Hey Boss!

 I know I promised to let you know all my info as soon as I got to Pennsylvania, but I am a particularly poor correspondent. Below, you will see my work info.  My home info is as follows: 203 Camelot Lane, State College, PA 16803 (814)861-8795. I also have a personal e-mail address: ejanepishko@mail.com that I have had for several years and should be a continuing contact in the future.  Mike and I are doing well and we really enjoy Penn State.  He has promised that we won’t move again anytime soon and I intend to keep him to that promise. The weather and terrain around here are a lot more like Missouri where we are from and we like that, too, although we miss Austin.  I don’t really miss College Station, though.  Mike is associate prof. in Chemical Engineering here and just recently got a joint appointment in Materials Science.  His lab is really starting to produce again after the move and he is back up to about 10-12 people in his group.  I work for Eric Harvill in Vet. Science here at Penn State looking at host-pathogen interactions in Bordetella.  I primarily am working on LPS structure and complement resistance, which has an awful lot of immunology involved, but I try to keep everyone aware of the basic protein nature of most of the things we work with.  I just had a paper accepted to Infection and Immunity and I am currently writing a paper on the role of complement component C3 in immunity to B. bronchiseptica (kennel cough). 

As for the what and where of my career, here is a list:

Post-doc, Botany at UT-Austin with G. Cole 1993-1995

Visiting Scientist at MIT Center for Cancer Research with P. Robbins 1995

Post-doc, Chemistry at Boston College with Evan Kantrowitz 1995-1997

Research Molecular Biologist at the USDA-ARS-FAPRL-FFSRU in College Station, TX 1997-1999

Lecturer, Undergraduate Laboratory Coordinator for Genetics, Dept. of Biochem/Biophys. at Texas A & M University 2000-2001

Take care,

Jane