Sasha Showsh

Education

• B.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison
• M.S. University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
• Ph.D. Iowa State University

Courses

• Biol 100 General Biology Laboratory
• Biol 250 Microbiology
• Biol 361 Biology of Microorganisms
• Biol 385 Undergraduate Seminar
• Biol 485 Issues in Biology

Research - Microbiology

• Antibiotic resistance by horizontal gene transfer
• Analysis of conjugative transposon Tn916.
• Analysis of various conjugative plasmids found in Enterococcus faecalis.
• Isolation and characterization of azo dye-degrading bacteria.
• Selected Publications:
  

  Krist A and SA Showsh. (2007). Experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. American Biology Teacher 69: 94-99.

  Klessig HT,  SA Showsh and A Sekorski. (2003). The Use of Intradiscal Antibiotics for Discography; an in vitro Study of Gentamicin, Cefazolin and Clindamycin. Spine 28: 1735-1738.

  Showsh SA, EH DeBoever and DB Clewell.  (2001).  A vancomycin-resistance plasmid in Enterococcus faecalis that encodes sensitivity to a sex pheromone also produced by Staphylococcus aureus.  Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 45: 2177–2178.