Dr. Shaffer, Page 2

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Dr. Julie Shaffer

Areas of Interest

Microbial ecology

2011 picture Shaffer Rank: Professor Year Hired: 1999

Office: BHS 316

Phone: (308) 865-8661

FAX: (308) 865-8045

email: shafferjj@unk.edu

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Degrees:

B. S.

1994

Sioux Falls College [Now the University of Sioux Falls]

Ph. D.

1999

University of Nebraska- Lincoln

Dissertation:

Shaffer J. J. 1999. Characterization of a novel DNA repair phenotype in Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophage UNL-1. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 203 pp.

Publications:

Jacques, B. J., Akahane, S., Abe, M., Middleton, W., Hoback, W. W. and Shaffer, J. J. 2009. Temperature and food availability differentially affect the production of antimicrobial compounds in oral secretions produced by two species of burying beetle. Journal of Chemical Ecology 35(8):871-877.
Shaffer, J. J., Warner, K. J. and Hoback, W. W. 2007. Filthy flies? Experiments to test flies as vectors of bacterial disease. American Biology Teacher Online 69(2), Paper #30.
Hoback, W. W., Bishop, A. A., Kroemer, J., Scalzitti, J. and Shaffer, J. J. 2004. Differences among antimicrobial properties of carrion beetle secretions reflect phylogeny and ecology. Journal of Chemical Ecology 30(4):719-729.
Shaffer, J. J., Hurley, E. and Hoback, W. W. 2003. Microbes and mosquitoes: a laboratory exercise to investigate the non-target effects of Bt. Bioscene 29(3):27-32.
Kadavy, D. R., Shaffer, J. J., Lott, S. E., Wolf, T. A., Bolton, C. E., Gallimore, W. H., Martin, E. L., Nickerson, K. W. and Kokjohn, T. A. 2000. Influence of infected cell growth state on bacteriophage reactivation levels. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 66(12):5206-5212.
Martin, E. L., Reinhardt, R. L., Baum, L. L., Becker, M. R., Shaffer, J. J. and Kokjohn, T. A. 2000. The effects of ultraviolet radiation on the moderate halophile Halomonas elongata and the extreme halophile Halobacterium salinarum. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 46(2):180-187.
Shaffer, J. J., Jacobsen, L. M., Schrader, J. O., Lee, K. W., Martin, E. L. and Kokjohn, T. A. 1999. Characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophage UNL-1, a bacterial virus with a novel UV-A-inducible DNA damage reactivation phenotype. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 65(6):2606-2613.

Professional Affiliations:

Courses this year:

Human Microbiology (Lab)
Microbiology
Infectious Diseases (online for graduate students)
Biological Research (graduate)
Thesis (graduate)
Evolution of Epidemics (online for graduate students with Simon)
Symbiosis (BIOL 830P; online for graduate students)
Wisdom of Whores (BIOL 830P; online for graduate students)

Last Update: 15 August 2012

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B. S.	1994	Sioux Falls College [Now the University of Sioux Falls]
Ph. D.	1999	University of Nebraska- Lincoln

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