VCU Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Summer Institute
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Joe Moeller
  Home Institution
  Hiram College   (Hiram, OH)
  E-mail: MoellerJA (at) my.hiram.edu

  Home mentor
  Dr. Brad Goodner
  E-mail: GoodnerBW (at) Hiram.edu
  Affiliation: Biology, Hiram College
  Interests: Functional genomics
 

VCU Lab
Wood Building, Room 430
Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
Tel: 804-828-3897

VCU mentors
Dr. Ping Xu
Wood Building, Room 430
E-mail: pxu (at) VCU.edu

Dr. Todd Kitten
Wood Building, Room 407
E-mail: tkitten (at) VCU.edu
 

Summer 2007
Research Proposal

Reverse Vaccinology: Combating Endocarditis Caused by Streptococcus mutans
Research article, presented (10 July 2007)
Characterization and identification of vaccine candidate proteins through analysis of the group A Streptococcus surface proteome
Research presentation (8 August 2007)
5th Annual VCU-BBSI Closing Symposium
Streptococcus mutans UA159 Genome Analysis for the Prediction of Vaccine Candidates

Academic Year 2007-2008
Research Proposal

Creating a User Interface for Quick and Easy Protein Analysis

Summer 2008
Research Proposal

Purification of Vaccine Candidates Isolated from Streptococcus mutans
Research article, presented (13 June 2008)
Inactivation of a gene for a fibronectin-binding protein of the oral bacterium Streptococcus mutans partially impairs its adherence to fibronectin (Miller-Torbert, Sharma, & Holt, 2008)
Research article, presented (18 July 2008)
Killing of p53-deficient hepatoma cells by parvovirus H-1 and chemotherapeutics requires promyelocytic leukemia protein (Sieben et al., 2008)
Final BBSI Presentation (24 July 2008)
Purification of Vaccine Candidates from Streptococcus mutans UA159

Final BBSI Paper
Expression of Vaccine Candidates from Streptococcus mutans UA159 in E. coli BL21 Using IPTG-inducible Vectors

Prior research
- Functional genomics of Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58 and A. rhizogenes A4

- Metabolic Pathway Analysis of Azotobacter vinelandii

Characteristic interests and activities
- Hiking
- Biking
- Music (all types)
- Traveling
- Tennis
- Running
- Amusement/Theme Parks
- Professional Sporting Events
- Family and Friends

Related research articles
My Research Literature Review (In Progress)













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