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Biology college educator with over 30 years of working with and mentoring UGs and Grad students in Molecular Biology

Profile Summary

Biology college educator with over 30 years of working with and mentoring UGs and Grad students alike. 40 years of working in Yeast Mol Bio and Genetics; Phage Biology and Genetics. Published researcher for 20 years and Science Educator for 30 years.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Microbiology
• ☆ Microbiome Research
• ☆ Microbiological Assays
• ☆ Biochemistry
• ☆ Immunoassay
• ☆ Biochemical Assays
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Genetics
• ☆ Microarrays
• ☆ Chromatin
• ☆ PCR
• ☆ Molecular Cloning
• ☆ DNA Sequencing
• ☆ Genome Sequencing
• ☆ Mutagenesis
• ☆ Recombinant DNA
• ☆ Plasmid DNA
• ☆ Cell Biology
• ☆ Microscopy
• ☆ Light Microscopy
• ☆ Fluorescence Microscopy
• ☆ Cell Culture
• ☆ Educational Methods & Theories
• ☆ Science Education
• ☆ Distance Education

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing

Research Market Research, User Research, Technology Scouting, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Image Processing, Image Analysis, Algorithm Design-Non ML, Text Mining & Analytics, Data Mining, Data Cleaning

Work Experience

Instructor/Lab Director

Lehigh University

August 2006 - Present

Adjunct Professor

Lehigh University

January 2006 - Present

Adjunct Professor

Cedar Crest College

August 2005 - December 2005

Visiting Scientist

Lehigh University

December 1999 - May 2005

PostdoctoralResearcher

Johns Hopkins Medical Institute

October 1995 - May 1999

HHMI Postdoctoral Fellow

Duke University Medical Center

January 1992 - March 1995

PostdoctoralResearcher

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

September 1990 - December 1991

Lab Manger/Research Technician

Montefiore Medical Center Dept. of Oncology

June 1983 - August 1985

Education

Ph.D. (Biology)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

August 1985 - May 1990

B.S. (Biology)

St Joseph's College

1979 - 1983

Certifications

• Provost Merit Award

  Lehigh University

  June 2019 - June 2019

• Provost Merit Award

  Lehigh University

  June 2016 - June 2016

• National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology

  National Academies Education Fellow in the Life Sciences

  June 2012 - June 2012

• National Genomics Research Initiative Workshop June

  Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science Education Alliance

  June 2009 - June 2009

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2020). Genomic diversity of bacteriophages infecting Microbacterium spp . PloS one.

(2019). Genome Sequences of Six Cluster N Mycobacteriophages, Kevin1, Nenae, Parmesanjohn, ShrimpFriedEgg, Smurph, and SpongeBob, Isolated on Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2155 . Microbiology resource announcements.

(2018). Eight Genome Sequences of Cluster BE1 Phages That Infect Streptomyces Species . Genome announcements.

(2017). Genome Sequences of Chancellor, Mitti, and Wintermute, Three Subcluster K4 Phages Isolated Using Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2155 . Genome announcements.

(2017). Tales of diversity: Genomic and morphological characteristics of forty-six Arthrobacter phages . PloS one.

(2017). Genome Sequence of Cluster W Mycobacteriophage Taptic . Genome announcements.

(2017). Genome Sequences of Mycobacteriophages Jane and Sneeze, New Members of Cluster G . Genome announcements.

(2017). Prophage-mediated defence against viral attack and viral counter-defence . Nature microbiology.

(2004). The spindle pole body assembly component mps3p/nep98p functions in sister chromatid cohesion . The Journal of biological chemistry.

(2003). Human EFO1p exhibits acetyltransferase activity and is a unique combination of linker histone and Ctf7p/Eco1p chromatid cohesion establishment domains . Nucleic acids research.

(2003). Mechanical link between cohesion establishment and DNA replication: Ctf7p/Eco1p, a cohesion establishment factor, associates with three different replication factor C complexes . Molecular and cellular biology.

(2000). A phylogenetically conserved NAD+-dependent protein deacetylase activity in the Sir2 protein family . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

(1998). Invading the yeast nucleus: a nuclear localization signal at the C terminus of Ty1 integrase is required for transposition in vivo . Molecular and cellular biology.

(1996). Yeast N1e3p/Nup170p is required for normal stoichiometry of FG nucleoporins within the nuclear pore complex . Molecular and cellular biology.

(1994). Genetic and physical interactions between Srp1p and nuclear pore complex proteins Nup1p and Nup2p . The Journal of cell biology.

(1993). An essential yeast gene with homology to the exonuclease-encoding XRN1/KEM1 gene also encodes a protein with exoribonuclease activity . Molecular and cellular biology.

(1989). The structure of a primitive kinetochore . Trends in biochemical sciences.

(1989). Cis- and trans-acting factors affecting the structure of yeast centromeres . Journal of cell science. Supplement.

(1988). Selective excision of the centromere chromatin complex from Saccharomyces cerevisiae . The Journal of cell biology.