Education

Ph.D. in Cellular & Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2011

Current position

Visiting Scientist, Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Kalamazoo College (2014)

Publications

Selected peer-reviewed publications

1. Visvikis, O., Nnamdi, I., Luhachack, L. G., Alves, A-MF., Wollenberg, A.C., Stormo, G.D., Irazoqui, J. E. The C. elegans TFEB homolog HLH-30 is critical for autophagy-mediated host defense. Under review
   
2. Settembre, C., De Cegli, R., Mansueto, G., Saha, P. K., Vetrini, F., Visvikis, O., Huynh, T., Carissimo, A., Palmer, D., Klisch, T. J., Wollenberg, A. C., Di Bernardo, D., Chan, L., Irazoqui, J. E. and Ballabio, A. (2013). TFEB controls cellular lipid metabolism through a starvation-induced autoregulatory loop. Nat Cell Biol 15(6): 647-658.
   
3. Luhachack, L. G.*, Visvikis, O.*, Wollenberg, A. C.*, Lacy-Hulbert, A., Stuart, L. M. and Irazoqui, J. E. (2012). EGL-9 controls C. elegans host defense specificity through prolyl hydroxylation-dependent and -independent HIF-1 pathways. PLoS Pathog 8(7): e1002798. *contribute equally
   
4. Wollenberg, A. C. and Amasino, R. M. (2012). Natural variation in the temperature range permissive for vernalization in accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Environ 35(12): 2181-2191.
   
5.  Wollenberg, A. C., Strasser, B., Cerdan, P. D. and Amasino, R. M. (2008). Acceleration of flowering during shade avoidance in Arabidopsis alters the balance between FLOWERING LOCUS C-mediated repression and photoperiodic induction of flowering. Plant Physiol 148(3): 1681-1694.