Present | Associate Professor, St. Catherine University ‐ Biology Department | |
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2014 - 2019 | Assistant Professor, St. Catherine University ‐ Biology Department | |
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2012 - 2014 | Post-doctoral associate, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
2021 - Present | What makes a lichen? Evolution and ecology of fungal-algal symbioses across marine and freshwater environments |
Wellcome Sanger Institute | |
Aquatic Symbiosis Genomes Project | |
Role: Co-PI | |
Colleague(s): Nick Talbot, Klara Scharnagl, Daniel Stanton, Claudia Colesia, Sergio Perez Ortega, Tami McDonald, Peter Nelsen | |
2018 - Present | Acquisition of a fluorescence microscope to grow research and training of women from diverse multicultural and economic backgrounds at St. Catherine University |
NSF - DBI-1827514 | |
NSF Major Research Instrumentation Grant | |
Role: Co-PI | |
Colleague(s): Paula Furey, Andrea Kalis, Kathleen Tweeten | |
$118,176 | |
2019 - 2020 | Course Development: Fungal Biology and Ecology |
St. Catherine University | |
Curriculum Development Grant | |
Role: PI | |
2019 - 2020 | Evolution of Carbon Transport in Lichens (with Margaret Piecz) |
3M / St. Catherine University | |
3M STEM Grant | |
Role: PI | |
2019 - 2019 | Localization of an ammonium transporter protein within Marchantia polymorpha, a liverwort, utilizing a YFP fusion protein |
3M / St Catherine University | |
3M STEM Grant | |
Role: PI | |
2017 - 2018 | Comparative transcriptomics to investigate carbon and nitrogen exchange in the lichen symbiosis |
St. Catherine University | |
APDC | |
Role: PI | |
$6,325 | |
2017 - 2017 | Project: Cloning and Electrophysiology of Ammonium Transporters from Marchantia and Anabaena |
3M / St. Catherine University | |
3M STEM Grant | |
Role: PI | |
2016 - 2017 | Characterization of Ammonium Transporters from the Model Plant Marchantia |
3M / St. Catherine University | |
3M STEM grant | |
Role: PI | |
2015 - 2016 | Investigating the evolutionary history of ammonium transport genes |
St. Catherine University | |
APDC | |
Role: PI | |
$7,500 |
Professional Service and Affiliations
2018 - Present | University Assessment Committee, St. Catherine University | 2015 - Present | Beta Beta Beta Biology Honor Society (Gamma Alpha Chapter), Co-chair, St. Catherine University | 2015 - Present | Department Assessment Co-Lead, St. Catherine University, Department of Biology | 2015 - 2018 | Membership Committee, Mycological Society of America |
Honors and Awards
- International Association of Lichenology. (2014). Mason Hale Dissertation award, presented once every three years in an international competition for the best Ph.D. dissertation concerning lichens.
Courses
- Contemporary Biology: Epigenetics
- Fungal Biology and Ecology
- Biology of Microorganisms
- Senior Seminar
- Introduction to Microbiology
- Foundations of Biology I
2011 | Ph.D., Biology, Duke University | |
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2000 | Master of Science, Plant Biology, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities | |
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Presentations (18)
Collaborative Research Presentations with Undergraduate Scholars (7)
Oral presentations of collaborative research by undergraduate scholars at regional and national conferences