Current and former members of the OSU Acanthamoeba lab

 

Paul A. Fuerst – Academy Professor Emeritus, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University – Ph.D., Brown University 1975 – fuerst.1@osu.edu

 

 

 

 

Gregory C. Booton – Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University;  Ph.D., The Ohio State University 1995. booton.1@osu.edu

 

 

 

Daryl J. Kelly – Senior Scientist (retired), Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Ph.D., Catholic University 1983. kelly.365@osu.edu

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas J. Byers (deceased 2003) – Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 1962.  In memoriam Thomas J. Byers .

 

 

 

 

STUDENTS (partial list, with current position): 

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Monica Crary – Director, PCD-Microbiology, Alcon Laboratories, Inc., Dallas TX. –  Ph.D. The Ohio State University 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

Megan E. Shoff – Institutional Biosafety Program Manager, Assoc. Biosafety Officer at Texas A&M University ; Ph.D. The Ohio State University 2008.

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Rebecca J. Gast, Associate Scientist w/ Tenure, Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Ph.D. The Ohio State University 1995.

 

 

 

Dolena R. Ledee – Research Scientist, Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington; Ph.D. The Ohio State University  1995.

 

 

 

Diane Stothard – Sr. Director – Publication Strategy and Launch Capabilities at Eli Lilly and Company; Ph.D. The Ohio State University 1995.

 

 

 

Eric R Hugo –  Scientist – Medpace Reference Laboratories ; Ph.D. The Ohio State University 1992.

 

 

Byeong Gee Kim, Ph.D. The Ohio State University 1986.

 

 

 

Robert A. Aikins – Professor & Director of the BMI/BMB MS Program, Wayne State University, School of Medicine. Ph.D. The Ohio State University 1981.

 

 

 

Susana Bogler – M.S. The Ohio State University, 1981.

 

C. David Zarley – Vice President, Vaccines Development Management, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals; Ph.D. Indiana University, 1985; M.S. The Ohio State University, 1979.

 

 

 

 

 

Research Visiting Scientists (partial list):

Fernando Lares-Villa – Profesor Investigador, Área de Recursos Naturales, Instituto Tecnologico de Sonora, Cd. Obregón, Sonora, México;  Ph.D.,  Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas del IPN, México 1992.

Luis-Fernando Lares – Scientist, Instituto Tecnologico de Sonora, Cd. Obregón, Sonora, México.

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fernando Lares-Villa           Luis Fernando Lares

 

 

Peter H.H. Weekers – Senior Consultant, Founder & Owner at Stingray Bioscience Consultancy, (Weert, The Netherlands)

 

 

 

 

Savitri Sharma – Director, Laboratory Services, L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, Kallam Anji Reddy Campus, Hyderabad , India.

 

 

Mohammed H. Awaad, Professor, Department of Zoology, Benha University, Benha, Egypt

 

 

 

 

David Seal – City University London, Applied Vision Research Center, London, England.