Faculty Profile

Michaela Gazdik

Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology
School of Natural Science and Mathematics

BS, Rutgers University
MS, State University of New York at Albany
PhD, State University of New York at Albany

Email: mgazdik@ferrum.edu
Office phone: (540) 365-4369
Personal web page: http://www2.ferrum.edu/mgazdik
Office: Garber 226
Teaching at Ferrum since: 2007

Courses taught:

• BIO 101 General Biology 1
• BIO 303 Microbiology
• BIO 305 Introductory Genetics
• LCS 307 Junior Seminar
• SCI 128 Healthy Human Body
• SCI 129 Diseased Human Body

Publications:

• Gazdik MA, Bai G, Wu Y, McDonough KA. 2008. Rv1675c regulates intramacrophage and cAMP-induced gene expression in Mycobacterium tuberculosis-complex mycobacteria. Molecular Microbiology In Review


• Bai G, Gazdik MA, Schaak DD, McDonough KA. 2007 The Mycobacterium bovis BCG cyclic AMP receptor-like protein is a functional DNA binding protein in vitro and in vivo, but its activity differs from that of its M. tuberculosis ortholog, Rv3676. Infect. Immun. 75(11):5509-17


• Gazdik, MA. McDonough, KA. 2005 Identification of cyclic AMP-regulated genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex bacteria under low-oxygen conditions. J Bacteriol 187(8):2681-92

Research:

• Bacterial gene expression and pathogenesis
• cAMP regulation in mycobacterial species

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