Writing & Project Portfolio

A collection of blogs, projects, and examples of commissioned work.

Invasive Fungal Infections: A Creeping Public Health Threat

Invasive fungal infections are collectively responsible for killing up to 1.5 million people each year, making this infection category one of the most deadly among communicable diseases, along with lower respiratory infections, tuberculosis and diarrheal diseases.

Invasive Fungal Infections: A Creeping Public Health Threat

Old Wives’ Tales and Garlic as an Antibiotic: Are Microbial Myths Fact or Fiction?

The history of “old wives” and how they supported their communities against disease and infection plus the history and science of garlic as an anti-microbial.

Old Wives’ Tales and Garlic as an Antibiotic: Are Microbial Myths Fact or Fiction?

Probing the Depths of Life

Microbes at the bottom of the sea don’t have sugar or sunlight. Instead, they harvest their energy from the unique chemistry of hydrothermal vents.

Probing the Depths of Life

Siderophores: A treatment target?

Iron is essential for many bacterial pathogens to cause disease so they often use siderophores to gather it. Researchers are attempting to exploit the siderophore as a treatment option by developing sideromycins, inhibitors, and even vaccines.

Siderophores: A treatment target?

Siderophores: Bacterial Swiss Army knives

Bacteria can use siderophores to increase their survival, to signal with other cells, and strike against other species.

Siderophores: Bacterial Swiss Army knives

The Faculty Job Market Collaboration

A multi-institutional collaboration studying applicant factors involved in the academic faculty job market.

What is Professional Development: A Three-Part Framework

Here is a suggested framework that divides professional development in higher education into three broad areas of focus: the basics of professionalism, improving current weaknesses, and planning for the future.