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Presenter:
Dr. Amy Reese
Associate Professor of Microbiology, Basic Sciences Department, University of Health Sciences & Pharmacy in St. Louis
Biosketch:
Amy Reese, Ph.D., is an associate professor of microbiology at the University of Health Sciences & Pharmacy in St. Louis, Missouri, where she teaches Microbiology, Biology I, and Science, Ethics, and Society. She also leads a research team of undergraduate and pharmacy students in studying fungi that cause disease, including encapsulated yeast that cause disease in human, and a mold species that causes disease in snakes.
Reese's undergraduate degrees were in chemistry and music at The College of Wooster, in Wooster, Ohio. She obtained her Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of Minnesota. It was during her postdoctoral work at Washington University School of Medicine that she found microbiology and fell in love with studying microbes. She taught microbiology and related courses at Cedar Crest College, in Allentown, Pennsylvania for 11 years before joining UHSP in 2015. In 2018, she had the opportunity to participate in 100 plus hours of training to become a certified diversity facilitrainer CDFT™ through NCCJ St. Louis and since then has been working to make her teaching, institution and science community more welcoming and inclusive. Her scholarly activity in this area has earned national recognition and she is excited to share some of the topics and work with you here today.