Alexander Krichevsky, Ph.D, MBA Research Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Life Sciences Building Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-5215 Office telephone: 631-632-1015 Fax: 631-632-8575 E-mail: akrichevsky@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
BioSketch and Selected Publications

Academic appointments

• 2007-present    Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, SUNY Stony Brook, NY, USA.
• 2003-2007       Post Doctoral Researcher/Research Scientist, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA.

Education

• Ph.D. Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Israel, 2003.
• MBA Finance, School of Business Administration, Hebrew University, Israel, 2002.
• M.Sc. Microbiology, Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Israel, 2000.
• B.Sc. Biology, Faculty of Science, Hebrew University, Israel, 1999.

Professional affiliations:

• United States Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation, Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, Austrian Science Fund, grant applications reviewer.
• Academic Judiciary Committee of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, committee member/faculty representative.
• Long Island Science and Engineering Fair (LISEF), honored judge.
• Annual Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Invitational Science Fair, honored judge.

Selected honors:

• "AIDS Vaccine International Scholarship", New York, USA, 2003.
• “Dean's Office Fellowship of Excellence for Graduate Students”, Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, 2001-2002.

Selected publications

1. A. Krichevsky, A. Graessmann, A. Nissim, S. C. Piller, N. Zakai, and A. Loyter (2003). “Antibody fragments selected by phage display against the nuclear localization signal of the HIV-1 Vpr protein inhibit nuclear import in permeabilized and intact cultured cells”. Virology 305, pp. 77–92.
2. A. Krichevsky, M. Rusnai, A. Bugatti, E. Waigmann, S. Shohat, and A. Loyter (2005). “The fd phage and a peptide derived from its p8 coat protein interact with the HIV-1 Tat-NLS and inhibit its biological functions”. Antiviral Research, 66(1), pp. 67-78.
3. T. Tzfira, G.W. Tian, B. Lacroix, S. Vyas, J. Li, Y. Leitner-Dagan, A. Krichevsky, T. Taylor, A. Vainstein and V. Citovsky (2005) “pSAT vectors: a modular series of plasmids for auto-fluorescent protein tagging and expression of multiple genes in plants”. Plant Molecular Biology, 57(4), pp. 503-16. COVER ARTICLE; USDA 2006 *
4. A. Krichevsky, S. Kozlovsky, Y. Gafni and V. Citovsky (2006). “Nuclear import and export of plant virus proteins and genomes”, Molecular Plant Pathology, 7(2), pp. 131-146 COVER ARTICLE; USDA 2007 *
5. A. Krichevsky, H. Gutgarts, S.V. Kozlovsky, T. Tzfira, A. Sutton, R. Sternglanz, G. Mandel and V. Citovsky (2006) “C2H2 zinc finger-SET histone methyltransferase is a plant-specific chromatin modifier”, Developmental Biology, 303(1), pp. 259-269.
6. A. Krichevsky, S.V. Kozlovsky, H. Gutgarts and V. Citovsky (2007) “Arabidopsis co-repressor complexes containing polyamine oxidase-like proteins and plant-specific histone methyltransfereases”, Plant Signaling and Behavior, 3(2), e1-e4.

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