Kathleen Lennon

Prior Academic Affiliation: University of California, San Diego

Thesis Mentor: Tijana Jovanovic-Talisman

Thesis Title: Using nanobiology and single molecule localization microscopy to characterize nucleocytoplasmic transport and define individual extracellular vesicles

Fellowships, honors, awards etc.: First Place Rachmiel Levine Scientific Communication Award 2019; First Place Graduate Student Poster, Scientific Advancement Driving Medical Breakthroughs 2018; First Place Rachmiel Levine Scientific Communication Award 2018; H.N. & Frances Berger Foundation Fellow 2015; Chancellor’s Undergraduate Research Scholarship 2011

Publications:

• K. M. Lennon, D. L. Wakefield, A. L. Maddox, M. S. Brehove, A. N. Willner, K. Garcia-Mansfield, B. Meechoovet, R. Reiman, E. Hutchins, M. M. Miller, A. Goel, P. Pirrotte, K. Van Keuren-Jensen, T. Jovanovic-Talisman, ‘Single molecule characterization of individual extracellular vesicles from pancreatic cancer’, JEV, In Revision.

• G. Pineda, K. M. Lennon, N. P. Delos Santos, F. Lambert-Fliszar, G. L. Riso, E. Lazzari, M. A. Marra, S. Morris, A. Sakaue-Sawano, A. Miyawaki, and C. H. Jamieson, 'Tracking of Normal and Malignant Progenitor Cell Cycle Transit in a Defined Niche', Sci Rep, 6 (2016), 23885. PMID: 27041210.

• A. Sadarangani, G. Pineda, K. M. Lennon, H. J. Chun, A. Shih, A. E. Schairer, A. C. Court, D. J. Goff, S. L. Prashad, I. Geron, R. Wall, J. D. McPherson, R. A. Moore, M. Pu, L. Bao, A. Jackson-Fisher, M. Munchhof, T. VanArsdale, T. Reya, S. R. Morris, M. D. Minden, K. Messer, H. K. Mikkola, M. A. Marra, T. J. Hudson, and C. H. Jamieson, 'Gli2 Inhibition Abrogates Human Leukemia Stem Cell Dormancy', J Transl Med, 13 (2015), 98. PMID: 25889765.

• D. J. Huard, K. M. Kane, and F. A. Tezcan, 'Re-Engineering Protein Interfaces Yields Copper-Inducible Ferritin Cage Assembly', Nat Chem Biol, 9 (2013), 169-76. PMID: 23340339.