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ALYSSA COURTNEY BUMBAUGH

ADDRESS                                Department of Biology                               

                                                139 Franklin Science Center                         

                                                Shippensburg University                  

                                                Shippensburg, PA 17257

                                                (717) 477-1593

                                                acb134@psu.edu

EDUCATION

2004    ORISE Post-doctoral Researcher, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia

2003    Doctor of Philosophy in Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan,“Evolution of invasiveness in Escherichia coli and Shigella”

2000    Master of Science in Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, “Variation in invasive ability of Legionella pneumophila”

1997    Bachelor of Science in Biology, Genetics & Developmental Biology Option Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2008 – present             Shippensburg University, Assistant Professor of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences, Shippensburg, PA

2004 – 2008             Penn State Altoona, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Division of Mathematics & Natural Sciences, Altoona, PA

2003 – 2004                Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ORISE Postdoctoral Researcher (with Dr. Patricia I. Fields), Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention       

2001 – 2003                Michigan State University, Graduate Assistant (with Dr. Thomas S. Whittam), National Food Safety & Toxicology Center, Michigan State University

1999 – 2000                Pennsylvania State University, Research Assistant (with Dr. Thomas S. Whittam), Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University

1998                           Pennsylvania State University, Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University

1997 – 1998                Pennsylvania State University, Research Assistant (with Dr. Thomas S. Whittam), Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Molecular evolution of infectious disease, host/parasite interactions, molecular evolutionary genetics, genomics, invasive pathogens, molecular subtyping, foodborne pathogens

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

American Society for Microbiology, Allegheny Branch of the American Society for Microbiology, Pennsylvania Academy of Natural Sciences, Society for Molecular Evolution, American College and University Biology Educators, American Association for the Advancement of Science

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

            Pennsylvania State University, Altoona Campus

                        MICRB 106 – Elementary Microbiology (Fall Semesters 2004 - 2006)

MICRB 107 – Elementary Microbiology Laboratory (Fall Semesters 2004 - 2006)

                        MICRB 201 – Introductory Microbiology (Spring Semesters 2005 - 2007)

MICRB 202 – Introductory Microbiology Laboratory (Spring Semesters 2005 -2007)

                        BIOL 222 – Genetics (Spring Semester 2005, 2007)

                        BIOL 412 – Ecology of Infectious Disease (Spring Semester 2006)

            Pennsylvania State University, University Park Campus

Guest Lecturer, Phase Variation, Evolution of Infectious Disease (March 14, 2000)

Guest Lecturer, Molecular Virulence Factors, Evolution of Infectious Disease (February 17, 2000)

Guest Lecturer, New technology brings new pathogens, Science, Technology and Society (April 9 and 12, 1999; July 27 – 28, 1999)

Guest Lecturer, New technology brings new pathogens, Science, Technology and Society (July 13 – 14, 1998; November 23 and 30, 1998)

Teaching Assistant, Biology: Molecules and Cells (BIOL 230W), (Fall Semester 1998)

GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS

2006    Research Development Grant, Penn State Altoona, Molecular Subtyping and Epidemiology of the Plant Pathogen, Erwinia tracheiphila,

           $5000 (with J. Winsor)

           Undergraduate Research Award (to D. Slogenhop), Penn State Altoona, Molecular Subtyping and Epidemiology of the Plant Pathogen,            Erwinia tracheiphila,$500 (with J. Winsor)

2005    Dean’s Development Fund, Penn State Altoona, A preliminary population genetic study of Ferroplasma, an Archaean associated with acid mine drainage, $535

Beckman Coulter’s Genomic Educational/Research Matching Funds Program, $49,500 (with L. Palmer, A. Parente, and J. Winsor)

2004    Dean’s Development Fund, Penn State Altoona, Multi-locus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis to identify Escherichia and Shigella isolates, $2448

