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Widener Science Chemistry Biochemistry
Last Updated: 12/12/2012 |
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| Research and Work Experience | |||||||||
| Aug 2012 to present | Associate Professor. Widener University of Pennsylvania, Departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry. |
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| Aug 2006 to Aug 2012 | Assistant Professor. Widener University of Pennsylvania, Departments of Biochemistry and Chemistry. | ||||||||
| Jan 2005 to July 2006 | Post-doctoral fellow. University of Pennsylvania, Stephen DiNardo, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. Examination of transit-amplifying mitotic divisions in Drosophila spermatogenesis as an adult stem cell model. | ||||||||
| June 2003 to Aug 2004 | Post-doctoral research associate. Case Western Reserve University, Helen Salz, Department of Genetics. Continuation of doctoral project. | ||||||||
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Jan 1998 to Aug 2003 |
Doctoral student. Case Western Reserve University, Helen Salz, Dept of Genetics. Identification of protein-protein interactions in the sex-lethal autoregulatory splicing complex. | ||||||||
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Feb 1996 to Dec 1997 |
Research specialist. University of Illinois-Chicago, Alisa Katzen, Dept of Molecular Genetics. Performed genetic experiments using Drosophila and assisted in the start up of a new lab focused on the proto-oncogene myb. | ||||||||
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Sep 1993 to Dec 1995 |
Graduate student. University of Delaware, Colin Thorpe, Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Identification and purification of acyl-CoA dehydrogenase in E. coli and S. cerevisiae. | ||||||||
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Jan 1992 to May 1993 |
Undergraduate research. Duquesne University, Richard Norman, Dept of Chemistry. Analysis of platinum complexes by NMR spectroscopy. | ||||||||
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Salz, H.K., R. Mancebo, A.A. Nagengast, O. Speck, M. Psotka and S.M. Mount. (2004) The Drosophila U1-70K protein is required for viability, but its arginine-rich domain is dispensible. Genetics 168: 2059-65. | ||||||||
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Nagengast, A.A., S.M. Stitzinger, C.H. Tseng, S.M. Mount, and H.K. Salz. (2003) Sex-lethal splicing autoregulation in vivo: interactions between SEX-LETHAL, the U1 snRNP and U2AF underlie male exon skipping. Development 130: 463-71. | ||||||||
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Nagengast, A.A. and Salz, H.K. (2001) The Drosophila U2 snRNP protein U2A' has an essential function that is SNF/U2B'' independent. Nucleic Acids Research 29: 3841-3847. | ||||||||
| Undergraduate Poster Presentations | |||||||||
| Thomas Carr, Jr and Alexis Nagengast. Identifying tissue specific regulatory proteins associated with the early spliceosome in Drosophila. | |||||||||
| 49th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, San Diego, CA. April 2-6, 2008. |
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| Student Project Day, Widener University, Chester, PA. April 18, 2008. | |||||||||
| 22nd National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD. April 11-12, 2008. | |||||||||
| Mary Miller, Stephen Madigosky, Itzick Vatnick and Alexis Nagengast. Identification of alternative splicing in genes that determine sexual dimorphism in Stiphra sp (Orthoptera: Proscopiidea). | |||||||||
| Society for Developmental Biology 67th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. July 26-29, 2008. |
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| Student Project Day, Widener University, Chester, PA. April 18, 2008. | |||||||||
| 22nd National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD. April 11-12, 2008. | |||||||||
| Timothy Rudolph, Neha Sirohi and Alexis Nagengast. Identifying tissue specific alternative splicing events in Drosophila. | |||||||||
| Society for Developmental Biology 67th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. July 26-29, 2008. |
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| Student Project Day, Widener University, Chester, PA. April 18, 2008. | |||||||||
| 22nd National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD. April 11-12, 2008. | |||||||||
| 49th Annual Drosophila Research Conference, San Diego, CA. April 2-6, 2008. | |||||||||