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| Erinn
Howard Receives the 2006 Dr. William "Jack" and Jane Payne Fellowship
in Microbiology |
| This
award acknowledges Erinn's outstanding contributions to research,
teaching and service. Erinn's accomplishments include
first authorship on a Science paper in 2006, and excellence
in teaching for Marine Sciences and Biology laboratories and
NSF REU participants.
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| Stephanie
Bose Receives the 2006 Dr. Joy Porter Williams Fellowship in
Microbiology |
Stephanie
has an outstanding record as a teacher. She received
recognition for her Teaching Portfolio, she has served as
Instructor of Record for MIBO 2500, and she participated in
the Teaching Assistant Mentor Program and received an Outstanding
TA Award.
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| Microbiology
Graduate Student Association 2007 (MGSA) Elections
|
Congratulations
and thanks to the new MGSA officers: Jason Cloward
(President), Katie Pennington (Social Chair),
Lyla Lipscomb (Treasurer), Swapna
Bhat (GSA Representative) and Chris Reisch
(GAC Liason).
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| Outstanding
Teaching Assistant Awards |
Todd
Smith received an Outstanding Teaching Award for his
many contributions as a MIBO teaching assistant. Chandra
Carpenter received an Outstanding Teaching Award for
her excellent work as a Biology teaching assistant. She
is one of 15 outstanding TAs university wide selected this year
to participate in the TA mentor program.
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| Graduate
School Excellence in Teaching Award |
Emily
Henriksen received a Graduate School Excellence in
Teaching Award. This award is given to no more than five
recipients annually from among approximately 600 grad student
assistants.
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| ASM
Kadner Institute |
Chandra
Carpenter and Dr. Kamlesh Jangid were sponsored by
the Microbiology department to attend the ASM Kadner Institute.
This is a one week, intensive, hands on training in grantsmanship,
scientific presentations, and teaching. The Institute
is held each summer and is limited to 32 participants.
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| Research
Awards Banquet |
Pamela
Bonner was honored at the Research Awards Banquet for
her selection as the sole student in the Life Sciences to receive
the Graduate Student Excellence in Research Award this year.
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| Marine
Biological Laboratories Workshop |
Laura Williams
was accepted at the prestigious Marine Biological Laboratories
Workshop on Genomics and Evolution and is one of only a dozen
students asked to stay on for the advanced phase of this course
that follows the main workshop.
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| Outstanding
Paper Award |
| Congratulations
to Brian Higgins and Chandra Carpenter
in Anna Karls' lab for selection of their work in the Outstanding
Paper Award from UGA Chapter of Sigma Xi. Their winning
paper is: Chromosomal context directs high-frequency precise
excision of IS492 in Pseudoalteromonas atlantica.
PNAS 2007 104:1901-1906. |
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2007 Graduate
School Future Leaders Program |
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Howard,
Erinn. Lichens on trees can ID air pollution,
Athens Banner-Herald, Saturday, May 5, 2007 (photograph also).
Jordan, J.L.,
H-Y. Chang, M.F. Balish, L.S. Holt, S.R.
Bose, B.M. Hasselbring, R.H.
Waldo III, T.M. Krunkosky, and D.C. Krause. 2007.
Protein P200 is dispensable for Mycoplasma pneumoniae
hemadsorption but not gliding motility or colonization of
differentiated bronchial epithelium. Infect. Immun. 75:518-522.
Lee YJ, Romanek
CS, Wiegel J. Clostridium aciditolerans sp. nov.,
an acid-tolerant spore-forming anaerobic bacterium from constructed
wetland sediment. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2007 Feb;
57(Pt 2):311-5.
Lee Y-J, M.
Dashti, A. Prange, F. A. Rainey, M. Rohde, W.B. Whitman, and
J. Wiegel. 2007. Thermoanaerobacter sulfurigignens
sp. nov., a novel anaerobic thermophilic bacterium reducing
1 M thiosulfate to elemental sulfur and tolerating 90 mM sulfite
Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol.
Schell MA, Ulrich RL, Ribot
WJ, Brueggemann EE, Hines HB, Chen D, Lipscomb L,
Kim HS, Mrazek J, Nierman WC, DeShazer D. Type VI secretion
is a major virulence determinant in Burkholderia mallei.
Mol. Microbiol. 2007 Jun; 64(6):1466-85.
Mesbah NM,
Abou-El-Ela SH, Wiegel J. Novel and Unexpected Prokaryotic
Diversity in Water and Sediments of the Alkaline, Hypersaline
Lakes of the Wadi An Natrun, Egypt. Microb. Ecol. 2007 Apr
21; [Epub ahead of print].
Onyenwoke RU,
Wiegel J. Iron (III) reduction: A novel activity of the human
NAD(P)H: oxidoreductase. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 2007
Feb 9;353(2):389-93. Epub 2006 Dec. 12.
Sokolova, T., J. Hanel, R.U.
Onyenwoke, A.-L. Reysenbach, A. Banta, R.
Geyer, J.M. Gonzalez, W.B. Whitman, and J. Wiegel. 2007. Novel
autotrophic, thermophilic, anaerobic bacteria Thermolithobacter
ferrireducens gen. nov., sp. nov. and Thermolithobacter
carboxydivorans sp. nov. Extremophiles 11:145-157.
