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   Kimberly Prohaska     

Kimberly Prohaska joined OyaGen in 2008. Dr. Prohaska earned her BS in Biochemistry in 2002 and her PhD in Microbiology and Immunology in 2008, both from the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

She received a National Institute of Health Training Grant Fellowship in 2003 and 2004 to support her thesis work focused on African sleeping sickness. In 2006, Dr. Prohaska received a Molecular Parasitology Meeting award for a talk presented at that meeting and, in 2007, was the recipient of the Gorzynski Travel Award from the Witebsky Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology. Her graduate work was focused on determining the roles that two trypanosome-specific RNA binding proteins fulfill in the ribosomal biogenesis pathway in Trypanosoma brucei under the guidance of Dr. Noreen Williams.

Dr. Prohaska's focus at OyaGen is on assay development on the editing enzyme platform and analysis of small molecule hits from High Throughput Screening.



Publications

Hellman, K., Prohaska, K. and Williams, N. Trypanosoma brucei RNA binding proteins p34 and p37 mediate NOPP44/46 cellular localization via the exportin 1 nuclear export pathway. Eukaryot Cell 6:2206-13 (2007).

Prohaska, K. and Williams, N. Assembly of the Trypanosoma brucei 60S ribosomal subunit nuclear export complex requires trypanosome-specific proteins P34 and P37. Eukaryot Cell in press (2008).Publications