Maria Nieto

Professor

Department of Biological Sciences

E-mail:

maria.nieto@csueastbay.edu

Phone:

(510) 885-4757

Office:

NSc 113

Vitae:

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Education

• BS Loyola Marymount University
• PhD Microbiology/Immunology, University of California, Berkeley

Publications

Published Reviewed Abstracts:

(Note: My name as it appears last in the author list was done to provide CSU graduate and undergraduate students, who worked under my direction, with the opportunities and responsibilities that come with first authorship)   

 Lymphocyte Infiltration into Sponge Allografts. EMSA/MAS  Annual Meeting in San Jose, California, 1991. Suresh, A.,  Smith, N., Martinez, O. and Nieto, M.  

 Lymphocyte Infiltration within a Sponge Allograft.   Presented at the Annual California State University  Electron Microscopy Colloquium in Long Beach, California,  1991. Suresh, A., Smith, N., Martinez, O. and Nieto, M.   

 Preliminary Identification of a Beta-2 Microglobulin  Associated Protein on the Surface of BB-111 Fish Cells.   Presented at The Society for Advancement of Chicanos and  Native Americans in Science Annual Meeting in Albuquerque,  New Mexico, 1993. Contreras, B., Dixon, B. and Nieto, M.  

 Preliminary Identification of a Beta-2 Microglobulin  Associated Protein on the Surface of BB-111 Fish Cells.   Presented at The World Aquacultural Society Meeting in  Barcelona, Spain, 1993. Contreras, B., Dixon, B. and Nieto, M.  

 Null B2m Expression in a Breast Cancer Cell Line. Presented

 at the National Minority Research Symposium in Miami,  Florida, 1996. Santos, M., Rodriguez, R., Curr, K., Wong,  S., Schultz-Witherell, C. and Nieto, M.

 Effect of B2m Mutations on Class I Structure. Accepted for

 presentation at the National Minority Research Symposium in

 New Orleans, Louisiana, 1997. Rodriguez, R., Schultz, C. and

 Nieto, M.  

Impact of a B2m Mutation on Epitope Expression. Presented at the National Minority Research Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona, 1999. Nguyen, T., Ahmed, A., Dimaano, C., Abel, E. and  Nieto, M. 

 Impact of a B2m Mutation on Epitope Expression. Presented at

 The CSU Biotechnology Symposium in Pomona, California, 2000.

 Nguyen, T., Ahmed, A., Dimaano, C., Abel, E. and Nieto, M.

Scientific Journal Publications:

(Note: My name when it appears last in the author list was done to provide CSU graduate and undergraduate students, who worked under my direction, with the opportunities and responsibilities that come with first authorship)   

 The Association of H-2Ld with Human Beta-2 Microglobulin  Induces Localized Conformational Changes in the Alpha-1 and  2 Superdomain.  Nieto, M., McKinney, D., McMillan, M. and  Goodenow, R. Immunogenetics 30: 361-364, 1989.  

 Overlapping Palindromic Sequences Associated with Somatic  Deletion and Meiotic Recombination of MHC Class I Genes. 

 Vogel, J., Nieto, M., Fischer, A. and Goodenow, R.   Molecular Immunology 27: 875-886, 1990.

   Alteration Within a Discrete Region of the H-2Ld Alpha-1  Helix Upon Association with Human Beta-2 Microglobulin.   Smith, M., Basora, T., Kieran, J. and Nieto, M. Immunology  and Cell Biology 71: 1450149, 1993.

  A Demonstration of B2m Specific Association with the Surface of Teleostean Cells. Kunich, J., Contreras, B., Recktenwald, D. and Nieto, M. Developmental and  Comparative Immunology 18: 483-494, 1994.

   Effect of B2m Mutations on the Alpha-1 Helical Region of

 H2-Ld. Schultz, C., Rodriguez, R., Dimaano, C., Chew, E.,  Li, F.M. and Nieto, M. Immunogenetics 48: 273-282, 1998. 

  A Point Mutation in Beta-2 Microglobulin Results in Loss of 

Epitope Expression. Dimaano, C., Nguyen, T., Ahmed, A., Abel, E., Schultz, C. and Nieto, M. Tissue Antigens, 56:473-475, 2000. 

  Popular Press Publications:

  Marriage and Biology: Defining a Man and Woman is Harder than 

 You Might Think. Nieto, M. East Bay Express, 30 (47):7, 2008.

 Anatomy is Destiny, Except Sometimes. Nieto, M. The Gay and Lesbian Review, 15(6):22-23, 2008.

Desert Angels – A Work of Fiction. Nieto, M. Floricanto Press, Expected Publication Release Spring, 2012.

Grant Awards

Program Director:  

1994-2010 National Institutes of Health - Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Programs

 (total awards; >$12,000,000)

 Regular Investigator:  

1993-2000 National Institutes of Health - Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Program

 (total awards; >$600,000)

 Principal Investigator:   

1994-1997 NSF Grant; Minority in Research Institutions (MRI)

 (total award; >$250,000)

Service

Professional Experience:  

1999-present Professor of Biological Sciences at California State  University, East Bay (formerly Calif. State Univ., Hayward)  

1994-1999 Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at California  State University, Hayward  

1989-1993 Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at California  State University, Hayward  

1984-1989 Doctoral student in the Department of  Microbiology/Immunology at University of California at  Berkeley; Thesis Advisor - Dr. Robert Goodenow

Teaching Experience:  

1989-present Lecture and laboratory instructor for graduate and undergraduate (major and non-Major) level courses.  

 Graduate Courses Taught:  

 Immunochemistry (lecture and laboratory)

 Graduate Seminar in Molecular Biology

 Graduate Seminar in Special Topic (HIV)

 Biology Major Undergraduate Courses Taught:  

 Cell and Molecular Biology (lecture and laboratory) 

 Immunology (lecture and laboratory)

 Biology Information Seminar 

 Biology Non-Major Courses Taught:  

 Introduction to Biology (lecture and laboratory)

 Genes and Heredity

 Humans and Sex

1999-present Provide an annual seminar course on the “Biology of Cancer” to graduate level student participants of the Minority Training Program in Cancer Control Research (MTPCCR); University of California, San Francisco.  

1993-2003 Instructor for the NIH (National Institutes of Health) sponsored Bridges to Baccalaureate Degree Program.  

Instruction involved designing and implementing a lecture and laboratory course on Protein Chemistry Techniques for

community college students on the CSUH campus. The course met 8 hours each day during a 1-week period.

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