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Sarah M.
Boomer, Ph.D. curriculum vitae
- September 2006 EDUCATION 1996 - Ph.D., Microbiology, 1989 - B.S. in Biology (with Honors), 1989 - B.S. in English (with Honors), 1989 - Minors: Chemistry, Women Studies, Honors/Classics SCIENTIFIC
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE I. MENTORING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH Field Research - July 2006 - organized and supported 6-member GERMS student and
teacher team, 7 days* June 2006 - lead 3-member research-only team, 4 days* July 2005 - lead 6-member GERMS student and teacher team, 7 days* September 2004 - lead 4-member student team, 3 days June 2004 - lead 10-member GERMS student team, 7 days August 2003 - lead 5-member student team, 8 days (major backpacking)
July 2003 - lead 4-member student team, 6 days June 2002 - lead 6-member student team, 9 days August 2001 - lead 4-member student team, 13 days (major
backpacking) July 2001 - lead 4-member student team, 11 days (major
backpacking) September 2000 - lead 6-member student team, 9 days July 2000 - lead 6-member team, 12 days (major backpacking) August 1999 - lead 6-member student team, 12 days (major
backpacking) June 1998 - lead 7-member student team, 10 days *unable to go because my father passed just before we were to
leave; Kelly Shipley
(research/education assistant) took my place Independent Study Projects - Undergraduate Mentees 2004-6 - Jennifer Esparza:
Mat Formation and Bacterial Population Studies** 2004-5 - Will Drury: Development of the Web-Based RLMO Database
(Version 2.0)* 2003 - Jared Brougher:
Education Outreach Modules in Microbial Diversity* 2002-6 - Terry Manning: Geochemistry-Directed Media
Design Using Two RLMO Sites** 2002 - Melissa Boschee: Development
of the Web-Based RLMO Database (Version 1.0)* 2001-3 - Peter Williams: Molecular Analysis of RLMO Geothermal Sourcewater* 2001 - Jessica Cameron: Education Outreach Modules in
Microbial Diversity * 2001 - James Erdman: Molecular Cloning from New RLMO
Communities 2001 - Jeanine Earnest: Characterization of New RLMO
Communities 2000 - Sean Vigil:
DNA Sequence Analysis Troubleshooting 1999 - Kody Phillis:
Characterization of New RLMO Communities 1998 - Alex Dumanovsky: Molecular
Cloning from Soil Samples *received NSF/MO stipends;
**received both NSF/MO stipends and ASM URF stipends Research-Driven Undergraduate Course Curriculum 2000-Present - Molecular Biology (Biology 475); Impact = 36 2000-3 - Computational Biology (Biology 301); Impact = 15 2000-Present - Microbiology (Biology 331); Impact = 124 II. FORMAL RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC TRAINING 1996-7 - Post-Doctoral:
Retrovirus receptor recognition, HIV Phylogenetics
(Overbaugh/Eiden) 1989-1996 - Graduate:
Evolution of Feline Leukemia Virus as a model for HIV/AIDS (Overbaugh) 1988-1989 - Undergraduate:
Novel photosynthetic hot-spring bacteria from PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE I. ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2001 - Present - Associate Professor, WOU Biology 1997 – 2001 - Assistant Professor, WOU Biology 1996-7 - Teaching Associate Professor, UW Biology II. REGULAR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES Annually - Principles of Biology (Biology 211); Typical Impact =
100/year Annually - Non-Majors Microbiology (Biology 318); Typical Impact = 50/year Biannually - General/Majors Microbiology (Biology 311); Typical Impact = 32/year Every Other Year - Molecular Biology (Biology 475); Typical Impact =
10/year III. ROTATING GRADUATE COURSES FOR TEACHERS Molecular Microbiology Workshops
(3-5 per year); Typical Impact =
15/year Environmental Microbiology
Workshops (3-5 per year); Typical
Impact = 15/year IV. EDUCATION OUTREACH IN MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY 2004-Present - WAMS Co-Director and Instructor, Typical Impact =
