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Priscilla Van Wynsberghe

Assistant Professor of Biology
Biology , 211 Olin Hall
p 315 2286480

Degree

 BA Ohio Wesleyan University 2001; PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison 2007

Teaching Experience

 Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2007

Specialities

 Microbiology, molecular biology, RNA biology

Interests

 Understanding how small RNAs called microRNAs, and the proteins that control microRNAs regulate development in the nematode C. elegans 

Publications

"Co-transcriptional association of LIN-28 with let-7 primary transcripts regulates miRNA maturation in C. elegans," Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 2011

"Regulation of lin-4 miRNA expression, organismal growth and development by a conserved RNA binding protein in C. elegans." Developmental Biology 2010

"5' cis-elements direct nodavirus RNA1 recruitment to mitochondrial sites of replication complex formation" Journal of Virology 2009

"Nodavirus RNA replication protein A induces membrane association of genomic RNA" Journal of Virology 2007

Professional Experience

 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California at Riverside 2007-2010; Postdoctoral Fellow, Syracuse University 2010-2011

Distinctions

 NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2009-2011; HHMI Teaching Fellow 2005-2006; HHMI Predoctoral Fellowship 2001-2006; Phi Beta Kappa 2001; Sigma Xi Student Research Award 2001