Click name to see page Return to Biological Sciences Biosciences Faculty Armbruster, Jonathan Barbaree, James Best, Troy L. Bowling, Scott A. Boyd, Robert Bradley, James T. Brown, Alfred Chadwick, Nanette E. Cobine, Paul Dobson, F. Stephen Dute, Roland Feminella, Jack W. Fielman, Kevin Folkerts, Debbie R. Folkerts, George W. Goertzen, Leslie Guyer, Craig Halanych, Ken Henry, Raymond P. Hill, Geoffrey E. Hood, Wendy R. Jacobsen, Shawn Kearley, Matthew Kempf, Stephen C. Liles, Mark R. Lishak, Robert S. Locy, Bob McVay, Catherine Mendonca, Mary T. Miller, Michael E. Moss, Anthony G. Person, Davonya Rashotte, Aaron Roberts, Sharon Santos, Scott R. Silo-Suh, Laura Singh, Narendra Suh, Sang-Jin Sundermann, Christine A. Wit, Lawrence C. Wooten, Marie W. Wooten, Michael C. Wysocka-Diller, Joanna

Sharon Roberts Ph.D., Associate Professor
Undergraduate Program Officer 
Faculty Fellow Assoc. Director, Biggio Center

Education
Ph.D. Microbiology, University of California, Davis
M.P.H. Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles
B. A. Biology, University of California, San Diego

Research & Teaching Interests
My research interests are focused on host-parasite relationships and all of the research projects in my laboratory address these interactions, although in different systems and at different levels. Our research is interdisciplinary and involves microbiology, molecular biology and epidemiology.

Recent Publications
Klenk, K. and Roberts, S. R. Use of a vesicular stomatis virus complementation system to analyze respiratory syncytial binding. Submitted. Virus Research.

Farmer, K. R., Hill, G. E., and Roberts, S. R. 2002. Susceptibility of a naive population of house finches to Mycoplasma gallisepticum. J. Wildlife Dis. 38:261-265.

Roberts, S. R., Nolan, P. M., Hill, G. E., 2001. Characterization of Mycoplasma gallisepticum infection in captive house finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) in 1998. Avian Dis. 45:70-75.

Roberts, S. R., Nolan, P. M., Lauerman, L. H., Li, L.-Q. and Hill, G. E. 2001. Characterization of the mycoplasmal conjunctivitis epidemic in a southeastern house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) population. J. Wildlife Dis. 37:82-88.

Nolan, P. M., Duckworth, R. A., Hill, G. E. and Roberts, S. R. 2000. Maintenance of a captive flock of house finches free of infection by Mycoplasma gallisepticum. Avian Dis. 44:948-952.
 

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