Alumni
ERIN (CRICKET) REICHENBERGER
Personal Statement
I received my bachelors in Mechanical Engineering at Wichita State University (please refrain from Dorothy and tornado jokes) and earned my living my numerous years as a designer. I found my way back to school and graduated with a masters in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel Univeristy. After working for several more years, I am happily working on my Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Drexel. Few things arrest my attention like B&W photography, decrepit industrial buildings, a good radio program, and dystopian topics. When I have free-time, I spend it programming, cycling, traveling/hosting (couchsurfing), taking photos, urban exploration and when I am exceedingly lucky -- napping.Research Statement
All of my Ph.D. research projects have studied the interactions of microbes and their environment, and how they can influence each other. One of my first projects pertained to GI bacteria and their effects on pain perception where I used 16S metagenomic next-generation sequences to compare the human gut microbial communities between healthy controls and those suffering from chronic pain (CRPS). However I am currently working on how environmental factors affect nucleotide compositions. In my most recent publication, I employed numerous shotgun-sequenced metagenomic data-sets (183 data-sets, 31+million sequences) as well as data from all currently available fully-sequenced prokaryotic genomes (as of October 2014) to show that both phylogeny and environment influence prokaryotic nucleotide composition.Projects
[3] Establishing a link between GI bacteria and pain. 2010 - 2012(ish)[2] ARB Toolkit for Custom Databases and Massive Phylogenies (DOE) September 2011 - 2013
[1] Variation in Bacterial Nucleotide Content. 2012 - 2015
Awards
[5] Drexel Research Day Graduate Award (Computation & Bio-Modeling) 2015[4] 2013-2015 Lifshin Fellowship
[3] 2012-2014 Provost Fellowship
[2] 2012-2015 Pre-doctoral National Academy of Sciences Ford Foundation Fellowship
[1] 2011 National Science Foundation Fellow | International Summer School on Biocomplexity from Gene to System (Istanbul Turkey)
Invited Talks
[5] Panel Member: The 2015 Conference of Ford Fellows, Washington D.C. | September 2015[4] Speaker: International Academy, Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Seventh International Conference on Bioinformatics, Biocomputational Systems and Biotechnologies, Rome, Italy | May 2015
[3] Panel Member: The 2014 Conference of Ford Fellows, Vision and Strategies for Transforming the Academy, Irvine, CA | September 2014
[2] Panel Member: Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, Minority Success Workshop, Philadelphia, PA | August 2014
[1] Panel Member: International Summer School on Biocomplexity, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey | June 2011
Publications
[10] Reichenberger, E.R., Rosen, G.L., Hershberg, U., Hershberg, R. (Accepted April 2015). Prokaryotic nucleotide composition is shaped by both phylogeny and the environment. Genome Biology and Evolution. Link to map data[9] Reichenberger, E.R., Rosen, G.L., Hershberg, U., Hershberg, R. (Accepted March 2015). Prokaryotes, Metagenomics, and GC-Content. IARIA Seventh International Conference on Bioinformatics, Biocomputational Systems and Biotechnologies.
[8] Essinger, S, Reichenberger, E, Morrisson, JC, Blackwood, CB, Rosen, G. A Toolkit for ARB to Integrate Custom Databases and Externally built Phylogenies. PLoS One (Accepted August 2014).
[7] Alexander, G.M., Reichenberger, E.R., Perreault, Peterlin, B.L., Perreault, M.J., Grothusen, J.R., Schwartzman, R.J., Alexander, G.M. (2013). Plasma Amino Acids Changes in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Pain Research & Treatment. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/742407
[6] Erin R. Reichenberger, Guillermo M. Alexander, Marielle J. Perreault, Jacob A. Russell, Robert J. Schwartzman, Gail Rosen, Uri Hershberg (2013). Establishing a relationship between bacteria in the human gut and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, Vol 29 Pages 62-69 March 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2012.12.005
[5] Rosen, G.L., E.R. Reichenberger, A. Rosenfeld. NBC: The Naïve Bayes Classification Tool Web-Server for Taxonomic Classification of Metagenomic Read. Bioinformatics. January 1, 2011, 27(1):127-9.
[4] Schwartzman, R.J., G.M. Alexander, J.R. Grothusen, T. Paylor, E.R. Reichenberger, M.J. Perreault. Outpatient Intravenous Ketamine for the Treatment of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: A Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Study. Pain. 2009, 15:147 (1-3): 107-15.
[3] Schwartzman, R.J., N. Simpkins, G.M. Alexander, E.R. Reichenberger, K. Ward, et al. High Dose Cyclophosphamide in the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics. 2009, 15:2, 118-127.
[2] Peterlin, B.L., G.M. Alexander, D. Tabby, E.R. Reichenberger. Oligomerization State-Dependent Elevations of Adiponectin in Chronic Daily Headache. Neurology. May 13, 2008, 70(20):1905-11.
[1] G.M. Alexander, M.J. Perreault, E.R. Reichenberger, Schwartzman, R.J. Changes in immune and glial markers in the CSF of patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Brain Behavior Immunology. 2007 Jul;21(5):668-76.