Kathryn M. Spink, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer of Biology
Chief Health Professions Advisor
Chair of University Premedical Advisory Committee

Office: 146C Life Sciences Building
Office Hours:
Phone: 312.567.3441
Fax: 312.567.3494
Email: spink@iit.edu
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Expertise

Education

• B.S,Michigan Technological University
• Ph.D, Michigan State University

Curriculum Vitae

Research & Major Accomplishments

Current Projects

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Books

Selected Publications

• Kathryn M. Spink and Laimonis A. Laimins, "Induction of the human papillomavirus type 31 late promoter requires differentiation but not DNA amplification", Journal of Virology 79 (2005), 4918-4926.
  
  
• Kathryn M. Spink and Michele Fluck, "Polyomavirus hr-t mutant-specific induction of a G2/M cell-cycle arrest that is not overcome by the expression of middle T and/or small T", Virology 307 (2003), 191-203.
  

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