Dr. Korie Handwerger

Assistant Professor of Biology
School of Arts and Sciences

Email: handwerger@aaun.edu.ng,
schkockie34@yahoo.com

Educational Background:

• MIT
• Johns Hopkins University
• University of Colorado-Boulder

Dr. Handwerger received her B.A. in 1994 from the University of Colorado (Boulder), where she majored in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and minored in Biochemistry. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2002 from Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation described novel structural and functional features of the cell nucleus. She spent four years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she studied the molecular mechanisms behind the propagation of infectious proteins (prions). Aside from biology, her passions include language (she is a student of Arabic and Spanish), travel, humanitarian aid work, world music and film, hiking, biking, and yoga.

Previous Posts:

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
• Biology Instructor; Simmons College (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Bates College (Lewiston, Maine, USA)

Selected Publications:

• Handwerger, K.E. and Gall, J.G., Subnuclear Organelles: New Insights into Form and Function (2006), Trends in Cell Biology 16 (1): 19-26.
• Handwerger, K.E., Cordero, J.A., and Gall, J.G. (2005), Cajal bodies, Nucleoli, and Speckles in the Xenopus Oocyte Nucleus Have a Low-Density, Sponge-like Structure, Molecular Biology of the Cell 16: 202-211.
• Handwerger, K.E., Murphy, C., and Gall, J.G. (2003), Steady-state dynamics of Cajal Body Components in the Xenopus Germinal Vesicle, Journal of Cell Biology 160 (4):495-504.
• Handwerger, K., Wu, Z.A., Murphy, C., and Gall, J.G. (2002), Heat Shock Induces Mini-Cajal Body Formation in the Xenopus Germinal Vesicle, The Journal of Cell Science 115 (Pt10): 2011-2020.
• Handwerger, K (2001), The Clone Collection: The Artist's View of Cloning, Link, Fall Issue 7:112-124.
• Bruggemann, E., Handwerger,K., Essex, C., and Storz., G., (1998), Characterization of an Unstable Allele of the Arabidopsis HY4 Locus, Genetics 149: 1575-1585.

Research Interests:

• The structure and function of cells and all their contents
• Problems involving the interface between RNA and protein.

Selected Affiliations:

• American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB),
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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