Dr. Mitchell is originally from Michigan, but after moving to Lynchburg in 1995 to
attend Liberty University for her undergraduate education has remained in central
Virginia. Her research interests include nucleoside diphosphate kinase (NDPK; a protein
involved in many celluluar functions and linked to cancer) and primary cilia (cellular
organelles involved in development and kidney disease). 

In 2002, Dr. Mitchell married her best friend Jamie, and together they are involved in a
local church (Grace EFC) and volunteer with the Marriage Alliance of Central Virginia.
They also enjoy traveling, hiking and playing with their pets. When she's not in the
lab/classroom, Dr. Mitchell enjoys gardening, reading, running, sewing and eating amazing
food her husband cooks. In addition, she teaches cake decorating and (during the summer
and holidays) operates a specialty cake business.

Articles

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Direct Binding of Cytosolic NDP Kinases to Membrane Lipids is Regulated by Nucleotides (with Gabor Szabo and Angela de S . Otero), Biochemica et Biophysica Acta (2009)

In spite of their complete lack of any structural features that characterize membrane proteins, cytosolic...

 

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Methods for the Isolation of Sensory and Primary Cilia—An Overview (with Gabor Szabo and Angela de S. Otero), Methods in Cell Biology (2009)

Detailed proteomic analyses of mammalian olfactory and rod photoreceptor sensory cilia are now available, providing...

 

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NDP Kinase Moves into Developing Primary Cilia (with Betty C. Gallagher, Gabor Szabo, and Angela de S. Otero), Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton (2004)

Inmunofluorescence staining of murine NIH3T3 fibroblasts grown at high density shows that conventional nucleoside diphosphate...

 

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Receptor Activation Regulates Cortical, but not Vesicular Localization of NDP Kinase (with Betty C. Gallagher, Gabor Szabo, and Angela de S. Otero), Journal of Cell Science (2003)

We used immunofluorescence techniques to determine the localization of nucleoside diphosphate (NDP) kinase in NIH-3T3...

 

Dissertation

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Association of Nucleoside Diphosphate Kinase with Microtubule-Based Structures, Faculty Dissertations (2008)

Cytosolic nucleoside diphosphate kinases (NDPKs) have been implicated in a variety of signaling pathways that...