Cindy Fuller-Schaefer

Post Doctoral Research Associate
Phone: 406.433.2020
Fax: 406.433.5038
E-mail: cfuller@sidney.ars.usda.gov

EDUCATION
 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2004-present.  United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory. Investigating colonization of sugarbeet roots by entomopathogenic fungi transformed with green fluorescent protein, and interactions between biocontrol fungi and bacteria isolated from the rhizosphere of sugar beets (laboratory of Stefan Jaronski). 

1996-2004.  University of Virginia, Department of Microbiology, Charlottesville, VA.  Ph.D. Candidate.  Independently researched the role of BtuB loop regions in ligand binding (laboratory of Robert J. Kadner).

1993-1996.  University of Calgary Health Sciences Center, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.  M.Sc. Candidate. Independently investigated interactions between the Neisseria meningitidis outer membrane lipoprotein, TbpB and host Tf (laboratory of Anthony B. Schryvers). 

1990-1993.  Louisiana State University Medical Center-Shreveport, Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Division.  Research Associate.  Ordered supplies and equipment, organized and maintained laboratory. Developed a database for laboratory strains and chemicals, and a spreadsheet for laboratory expenses.   Under the direction of Dr. G. Douglas Campbell, Jr., investigated Moraxella catarrhalis iron utilization and iron-regulated outer membrane proteins and toxins.

1989-1990.  Mississippi State University, Biology Department.  Undergraduate and graduate student.  Under the direction of Dr. Franklin R. Champlin, developed and employed a protocol for the determination of the fatty acid ester composition of the major phospholipids from the cell envelopes of Pasteurella multocida and Actinobacillus lignieresii strains.

PUBLICATIONS

• Fuller-Schaefer, C.A. and R.J. Kadner.  2005.  Multiple extracellular loops contribute to substrate binding and transport by the Escherichia coli cobalamin transporter BtuB.  Journal of Bacteriology, 187(5):1732-1739. 

• Fuller, C.A., R. Yu, S.W. Irwin, and A.B. Schryvers.  1998. Biochemical evidence for a conserved interaction between transferrin binding protein A and transferrin binding protein B.  Microbial Pathogenesis.  24:75-87.

• Fuller, Cynthia A., P.J. Brignac, and F.R. Champlin.  1993.  Phospholipid fatty acid ester composition of Pasteurella multocida and Actinobacillus lignieresii.  Current Microbiol. 27:237-240.

ABSTRACTS

• Kerstin Jung, Cindy Fuller-Schaefer, Ben Larson and Stefan T. Jaronski.  Observations on the interaction between biocontrol fungi, Metarhizium and Beauveria, and bacteria isolated from the rhizosphere of sugar beets.  2005.  To be presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology August 7-11, 2005. 

• Cindy Fuller-Schaefer, Kerstin Jung, and Stefan Jaronski.  Colonization of sugarbeet roots by entomopathogenic fungi.  2005.  To be presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology August 7-11, 2005. 

• Fuller, C.A. and R.J. Kadner.  Characterization of Ligand Binding by the E. coli outer membrane protein BtuB.  2000.  University of Virginia Department of Microbiology Retreat.

• Fuller, C.A. Analysis of selected mutants of the Escherichia coli outer membrane protein BtuB.  1998.  University of Virginia, Research in Infectious Diseases Symposium.

• Fuller, C.A. TonB-Dependent Vitamin B₁₂  Transport by the Escherichia coli Outer Membrane Protein  BtuB.  1997.  University of Virginia, Research in Infectious Diseases Symposium.

• Fuller, C.A., R. Yu, M.D. Retzer, and A.B. Schryvers.  Evidence for a Bi-lobed Structure for Neisseria meningitidis Transferrin Binding Protein B.  1996.  UA/UC Conference on Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

• Irwin, S.W., C.A. Fuller, G.C. Gonzalez, R.H. Yu and A.B. Schryvers.  Identification of transferrin binding regions of the Neisseria meningitidis transferrin receptor proteins by the use of chimeric transferrin binding proteins.  1994.  UA/UC Conference on Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

• Fuller, C.A., P.J. Brignac, and F.R. Champlin.  1991.  Phospholipid fatty acid ester composition of hydrophilic and hydrophobic Pasteurella multocida variants.  Presented at the 91^st General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.