EDUCATION
B.S. (Microbiology) Colorado State University 1987
RESEARCH INTERESTS
microbial ecology, transport of aquatic microbes by ship ballast water, harbor microbial communities
CURRENT PROJECTS
Ship-Mediated Harmful Microbes
THESIS TITLE
Microbial Community Differences Related to Shipping in Great Lakes Harbors (tentative title; Water Resources Science Graduate Program; Thesis committee: R. E. Hicks)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Minnesota Duluth
Graduate Teaching Assistant 2008–2009
Graduate Research Assistant 2008
Colorado State University
Research Assistant (virology) 1989
Center for Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control (Fort Collins, CO)
Biological Aide 1988-1989
Research Technician
1987-1988
Colorado State University
Teaching Assistant
1987
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Kinney, R. K., Johnson, B.J., Welch, J. B., Tsuchiya, K. R., and Trent, D. W. The full-length sequences of the virulent Trinidad donkey strain of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus and its attenuated vaccine derivative, strain TC-83. Virology 170:19–30.
Kulpa, C. M., Mamajiwalla, S. N., Christman, L. M., Beebe, J. A., and Hall, K.D. Persistence of weight gain and hibernation onset in juvenile thirteen – lined ground squirrels (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus) in spite of long – term administration of Naloxone. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 85C:363–367.