2003    Travel Grant, Graduate Program in Genetics, Michigan State University, $200

Travel Grant, The Graduate School, Michigan State University, $300

2002    Corporate Partners Student Travel Grant, American Society for Microbiology, $500

Invited participant, Workshop on Molecular Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

2000    Travel Grant, Intercollege Graduate Program in Genetics, Pennsylvania State University

Travel Grant, Institute of Molecular and Evolutionary Genetics, Pennsylvania State University

Third place, Life Sciences Division, 15^th Annual Graduate Exhibition, Pennsylvania State University

1999    Travel Grant, Intercollege Graduate Program in Genetics, Pennsylvania State University

POSTER PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINARS

2006    DNA-based subtyping methods: applications in the study of foodborne pathogens, Department of Food Science Seminar Series, Pennsylvania State University (April 13)

2004    Campylobacter MLST and Escherichia coli SNP analysis, 8^th Annual PulseNet Update Meeting, San Diego, CA (April 27-30)

            Subtyping Listeria monocytogenes, E. coli O157, and Campylobacter jejuni using molecular methods, 4^th Symposium on Molecular Serotyping and Subtyping of Enteric Bacteria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA (March 4)

2003    Evolution of invasiveness in Escherichia coli and Shigella, Foodborne & Diarrheal Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA (April 11)

Evolution of invasiveness in Escherichia coli and Shigella,  Infectious Disease Division, Bacterial Pathogenesis, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, MA (February 28)

Evolution of invasiveness in Escherichia coli and Shigella, Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, MT (February 3)

Genomic variation in Shigella dysenteriae type 1 using a new approach called paired end sequence mapping, American Society for Microbiology 103^rd General Meeting, Washington, D.C.  (May 18 – 22)

Evolution of invasiveness in Escherichia coli and Shigella, Genetics Research Forum, Michigan State University (February 24)

2002    Molecular evolution of enteroinvasive Escherichia coli and Shigella, American Society for Microbiology 102^nd General Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT (May 18 – 23)

Molecular evolution of enteroinvasive Escherichia coli and Shigella, Microbial Evolution and Genomics, Michigan Branch of the American Society for Microbiology, East Lansing, MI (April 6)

2001    Genomic comparison of an Escherichia coli pathogen with laboratory strain K-12 using suppression subtractive hybridization, Global Analysis of Complex Genetic Systems, Michigan State University (April 21)

2000    Variation in Legionella reproduction within amoeba, Fifth International Conference on Legionella, Ulm, Germany (September 26 – 29)

Variation among Legionella pneumophila strains in the ability to invade and multiply within Acanthamoeba, American Society for Microbiology 100^th General Meeting, Los Angeles, CA (May 23 – 27)

1999    The evolution of virulence in a model host-parasite system, Intercollege Graduate Program in Genetics, Pennsylvania State University (September 22)

DNA polymorphisms in the dotA gene implicated in organelle trafficking during host cell invasion by Legionella pneumophila, American Society for Microbiology 99^th General Meeting, Chicago, IL (May 30 – June 3)

PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS

Bumbaugh, A. C., E. A. McGraw, R. K. Selander, and T. S. Whittam.  1999.  DNA polymorphism in the dotA gene implicated in organelle trafficking during host cell invasion by Legionella pneumophila, p.224, Abstracts of the 99^th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.  ASM Press, Washington, DC.

Reid, S. D., C. Herbelin, A. C. Bumbaugh, R. K. Selander, and T. S. Whittam.  1999.  Identifying pathogenic clones of Escherichia coli by sequencing multiple housekeeping genes, p. 237, Abstracts of the 99^th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.  ASM Press, Washington, DC.

Bumbaugh, A. C., D. J. Betting, and T. S. Whittam.  2000.  Variation among Legionella pneumophila strains in the ability to invade and multiply within Acanthamoeba castellani, p. 238, Abstracts of the 100^th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.  ASM Press, Washington, DC.

