Biology and Marine Biology

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Ryan G. Rhodes

Department of Biology and Marine Biology Ph: (910) 962-2208

University of North Carolina Wilmington Fax: (910) 962-4066

601 South College Road [email protected]

Wilmington, NC 28403

EDUCATION

2009 Ph.D. Cell and Molecular Biology University of Rhode Island, Kingston,
RI
2000 M.S. Biology Edinboro University of PA, Edinboro,
PA
1997 B.S. Biology Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA

APPOINTMENTS

University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC
2013-Present Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Marine Biology

St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, NY
2011-2013 Assistant Professor. Department of Biology.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2008-2011 Postdoctoral Research Associate. Department of Biological Sciences.

PUBLICATIONS

Shrivastava, A., R.G. Rhodes, S. Pochiraju, D. Nakane and M.J. McBride. Flavobacterium

johnsoniae RemA is a mobile cell surface lectin involved in gliding. J Bacteriol. 2012.

194(14):3678-3688.

Rhodes R.G., J.A. Atoyan and D.R. Nelson (2012). Adaptation to glucosamine starvation in

Borrelia burgdorferi is mediated by recA. In Lyme Disease, Ali Karami (Ed.).

ISBN: 978-953-51-0057-7.

Rhodes, R.G., M.N. Samarasam, E.J. Van Groll and M.J. McBride. Mutations in

Flavobacterium johnsoniae sprE result in defects in gliding motility and protein secretion.

J Bacteriol. 2011. 193(19):5322-5327.

Rhodes, R.G., H.G. Pucker and M.J. McBride. Development and use of a gene deletion

strategy for Flavobacterium johnsoniae to identify the redundant gliding motility genes

remF, remG, remH and remI. J Bacteriol. 2011. 193(10):2418-2428.

Rhodes, R.G., S.S. Nelson, S. Pochiraju and M.J. McBride. Flavobacterium johsoniae sprB is

part of an operon spanning the additional gliding genes sprC, sprD, and sprF. J Bacteriol.

2011. 193(3):599-610.

Mamber, S.W., V. Gurel, R.G. Rhodes and J. McMichael. Effects of streptolysin O on

extracellular matrix gene expression in normal human epidermal keratinocytes. Dose

Response. 2011. 9(4):554-578.

Rhodes, R.G., J.A. Atoyan and D.R. Nelson. The chitobiose transporter, chbC, is required for

chitin utilization in Borrelia burgdorferi. BMC Microbiol. 2010. 10:21.