Email: akriege@tulane.edu

Work Phone: (504) 584-2475

Work Address: 1430 Tulane Av. SL-69 New Orleans, LA 70112

Education
8/99 to present Tulane University Health Sciences Center. Ph.D. candidate, Interdisciplinary Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology, New Orleans, LA. Current GPA, 3.9/4.0.

8/94 to 5/98 University of Notre Dame. Bachelor of Science, major in Biochemistry. GPA 3.2/4.0.

Relevant Experience
8/00 to present Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Student Association Vice-President

1/99 to 5/01 Teaching Assistant. Tulane University, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Dr. Ken Wunch.

11/98 to 8/99 Research Technician. Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Dr. Paul Herring.

Awards and Honors
5/97 to 8/97 Science and Engineering Research Summer Student Program. Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Research Division, Dr. Jeff Gaffney.

10/22/00 Awarded Best Student Poster Presentation at the Molecular and Cellular Biology 9th Annual Scientific Retreat. "Production of Mouse and Rat Monoclonal Antibodies and Stability of Hybridoma Cultures in Membrane-based High Density Cell Culture Devices".

8/01 to 10/01 Awarded a Student Research Grant from The Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans for a project entitled "Developing a Highly Specific Vehicle for Radiometal-Based Cancer Therapy."

4/25/01 Invited Panel Participant, 13th Annual Tulane Health Sciences Research Days to discuss "Anti-Chelate Monoclonal Antibodies That Exhibit Unusual Binding Characteristics".

4/10/02 Selected to participate in the 2002 State EPSCoR Conference Graduate Student Poster Competition, award covers travel, room and board.

Publications
April M. Hoggatt, Alison M. Kriegel, Aiping F. Smith, and B.Paul Herring. (2000) Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor-3 Homologue 1 (HFH-1) Represses Transcription of Smooth Muscle-specific Genes. J. Biol. Chem. 275(40), 31162-31170. PDF

B. Paul Herring, Alison M. Kriegel, and April M. Hoggatt. (2001) Identification of Barx2B, a Serum Response Factor-associated Homeodomain Protein. J. Biol. Chem. 276(17), 14482-14489. PDF

Alison M. Kriegel, Haini Yu, Ibrahim Darwish, James B. Delehanty, R. Srinivasan, and Diane A. Blake. (2002) Production of mouse and rat monoclonal antibodies and stability of hybridoma cultures in membrane-based high density cell culture devices, in preparation for J. Immunol. Met.

Presentations
Alison M. Kriegel, Haini Yu, Ibrahim Darwish, James B. Delehanty, R. Srinivasan, and Diane A. Blake. (2000) Production of Mouse and Rat Monoclonal Antibodies and Stability of Hybridoma Cultures in Membrane-based High Density Cell Culture Devices. Molecular and Cellular Biology 9th Annual Scientific Retreat, October 21 & 22, Covington, LA.

Alison M. Kriegel, R.Mark Jones, Ibrahim Darwish, and Diane A. Blake. (2001) Anti-Chelate Monoclonal Antibodies That Exhibit Unusual Binding Characteristics. Thirteenth Annual Tulane Health Sciences Research Days, April 25 & 26, New Orleans, LA.

Alison M. Kriegel, and Diane A. Blake (2001) Isolating Metal-Specific Antibodies from a Human Recombinant Antibody Library. Molecular and Cellular Biology 10th Annual Scientific Retreat, October 27 & 28, Long Beach, MS.

Alison M. Kriegel, Haini Yu, James Delehanty, R. Mark Jones, and Diane A. Blake (2002) Antibody-based Sensors for Metals - Present Studies and Future Directions. 2002 Louisiana EPSCoR State Conference, "Funding Opportunities for Emerging Technologies: Focus on Bio- & Information Technologies", April 10-11, Baton Rouge, LA.

Alison M. Kriegel, and Diane A. Blake (2002) Cd-EDTA-BSA Specific scFv Isolated from a Human Recombinant Antibody Library. Experimental Biology 2002 "Translating the Genome", April 20-24, New Orleans, LA.