Andrea castillo

Andrea R. Castillo, Assistant Professor
Curriculum Vitae
Eastern Washington University
258 Science Building
Cheney, WA 99004-2440
Phone: (509) 359-2866, Fax: (509) 359-6867, email: [email protected]
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Biology, Eastern Washington University Postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Karen Ottemann, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA Postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Sue Biggins, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology; Spindle pole body duplication in Sacchormyces cerevisiae, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO B.S. in Biology; Albertson College of Idaho, Caldwell, ID Postdoctoral research experience:
Adapted and used an in vivo expression system (RIVET) to identify Helicobacter pylori genes
induced in response to host tissue in the lab of Dr. Karen Ottemann at the University of California, Santa Cruz. when: 2003-present Used the conditional centromere in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to determine cell cycle requirements for kinetochore assembly in the lab of Dr. Sue Biggins at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
when: 2001-2003 Doctoral research experience:
Identified MPS1 separation of function alleles and characterized their role in spindle pole
body duplication in the lab of Dr. Mark Winey at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
when: 1997-2001 Mapped the Arabidopsis thaliana accelerated cell death mutant, acd2 in the lab of Dr. Jean Greenberg at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
when: 1995-1997 Undergraduate research experience:
Tested the feasibility of using transposon tagging to clone mutator suppressible mutants in
maize with Dr. Robert Martienssen at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY.
when: 1993 Determined the evolutionary relationship between six populations of Primula cusickiana using restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis with Dr. Art Ayers at Albertson College.
Andrea Castillo, Ph.D.
curriculum vitae
Guest lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA subject: Microbiology, pathogenesisclass size: ~180 students Supervising undergraduate research projects, University of subject: Helicobacter pylori pathogenesis and transcriptional terminationproject duration: 1-2 years Minority Arts and Science Instructor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO subjects: molecular biology, geneticsclass size: 7 students Teaching Assistant for undergraduate courses, University of Colorado, Boulder, COsubjects: molecular biology, cell biologyclass size: ~20 students Co-written with Karen Ottemann,Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude Cold Spring Harbor Undergraduate Fellowship *Castillo, A.R., A. Woodruff, E. Cabral, L. Connolly, K.M. Ottemann. In Press. RIVET
identifies novel factors required for Helicobacter pylori host colonization. Infection and Immunity.
Castillo, A.R., S.A. Arevalo, A. Woodruff, K.M. Ottemann. 2008. Experimental analysis
of Helicobacter pylori transcriptional terminators suggests this microbe uses both intrinsic and factor-dependent termination. Mol. Micro., 67(1) :155-170 Collins, K.A., A.R. Castillo, S.Y. Tatsutani, S. Biggins. 2005. De novo kinetochore assembly
requires the centromeric histone H3 variant. Mol. Biol. Cell, 16(12): 5649-60.
Castillo, A.R., J.B. Meehl, G. Morgan, A.R. Schutz, M. Winey. 2002. The Yeast Protein Kinase
Mps1p is Required for Assembly of the Integral Spindle Pole Body Component Spc42p. J. Cell Biol., 156(3): 453-65.
Mach, J.M., A.R. Castillo, R. Hoogstraten, J.T. Greenberg,. 2001. The Arabidopsis-accelerated
cell death gene ACD2 encodes red chlorophyll catabolite reductase and suppresses the spread of disease symptoms. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 98(2): 771-776.
Andrea Castillo, Ph.D.
curriculum vitae
Jones, M.H., J.B. Bachant, A.R. Castillo, T.H. Giddings, Jr., M. Winey. 1999.
Yeast Dam1p is required to maintain spindle integrity during mitosis and interacts with the Mps1p kinase. Mol. Bio. Cell, 10: 2377-2391.
Poster and Oral Presentation:
Castillo, A.R., S.A. Arevalo, A. Woodruff, K.M. Ottemann. 2007. Experimental analysis of Helicobacter
pylori transcriptional terminators suggests this microbe uses both intrinsic and factor dependent
termination. Speaker at the West Coast Bacterial Physiology Meeting, Pacific Grove, CA.
Castillo, A.R., A. Woodruff, E. Cabral, L. Connolly, K.M. Ottemann. 2007. Use of RIVET in Helicobacter
pylori identifies novel putative virulence factors. Poster at the Microbial Pathogenesis and Host
Response Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
Castillo, A.R., A. Woodruff, E. Cabral, L. Connolly, K.M. Ottemann. 2006. Using RIVET to identify
Helicobacter pylori virulence factors. Speaker at the Bay Area Pathogenesis Meeting, San Francisco,
CA.
Castillo, A.R., A. Woodruff, E. Cabral, L. Connolly, K.M. Ottemann. 2005. Using RIVET to identify
Helicobacter pylori virulence factors. Speaker at the West Coast Bacterial Physiology Meeting,
Pacific Grove, CA.
Castillo, A.R., A. Woodruff, E. Cabral, L. Connolly, K.M. Ottemann. 2005. Using RIVET to identify
Helicobacter pylori virulence factors. Poster at the Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Response
Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
Castillo, A.R. and S. Biggins. 2002. Regulation of Kinetochore Assembly. Poster at the Yeast Chromosome
Structure and Segregation FASEB meeting, Snowmass, CO.
Castillo, A.R. and M. Winey. 1998. Defining MPS1 function in spindle pole body duplication and the spindle
assembly checkpoint through isolation of new mps1 alleles and genes that genetically interact with
MPS1. Poster at theYeast Chromosome Structure and Segregation FASEB meeting, Snowmass, CO.
Castillo, A.R. and J.T. Greenberg. 1996. Acd2: A potential negative regulator of the hypersensitive response
in Arabidopsis thaliana. Poster at the Plant Senescence and Cell Death Gordon Conference,
Plymouth, NH.
Other Activities and Honors:
American Society for Microbiology Kadner Institute Attendee Organized CU-Boulder graduate student symposium Postdoctoral Advisor
Postdoctoral Advisor
Karen Ottemann, Ph.D., Associate Professor Doctoral Thesis Advisor
Mark Winey, Ph.D., Professor
University of Colorado, Boulder, MCD Biology
Boulder, CO 80309
Phone: (303) 492-3409, e-mail:

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