Technician Medical

Rebecca L. Wendland Hartswell, Ph.D.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

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New York, NY 10016

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EDUCATION

Ph.D., Molecular Oncology/Immunology

New York University

[August 2002 - May 2009]

Skirball Institute of Biomedical Sciences

Thesis Advisor: Dr. David B. Roth

New York, NY

Dissertation: "The acidic region of RAG2 restricts the joining step of

V(D)J recombination to classical NHEJ"

B.S., Cell/Molecular Biology/Genetics

University of Maryland

[September 1996 - May 2000]

College Park, MD

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Post Doctoral Fellow

Weill Cornell Medical College

[Sep2009 - present]

Institute of Genetic Medicine

Advisor: Dr. Stefan Worgall

New York, NY

Project: Development of an adenoviral vaccine to immunize against

respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)

Research Technician Weill

Cornell Medical College

[June 2000 - Aug 2002] Institute

of Genetic Medicine

Advisor: Dr. Ronald G. Crystal

New York, NY

Research Assistant Johns Hopkins Bloomberg

School of Public Health

[Sept 1999 - May 2000] Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology (Reproductive Biology)

Advisor: Dr. Janice P. Evans

Baltimore, MD

Laboratory Technician

National Institutes of Health

[Jan 1999 - May 1999]

National Human Genome Research Institute

Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey M. Trent

Bethesda, MD

PUBLICATIONS

Wendland RL, Roth DB. The acidic region of RAG2 restricts access of V(D)J

intermediates to classical NHEJ. In preparation.

Wendland RL*, Corneo B*, Deriano L*, Cui X, Klein IA, Wong SY, Arnal S,

Holub AJ, Weller GR, Pancake BA, Shah S, Brandt VL, Meek K, Roth DB. Rag

mutations reveal robust alternative end joining. Nature 2007 Sept 27;

449(7161):483-6.

Leopold PL, Wendland RL, Vincent T, Crystal RG. Neutralized adenovirus-

immune complexes can mediate effective gene transfer via an Fc receptor-

dependent infection pathway. J Virol 2006 Oct; 80(20):10237-47

Leopold PL, Wendland RL, Vincent T, Harvey BG, Crystal RG. Complexes of

adenovirus with anti-adenovirus neutralizing antibodies can be effective

gene transfer vehicles to Fcg receptor-bearing cells. Mol Ther 2001;

3:S168

Leopold PL, Thomas D, Yang H, Wendland RL, Ferris B, Wickman TJ, King CR,

Suthanthiran M, Crystal RG. Adenovirus-mediated gene transfer to

pancreatic islets is dominated by fiber-dependent interaction. Mol Ther

2001; 3:S219

Seidman MA, Hogan SM, Wendland RL, Worgall S, Crystal RG, Leopold PL.

Variation in adenovirus receptor expression and adenovirus vector-mediated

transgene expression at defined stages of the cell cycle. Mol Ther 2001

Jul; 4(1):13-21

AWARDS

National Cancer Institute, Department of Molecular Oncology and Immunology

Training Grant. 2004-2006.

SOCIETIES

American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of

Sciences

REFERENCES

Available upon request.

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