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Princeton University
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows Program

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Dr. Cindy Benedict,
the Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Molecular Biology, earned her Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1997 and an M.S. in Biology Education from Purdue University in 1989. Prior to entering the Ph.D. program at UAB, she taught secondary biology and chemistry for two years. Additionally, she taught laboratory microbiology to nursing and pharmacy undergraduates as a graduate teaching assistant at Purdue. At Princeton, she has been involved with the department's junior tutorial seminar program, preparing students for writing their junior paper and selecting a senior thesis topic. Cindy also assisted in the teaching of Dr. Weigert's Freshman Seminar, in which students used a computer simulation (IMMSIM) to design and execute projects addressing various questions in Immunology. In the spring, Dr. Benedict lectured and designed test questions for the cell biology portion of MolBio 345, Cell and Developmental Biology, one of the core course requirements for undergraduates majoring in Molecular Biology. In her research, she has begun characterizing the rheumatoid factor site-directed transgenic mouse line, which she established during the year and continues to establish additional site-directed transgenic mice for study of autoimmunity and immune repertoires.