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The Dr. Joy Porter Williams Fellowship in Microbiology
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The
Department is pleased to announce the establishment of a special
graduate fellowship in honor of Dr. Joy Porter Williams. Dr.
Williams was the first woman to receive
a Ph.D. from our Department. Her
studies in bacterial enzymology pioneered new avenues of research
and fostered significant international
collaboration. After
doing postdoctoral research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratories,
Joy returned to UGA as a Microbiology faculty member.
She also served as the Science Supervisor for the College of
Education and as the Associate Director of the University's highly
regarded Honors Program. In
her honor, Joy's family along with other friends of the Department
have established an endowment that will
support this annual award for years to come.
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| Pamela Bonner receives the inaugural Dr. Joy Porter
Williams fellowship |
Pamela Bonner
was honored in 2003 for her excellence in research, teaching, and
service. Pamela is a doctoral student in the lab of Dr. Lawrence
Shimkets. Her research focuses on Myxococcus xanthus as
a model system to understand how zinc metalloproteases modulate
the extracellular matrix.
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| Microbiology Graduate Student Association (MGSA)
Elections
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Congratulations
and thanks to the new MGSA officers: Jeffrey
Bose (president), Chandra Carpenter (social chair), Rima Upchurch
(treasurer), and Obidimma Ezezika
(faculty liaison).
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Dr. Anne Summers steps down
as Graduate Coordinator |
The
Microbiology department gratefully acknowledges Dr. Summers’ outstanding
leadership and service. The
graduate program flourished under her stewardship.
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New
Graduate Program Web Site
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Dr.
Ellen Neidle, the new Graduate
Coordinator, started an extensive web site (WebCT MIBO 8150) for
the coordination and dissemination of information concerning the
graduate program. Access
to the site is provided to all members of the department.
Thanks
to Carla Jennings for excellent assistance!
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| Fall retreat on Sapelo Island for TA Mentors |
In
2003, Rob Onyenwoke was recognized with an Outstanding Teaching
Assistantship Award. In 2004, Rob was one of ten Teaching Assistants
selected to participate in the UGA TA Mentor Program. This Program
is for experienced teaching assistants who have been recognized
at the institutional level for
their outstanding teaching and are preparing for careers in higher
education. The retreat
is part of a year-long mentoring experience.
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| Stephanie Ross takes teaching to a new level
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Stephanie
Ross, a doctoral student in the Krause lab, has received numerous
UGA awards for excellence in teaching.
This
summer Stephanie was the primary instructor (not the TA) for MIBO2500,
Microbiology and Health Care. We
all appreciate Stephanie’s dedication to outstanding teaching!
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| Adrienne Cottrell receives a doctoral fellowship
from NIH
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Adrienne Cottrell,
a third-year Microbiology graduate student, was awarded two prestigious
and competitive fellowship offers, an Individual Ruth L. Kirschstein
National Research Service Award from NIH and an American Society
for Microbiology Minority Fellowship. Adrienne has accepted the NIH
Fellowship, which will support her research project in Dr. Anna Karl’s lab entitled "Genetic
characterization of IS492 transposition in Pseudoalteromonas atlantica
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| Microbiology
Graduate Students are the primary authors on many 2004 publications:
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P, Dashti MG, Olson JW, Hoover
TR. J Bacteriol. 2004
186:4535-42.
Chenoweth
MR, Greene CE, Krause DC, Gherardini
FC.
Infect
Immun. 2004 72:3097-105.
Chenoweth
MR, Somerville GA, Krause DC,
O'Reilly KL, Gherardini FC. Appl
Environ Microbiol. 2004
70:656-63.
Clark TJ, Phillips RS, Bundy
BM, Momany C, Neidle EL. J Bacteriol. 2004 186:1200-4.
Clark T, Haddad S, Neidle
E, Momany C. Acta Crystallographica 2004 60:105-8.
Farahi
K, Pusch GD, Overbeek R, Whitman
WB. J Mol Evol. 2004
58:615-31.
Lin
W, Whitman WB. Arch Microbiol. 2004
181:68-73.
Reams AB, Neidle EL. J Mol Biol.
2004 338:643-56.
Reams AB, Neidle EL. Ann
Rev Microbiol 2004 58:119-42.
Song
L, Caguiat J, Li Z, Shokes J,
Scott RA, Olliff L, Summers AO. J Bacteriol. 2004
186:1861-8.
Xu H, Gu B, Nixon BT,
Hoover TR. J Bacteriol. 2004 186:3499- 507.
Onyenwoke RU, Brill JA, Farahi K, Wiegel, J. Archives
of Microbiology 2004 182:182-192.
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| ARCS
scholarships awarded to two Microbiology graduate students for
research excellence |
The
Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute selects American UGA
doctoral students to receive $5,000 scholarships from the Atlanta
chapter of the ARCS (Achievement
Rewards for College Scientists) Foundation. Pamela
Bonner, a Ph.D. candidate in the laboratory of Dr. Lawrence Shimkets,
and Robert
Waldo, a Ph.D. candidate in the laboratory of Dr. Krause, are
Microbiology ARCS scholars.
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Award-winning presentation
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Doctoral
student Ben Hasselbring won the Harry Morton Award for best
student poster at the 15th Biennial Congress of the International
Organization for Mycoplasmology. Ben
presented his studies characterizing gliding motility in Mycoplasma
pneumoniae by
microcinematography and mutant analysis.
Ben
didn’t travel far to present his poster; the conference
was hosted here at UGA. Dr.
Duncan Krause, Microbiology professor and department head,
was the conference chair. The
meeting was a great success.
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| Graduate
students participate in selective programs |
Tiffany
Major, a doctoral student in the Whitman lab, was honored by
selection to attend the Graduate School Future Leaders Program.
Chandra
Carpenter received a Graduate School travel award to attend the
Woods Hole Workshop on Transposition and Site-Specific Recombination.
Chandra,
a doctoral student in the Karls lab, will present a poster describing
her research.
John
Buchner, a doctoral student in the Karls lab, and Tiffany Major
participated in the Summer Institute in Preparation for Careers
in Microbiology. This
intensive career-development program is sponsored by the American
Society for Microbiology.
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