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Academic Degrees |
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BSc: Illinois State
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Areas of Involvement | ||
Teaching | ||
Advanced Topics in
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Administration | ||
Adjunct Selection Committee |
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Professional Activities | ||
International Organization for Mycoplasmology |
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Current Research Interests |
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Current research is directed to an understanding of the mycoplasmas, small bacteria lacking a cell wall and representing the smallest free-living life form. I am studying the phylogeny of several of these organisms, as represented in 16S rRNA sequence comparisons. We are also determining a relatively high resolution physical/genetic map of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, a pathogen of swine, to compare that of M. flocculare, a closely related but nonpathogenic species. | ||
Selected Publications | ||
W. Blank and GW Stemke. A physical and genetic map of the Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae strain J genome. Can. J. Microb. accepted for publication 2000. WA Blank, BZ Erickson and GW Stemke. Phylogenetic relationships of the porcine mcyoplasmas Mycoplasma hyosynoviae and Mycoplasma hyopharyngis. Intl. J. Ststem. Bacteiol. 46(1996): 1181-1182. GW Stemke. Uraplasma gallorale, an isolate from chickens, is most closely related to the human isolate, U. urealyticum. Intl. J. System. Bacteriol. 46 (1996): 1183-1184.
RF Ross and GW Stemke. Mycoplasma infections of swine. In Molecular and Diagnostic Procedures in Mycoplasmology, 275-281. Editors J. Tully and S. Razin. 2. : Academic Press, Accepted for publication 1995. JA Robertson, A. Vekris, C. Bebear and GW Stemke. Polymerase chain reaction using 16S rRNA gene sequences distinguishes the two biovars of Ureaplasma urealyticum. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 31, no. 4 (1993): 824-830. |