Anna Kushnir's profile
What I do
I finished my graduate work in Virology and wasted no time in moving to web publishing and social networking. I went on to complete a 6-month internship with Nature Network at the NPG office in Boston, working on online community building, web development, and science writing (for Nature’s Signaling Gateway). I am now doing a post-doc in herpes simplex virus type 1 latency and miRNAs.
- Blog:
- Lab Life
Affiliations
Current affiliations
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- Position
- Senior Analyst
- Company
- Gryphon Scientific
- Duration
- 2009 - Present
- Further information
Past affiliations
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- Position
- post-doc
- Company
- Harvard Medical School
- Duration
- 2009 - 2009
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- Position
- Intern
- Company
- Nature Network
- Duration
- 2008 - 2008
- Further information
Location
- City:
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Hub:
- Washington DC-Baltimore
Interests
My non-science/non-blogging life is food-centric. Restaurants and food blogging are an obsession, cooking merely a hobby. Science writing, both for the scientific and the general public – preferably with an internet twist – is my ultimate career goal.
Projects
My thesis work was directed at identifying the stress-induced cellular factors that lead to HSV-1 promoter transactivation and potentially, reactivation from latency.
At NN, I worked on online community building and management, blogging, writing, and keeping track of the science news around Boston.
I now work for NN on a freelance basis, contributing to the Boston blog and forum discussions.
Publications
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Kushnir A. Cell death: DIAP1 puts ubiquitin on drICE Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol (1) , 4 - 5 (2009) doi: 10.1038/nrm2614
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Kushnir A. Signalling: ERBB2 hangs in the balance Nat Rev Cancer (1) , 12 - 13 (2008) (Epub 11 Dec 2008) doi: 10.1038/nrc2570
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Construction and characterization of a herpes simplex virus type I recombinant expressing green fluorescent protein: Acute phase replication and reactivation in mice? Virology (2007) (Epub 17 Jan 2007) PubMed ID:(17207829)
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ICP22 is required for wild-type composition and infectivity of herpes simplex virus type 1 virions. J Virol , 9381-90 (2006) PubMed ID:(16973544)
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The transmembrane domain of influenza hemagglutinin exhibits a stringent length requirement to support the hemifusion to fusion transition J Cell Biol , 425-37 (2000) doi: 10.1083 PubMed ID:(11038188)
Groups and Forums
- Harvard affiliates
- NNB Events
- SciFoo 2007
- Publishing in the New Millennium
- Nature Precedings
- Nature Network Bloggers
- Science Blogging
- Science Blogging 2008: London
- Medicine and Health
- Graduate Students : A Life of Choice
- Nature Opinion
- Nature Publishing Group - Boston office
- Ask the Nature Editor
- Translational Research
- Scientific Researchers and Web 2.0: Social Not Working?
- PhD Students
- Post-docs and Graduate Students of the World
- Patent Law Primer
- functionality and bioactivity of food compounds
- Nature Nanotechnology - Asia Pacific and Beyond
- Careers Advice by NatureJobs
- Nature Network on Facebook
- Collaboration: bringing NN members together
- Chinese Researchers
- Science in China
- The Good Paper Journal Club
- Nature India
- Mathematics
- Science policy in the UK
- Second Life
- Washington DC
- San Diego
- Nature Network Newcomers
- Brain Physiology, Cognition and Consciousness
- Energy and Environmental Technology
- Nature Protocols Discussion
- Houston
- Space weather
- Science and Skepticism
- Nutrition Enthusiasts
- Science Writers
- Bioethics
- Science Communicators of North Carolina
- SciBarCamp
- Neuroscience
- Citation in Science - Don't Quote Me on That
- Visualization & Science
- open source science
- Latin-America
- Scholarships and Financial Aid
- Going to a Meeting...
- Berlin
- Infectious Disease: What Can Evolution Do For Us?
- HIV-1
- Biomolecular NMR spectroscopy
- Nanopore Sequencing Challenges
- Nature Publishing Group news
- New York Area Translational Research
