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I am an instructor in subjects of Microbiology, Immunology, Computational Biology, and Infectious Disease. Teach courses to majors and non-majors at the undergraduate and graduate levels. I focus primarily on medical implications of Microbiology, and the bacteria, viruses, and other microbes of medical significance, with special emphasis on the social, technological, and environmental factors influencing the spread of disease. I have developed several new lecture or laboratory courses, including a Liberal Arts laboratory course titled “The Black Death Laboratory (His189L)” that explores the social, historical, and biological features of the Bubonic Plague in Medieval Europe and what it can tell us about fear and disease transmission in the modern world, with a special focus on current disease events like COVID-19. I am also interested in the Health Humanities and am an active participant in research and teaching related to this field.

• PhD, Microbiology and Immunology (subject area: Bacterial Pathogenesis), University at Buffalo, 2009
• BS, Biotechnology, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2003 

• Biology and Mathematics Faculty of the Year Award for the 2015-2016 Academic Year
• Lambda Sigma “Faculty of the Month Award” September 2016
• Lambda Sigma “Faculty of the Month Award” September 2015 

I am interested in bacterial pathogenesis and bacterial genomics. I am very interested in sequencing the genomes of the bacteria that inhabit spaces with humans and investigating the changes in microbial populations that may result from human activity.

• Davie, J. “Enterobacteriaceae.” AccessScience, McGraw Hill, Aug. 2023.https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.234353. https://www.accessscience.com/content/article/a234353
• Davie, J. “Quorum sensing.” AccessScience, McGraw Hill, July 2023. https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.565253. https://www.accessscience.com/content/article/a565253
• Davie, J. “Antiviral agent.” AccessScience, McGraw Hill, June 2023. https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.042153. https://www.accessscience.com/content/article/a042153
• Davie, J. “Antifungal agent.” AccessScience, McGraw Hill, June 2023. https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.040553. https://www.accessscience.com/content/article/a040553
• Davie, J. “Antimicrobial agents.” AccessScience, McGraw Hill, June 2023. https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.041100. https://www.accessscience.com/content/article/a041100
• Davie, J. “Systems biology.” AccessScience, McGraw Hill, Feb. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.675850. https://www.accessscience.com/content/article/a675850
• Davie, J.J. Evaluation of the HyFlex, Hybrid, and Asynchronous Online Teaching Modalities on 
• Student Learning in Graduate Microbiology Coursework. The FASEB Journal, Vol. 36, Issue S1, May 2022  https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.2022.36.S1.R6050
• Davie, J.J. Development and Initial Characterization of a Staphylococcus Collection Obtained from Healthy Student Volunteers. Athens Journal of Sciences. vol. 4, issue 4, December 2017, pp. 283-300.  DOI:10.30958/ajs.4-4-2
• Davie, J.J, and Faitar, S. L. The Identification of Protein Domains that Mediate Functional Interactions between Rab GTPases and Rab GAPs Using 3-D Protein Modeling. 2017:10. Applications and Advances in Bioinformatics and Chemistry.  DOI: 10.2147/AABC.S121245