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Research and Scholarship: ASM Publication, Meetings, and Funded Honors Theses Overview Statement My NSF/MO project has also afforded me many professional
opportunities to work, publish, and interact with my peers via the American
Society for Microbiology (ASM). Given specific project funding and WOU's
emphasis on education, my ASM publication and presentation efforts have been
equally aimed at pure research data/analysis and novel research-driven
curriculum development and assessment.
With minor exception, all of the following publications and presentations
were supported by NSF/MO-RUI funding.
All represent national, peer-reviewed articles or abstracts for
journals or nationally-supported on-line curriculum resource collections. It
should also be strongly noted that this outline does not include
aforementioned workshop presentations/abstracts and student theses (included
in both the NSF/MO-RUI and related sections). Additionally and notably, I
have mentored 2 American Society for Microbiology Undergraduate Research
Fellowship (ASM URF) recipients - Terry Manning (2002-4) and Jennifer Esparza
(2005-6). It should be strongly noted
that only 25-30 national ASM URF's are awarded annually. Although Terry did formally complete his
Honors Thesis and graduate in 2005, Jennifer’s thesis and graduation have
been extended into 2006. An outline of
related activities for each of these funded projects is outlined below and
serves as a key for supporting documents that have been provided in this
section. In the spirit of judiciously
selecting only key documents for this file, full text for most papers have
been provided - but not for meetings abstracts. Research/Curriculum Papers: RESEARCH: 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. Will submit to ASM Applied and Environmental Microbiology, late September
2006. CURRICULUM: Boomer, S.M. Enumeration and
Identification of Enteric and Pseudomonad Proteobacteria from
Agriculture-Impacted Rivers, and an Exploration of Fecal Viruses and
Protozoa. In revision, ASM
MicrobeLibrary Curriculum Resources, August 2006; review letter also provided. CURRICULUM: Boomer, S.M. Exploring and
Enriching Nitrogen Cycling Microbes:
Nitrogen Fixation, Amerobic Lithotrophy, and Anaerobic Nitrogen
Reduction. In revision, ASM
MicrobeLibrary Curriculum Resources, August 2006; review letter also provided. CURRICULUM: Boomer, S.M., K.L. Shipley, 2005. An
Exercise in Computational Biology. The
CURRICULUM: 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 On-Line Education/Curriculum Resources); review letter also provided. CURRICULUM: 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 On-Line Education/Curriculum Resources); review letter also provided. CURRICULUM: 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. Provided only as a submitted manuscript in my
previous file. RESEARCH: 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 Yellowstone National Park. Applied and Environmental
Microbiology (ASM Press), 68:346-55.
Provided only as a submitted manuscript in my previous file. ASM General Meetings Abstracts: none
provided for review RESEARCH: Boomer
S.M., K.L. Shipley. 2006. Photosynthetic Mat Formation Studies In
Situ - Which Came First: Red, Green,
or Chemotroph, ASM General Meeting, CURRICULUM: K.L.
Shipley, S.M. Boomer, 2006. SLIME:
Students Learning Interesting Microbiology Experiments - Outreach
Program for Grades 2-12, ASM General Meeting, RESEARCH: Manning, T.F., D.P. Lodge, S.M. Boomer, 2004. Attempts to Cultivate RLMO Bacteria Using Site-Specific Water Chemistry
Data , ASM General Meeting, CURRICULUM: 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, CURRICULUM: D. P.
Lodge, S.M. Boomer, B.E. Dutton, 2004.
A Bioinformatics Course
Emphasizing Molecular Microbial Diversity, ASM General Meeting, New
Orleans, LA. RESEARCH: Lodge, D.P., S.M. Boomer, P.F. Williams, B.E. Dutton, 2002. Expanded
studies of red green nonsulfur communities in RESEARCH: 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, 2. ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship Recipients/Outcomes 2003-5 - Terry Manning: media development, Honors Thesis, provided for review 2005-6 - Jennifer Esparza: mat formation in situ, Honors Thesis, draft provided for review |