Eileen Craig Piwarzyk
Curriculum Vitae
E-mail: Piwarzyk(at)Dartmouth.edu Web: www.piwarzyk.com
Note: Eileen Jean Craig legally changed to Eileen Craig
Piwarzyk in 2005
I am a fifth year graduate student in the Molecular and
Cellular Biology program at Dartmouth
College. My current research is on flower development
in the model organism Arabidopsis
thaliana. I entered graduate school
with five years of experience as a research technician in the fields of
neuroscience and developmental biology and I am currently interested in
securing a post-doctoral fellowship in molecular biology. I expect to graduate by June of 2008.
Education
2002-Current
Dartmouth College, Hanover,
NH
In
the Molecular and Cellular Biology PhD program,
Laboratory
of Dr. Thomas Jack
Expected
Graduation: January-June 2008
2004 EMBO
Practical Course on Plant Development, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, Portugal
1999-2000 University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Post-Baccalaureate
Program, Chemistry and Genetics Courses
1994-1997 Rutgers
University, Rutgers College,
New Brunswick, NJ
B.S.
in Psychology, Minor in Biology
1993-1994 Ursinus
College, Collegetown, PA
Professional
Experience
2002 Research Technician at the
proteomics company Ambergen in Boston,
MA. Was a member of a team aimed at discovering
novel techniques to aid proteomics researchers.
1999-2002 Research Technician B in the laboratory
of Dr. Daniel S. Kessler at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School,
Department of Developmental Biology.
Molecular biology technician for the laboratory, my primarily techniques
were in situ hybridization, RT-PCR,
and Western Blotting. Maintained Xenopus lavis facility.
1998-1999 Research Associate in the laboratory of
Dr. David C. Spray at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Neuroscience
Department
Responsible for primary
cell culture for the laboratory.
Isolated Cardiac Myocytes from the hearts and Astrocytes from the brains
of newborn mice. Maintained lines in
culture for members of the laboratory.
1996-1997 Senior
Research Project in the laboratory of Dr. George C. Wagner at
Rutgers University,
Psychology Department. Project:
The Role of Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.
Conditioned rats to
respond to stress in a “skinner box” and ran the experimental animals (rats
with molecular lesions of the prefrontal cortex) three days a week for six
months.
Teaching Experience
2006 Guest
Lecturer, Bio 142- Plant Development (1 lecture)
2005 Instructor/Facilitator
– Graduate Research Ethics (8 sessions)
2003 Teaching
Assistant – Bio 19. Introduction to Honors Cell Biology (2 lab sections, 8 meetings
each)
Student Advising
Debra Liu (2004-2005) - Dartmouth Undergraduate Laboratory Assistant
Joe Morrissey (2005) – Dartmouth
Graduate Student – Rotation
Yi-Hsuan Chiang (2006) – Dartmouth Graduate Student - Rotation
Grant Support/Honors
2005-2006 NIH
Institutional Training Grant – Molecular and Cellular biology
at Dartmouth College – NIH NIGMS TG33 GM08704
2005 Ryan
Fellow, Dartmouth
College
University Service
2004-2005 Student
Member, Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Committee.
Dartmouth College.
Professional
Socieites
2006 American
Society of Plant Biologist
Publications
[1] *Craig EJ, *Pineda-Salgado
L, Blank RB, Kessler DS. (2005) Expression of Panza, an
alpha2-macroglobulin, in a restricted dorsal domain of the primitive gut in
Xenopus laevis. Gene Expr Patterns 6(1) 3-10. *Equal contribution
[2] Heasman J,
Wessely O, Langland R, Craig EJ,
Kessler DS. (2001) Vegetal localization of maternal mRNAs is
disrupted by VegT depletion. Dev Biol 240(2):377-86.
[3] Engleka MJ, Craig EJ, Kessler DS. (2001)
VegT activation of Sox17 at the midblastula transition alters the response to
nodal signals in the vegetal endoderm domain.
Dev Biol 237(1): 159-72.
[4] Wall NA, Craig EJ, Labosky PA, Kessler DS.
(2000) Mesendoderm induction and reversal of left-right pattern by mouse Gdf1,
a Vg1-related gene.. Dev Biol
227(2):494-509.
Poster Presentations
[1] Piwarzyk,
EC, Morrissey, J, Yang, Y, Jack, T (2006) The C-terminal domain of the Arabidopsis floral organ identity
proteins APETALA3 and PISTILLATA is not necessary for function. American
Society of Plant Biologist – Plant Biology 2006
[2] Piwarzyk,
EC, Morrissey, J, Yang, Y, Jack, T (2005) The C-terminal domain of the Arabidopsis floral organ identity
proteins APETALA3 and PISTILLATA is not necessary for function. American
Society of Developmental Biologist – SouthWest Regional Meeting
[3] Piwarzyk,
EC, Jack, T (2005) Isolation of AP3/PI protein complexes from floral
extracts. The 16th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research