Resume

• 2004

  San Marcos

  TX

  Teach undergraduates in microbiology; mentor graduate students; advise students; I have been on several grant review panels and editorial boards

  Professor

  Texas State University

• 1998

  San Marcos

  TX

  Teach undergraduates in microbiology; mentor graduate students; advise students; I have been on several grant review panels and editorial boards

  Associate Professor

  Texas State University

  San Marcos

  TX

  Teach undergraduates in microbiology; mentor graduate students; advise students; I was an ad hoc manuscript reviewer for several journals.

  Assistant Professor

  Texas State University

• 1986

  University of Guelph

  Texas State University

  Queen's University

  Kingston ON Canada

  Did microbiology research primarily involving Proteus mirabilis infections in the urinary tract and associated kidney stone formation.

  Assistant Professor

  Queen's University

  Teach undergraduates in microbiology; mentor graduate students; advise students; I have been on several grant review panels and editorial boards

  Texas State University

  Guelph ON Canada

  Bacterial binding of metal ions and associated mineral formation

  Postdoc

  University of Guelph

  Editorial Board

  Applied and Environmental Microbiology

  American Society for Microbiology

• 1982

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Studied biofilms and urease activity in the urinary tract and also the rumen of cattle. Thesis title was \"The Role of Ureolytic Bacteria in Infectious Urinary Stone Production\"

  Microbiology

  General

  University of Calgary

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Microbiology

  General

  University of Calgary

• 1974

  Bachelor of Science (BSc)

  Microbiology

  General

  University of Guelph

• Teaching

  PCR

  Research

  Environmental Microbiology

  Life Sciences

  DNA Extraction

  SDS-PAGE

  Bacterial Transformation

  Biofilms

  University Teaching

  RNA isolation

  Molecular Cloning

  recombinant DNA technology

  Microbiology

  Science

  Molecular Biology

  DNA extraction

  Aseptic Technique

  Molecular Microbiology

  Biology

  Rheinheimera texasensis sp. nov.

  a halointolerant freshwater oligotroph

  Allana K. Welsh

  A Gram-negative

  rod-shaped

  motile

  non-spore-forming bacterium

  designated strain A62-14BT

  was isolated from a constant-temperature

  spring-fed

  freshwater lake. On the basis of the complete 16S rRNA gene sequence

  strain A62-14BT was shown to belong to the class Gammaproteobacteria

  being most closely related to Rheinheimera sp. HTB082 (96.2 % sequence similarity)

  Rheinheimera baltica (95.01 %)

  Rheinheimera pacifica (96.35 %)

  Rheinheimera perlucida and Alishewanella fetalis (95.9 %). The major fatty acids (C16 : 1 ω7c

  38.56 %; C16 : 0

  19.04 %; C12 : 0 3-OH

  12.83 %; C18 : 1 ω7c

  7.70 %) and the motility of strain A62-14BT support its affiliation to the genus Rheinheimera. The salt intolerance of strain A62-14BT

  together with the results of other physiological and biochemical tests

  allowed the differentiation of this strain from the three species of the genus Rheinheimera with validly published names. Therefore strain A62-14BT represents a novel species of the genus Rheinheimera

  for which the name Rheinheimera texasensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is A62-14BT (=ATCC BAA-1235T=DSM 17496T). The description of the genus Rheinheimera is emended to reflect the halointolerance and freshwater origin of strain A62-14BT.

  Rheinheimera texasensis sp. nov.

  a halointolerant freshwater oligotroph

  Bob