• B.A., M.A., Lehman College, CUNY;
• Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center;
• Postdoctoral Training: Baruch College, CUNY.

Publications

• Shumskaya, M., Quinlan, R.F., Wurtzel, E.T. (2020) Elucidating Carotenoid Biosynthetic Enzyme Localization and Interactions Using Fluorescent Microscopy in Plant and Food Carotenoids: Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology (Concepción, M.R., Welsch, R., eds) 2083:223-234 Springer-Nature, New York, USA DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9952-1_17
• Monaco R. and Quinlan R.F. (2014) Mini-review:Novel Natural Product Discovery from Marine Sponges and their Obligate Symbiotic Organisms. bioRxiv (The Preprint Server for Biology) posted online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/005454
• Quinlan R.F., Shumskaya M., Bradbury L.M.T., Beltrán J., Ma C., Kennelly E.J., Wurtzel E.T. (2012) Synergistic interactions between carotene ring hydroxylases drive lutein formation in plant carotenoid biosynthesis. Plant Physiology 160: 204-214
• Vallabhaneni R., Gallagher C.E., Licciardello N., Cuttriss A.J., Quinlan R.F., Wurtzel E.T. (2009) Metabolite sorting of a germplasm collection reveals the Hydroxylase3 locus as a new target for maize provitamin A biofortification. Plant Physiology 151 (3): 1635-1645
• Quinlan R.F., Jaradat T., Wurtzel E.T. (2007) Escherichia coli as a platform for functional expression of plant P450 carotene hydroxylases. Arch Biochem Biophys 458: 146-157

Patents

• “Cells and methods for producing lutein”
  Inventors: Eleanore T. Wurtzel and Rena Quinlan
  Publication number: WO2013119552 A3
  Application number: PCT/US2013/024746
  Publication date: June 18, 2015