NICHOLAS WOHLGEMUTH CURRICULUM VITAE

August 2021 - Present

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Department of Biology

Rhodes College

Teaching:

• Histology (with lab)

• General Biology Lab

• Virology/Immunology

Research:​

• Virus Discovery

• Viral Genome Sequence Analysis

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December 2017 - August 2021

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Laboratory of Dr. Stacey Schultz-Cherry

Department of Infectious Disease

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Projects:

• Development of serological assays for detecting prior SARS-CoV-2 infection

• Development of novel tissue culture models for studying influenza virus pathogenesis

• Assessing cardiovascular health following influenza virus infection

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August 2012 - November 2017

GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSOCIATE AND PH.D. CANDIDATE

Laboratory of Dr. Andrew Pekosz

Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Projects:

• Demonstrating the critical role influenza virus protein M2 localization plays in infectious virus particle assembly

• Evaluation of live-attenuated influenza vaccine virus mutations in M2 for effects on virus replication and innate immune responses

July 2011 - August 2012

RESEARCH TECHNOLOGIST

Laboratories of Drs. Robert Yolken and Lorraine Jones-Brando

Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Projects:

• Set up algae and algae virus culturing

• Development of a novel serological assay for detecting environmental exposure to algal viruses

January 2008 - May 2011

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Laboratory of Dr. James Van Etten

Department of Plant Pathology

Nebraska Center for Virology

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• Isolation and characterization of proteins secreted during algae virus infection

• Generation of a bioinformatics pipeline for predicting proteins secreted during algal virus infection