EDUCATION:

Degree: 1998

Degree: 1994

Degree: 1991

Degree: 1986

Degree: 1980

As of 1/2005, investigates food borne outbreaks on a countywide basis, supervises the collection of case histories and statistically analyses the results using epidemiological software for the Bureau of Public Health Protection.

Investigations and inspections are conducted of plants and facilities, housing, food service establishments other sites of potential health or environmental problems for compliance with standards of operation and sanitary procedures under the Bureau of Public Health Protection. Educates staff to compliance deficiencies, or issues notices of non-compliance and designates a period of time for correction of any offenses or deficiencies.

Inspects restaurants and temporary residences under construction to determine if the premises are being constructed in accordance with approved plans. Performs investigations of reported food borne illnesses, including the preparation of a Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point report, records for evaluation and correction food handling practices of the premises, and prepares a report of findings for use by superiors. Recommends to superiors cases where an administrative hearing or legal action may be necessary in order to obtain compliance, and may prepare the documents necessary for the hearing.

Participates on field monitory teams of the Nuclear Disaster Emergency Radiological Response Team to ensure the safety of the public in the case of a nuclear accident by physically tracking and monitoring the release of radioactivity in the field and reporting first hand to the command center. Communicates with the general public in various fields, including top management personnel, restaurant owners, landlords, tenants, homeowners, engineers, chefs, vendors, physicians and dentists. Traps, collects and identifies mosquito adults and larvae under the West Nile Virus Surveillance program.
 

Courses: Infectious Diseases (lecture and laboratory), Principles of Biochemistry, Biochemistry I, Techniques in Protein Biochemistry Laboratory, The Human Organism, Global Environmentalism, Research Seminar, Immunology, Microbiology (lecture and laboratory), Nutrition I, and Nutrition in Health and Disease. Supervision of student research.

This position was funded by a 3-year minority student improvement grant and was located at the Bronx Campus of Mercy College. Responsibilities included
management of the Science Resource and Computing Center, review and updating of materials therein, student advisement, recruitment of students, and the supervision of a half-time secretary, student workers, and tutors.

In two years the number of students enrolled in freshman biology major level courses at this campus increased from 4 in the first semester to over 50 in 1998, and student retention increased. Courses had been offered at this campus in previous years, but were often cancelled for a lack of enrollment. Speakers from various scientific fields were also obtained to speak at the Bronx Campus on an ongoing basis to provide the students with role models.

The following courses were taught: General Biology I & II,
Microbiology (Laboratory and Lecture), Introduction to Human
Biology, and Environmental Science.

Laboratory instructor for the following courses:
Microbiology, Pathogenic Microbiology, Animal Physiology,
Principles of Biology I & II, and General Biology.

Lecturer and laboratory instructor for a medically oriented
microbiology course for nursing and medical technology students.

Laboratory instructor for the following courses:
Microbiology, Immunology (graduate), Molecular Biology,
and Recombinant DNA Technology.

This joint project involved the isolation of marine fungi in search of
novel antibiotics.

Duties were to assist the target organ toxicity team (liver and kidney) in studies of damage that sometimes resulted in cancer.

Responsibilities were to design methods for isolation and the isolation of 3 variants of alpha-feto protein, radioimmunoassay of treated rat sera, handling and disposal of radioactive and carcinogenic materials, and library research for the use of the investigative team in experimental design

 

Duties were to compute and summarize data (on chip success and failure rates) in a statistical format that was internally published on both a monthly and year-to-date report. Other responsibilities included running diagnostic programs on computer chip designs in the process of miniaturization, collecting data from software analysis, and accessing and/or transmitting data to and from other IBM sites via computer.

October 2000 Women's Leadership Luncheon
Frankenfoods.

Tri-Beta Biological Student Honor Society
December 2000

J. A. Koskella, Ph.D., and H. A. Stuhl, Esq.
New York Institute of Legal Research Seminar

Biology Department Seminar Speaker
Western Connecticut State University

Larvicidal toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis subspp. kurstaki, morrisonis strain tenebrionis, and israelenis have no microbicidal or microbiostatic activity against selected bacteria, fungi, and algae In Vitro. Canadian J. Microbiology. 48:262-267.

Microbial Utilization of the free and clay-bound toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis and their retention of insecticidal activity after incubation with microbes.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology 63:3561-3568.

Parasporal toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis resist
biodegradation and retain insecticidal activity after exposure
to microorganisms when bound on pure and soil clays: a
potential environmental hazard. 7th International Symposium on
Microbial Ecology, Santos, Brazil, Section C4-5. Agricultural
Applications in microbial ecology. Oral presentation.

Toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis bound on clays
resist biodegradation and retain insecticidal activity
after exposure to microorganisms.

Abstracts of the 95th General Meeting of the American
Society for Microbiology, Session 70:Q43.

Resistance of the toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis to
biodegradation when bound on clay minerals.

Abstracts of the 94th General Meeting of the American
Society for Microbiology, Session 72:Q71.

Abstracts of the 93rd General Meeting of the American
Society for Microbiology, Session 337:Q419.

Abstracts of the 6th International Symposium on Microbial
Ecology, Barcelona, Spain, Session P2:06.

Presented to initiate research on an environmental reservoir of Helicobacter pylori, a causative agent of pyloric ulcers and a class A carcinogen. The sources of infection
and mode of transmission of this organism have not been identified. Preliminary investigations supported the hypothesis that was investigated.

Presented for outstanding service at the Bronx Campus of Mercy College.

Provided funds to travel to the 7th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology held in Santos, Brazil, for trips to the Itapanahau track (Devil's gravestone) in the Atlantic Forest in the State Park of Serra do Mar and to spend 4 days in Manaus to travel by boat on the Negro and Amazon Rivers to observe the biodiversity of the Atlantic- and Rain- forests. Short hikes were also taken in the forests along the rivers and visits made to local animal sanctuaries where animals had been recovered from poachers.

This scholarship provided tuition and board to attend a 6-week intensive course entitled
"Molecular Aspects of Microbial Diversity" at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, MA

Emergency Preparedness and Response and Use of Incident Command (2003)