Rosie Alegado

Rosie Alegado, Ph.D.

  • Position:
    Post Doctoral Fellow

    Molecular and Cell Biology

    University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)

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  • Advisor:

    Nicole King

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D., Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine (Stanford, CA)
     
    S.B., Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Man-Wah Tan (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    Stanley Falkow (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    Andrew Murray (as Undergraduate Student)
     
    Myron Spector (as Undergraduate Student)
     
    Charles Boyd (as Undergraduate Student)
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  • Research:
    Microbiologist studying the interactions between choanoflagellates and their bacterial food source

    The long-term goal of my research is to understand how bacteria influence the behavior of the eukaryotes with which they co-exist. Animal-bacterial associations are ancient and ubiquitous, ranging from host-pathogen to symbiotic relationships.

    How have these long-standing relationships shaped the evolution of each partner?

    What is the nature of microbial signals that elicit morphogenic responses in eukaryotes and how do they function?

    I have chosen to study unique example of a eukaryotic-bacterial interaction in which prey bacteria, Algoriphagus PR1, induce colony formation in the choanoflagellate Proterospongia sp. This research has the potential to uncover molecules and genes important for colony development in the closest known relatives of animals.

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  • Honors:

    2000-2003 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship

    2000 National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, Honorable Mention

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Rosie Alegado's Publications (2)



Rosie Alegado's Posters and Presentations (3)

  • Choanoflagellate-Bacterial Interactions. (presentation)

    Rosanna A Alegado, Nicole King

    Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Integrated Microbial Diversity Divisional Meting; 05/2008
  • Identification and characterization of Salmonella typhimurium genes required for persistence in the gut of C. elegans (presentation)

    Rosanna A Alegado and Man-Wah Tan

    American Society for Microbiology, 2nd Conference on Salmonella; 09/2007
  • Early events in Salmonella typhimurium infection of Caenorhabditis elegans that lead to bacterial persistence (presentation)

    Rosanna A Alegado and Man-Wah Tan

    Genetics Society of America, 15th Biennial International Worm Meeting, Pathogenesis Session; 06/2005

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