Bumbaugh, A. C., T. M. Large, L. M. Ouellette, and T. S. Whittam.  2002.  Molecular evolution of enteroinvasive Escherichia coli and Shigella, p. 464, Abstracts of the 102^nd General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.  ASM Press, Washington, DC.

Bumbaugh, A. C., R. F. Mangold, A. E. Plovanich-Jones, and T. S. Whittam.  2003.  Genomic variation in Shigella dysenteriae type 1 using a new approach called paired end sequence mapping, Abstracts of the 103^rd General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.  ASM Press, Washington, DC.

Hyma, K. E., A. C. Bumbaugh, N. Strockbine, J. M. Janda, and T. S. Whittam.  2003.  Multilocus sequence analysis supports a new pathogenic lineage of Escherichia that includes Hafnia alvei-like strains and Shigella boydii type 13, Abstracts of the 103^rd General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.  ASM Press, Washington, DC.

Tarr, C. L., T. M. Large, A. C. Bumbaugh, D. W. Lacher, and T. S. Whittam.  2003.  Evolutionary divergence of pathogenic Escherichia coli based on multilocus sequence analysis and multilocus virulence gene profiles, Abstracts of the 103^rd General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.  ASM Press, Washington, DC.

Adams M. E., C. Fitzgerald, J. Steigerwalt, A. Sails, A. Bumbaugh, and P. I. Fields.  2005.  Molecular characterization of outbreak-associated Campylobacter jejuni, Abstracts of the 105^th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.  ASM Press, Washington, DC.

Mrowka, S.W., L. A. Parker, and A. C. Bumbaugh.  2007.  Multi-Locus Variable Number Tandem Repeat (VNTR) subtyping of Shigella sonnei isolates, Abstracts of the 83^rd Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science.

Slogenhop, D.L., J. B. Longnecker, J. A. Winsor and A. C. Bumbaugh.  2007.  Molecular subtyping of Erwinia tracheiphila, a plant pathogen responsible for vascular wilt disease in curcurbits, Abstracts of the 83^rd Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science.

PUBLICATIONS

Reid, S. D., C. Herbelin, A. C. Bumbaugh, R. K. Selander, and T. S. Whittam.  2000.  Parallel evolution of virulence in pathogenic Escherichia coli.  Nature 406:64-7.

Bumbaugh, A. C., E. A. McGraw, K. Page, R. K. Selander, and T. S. Whittam.  2002.  Sequence polymorphism of mip and dotA alleles mediating invasion and intracellular replication of Legionella pneumophila. Current Microbiology 44:314-22.

Whittam, T. S. and A. C. Bumbaugh.  2002.  Inferences from whole-genome comparisons of bacterial pathogens.  Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 12:719-725.

Hyma, K. E., D. W. Lacher, A. M. Nelson, A. C. Bumbaugh, J. M. Janda, N. A. Strockbine, V. B. Young, and T. S. Whittam.  2005.  Evolutionary genetics of  a new pathogenic Escherichia species: Escherichia albertii and related Shigella boydii strains.  Journal of Bacteriology 187:619-628.

Bumbaugh, A. C., K. E. Hyma, D. W. Lacher, T. M. Large, L. M. Ouellette, C. L. Tarr, N. Strockbine, K. A. Talukder, D. A. Sack, and T. S. Whittam.  Multilocus sequence divergence and gene acquisitions in the evolution of the enteroinvasive phenotype of Escherichia coli and Shigella, (To be submitted)

Bumbaugh, A. C., D. W. Lacher, R. Mangold, A. E. Plovanich-Jones, and T. S. Whittam.  Genomic variation in Shigella dysenteriae type 1 using a new approach called paired end-sequence mapping, (To be submitted)

Sails, A. D., A. C. Bumbaugh, S. Suerbaum, B. Swaminathan, and P. I. Fields.  A comparision of two multilocus sequence typing methods for characterizing Campylobacter jejuni, (To be submitted)