Ayesha Carter

"Hello, my name is Innigo Montoya, you kill my father.  Prepare to die."
~The Princess Bride
 

I'm a Ph.D. student in my fourth year.  I graduated from Tech in 1998, and I hope to graduate with my Ph.D. by my twenty-eighth birthday.  Much of the research in the Sible lab is concerned with XChk1 and how that protein is involved with cell cycle regulation.  My project specifically deals with how XChk1 regulates apoptosis.  Part of that story has been published in Mechanisms of Development in an article titled:
" Loss of XChk1 function triggers apoptosis after the Midblastula transition in Xenopus laevis embryos."
With my Ph.D., I would like to find a postdoc position focusing more on the effects of toxins on mammalian development, preferably back home in Southern California.
 
 
 
 

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Ayesha's CV:
December 13, 2002
Ayesha D. Carter
540-231-3576
aycarter@vt.edu

2119 Derring Hall
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0406
 

Current Position
 Graduate Research Assistant

Education
 Virginia Tech; B.S. Biology; December 1998
 Virginia Tech; Ph.D. Biology; August 1999 - Present

Research Experience
August 1999 - May 2000
"Examination of Methylcholanthrene-induced Thymic Atrophy in C57BL/6 mice."
Principle Investigator: Prakash Nagarkatti

May 2000 - Present
"Examination of XChk1/Cyclin A1 - Cdk2 interactions in the inhibition of apoptosis in Xenopus laevis development"
Principle Investigator: Jill Sible

Presentations
American Society of Cell Biology; Poster
San Francisco, CA; December 2000
"Role of XChk1 in the Inhibition of Apoptosis in Xenopus laevis Embryos"

Nature Biotechnology Winter Symposium; Poster
Miami, FL; February 2001
"Role of XChk1 in the Inhibition of Apoptosis in Xenopus laevis Embryos'

Virginia Chapter of the American Cancer Society Annual Meeting; Research Presentation
Richmond, VA; April 2001
"Inhibition of XChk1 Results in a Maternally Regulated Program of Apoptosis in Xenopus laevis Embryos."

17th Annual Graduate Research Symposium; Poster
Blacksburg, VA; March 2000
"Role of XChk1 in the Inhibition of Apoptosis in Xenopus laevis Embryos"

Society of Developmental Biology; Poster
Seattle WA; June 2001
" XChk1 as a molecular switch between cell cylce arrest and apoptosis"

American Society of Cell Biology; Poster
Washinton, D.C. ; December 2001
"XChk1 and Apoptosis: A Maternal Program Dependent Upon Zygotic Transcription"

Virginia Chapter of the American Cancer Society Annual Meeting; Research Presentation
Blacksburg, VA; April 2002
"Loss of XChk1 Function Leads to Apoptosis After the Midblastula Transition in Xenopus laevis Embryos"

2002 Cold Spring Harbor Meeting on the Cell Cycle; Poster
Cold Spring Harbor; May 2002
"Loss of XChk1 Function Leads to Apoptosis After the Midblastula Transition in Xenopus laevis Embryos"

American Society of Cell Biology; Poster
San Francisco, CA; December 2002
"Inhibition of XChk1 leads to a Maternally Regulated Program of Apoptosis after the MBT."

Publications
A.D. Carter and J.C. Sible, Mechanisms of Development "Loss of XChk1 Function Triggers Apoptosis after the Midblastula Transition in Xenopus laevis embryos."  Accepted for publication November 12, 2002

Awards
State Dean Minority Graduate Fellowship; August 1999 - May 2002
ASCB NIA MAC Travel Award; December 2000
Amount: $700
ASCB NIA MAC Travel Award; December 2001
Amount: $700
Sigma Xi; June 2001
Amount: $500
NIH Minority Fellowship (RO1 Supplement); June 2002 - May 2004
ASCB NIA MAC Travel Award; December 2003
Amount $700

Research Skills
 TUNEL analysis, RNA/DNA extraction, RT-PCR, FACS analysis, microinjection, in vitro fertilzation, Western Blotting, Northern Blotting, Tissue embedding to section for nuclear morphology.