M. Salameh
and J. Wiegel. 2007. Lipases from extremophiles and potential
for industrial applications Chapter 7. In Advances in Applied
Microbiology - 61.
Maier RJ, Benoit SL, Seshadri
S. Nickel-binding and accessory proteins facilitating
Ni-enzyme maturation in Helicobacter pylori. Biometals.
2007 Jan 5: [Epub ahead of print].
Seshadri S,
Benoit SL, Maier RJ. Roles of His-rich hpn and hpn-like
proteins in Helicobacter pylori nickel physiology.
J. Bacteriol. 2007 Jun;189(11):4120-6. Epub 2007 Mar 23.
Smith TG,
Lim JM, Weinberg MV, Wells L, Hoover TR. Direct analysis of
the extracellular proteome from two strains of Helicobacter
pylori. Proteomics. 2007 Jul;7(13)2240-5.
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| Andrea Zbell
was selected to participate in the 2007 Graduate School Future Leaders
Program. |
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| Two Microbiology
Students Received Dissertation Completion Award from the Graduate
School for 2007-2008 |
| Congratulations go to
Chandra Carpenter and Noha Mesbah! There
is tough competition for these awards, and it is wonderful that Chandra
and Noha will be rewarded for their many accomplishments. |
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| Scholars
for Diversity in STEM Disciplines (SD)2 |
| Adrienne Cottrell
worked to establish the Scholars for Diversity on STEM Disciplines
(SD)2. This group strives to "promote the incorporation, support,
and matriculation of historically underrepresented graduate students
in STEM disciplines at the University of Georgia." |
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| Microbiology
Graduate Students are the Primary Authors on Many 2007 Publications |
Bose JL,
Kim U, Bartkowski W, Gunsalus RP, Overley AM, Lyell NL,
Visick KL, Stabb EV. Bioluminescence in Vibrio fischeri
is controlled by the redox-responsive regulator ArcA. Mol. Microbiol.
2007 Jul; 65(2):538-53. Epub 2007 Jun 21.
E. Burgess,
I. Wagner & J. Wiegel 2007
Thermal Environments and Biodiversity IN: Physiology and Biochemistry
of resExtremophiles. (Eds. Charles Gerday and Nicolas Glansdorff)
Publisher ASM Press, Washington DC
Higgins BP, Carpenter
CD, Karls AC Chromosomal context directs high-frequency
precise excision of IS492 in Pseudoalteromonas atlantica.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2007 Feb 6; 104(6):1901-6. Epub 2007
Jan 30
Cook DM, DeCrescenzo
Henriksen E, Upchurch R, Peterson JB. University of Georgia,
Department of Microbiology, 1000 Cedar St., 204 Biological Sciences,
Athens, GA 30602. jpeterso@uga.edu. The Tipula abdominalis larval
hindgut microbial community presumably facilitates digestion of
the lignocellulosic diet. The microbial community was investigated
through characterization of bacterial isolates and analysis of 16S
rRNA gene clone libraries. This initial study revealed novel bacteria
and provides a framework for future studies of this symbiosis.
Craven SH, Neidle,
EL. Double trouble: medical implications of genetic duplication
and amplification in bacteria. Future Microbiol. 2007 Jun; 2:309-21.
Craven SH, Ezeziki
OC, Momany C, Neidle EL. LysR homologs in Acinetobacter:
insights into a diverse and prevalent family of transcriptional
regulators. IN: Acinetobacter Molecular Biology (U. Gerischer, ed.)
Horizon Scientific Press 2007
E. DeCrescenzo
Henriksen, D.R. Phillips and J.B. Doran Peterson Polymyxin
E production by P. amylolyticus
Ezezika OC, Haddad
S, Clark TJ, Neidle EL, Momany C. Distinct Effector-binding Sites
Enable Synergistic Transcriptional Activation by BenM, a LysR-type
Regulator. J. Mol. Biol. 2007 Mar 30; 367(3):616-29. Epub 2006 Oct.
4.
Ezezika OC, Haddad
S, Neidle EL, Momany C. Oligomerization of BenM, a LysR-type transcriptional
regulator: structural basis for the aggregation of proteins in this
family. Acta Crystallograph Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2007
May 1;63(Pt 5):361-8. Epub 2007 Apr 28.
Hasselbring BM,
Krause DC. Cytoskeletal protein P41 is required to anchor the terminal
organelle of the wall-less prokaryote Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
Mol. Microbiol. 2007 Jan; 63(1):44-53. Epub 2006 Dec 5.
Moran, M.A., R. Belas, M.A. Schell,
J.M. Gonzalez, F. Sun, S. Sun, B.J. Binder, J. Edmonds, W. Ye, B.
Orcutt, E.C. Howard, C. Meile, W. Palefsky, A.
Goesmann, Q. Ren, I. Paulsen, L.E. Ulrich, I. B. Jouline, L.S. Thompson,
E. Saunders, and A. Buchan. Ecological Genomics of Marine Roseobacters.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73(14):4559-4569. |
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