Geoffrey Kilili

Department/Affiliation: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Phone: 330-287-1941
Office Address: 101 Severance
Email: gkilili@wooster.edu

Degrees

• 1995: B.Sc. Biology: University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
• 2001: M.Sc. Natural products and Biotechnology: Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Greece
• 2010: Ph.D. Biochemistry: Tufts University, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical sciences, Boston, MA.

Courses Taught

• BCMB 303: Techniques
• BCMB 401: Introduction to Independent Study
• BIO 201: Gateway to Molecular and Cellular Biology

Projects in Progress

• Human Infectious diseases; Host-pathogen protein-protein interactions.
• Current project: Molecular and biochemical mechanisms that govern targeting and interaction of exported Plasmodium falciparum proteins with the red blood cell (RBC) membrane and cytoskeletal proteins.

Awards & Professional Membership

• Young investigators Award; Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF), 2007-2009.
• Sackler Biomedical Travel Fellowship, 2009.
• Keystone Symposia Underrepresented Minority Travel Scholarship, 2010.
• Research Spotlight, ASBMB Minority affairs, 2010.
• Paper of the week, Journal of biological chemistry, May 2010.
• Spotlight research article, Eukaryotic cell, November 2011.

Publications

• Kilili, G. K., & Lacount, D. J. (2011). An erythrocyte cytoskeleton-binding motif in exported Plasmodium falciparum proteins. Eukaryotic Cell, 10(September). doi:10.1128/EC.05180-11.
• Kilili, G. K., & Kyriakis, J. M. (2010). Mammalian Ste20-like Kinase (Mst2) Indirectly Supports Raf-1/ERK Pathway Activity via Maintenance of Protein Phosphatase-2A Catalytic Subunit Levels and Consequent Suppression of Inhibitory Raf-1 Phosphorylation. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 285(20), 15076–15087.
• Black, T.M., Andrews, C.L., Kilili, G., Ivan, M., Tsichlis, P.N., Vouros, P. (2004). Characterization of phosphorylation sites on Tpl2 using IMAC enrichment and a linear ion trap mass spectrometer. J Proteome Res, 6:2269-2276.
• Kilili, K. G., Atanassova, N., Vardanyan, A., Clatot, N., Al-Sabarna, K., Kanellopoulos, P. N., Makris, A. M., et al. (2004). Differential roles of tau class glutathione S-transferases in oxidative stress. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 279(23), 24540–51. doi:10.1074/jbc.M309882200.