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Caitlin Wong Hickernell

Visiting Associate Professor of Biology

Education

Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

B.S., Biological Chemistry
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

B.A., Chemistry
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

 

Publications

Glauninger, H.*, Bard, J. A. M.*, Wong Hickernell, C. J.*, Airoldi, E. M., Li, W., Singer, R. H., Paul,S., Fei, J., Sosnick, T. R., Wallace, E. W. J., & Drummond, D. A. (2024). Transcriptome-wide mRNA condensation precedes stress granule formation and excludes stress-induced transcripts. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.15.589678
*denotes co-first authorship

Keyport Kik, S., Christopher, D., Glauninger, H., Wong Hickernell, C.J., Bard, J. A. M., Lin, K. M.,
Squires, A. H., Ford, M., Sosnick, T. R., & Drummond, D. A. (2024). An adaptive biomolecular condensation response is conserved across environmentally divergent species. Nature Communications, 15, Article 3127. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-3127-y

Glauninger, H., Wong Hickernell, C. J., Bard, J. A. M., & Drummond, D. A. (2022). Stressful steps: Progress and challenges in understanding stress-induced mRNA condensation and accumulation in stress granules. Molecular Cell, 82(14), 2544-2556. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2022.05.014

“Some like it Hot: temperature signals across the tree of life”- "Science Unsealed from the Illinois Science Council" (2020)

 

Society Memberships

  • Association for Women in Mathematics
  • Mathematical Association of America
  • Kappa Mu Epsilon

 

Research Interests

  • Differential Geometry
  • Nilpotent Lie Algebras and Lie Groups
  • Orbifolds
  • Graph Theory

 

Scientific Presentations

“Transcriptome-wide mRNA condensation excludes stress-induced transcripts.” 2024 Gordon Research Conference Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation. July 2024. Portland, ME. Oral and poster presentation.

“Transcriptome-wide mRNA condensation excludes stress-induced transcripts.” 2024 Gordon Research Conference RNA in Gene Regulation and Its Therapeutic Potential. July 2024. Portland, ME. Oral and poster presentation (voted best presentation).

“No granules, no problem: Stress granules are not required for mRNA condensation or translational regulation during stress.” Midwest Stress and Molecular Chaperones. January 2024. Evanston, IL. Poster presentation.

“Cell stress triggers global mRNA condensation: how cells change their minds.” Illinois Institute of Technology Biology Colloquium. November 2023. Chicago, IL. Oral presentation (invited speaker)

“No granules, no problem: Stress granules are not required for mRNA condensation or translational regulation during stress” University of Chicago Molecular Biosciences Retreat. October 2023. St. Charles, IL. Oral presentation.

“No granules, no problem: Stress granules are not required for mRNA condensation or translational regulation during stress” UChicago BMB Lamport Retreat. September 2023. Evanston, IL. Poster presentation (received poster award).

“No granules, no problem: Stress granules are not required for mRNA condensation or translational regulation during stress” Protein Society Annual Symposium. July 2023. Boston, MA. Poster presentation (received poster award).

“No granules, no problem: Stress granules are not required for mRNA condensation or translational regulation during stress” Midwest Protein Folding and Function. May 2023. South Bend, IN. Oral presentation.

“Cell stress triggers global mRNA condensation” Molecular and Cell Biology Training Grant Work In Progress. April 2023. Chicago, IL. Oral presentation.

“Cell stress triggers global mRNA condensation: how cells change their minds” Albert Einstein College of Medicine RNA Biology Work in Progress. March 2023. New York City, NY. Oral presentation (invited speaker).

“Transcriptome-wide mRNA condensation precedes stress granule formation and excludes stress induced transcripts” Midwest Stress and Molecular Chaperones. January 2023. Evanston, IL. Poster presentation.

“Transcriptome-wide stress-induced mRNA condensation accompanies selective translation” American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting. December 2022. Washington D.C. Oral presentation.

“Investigating the adaptive function of heat-induced Pab1 condensates” Molecular & Cell Biology Training Grant Research in Progress. May 2021. Chicago, IL (virtual). Oral presentation.

“Investigating how Pab1 condensates help cells survive” University of Chicago Molecular Biosciences Retreat. January 2021. Chicago, IL (virtual). Oral presentation.

“Investigating the adaptive function of heat-induced Pab1 condensates” American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting. December 2020. Virtual. Poster presentation.