EDUCATION
B.S. (Biology) 1998, Texas Wesleyan University
Ph.D. (Biomedical Science-Microbiology/Immunology) 2003, University of North
     Texas Health Science Center at Forth Worth

EMPLOYMENT

5/07 - Present ABSL-3 Study Director, Preclinical Microbiology and Immunotoxicology, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM
2005 - 4/07 Research Project Manager, Immunology Core and Small Animal Research Core, Great Lakes Regional Center of Excellence, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2003 - 2005 Postdoctoral Scholar, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Fall 2000 Teaching Assistant to Biomedical Sciences Core Workshop, Health Science Center at Fort Worth, University of North Texas, Fort Worth, TX
1998 - 2003 Graduate Teaching Assistant and Doctoral Student, Department of Molecular Biology and Immunology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX


PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Association for Women in Science
American Society of Microbiology
 

 

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REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

  1. Overheim, K. A., R. W. DePaolo, K. L. DeBord, E. M. Morrin, D. M. Anderson, N. M. Green, R. R. Brubaker, B. Jabri and O. Schneewind: LcrV Plague Vaccine with Altered Immunomodulatory Properties. Infect. Immun. 73(8): 5152-5159, 2005.

     

  2. DeBord, K. L., D. M. Anderson, M. M. Marketon, K. A. Overheim, R. W. DePaolo, N. A. Ciletti, B. Jabri and O. Schneewind: Immunogenicity and Protective Immunity Against Bubonic Plague and Pneumonic Plague by Immunization of Mice with the Recombinant V10 Antigen, a Variant of LcrV. Infect. Immun. 74(8): 4910-4944, 2006.

     

  3. Cornelius, C. A., L. E. Quenee, K. A. Overheim, F. Koster, T. L. Brasel, D. Elli, N. A. Ciletti and O. Schneewind: Immunization with Recombinant V10 Protects Cynomolgus Macaques from Lethal Pneumonic Plague. Infect. Immun. (submitted).