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Vibrio vulnificus |
CURRICULUM VITAE
James D. Oliver
Professor of Biology
Bonnie E. Cone
Distinguished Professor of Teaching
EDUCATION:
Georgetown University (Dept. Biology)
1969-73
Ph.D.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE:
University Ottawa, Canada
(Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. Biochemistry) 1973-74
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Assistant Professor 1974-80
Associate Professor
1980-84
Professor
1984-
Director, Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Program
1986-2003
Member, Program Faculty, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Biology
1998-
Graduate Faculty,
Nanoscale Science Ph.D. Program
2007-
Faculty, Center for
Applied Counterterrorism Studies
2009-
University of Göteborg, Sweden
Visiting
Professor (Sabbatical)
1990
Duke University Marine Laboratory
Visiting
Professor
1991, 1992
North Carolina State University
Visiting
Professor
1994, 1995, 1996
Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Visiting
Professor
1998
National University of Ireland, Galway
Visiting
Professor
2006
University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Visiting
Professor
2008
NATIONAL SERVICE:
Special Advisor to the Chairman, Vibrio
vulnificus Committee,
Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Commission
1995
National Science Foundation Policy Working Group on Microbial Genomics
2000
National Marine Pathogen Plan Workshop
2000
Standard Methods Committee, American Water Works Association
2000-
Consultant to US
Government Accounting Office – evaluation of FDA and
ISSC performance on reducing illness and death from
Vibrio vulnificus.
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE:
Member, Editorial Board, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
1988-91, 1991-93
Member, Working Party on Culture Media, International Committee on Food
Microbiology and
Hygiene, International Union of Microbiological Sciences.
2000-
Consultant, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations World Health
Organization;
Risk Assessment of Vibrio vulnificus
in Raw Oysters.
2004
Member, Editorial Board, FEMS Microbiology Ecology.
2005-2010
Member, Editorial Board, Advanced Studies in Biology. 2009-
Invited
participant, Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Risk Assessment Tools
for Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio vulnificus
Associated With
Seafoods.
Rome,
Italy.
2010
Steering Committee Member, Program Chairman, and Co-Chair, “Vibrios in the
Environment 2010” Biloxi, MS. 2010
Member, Editorial Board, Pathogens
2011-
HONORS AND AWARDS
Georgetown University Predoctoral Fellowship,
1969-1972.
National Research Council (Canada) Postdoctoral Fellowship,
1973-1974.
National Academy of Sciences Exchange Scientist (Romania),
1982.
First Citizens Bank Scholar Award for Excellence in Research.
1988.
Elected to Fellowship,
American Academy of Microbiology,
1990.
Elected to Phi Kappa Phi.
1991.
Recipient, Cone Distinguished Professorship for Teaching,
1998
Burrows Welcome Fund Visiting Professor in the Microbiological Sciences, 1999
Elected a fellow, Phi Beta Delta, Honorary Society for International Scholars,
1999
Harshini V. de Silva Graduate Student Mentoring Award,
2002
First “Jay and Beverly Grimes Distinguished Lecturer”, Gulf Coast
Research Lab, Univ.
PUBLICATIONS:
See “Dr. Oliver Vibrio vulnificus Publications”
REVIEWING
ACTIVITIES:
Reviewer for the
following national and international journals:
a. Estuaries
b. Canadian Journal of
Microbiology
c. Infection and Immunity
d. Journal of Infectious
Diseases
e. Science
f. Journal of Clinical
Microbiology
g. Journal of Food Protection
h. Marine Technology Society
Journal
i. Aquatic Toxicology
j. Marine Mammal
Science
k. Applied and Environmental
Microbiology
l. Microbial Ecology
m. FEMS Microbiology Ecology
n. Journal of Food Safety
o. World Journal of
Microbiology and Biotechnology
p. Microbiology
q. Food Microbiology
r. Journal of Bacteriology
s. Systematic and Applied
Microbiology
t. Archives of
Microbiology
u. Gene
v. Microbial Pathogenesis
w. Life Sciences
x. The Lancet
y. Environmental Microbiology
z. Biofilms
aa. Veterinary Research
bb. Journal of Microbiological Methods
cc. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences (USA)
dd. Iranian Journal of Science & Technology
ee. Aquaculture
ff. Trends in Microbiology
gg. Nature Reviews Microbiology
hh. Food Control
ii.
Foodborne Pathogens and Disease
jj. Revista Latinoamericana
de Microbiology (J. Microbiology)
kk. Applied Microbiology
ll. Journal of Biological Chemistry
mm. Reviews
in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology
nn. Environmental Microbiology
oo. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
pp. Medical Science Monitor
qq. Journal of Applied Microbiology
rr.
Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B
Reviewer for the
following funding organizations:
a. University of Virginia Sea
Grant Program
b. University of Washington
Sea Grant Program
c. Louisiana State University
Sea Grant Program
d. National Sea Grant College
Program (NOAA)
e. National Science
Foundation (Biological Oceanography)
f. Maine Agricultural
Experiment Station
g. Marine Biomedical Center,
Duke University Marine Laboratory.
h. National Research Council
(Army Basic Scientific Research)
i. National Science
Foundations (Oceanographic Sciences)
j. North Carolina
United Way
k. North Carolina
Biotechnology Center
l. Texas A&M Sea Grant
Program
m. North Carolina Technological Development Authority
n. University of Rhode Island
Sea Grant Program.
o. Saltonstall-Kennedy Grants
Program (NOAA)
p. U.S. Department of Energy
q. National Coastal Resources
Research & Development Inst.
