Postdoctoral Fellow (2013 – 2019)
CURRENT POSITION
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
HISTORY
2004 – 2008 – B.S., Murray State University (Biology)
2008 – 2013 – Ph.D., University Of Tennessee, Knoxville TN, (advisor: Dr. Mariano Labrador)
2019 – 2022 – NHLBI Career Transition Award (K22 – $691,665 direct costs)
RESEARCH (in the Rusan lab)
– Mechanisms underlying the development of proper brain size
– Developmental anatomy of the brain and heart–
PUBLICATIONS from the Rusan lab (PubMed)
7. Khezri R, Holland P, Schoborg TA, Abramovich I, Takáts S, Dillard C, Jain A, O’Farrell F, Schultz SW, Hagopian WM, Quintana EM, Ng R, Katheder NS, Rahman MM, Teles Reis JG, Brech A, Jasper H, Rusan NM, Jahren AH, Gottlieb E, Rusten TE. (2021). Host autophagy mediates organ wasting and nutrient mobilization for tumor growth. EMBO Journal. e107336
___– Selected for Cover
6. Schoborg TA, Smith SL, Smith LN, Morris HD, Rusan NM. (2019) Micro-computed tomography as a platform for exploring Drosophila development. Development, 176685
___– Selected for Cover
5. O’Neill RS, Schoborg TA, Rusan NM. (2018) Same but different: pleiotropy in centrosome-related microcephaly. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 29(3):241-246
4. Galletta BJ, Fagerstrom CJ, Schoborg TA, McLamarrah TA, Ryniawec JM, Buster DW, Slep KC, Rogers GC, Rusan NM. (2016) A centrosome interactome provides insight into organelle assembly and reveals a non-duplication role for Plk4. Nature Communications. 7:12476.
3. Schoborg TA, Rusan NM. Taking Centrioles to the Elimination Round. Dev Cell. 2016 Jul 11;38(1):10-2.
2. Schoborg T, Zajac AL, Fagerstrom CJ, Guillen RX, Rusan NM. An Asp-CaM complex is required for centrosome-pole cohesion and centrosome inheritance in neural stem cells. J Cell Biol. 2015 Dec 7;211(5):987-98.
1. Smyth JT, Schoborg TA, Bergman ZJ, Riggs B, Rusan NM. Proper symmetric and asymmetric endoplasmic reticulum partitioning requires astral microtubules. Open Biology. 2015 Aug;5(8) 10.1098/rsob.150067
INVITED TALKS (from the Rusan lab)
2018 59th Annual Drosophila Research Conference. Philadelphia, PA.
2018 NIH Mouse Imaging Facility Seminar Series. Bethesda, MD.
2018 NHLBI Orloff Science Awards Ceremony. Bethesda, MD.
2017 58th Annual Drosophila Research Conference. San Diego, CA.
2017 NIH Research Festival – Developmental Biology Symp. Bethesda, MD.
2017 Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Bethesda, MD.
2017 NIH Centrosome Gathering. Frederick, MD.
2017 NHLBI Research Festival. Bethesda, MD.
2017 University of Tennessee – Science Summit on Genome Editing. Knoxville, TN.
2017 NHLBI Cell Biology & Physiology Center – Post-Doc Seminar Series. Bethesda, MD.
2016 The Allied Genetics Conference/57th Annual Drosophila Research Conference – Intracellular Dynamics. Orlando, FL.
2016 Hampden-Sydney College – Biology Dept. Colloquium. Hampden Sydney, VA.
2016 NHLBI Research Festival. Bethesda, MD.
2016 Dickinson College – Biology Department Seminar. Carlisle, PA.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS (from the Rusan lab)
2017 57th American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)/European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Meeting – Morphogenesis and Multicellular Interactions. Philadelphia, PA.
2017 Keystone Symposium – Neurogenesis During Development and in the Adult Brain
2016 56th American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Meeting – Cell Division: Mitosis & Meiosis. San Francisco, CA.
2015 55th American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Meeting – Cell Division: Mitosis & Meiosis. San Diego, CA.
2015 FASEB Conference – Mitosis: Spindle Assembly and Function. Big Sky, MT.
2015 NIH Centrosome Gathering. Frederick, MD.
2014 American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Meeting – Cell Division: Mitosis & Meiosis. Philadelphia, PA.
2014 NIH Centrosome Gathering. Frederick, MD.
OF NOTE (from the Rusan lab)
2018-2021 – NHLBI Career Transition Award (K22). – $691,665 direct costs
2018 NHLBI Orloff Science Award – Top NHLBI award for postdoc fellows
2017 NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE) – Top NIH-wide award for postdoc fellows
2017 NHLBI Outstanding Fellow Award
2017 Travel Award for ASCB/EMBO Meeting
2016 Summer Research Mentor Award
2016 Co-chair, ‘Intracellular Dynamics’ session, The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC)
2016 Summer Research Mentor Award, National Institutes of Health
2014 Attended the Analytical & Quantitative Light Microscopy (AQLM) Course , Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole.