Thompson, J., and Banaszak, L. "Structural properties
of the adipocyte lipid binding proteins." Biochimica et Biophysica
Acta (1999) 1441: 106-116. |
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| Bose,
I, Reese, A. J., Ory, J. J., Janbon, G., and Doering T. L. “A
yeast under cover: the capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans.” Eukaryotic
Cell (2003) 2(4):655-663. |
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| Reese, A. J. and Banaszak, L. J. “Specificity
determinants for lipids bound to beta-barrel proteins.” Journal of
Lipid Research, (2004) 45(2):232-243. |
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| Reese,
A. J. and Doering, T. L. “Cell wall alpha-1,3-glucan is
required to anchor the Cryptococcus neoformans capsule.” Molecular
Microbiology (2003)
50(4):1401-1409. |
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| Reese, A. J. and Doering, T. L. “The role of alpha-1,3-glucan synthase
in Cryptococcus neoformans capsule assembly.” In preparation. |
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| Related publications |
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| Beuning, P. J and Reese, A. J. “Introducing the National Postdoctoral
Association (NPA): A Resource and A Voice for Postdoctoral Scholars.” AWIS
Magazine (2003) 32 27-29. |
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| Faculty of 1000: evaluations for Reese AJ & Doering TL Mol Microbiol
2003 Nov 50 (4) :14019 http://www.f1000biology.com/article/14622425/evaluation,
factor 9. |
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| Meeting Abstracts and Presentations | ||
| Reese, A. J. and Banaszak, L. J. “Adipocyte Lipid-Binding
Protein: Structural Components Involved with Ligand-Binding Specificity
and Affinity” Biophysical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March
1997, poster. |
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| Reese, A. J. and Banaszak, L. J. “Adipocyte Lipid-Binding
Protein: Structural Components Involved with Ligand-Binding Specificity
and Affinity” International Lipid Binding Protein Conference, Minneapolis,
MN, May 1997, poster. |
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| Reese, A. J. and Banaszak, L. J. “Adipocyte Lipid Binding
Protein Mutants Constructed to Probe the Source of Protein:Ligand Specificity” American
Crystallographic Association Meeting, Arlington, VA, July 1998, poster. |
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| Reese, A. J. and Banaszak, L. J. “Probing Sources of Protein-Ligand
Specificity: Adipocyte Lipid Binding Protein Mutants” Protein Society
Meeting, Boston, MA, July 1999, poster. |
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| Reese, A. J. and Banaszak, L. J. “Adipocyte Lipid Binding
Protein Mutations- In Search of Binding Specificity Determinants” American
Crystallographic Association Meeting, St. Paul, MN, July 2000, poster. |
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| Doering, T. L., Reese, A., and Pierini, L. M. “Polysaccharide
Capsule Assembly in the Pathogenic Fungus Cryptococcus neoformans” Molecular
Mechanisms of Fungal Cell Wall Biogenesis conference, Ascona, Switzerland,
August 2001, oral presentation by T. L. Doering. |
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| Reese, A., and Doering, T. L. “Capsule Synthesis and
Assembly” 5th
International Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis Meeting, Adelaide, Australia
March 2002, invited speaker. |
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| Reese, A., and Doering, T. L. “Capsule Synthesis
and Assembly” University
of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia March 2002, Dept. Biochem. and Mol.
Biol., guest seminar speaker. |
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| Reese, A., and Doering, T. L. “Capsule Attachment in Cryptococcus
neoformans” 102nd American Society for Microbiology, Salt Lake City,
UT, May 2002, poster. |
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| Reese, A., and Doering, T. L. “Capsule Attachment
in Cryptococcus neoformans” 9th Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis, Indianapolis,
IN, Sept. 2002, poster. |
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| Reese, A., and Doering, T. L. “The role of alpha-1,3-glucan
synthase in Cryptococcus neoformans capsule assembly” 10th
Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis, Iowa City, IA, Oct. 2003, poster. |
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| Reese, A. J., Sommer, U., Liu, H., Cottrell, T. R., and Doering,
T. L. “Capsule synthesis in the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus
neoformans” Glycobiology
Meeting, San Diego, CA, Dec. 2003, oral presentation by T. L. Doering. |
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| Sefko, J. A., Hunold, C. and Reese, A. J “Localizing the enzyme
that makes a cell wall component critical for capsule attachment in the
fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans” submitted abstract for poster
to the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences, 2005. |
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| Rawal, D., Massafra, C., and Reese, A. J. “Using RNA
interference to reduce the levels of a cell wall regulation enzyme in the
fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans” submitted abstract for poster
to the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences, 2005. |
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| Barnes, T.,and Reese, A. J. “Looking for a room temperature
virulence model for the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans” submitted
abstract for poster to the Pennsylvania Academy of Sciences, 2005. |
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| Presentations not individually listed: |
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| University of Minnesota: Presentations and posters for Structural Biology
Journal Club and for the Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular
Biology departmental seminars and retreats. |
1994 - 2000 | |
| Washington University: Presentations and posters for Medical Mycology
Research Club, Yeast Club, and for the Department of Molecular Microbiology
and Microbial Pathogenesis departmental seminars and retreats. |
2001 - 2004 | |
| Cedar Crest College: Presentations for Junior Colloquium
research selection, 122 Research selection, Beta Beta Beta 05 induction
ceremony speaker, guest lecturer for Bio 122 and Bio 260 spring 05, |
2004 - present | |