r. University of
Florida Sea Grant Program
s. The National Undersea
Research Center
t. The Israel Science
Foundation
u. University of Delaware Sea
Grant Program
v. Mississippi-Alabama Sea
Grant Program
w. University of Washington
Sea Grant Program
x. State of North Carolina, Dept. Environmental Health and Natural Resources,
Division of Marine Fisheries
y. University of Hawaii Sea
Grant Program
z. University of Wisconsin
Sea Grant Program
aa. National Research Program for Genomic Medicine, Taiwan, China
bb. Science Foundation Ireland
cc. National Institutes of Health
dd. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
INVITED SEMINARS
Barbara Scotia College, Department of Biology
Wake Forest University, Department of Biology (x3)
Appalachian
State University, Department of Biology
Dow Chemical Co., Michigan (x3)
University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Dept. Biology (x3)
Johnson C. Smith University, Department of Biology
Texas A & M University, Department of Oceanography
University of Maryland, Department of Microbiology
North Carolina State University, Department of Food Science
Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Dept. of Marine Biology
Eli Lilly and Co., Lilly Research Laboratories
Duke University Marine Laboratory (x5)
University of Göteborg (Sweden), Dept. General and Marine Microbiology
University of Stockholm (Sweden), Dept. Zoology
University of Umeå (Sweden), Dept. Applied Molecular Biology
University of Göteborg (Sweden), Dept. Medical Microbiology
Lund University (Sweden), Dept. Medical Microbiology
Technical University of Denmark (Copenhagen), Dept. of Microbiology
Serum Institute of Denmark
University of Aberdeen, Marischal College, Dept. Molecular and Cell
Biology
University of Aberdeen, Kings College, Dept. Medical Microbiology
Winthrop University, Dept. Biology
University of South Florida, Tampa, Dept. Biology
University of Alabama, Birmingham, Dept. Microbiology
North Carolina State University, Dept. Microbiology
University of Hawaii, Dept. Microbiology
Louisiana State University, Dept. Microbiology (Distinguished Lecture
Series)
University of Stockholm, Dept. Biochemistry
Royal Veterinary and Agriculture University, Copenhagen, Dept. Veterinary
Microbiology
Institute of Virology and Environmental Research, Oxford, England
Royal Veterinary and Agriculture University, Copenhagen, Dept. Ecology and
Molecular
Biology (1998)
Appalachian State University, Dept. Biology (1998)
Michigan State University, Dept. Microbiology (1999)
California State University Fullerton, Dept. Biological Sciences (2000)
Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
(2000)
University of Arizona, Dept. Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences
(2000)
Marine Resources Research Institute, S.C. Department of Natural Resources
(2000)
Marine Sciences Center, UNC Wilmington (2001)
North Carolina A&T University, Dept. Biology (2001)
North Carolina State University Department of Food Science (2002)
University of Maryland Medical School, Dept. Microbiology and Immunology
(2003)
Institute of Marine Sciences, Univ. North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2004)
Florida Atlantic University, Dept. Biological Sciences (2005)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Dept. Microbiology (2005)
Western Carolina University, Dept. Biology (2005)
National University of Galway, Dept.
Microbiology (2006)
Savannah River Ecology Lab (2006)
University of Southern Mississippi (2007;
Grimes Distinguished Lecture Series speaker)
FDA Gulf Coast Seafood Lab, Dauphin Island, AL
University of Genova, Dept. Biology (2008)
University of Verona, Dept. Microbiology (2008)
University of Valencia, Dept. Microbiology (2008)
IRTA (Catelonian Research Institution for Aquaculture), Amposta, Spain
(2008)
Centre
for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Weymouth, England (2008)
University of Aberdeen, Dept. Plant and Soil Sciences (2008)
University of Umeå, Sweden (2010)
University of Palermo, Sicily, Italy, Dept. Microbiology and Virology
(2010)
University of Delaware, Dept. Microbiology (2010)
Baxter Healthcare, Chicago (2010)
University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Marine Sciences (2011)
Georgia State University, Dept. Biology (2011)
INVITED
PRESENTATIONS, National/International Conferences (Recent only listed)
International Meeting of the Microbiological Society of Korea.
Invited guest speaker. “Recent studies on the human pathogen,
Vibrio vulnificus”. Kangwon-do, Korea.
2005.
European Union-funded guest lecturer, Dept. Food Microbiology, University of
Foggia, Italy. 2005.
Invited speaker, 1st International Conference on the Biology of
Vibrios. “Recent findings on the
Vibrio vulnificus genome, and on
in situ gene expression”. Ghent,
Belgium. November, 2005.
Invited speaker, 11th Western Pacific Congress on Chemotherapy and
Infectious Diseases. “Genetic and microbiological analysis of clinical and
environmental Vibrio vulnificus
strains”. Taipei, Taiwan. Nov-Dec. 2008.
Invited speaker, Oceans and Human Health Initiative Conference. “Ecology and
Virulence of Two Vibrio vulnificus
Genotypes”. Seattle, WA. Oct. 2009.
Invited panel
member,
Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Risk Assessment Tools
for Vibrio parahaemolyticus and
Vibrio vulnificus Associated With Seafoods.
“Genotypes of
Vibrio vulnificus and their Isolation”. Rome, Italy. 2010.
Co-chair (Ecology Session) and invited speaker, Vibrios in the Environment 2010.
“Ecology and in situ gene expression of the two V. vulnificus
genotypes. Biloxi, MS. November, 2010.
Invited speaker and
co-chair (Ecology Session), 4th International Conference on the
Biology of Vibrios. “High Salinity Drought Conditions Resulted in Loss of
Vibrio vulnificus from North Carolina Waters and Oysters”. B.
Froelich, T. Williams, R. Noble, and J.D. Oliver. Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
November, 2011.