Dr. Freitag moved to Polk County with her husband and two children in November of 1988. Although she was interested in teaching, her career up to that point was heavily research-oriented. In 1989 she obtained a part-time research position at the University of South Florida Medical Center working in an Immunology laboratory. In 1990 she was asked to teach part-time at Valencia Community College in Orlando. Dr. Freitag explains how she juggled both positions. " Every Tuesday and Thursday I left my home in Lakeland at 6 AM… drove to Tampa to put in 8 hours of research, and then left USF at 4 PM to drive to Orlando to teach Microbiology. The class met from 6:30 to 9:50 PM. I returned to home to Lakeland well after 11 PM… Suffice it to say, I have a lot of experience driving on Interstate-4!!!" Soon afterwards Dr. Freitag decided to give up research to concentrate solely on teaching. She gained teaching experience by her willingness to teach part-time at Polk Community College, Hillsborough Community College, and Valencia Community College, although she never taught at all three at the same time! Dr. Freitag joined the Biology department at PCC as a full-time faculty member in August of 1994 and is happy that her commuting time has been shortened considerably.

Education:

Post-doctoral Research University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 1982 - 1988

PhD North Carolina State University Dec. 1981

MS North Carolina State University May 1979

BS The Pennsylvania State University May 1976

Awards:

Recipient of a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Health (Sept. 1985)

Recipient of the Mary Poston Award for best paper presentation at North Carolina Branch ASM meeting (1981)

Elected to serve as President of Microbiology Graduate Student Association at North Carolina State University (1979 - 1981)

Graduated with honors from The Pennsylvania State University

Courses Taught:

BSC 2085C, BSC 2086C, BSC 1005C,

MCB 2010C, BSC 1084C

Office:

 LLC 1160

Papers:

Barbour, A. G., C .J. Carter, N. Burman, C. S. Freitag, C. F. Garon, and S. Bergstorm. 1991. Tandem insertion sequence-like elements define the expression site for variable antigen genes of Borrelia hermsii. Infection and Immunity 59: 390 - 397.

Abraham, J. M., C. S. Freitag, R. M. Gardner, J. R. Clements, V.L. Thomas, and B .I. Eisenstein. 1986. Fimbrial phase variantion and DNA rearrangements in uropathogenic isolates of Escherichia coli. Mol. Biol. Med. 3: 495 - 508.

Abraham, J.M., C. S. Freitag, J.R. Clements, and B.I. Eisenstein. 1985. An invertible element of DNA controls phase variation of type I fimbriae in Escherichia coli. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 162: 5724 - 5727.

Freitag, C. S., J. M. Abraham, J. R. Clements, and B. I. Eisenstein. 1985. Genetic analysis of phase variation control of type I fimbriae in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 162: 668 - 675.

Freitag, C. S., and B. I. Eisenstein. 1983. Genetic mapping and transciptional orientation of the fimD gene. J. Bacteriol. 156: 1052 - 1058.

Melton, T., L.L. Snow, C.S. Freitag, and W.J. Dobrogosz. 1981. Isolation and characterization of cAMP suppressor mutants of Escherichia coli. Mol. Gen. Genet. 182: 480 - 489.

Interests:

  Playing soccer, coaching soccer, and refereeing soccer. Also running at Lake Hollingsworth to get in shape for playing, coaching, and refereeing soccer.

Email:

  CFreitag@polk.edu

Phone:

  (863) 297-1010 ext. 6153

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