Professor Carolyn Teschke — The Teschke Lab

Department Head, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology

Professor, Dept. of Chemistry

University of Connecticut

office phone: 860-486-4282

lab phone: 860-486-3992

RESEARCH INTERESTS

-Biochemical, biophysical, and mutational analysis of virus assembly. Understanding domain control of capsid morphology.

-The role of the two SecA homologs in protein export in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

-Protein folding in vivo and in vitro. Interaction of folding intermediates with molecular chaperones.

GRANT SUPPORT

Active Extramural:

NIH R01 GM076661 13-16 (PI, Teschke; Alexandrescu co-I) 09/23/19 - 07/01/23

“Understanding the protein:protein interactions required for virus assembly”

1R21AI156838-01 (PI White, co-I Teschke, co-I Lynes) 12/01/20-11/30/22

“Characterization of long-circulating phages isolated from in vivo mouse studies”

NIH R01 AI149727-01 (PI, Braunstein, Teschke subaward) 09/01/19 – 08/31/22

“A Novel Protein Export Chaperone of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis”

HONORS

CT Academy of Science and Engineering, elected member 2022

Fulbright Scholar, University of York, UK 2022

AAAS Council Delegate, Section on Biological Sciences, nationally elected, 2020-2023

Editorial Board, Journal of Virology 2020-2023

Associate Editor, Science Advances, AAAS 2018-2023

Alice C. Evans Award for the Advancement of Women, American Society of Microbiology 2018

Committee on the Status of Women in Microbiology, American Society of Microbiology 2018-2024

Basic Science Awards Nominating Committee, American Society of Microbiology 2016-2019

Jefferson Science Fellow, serving at the U.S. State Dept. 2015-2016

Embassy Science Fellow 2016

Fellow of the AAAS, elected 2015

Co-organizer the FASEB Summer Conference on Virus Assembly and Structure 2014

Finalist, CT Women of Innovation 2014

Co-vice organizer for the FASEB Summer Conference on Virus Assembly and Structure 2012

Nominating Committee for the Protein Society 2005-2009

Connecticut Academy for Arts and Sciences 1999