CHEMSEM 11: April 1, 2021
The faculty, students and staff of the Andrews University Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry are pleased to invite all to view a Zoom lecture by Joseph Oliver Falkinham, Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech, on Thursday, April 1, 2021, at 4:30 p.m. EST on "Premise Plumbing and Waterborne Pathogens."
This is the eleventh installment of the Dwain L. Ford Lecture Series in the Andrews University Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry 2021 spring seminar program. Everyone is invited to view the lecture at https://andrews.zoom.us/j/92307867479. The meeting ID is 923 0786 7479.
Teachers are encouraged to announce this lecture in their classes and/or forward this information to their classes. Please share and encourage your colleagues, friends and others to tune in online. This lecture is free and open to all: students, high school through college, and everyone in our community and general public.
The Dwain L. Ford Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Andrews University Office of Research & Creative Scholarship, Berrien RESA Math Science Center and the Chemistry Honors Society.
Seminar Zoom Protocol:
- Mute your sound.
- Everyone can ask/write a question in the chat.
Speaker’s Bio:
Joseph Oliver Falkinham III, Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech, received his AB (bacteriology, 1964) and PhD (microbiology, 1969) from the University of California, Berkeley. Falkinham served in the U.S. Air Force from 1969 through 1972, directing hospital clinical laboratories. Following a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Roy Curtiss at the University of Alabama Medical Center (1972–1974), Falkinham joined the Department of Biological Sciences at Virginia Tech in 1974.
His most recent research is focused on mycobacteria, legionella and amoeba in household plumbing; biofilm formation by mycobacteria; isolation and identification of new anti-mycobacterial antibiotics; and mechanism of action of antibiotic dendritic amphiphiles.
He authored and co-authored three books, 31 book chapters and 25 invited review articles for scientific journals and has published 136 peer-reviewed papers in journals. He has presented multiple invited papers and lectures on mycobacteria at national and international meetings and is considered an international authority.
He has mentored 19 master’s degree and seven PhD students and served on multiple graduate advisory committees in the Department of Biological Sciences and other departments. He has served on three different professional editorial boards and was editor for the International Journal of Microbiology. In 2015 he became a Fellow in the Royal Society of Public Health, London, and received the Gardner Middlebrook Award in 2003 for mycobacteriology by the American Society of Microbiology.
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pr@andrews.edu