80/year 2004-Present - GEARUP Instruction, Typical Impact = 100/year 2001-Present - Saturday Academy Instruction, Typical Impact = 40/year 2001-3 - Upward Bound Instruction, Typical Impact = 10/year Have also facilitated miscellaneous outreach for specific K-12
teachers/schools since 2005, typical impact = 80 year. PROFESSIONAL
LEADERSHIP I. ACADEMIC COMMITTEES 1998-2001; 2005-Present - WOU Faculty Senate 2003-Present - Division Promotion and Tenure Review Committee Chair 2002-Present - Division Promotion and Tenure Review Committee 2000-2004 - WOU Natural Science Division Curriculum Committee 1999-2001 - WOU Faculty Senate Executive Committee, Secretary 1998-2001 - WOU Scholarships and Financial Aid 1994-6 - UW Bioethics Steering Committee Since 1997 - served on hiring committees for 10 faculty/staff
positions in Biology. II. MEETINGS/EVENTS 2006/Pending - One of two campus representatives (with Jeff
Templeton), CUR Workshop 2006 - Database Discussion Leader/Report Author, 1st Annual 2004 - Co-Organizer (with Mark Young, 2003 - Education/Outreach Discussion Leader, NSF MO PI
Workshop 2002 - Novel Culture Approaches Discussion Co-Leader, NSF MO
PI Workshop III. PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 2005-Present – Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society 2004-Present - 2000-Present - 1990-Present - American Society for Microbiology 1999-Present - Council for Undergraduate Research 1998-2003 - IV. STUDENT ADVISING/NOTABLE RECOMMENDEES 2006 - Kelly Shipley, 2005 - Theresa Fenton, OHSU Dentistry, OR 2005 - Mathilde Reznick,
2004 - Monica Smith, WSU Botany, WA 2004 - Tyler Treharne, OSU Pharmacy,
OR 2004 - Holli Love, MHCC 2004 - Misty Sommerfelt, MHCC 2004 - Danny Lodge, OSU Engineering, OR 2003 - Viral Patel, OSU Pharmacy, OR 2003 - Sean Vigil, 2003 - Luke Gambee, 2003 - Sara Crosky, 2003 - Rogan Rattray, OSU
Microbiology, OR 2003 - Melissa Austin, OSU Microbiology, OR 2003 - 2003 - Kelly Shipley, WOU MAT/Education, OR 2002 - Mandy Ziglinski, WOU
MAT/Education, OR 2002 - James Erdman, OSU Biochemistry, OR 2001 - Michelle Hase, AVI
Pharmaceuticals Inc., OR 2001 - Jeannine Earnest, Genetools
Inc., OR 2000 - Andrew Timm, OHSU Dentistry,
OR 2000 - Kevin Larson, OHSU Dentistry, OR 1999 - Susan Reese, OHSU Medicine, OR 1999 - Ramon Larios, 1999 - Alex Dumanovsky, OHSU
Medicine, OR 1998 - Brad Aebi, OHSU 1998 - Kody Phillis,
North Creek Labs/Technician, OR V. FUNDING 2004 - NSF Research Coordination Network: Yellowstone Core Group Member ($500K for 5
years) 2003 - Mario and 2002-Present - NSF RLMO/RUI Grant: RLMO Longitudinal Study
($535K for 5 years) 2002 - WOU Faculty Development Grant: Travel to NSF
Workshop ($750) 2001 - WOU Faculty Development Grant: DNA Sequencing Software
($2K) 2001 - Li-Cor Educational/Marketing
Poster Consulting ($750) 2000 - Waksman Foundation for Microbiology: Molecular
Microbiology Course ($18K) 2000-2 - NSF MO/RUI Grant: RLMO Project Survey ($220K for
3 years) 1998-9 - WOU Foundation Grant: support field studies in
Yellowstone NP ($2K) 1998 - NSF-ILI Grant: automated DNA sequencing apparatus
($38K total) 1992-1995 - NIH Molecular and Cellular Biology Training Grant
($12K annual) 1988 - Murdock Undergraduate Summer Science Research Grant
($2K) *Given my own funding, I donated all award monies to Lowell
Spring Scholarship Fund PUBLICATIONS AND
PRESENTATIONS I. SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS 2004 - NSF MO PI Workshop, "RLMO/RUI: Current
Undergraduate Research" 2003 - NSF MO PI Workshop, "RLMO/RUI: From 2003 - WOU Pastega Award,
"Colorful Adventures in Science" 2000 - 2000 - WOU Biology, "From 1999 - UO Ecology Evolution, "Heliothrix-like
Bacteria in 1998 - WOU Biology, "In Search of the Red Stuff, II. PEER-REVIEWED SCHOLARLY/RESEARCH ARTICLES Boomer, S.M., K.L.
