Honors Program Staff
Faculty Director, University Honors Program
Natalie Carter holds a Ph.D. 在乔治华盛顿大学主修美国文学和文化,主修英语. Her research and pedagogical interests include trauma theory, gender and sexuality studies, and the dynamics of race, ethnicity, 以及二十世纪和二十一世纪文学和文化作品中的暴力. Scholarship includes publications on Dorothy Allison, Julia Alvarez, and Ernest Hemingway, 以及解决针对妇女的暴力行为和美国社会中与种族有关的创伤的作品. 除了荣誉课程和第一年的研讨会课程外,她还教授美国文学和文化, and is Affiliate Faculty in the Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (RGSS) program.
Carter is an elected member of the Faculty Senate; a Social Justice and Diversity (SJD) Faculty Mentor; member of the FYS Advisory Committee; and the advisor for several student organizations. 她被评为皇冠投注网的杰出女性(2019年), and received the College of Liberal Arts & 科学学院杰出教师教学奖(2021年).
Assistant Director, University Honors Program
Jason Lantzer是皇冠投注网荣誉项目的助理主任. An historian by training, his research and writing interests generally center on religion, politics, and law, with some work about Disney thrown in for good measure. He is the author of eight books, including Dwight Eisenhower & the Holocaust (DeGruyter, 2023), 《皇冠投注》 (NYU 2012), Dis-History: Uses of the Past at Walt Disney’s Worlds (TPP, 2017), and 反叛的皇冠投注网:一个家庭,两个州和内战的故事 (印第安纳州历史学会出版社,2017),许多书籍章节和文章. He is a three-time graduate of Indiana University (BA, MA, PhD).
Faculty Director, Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity
Dr. Anne M.Wilson graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in chemistry and obtained a PhD. from the University of Utah with Frederick West and Richard Ernst. 在佛罗里达州立大学和玛丽·克拉夫特一起做博士后研究之后, she took a position at Butler University in 1996. 她和本科生的研究是在小分子合成领域, organometallic synthesis, food and flavor chemistry, historical dyes, 使用数据库对微重力环境下的研究进行分类, and women in science.
Faculty Director, Prestigious Fellowships and Scholarship
Stobart实验室旨在确定控制RNA病毒环境稳定性的基本结构和功能决定因素, infectivity, and replication. 实验室的研究主要集中在3种不同的RNA病毒系统:呼吸道合胞病毒(RSV), human metapneumovirus (hMPV), and mouse hepatitis virus (MHV).
Background
Dr. Stobart是一位专攻病毒结构、稳定性和功能的微生物学家. He received his B.S. 2008年获得泽维尔大学(Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH)生物学和化学学位.D. 2013年从范德比尔特大学(田纳西州纳什维尔)获得微生物学和免疫学学位. 博士论文题目为《皇冠投注》. Mark Denison. 他继续他的病毒学研究,完成了博士后研究在博士实验室. Martin Moore at Emory University (Atlanta, GA),他在呼吸道合胞病毒(RSV)减毒活疫苗候选疫苗的开发中发挥了核心作用。, a major human pathogen among infants and the elderly. Concurrent with his research training, 他在《皇冠投注网》教授MCAT和DAT考试准备课程,并且是乔治亚州立大学邓伍迪圆周学院生命与地球科学系的兼职教员, 在2016年秋季加入皇冠投注网生物科学系之前.
Research
Pnuemoviruses – RSV and hMPV
RSV是一种具有负链RNA基因组的肺炎病毒,与婴幼儿和老年人的上呼吸道和下呼吸道疾病有关. 迄今为止,呼吸道合胞病毒是全世界1岁以下儿童病毒性死亡的主要原因. Although RSV is a human pathogen, 由于已有的免疫,它很少在健康成人中引起临床疾病. Despite over 50 years of research, 目前仍然没有商业化的疫苗,目前正在进行大量工作以开发一种疫苗. 皇冠投注最近发现,RSV菌株对温度的稳定性存在实质性差异,而且这种稳定性取决于病毒附着蛋白(F). 对RSV的初步研究发现,RSV融合(F)蛋白中的突变控制病毒的热稳定性并有助于稳定融合前构象, which is required for infectivity. 目前RSV的研究项目将集中于检测重组RSV临床菌株的环境稳定性和位点定向诱变,以确定控制RSV稳定性和复制的关键调控区域.
HMPV是一种与RSV密切相关的肺炎病毒,也与婴幼儿和老年人的上呼吸道和下呼吸道疾病有关. Discovered in 1989, 对其环境稳定性知之甚少,目前仍没有疫苗可用于预防hMPV疾病. 目前关于hMPV的研究项目将集中于检查一组hMPV临床分离株的环境稳定性. 这些研究可能为创造稳定的减毒活疫苗候选疫苗的机制和限制hMPV在高风险环境中传播的新方法提供新的见解.
Coronaviruses
MHV is a viral model for coronavirus biology. 冠状病毒与上呼吸道和下呼吸道疾病有关,是导致普通感冒的第三大原因. Recent outbreaks of SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2 (causative agent of COVID-19), three emerging coronaviruses, highlight the pathogenic potential of coronavirus evolution. 皇冠投注的工作重点是了解冠状病毒蛋白酶nsp5的结构和功能之间的关系. 这项工作旨在确定对冠状病毒复制至关重要的关键分子决定因素,并可能成为抗病毒或抑制剂设计的目标.
有兴趣在Stobart实验室做研究的学生可以联系Stobart博士. Stobart directly.
Dr. Stobart’s ResearchGate Profile