Education
B.S. in Microbiology, Pennsylvania State University, 2009
Current position
Ph.D. Student in Microbiology and Immunology, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine
Publications
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Shingler, K. L., Organtini, L. J. and Hafenstein, S. (2014). Enterovirus 71 Virus Propagation and Purification. Bio-protocol 4(9): http://www.bio-protocol.org/wenzhang.aspx?id=1117.
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Organtini, L. J., Makhov, A. M., Conway, J. F., Hafenstein, S. and Carson, S. D. (2014). Kinetic and structural analysis of coxsackievirus b3 receptor interactions and formation of the a-particle. J Virol 88(10): 5755-5765.
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Gullberg, M., Muszynski, B., Organtini, L. J., Ashley, R. E., Hafenstein, S. L., Belsham, G. J. and Polacek, C. (2013). Assembly and characterization of foot-and-mouth disease virus empty capsid particles expressed within mammalian cells. J Gen Virol 94(Pt 8): 1769-1779.
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Cherwa, J. E., Jr., Organtini, L. J., Ashley, R. E., Hafenstein, S. L. and Fane, B. A. (2011). In Vitro ASSEMBLY of the oX174 procapsid from external scaffolding protein oligomers and early pentameric assembly intermediates. J Mol Biol 412(3): 387-396.