CURRICULUM VITA

Birgit Pruess, Ph.D.

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND:

1997 Assistant Professor, Institut fuer Mikrobiologie Forschungszentrum fuer Milch und Lebensmittel Weihenstephan Technische Universitaet Muenchen Voettinger Str. 45 85354 Freising

1996-1997 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago; Lab: Phil Matsumura

1994-1995 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago; Lab: Phil Matsumura

1992-1994 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University, Chicago, IL; Lab: Alan J. Wolfe

1989-1991 Ph.D. Candidate, Institut für Physiologische, Ruhr-Universität,Chemie Bochum, Germany; Thesis Advisor: A.W. Holldorf

1983-1988 Diploma Biology, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum and Max-Planck Institut, Dortmund

1983-1991 Diploma Chemistry, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum

PUBLICATIONS

1. Pruess, B.M., and Philip Matsumura. flhD, a regulator of the flagella regulon of Escherichia coli also affects cell division. J. Bacteriol. 178:668-674.

2. Pruess, B.M., and A.J. Wolfe. Regulation of acetyl phosphate synthesis and degradation and the control of flagellar expression in Escherichia coli. Mol. Microbiol. 12:973-984.

3. Pruess, B.M., J.M. Nelms, C. Park, A.J. Wolfe. Mutations in NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase affect growth on mixed amino acids. J. Bacteriol. 176:2143-2150.

4. Pruess, B.M., H.E. Meyer, and A.W. Holldorf. 1993. Characterization of the glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase from the extremely halophilic archaebacterium Haloarcula vallismortis. Arch. Microbiol. 160:5-11.

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