A longtime practicing surgeon in Boise, Idaho, Dr. William Bourland joined the research team at the Hampikian Laboratory in the Department of Biological Sciences at Boise State University in 2009. He also is a member of the adjunct graduate research faculty. Dr. Bourland has an M.D. from the University of Iowa, and completed residencies in General Surgery at the University of Washington Hospitals in Seattle, and in General Vascular Surgery at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. His primary research interests include ciliate taxonomy, phylogeny and evolution. He serves as a reviewer for the European Journal of Protistology, Acta Protozoologica, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, and Zoologica Scripta.
Articles
Nullomer Derived Anticancer Peptides (NulloPs): Differential Lethal Effects on Normal and Cancer Cells in vitro (with Abdelkrim Alileche, Jayita Goswami, Mike Davis, and Greg Hampikian), Peptides (2012)
We demonstrate the first use of the nullomer (absent sequences) approach to drug discovery and...
Genealogical Analyses of Multiple Loci of Litostomatean Ciliates (Protista, Ciliophora, Litostomatea) (with Peter Vďačný, William Orsi, Slava S. Epstein, and Wilhelm Foissner), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2012)
The class Litostomatea is a highly diverse ciliate taxon comprising hundreds of free-living and endocommensal...
Morphology and Phylogeny of a New Woodruffiid Ciliate, Etoschophrya inornata sp. n. (Ciliophora, Colpodea, Platyophryida), with an Account on Evolution of Platyophryids (with Greg Hampikian and Peter Vďačný), Zoologica Scripta (2012)
We studied the morphology, morphometry, resting cysts and molecular phylogeny of a new woodruffiid ciliate,...
Morphological and Molecular Phylogeny of Dileptid and Tracheliid Ciliates: Resolution at the Base of the Class Litostomatea (Ciliophora, Rhynchostomatia) (with Peter Vďačný, William Orsi, Satoshi Shimano, Slava S. Epstein, and Wilhelm Foissner), European Journal of Protistology (2011)
Dileptid and tracheliid ciliates have been traditionally classified within the subclass Haptoria of the class...
Phylogeny and Classification of the Litostomatea (Protista, Ciliophora), with Emphasis on Free-Living Taxa and the 18S rRNA Gene (with Peter Vd’ačný, William Orsi, Slava S. Epstein, and Wilhelm Foissner), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2011)
The class Litostomatea is a highly diverse ciliate taxon comprising hundreds of species ranging from...