Shipley, D. P. Lodge, T.F. Manning, B.E. Dutton,
manuscript in preparation. Development of Layered Photosynthetic
Mats in situ - Community Dynamics and Microbial Dispersal. Submitted
to ASM Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2006. Boomer, S.M.,
K.L. Shipley, manuscript in preparation. Enumeration and Identification of
Enteric and Pseudomonad Proteobacteria from Boomer, S.M.,
K.L. Shipley, manuscript in preparation. Exploring and Enriching Nitrogen
Cycling Microbes: Nitrogen Fixation, Amerobic Lithotrophy, and
Anaerobic Nitrogen Reduction. ASM MicrobeLibrary Curriculum Resources, accepted/in
revision, August 2006. K.L. Shipley,
Boomer, S.M., 2005. An Exercise in Computational Biology. The Boomer, S.M., K.L. Shipley, 2005. A Laboratory Class Exploring and Classifying Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria Using Culture-Based Approaches, Microscopy, and Pigment Analysis. MicrobeLibrary Curriculum Resources. (ASM MicrobeLibrary Curriculum Resources On-Line Education). Boomer, S.M., K.L. Shipley, B.E. Dutton, D.P. Lodge. 2005. A Laboratory Class Exploring Microbial Diversity and Evolution Using On-Line Databases, the Biology Workbench, and Phylogenetics Software. MicrobeLibrary Curriculum Resources. (ASM MicrobeLibrary Curriculum Resources On-Line Education). Boomer, S.M., W.M. Drury, B.E. Dutton, D.P. Lodge, M.S. Boschee, W.M. Kernan,
2005. The Red Layer Microbial Observatory Database: A Model for the Integration and
Dissemination of Biological and Geochemical Data via the World Wide Web.
Chapter Proceedings, First Biannual Workshop on Geothermal Biology and
Geochemistry in Yellowstone (Thermal Biology Institute, Boomer, S.M., D. P.
Lodge, B.E. Dutton, 2002. Molecular characterizaton
of novel red green nonsulfur bacteria from five
distinct hot spring communities in Boomer, S.M., D. P.
Lodge, B.E. Dutton, 2002. Bacterial diversity studies using the 16S rRNA gene provide a powerful research-based curriculum
for molecular biology laboratory. Microbiology Education (ASM Press),
3:18-25. Boomer, S.M., B.K.
Pierson, R. Austinhirst, R.W. Castenholz,
Characterization of novel bacteriochlorophyll a-containing
red filaments from alkaline hot springs in Yellowstone. Archives of
Microbiology, July 2000. III. RELEVANT MEETINGS ABSTRACTS S.M. Boomer,
K.L. Shipley. 2006. Photosynthetic Mat Formation Studies In
Situ - Which Came First: Red, Green,
or Chemotroph? ASM General Meeting, K.L. Shipley, S.M.
Boomer, 2006. SLIME: Students Learning Interesting Microbiology
Experiments - an Outreach Program for Grades 2-12, ASM General Meeting, S.M. Boomer, K.L. Shipley, B.E. Dutton, 2006. The Red Layer
Microbial Observatory – Survey and Database Efforts, 1st Annual Yellowstone
RCN Workshop, K.L. Shipley, S.M.
