Curriculum Vitae
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Microbial Ecology and Evolution, Microbiogeology, Molecular Genetic Techniques, Astrobiology
HIGHER EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, Major in Biology, Minor in Chemistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1999
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Graduate Research Assistant, Michigan State University, Crop and Soil Sciences Department, 2003/4, 2006 – present
Research: Evolutionary adaptations of the bacterium Escherichia coli to stressors (2006 – present)
Research: Molecular genetics of the psychrophilic bacterium Psychrobacter arcticus (2003 and 2004)
Graduate Research Assistant, Arizona State University, Microbiology Program, 2000 – 2003
Research: Cyanobacterial ecology and microbiogeology of modern microbialites
Research Associate, Michigan State University, Center for Microbial Ecology, 1999 and 2000
Research: Bacterial ecology and microbiogeology of continental deep subsurface rocks
Laboratory Technician, University of Louisville, Biology Department, 1996 – 1999
Responsibilities: Collected and processed aquatic algal samples for analyses and performed field experiments
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Michigan State University, Biological Sciences Program, Spring 2008
Course: Honors Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Summer 2003
Course: Microbial Diversity
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Arizona State University, Microbiology Program, 2000 – 2003
Course: Techniques in Molecular Biology Laboratory (x 2)
Course: Science Service Learning, Microbiology Focus
PUBLIC OUTREACH
Teaching Assistant: The Unseen Microbial World, Michigan State University, “Grandparents University”, June 25 and 27, 2008
Guide: Geomicrobiology Research at Arizona State University, Spring 2002
Representative: Astrobiology Program, Arizona State University, “See ASU”, March 29 and 30, 2002
Representative: Geomicrobiology Laboratory, Arizona State University, “Astrobiology Day”, September 26, 2000
VOLUNTEER SERVICE
Volunteer Sample Collector, Kentucky Watershed Watch, 1998 and 1999
Service: Obtained aquatic samples throughout the year for environmental monitoring of streams in Kentucky
PUBLICATIONS
Elser, J. J., J. H. Schampel, F. Garcia-Pichel, B. D. Wade, V. Souza, L. Eguiarte, A. Escalante, J. D. Farmer. 2005. Effects of phosphorus enrichment and grazing snails on modern stromatolitic microbial communities. Freshwater Biology 50: 1808 – 1825.
Carson, E., T. Dowling, L. E. Eguiarte, J. Elser, A. Escalante, J. Farmer, F. Garcia-Pichel, P. Roopnarine, V. Souza, C. Tang, B. Wade. 2004. Cuatro Ciénegas: A living lab for the study of present and past biospheres. In Under the Desert: The Mysterious Waters of Cuatro Ciénegas, edited by G. Badino, T. Bernabei, A. De Vivo, I. Giulivo, G. Savino, published by Edizioni Tintoretto, Italy, 88 – 95.
Garcia-Pichel, F., F. A. Al-Horani, J. D. Farmer, R. Ludwig, B. D. Wade. 2004. Balance between microbial calcification and metazoan bioerosion in modern stromatolitic oncolites. Geobiology 2: 49 – 57.
Wade, B. D., F. Garcia-Pichel. 2003. Evaluation of DNA extraction methods for molecular analyses of microbial communities in modern calcareous microbialites. Geomicrobiology Journal 20: 549 – 561.
Garcia-Pichel, F., B. D. Wade, J. D. Farmer. 2002. Jet-suspended, calcite-ballasted cyanobacterial waterwarts in a desert spring. Journal of Phycology 38: 420 – 428.
Wade, B. D., F. H. Crocker, M. S. Roberts, F. J. de Bruijn, T. L. Marsh. Stratal interfaces as astrobiological targets: An example from shale and sandstone strata deep beneath the southeastern San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico, USA. Writing manuscript for Geochemical Transactions.
Wade, B. D., M. J. Rothrock Jr. Halothece ribotypes dominate the cyanobacterial community of gypsiferous endoevaporites at multiple locales. Writing manuscript for Saline Systems.
CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
Wade, B. D., F. Garcia-Pichel. 2003. Evaluation of DNA extraction methods for molecular analyses of microbial communities in modern calcareous microbialites. Aquatic Sciences Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. Book of Abstracts, p. 134 (# 204).
Wade, B. D., F. Garcia-Pichel. 2003. A molecular analysis of calcifying cyanobacteria that build dendroidal oncolites in the Mezquites River of the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin. General Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Tempe, Arizona, USA. Book of Abstracts, p. 230 (# 12993).
Wade, B. D., M. J. Rothrock Jr., F. Garcia-Pichel. 2003. A comparison of 16S rDNA sequences from cyanobacteria that build thalassic teepees and athalassic mats in evaporitic, gypsiferous environments. General Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Tempe, Arizona, USA. Book of Abstracts, p. 356 (# 12994).
Farmer, J. D., B. D. Wade, F. Garcia-Pichel, V. Routt. 2003. Morphogenesis, microbial fossilization processes and biomolecular community analysis of modern carbonate oncolites, Mezquites River, Cuatro Ciénegas, Mexico. General Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Tempe, Arizona, USA. Book of Abstracts, p. 537 (# 13006).
Elser, J. J., J. H. Schampel, J. Watts, F. Garcia-Pichel, B. D. Wade, J. D. Farmer, V. Souza, L. E. Eguiarte. 2003. Effects of grazers and PO4 enrichment on biomass, C:N:P stoichiometry and microbial community structure of oncoid stromatolites at Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila, Mexico. General Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Tempe, Arizona, USA. Book of Abstracts, p. 213 (# 12864).
Garcia-Pichel, F., F. Al-Horani, R. Ludwig, B. D. Wade. 2003. Direct assessment of calcification rates in modern stromatolitic oncolites. General Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Tempe, Arizona, USA. Book of Abstracts, p. 536 (# 13000).
Rothrock Jr., M. J., B. D. Wade, F. Garcia-Pichel. 2002. Molecular analysis of cyanobacteria-dominated evaporitic gypsum teepees. General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Final Program, p. 108 (# N-109).
Current as of December 2008