Name: Dr. Christopher D. Krause
Office: Pruitt Campus, S207 Phone: (772) 336-6260 click here to call my office, and leave a message! I receive notifications of voicemail messages in my e-mail. e-mail me by clicking here: [email protected] |
Dr. Christopher D. Krause received his undergraduate education at the University of Delaware, graduating with an Honors B.S. degree in Biochemistry, cum laude, in three and a half years. He performed undergraduate research in the kinetic characterization of lipid- hydrolyzing enzymes that work at oil:water interfaces. This work led to the submission and defense of an undergraduate dissertation.
He next attended graduate school at Rutgers and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and attained a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology under the advisement of the late Dr. Sidney Pestka, one of the pioneers of interferon (IFN) research and of the biopharmaceutical industry. Dr. Krause’s work as a graduate student focused on the IFN-gamma receptor complex in live cells and how its structure and signaling can be characterized or modified. As a postdoctoral fellow, he stayed in Dr. Pestka’s laboratory and continued to develop a technology in which fluorescence spectroscopy was applied to light obtained from biological samples imaged with a confocal microscope. This technology (confocal fluorescence spectroscopy, CFS) allows biophysical analysis of protein complexes to be done in intact cells and in real time. As a junior faculty member and senior laboratory member in Dr. Pestka’s laboratory, he focused on several projects. Since leaving Dr. Pestka’s laboratory, his academic research activities have focused on the genetic and evolutionary biology of interferons (both the proteins and their genes) in vertebrates, and on publishing methods that expand on technological possibilities of measuring FRET in cells. In professional roles outside of the laboratory, Dr. Krause has taught microbiology, immunology, genetics, anatomy and physiology, general chemistry, and general biology, and has consulted about the use of CFS and IFN-lambda’s. He currently maintains a voluntary adjunct appointment at the Center for Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Florida Atlantic University. He is Chief Scientific Officer at a startup company called BioMune, Inc. Dr. Krause also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of MJ BioTech. In his free time, he can be found gardening, networking, cooking, doing videography or specialized photography, or playing around with computers. |
Syllabi
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Lecture Notes
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Class ExtrasHere are some goodies that are not required for class, but are entertaining nonetheless!
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