Boomer, 2006. The Red Layer Microbial Observatory – Educational
Opportunities for Undergraduates, Science Teachers, and Pre-College Students,
1st Annual Yellowstone RCN Workshop, S.M. Boomer, K.L. Shipley, D.P. Lodge, T.F. Manning, B.E. Dutton, 2004. The Red Layer Microbial Observatory - A Research Experience for Undergraduates in Yellowstone, 3rd Annual Microbial Observatories Principal Investigator's Workshop - New Discoveries, Linkages, and Partnerships, Big Sky, MT. Manning, T.F., D.P. Lodge, S.M. Boomer, 2004. Attempts to Cultivate RLMO Bacteria
Using Site-Specific Water Chemistry Data , ASM
General Meeting, Boomer, S.M.,
D.P. Lodge, K.L. Shipley, B.E. Dutton, 2004.
A General Microbiology Lab
Curriculum Featuring Culture-Dependent and -Independent Approaches and
Computer-Based Project Presentations, ASM General Meeting, D. P. Lodge, S.M.
Boomer, B.E. Dutton, 2004. A
Bioinformatics Course Emphasizing Molecular Microbial Diversity, ASM
General Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Drury, W.M., Dutton, B.E.,
Lodge, D.P., Boschee, M.S., Boomer, S.M., 2003. RLMO Database: A Model for
Integrating and Disseminating Biological and Geochemical Data via the World
Wide Web, Workshop on Geothermal Biology and Geochemistry in Yellowstone, Old
Faithful, Yellowstone, WY. S.M. Boomer,
B.E. Dutton, W.M. Drury, T.F. Manning, D.P. Lodge, 2003. The Red Layer Microbial Observatory - a
Yellowstone-Based Research Experience for Undergraduates, 2nd Annual
Microbial Observatories Principal Investigator's Workshop, S.M. Boomer,
D.P. Lodge, P.F. Williams, M.S. Boschee, 2002. Analyses of Red Layer Bacteria and Thermal Sourcewater from Alkaline Lodge, D.P., S.M. Boomer, P.F. Williams, B.E. Dutton, 2002. Expanded studies
of red green nonsulfur communities in Williams, P.F., S.M. Boomer, D.P. Lodge, P.E. Poston, 2002. Red green nonsulfur bacteria: Are they in the sourcewater?
ASM General Meeting, Boomer, S.M., D.
Lodge, B.E. Dutton. 2001. Comparative Molecular Analyses of Red Layer
Bacteria from Alkaline Hot Spring Communities in Boomer, S.M., D.
Lodge, B.E. Dutton. 2001. A Research-Driven Curriculum for Undergraduate Molecular
Biology that Assesses Microbial Diversity Using a 16S rRNA
Approach. ASM General Meeting, Boomer, S.M., R. Austinhirst, B.K. Pierson. 1995. Filamentous phototrophic
bacteria containing bchl a from
deep layers in hot spring microbial mats. Thermophile
Conference. BEYOND MY CAREER 2006 - Team whitewater paddling: Selway
(Idaho/ARTA), Chilko-Fraser (British Columbia/ROAM) 2005 - Tour du Mont Blanc (120 miles/27,000 feet), Compagnie du 2005 - Expedition rafting down the Hulahula,
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ( 2004 - John Muir Trail/Mt. Whitney (150 miles/30,000 feet),
MTS 2004 - Expedition rafting down the 2003 - Team whitewater paddling: entire Middle Fork of the Salmon in high
water, OARS 2000 - Rafted 300 miles of the Colorado/Grand Canyon, OARS 1997-Present - Happy homeowner and anti-lawn landscaper 1997 - Self-guided 4-week trek through 1995 - Basic Rock/Ice and Mountain Safety Training, 1994 - 100-mile/30,000 feet Wonderland Trail around 1992-Present - Domain-Owner, Web-Mistress, Author of Thermophile.org
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