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Research Interests: Bacterial endosymbionts of paramecia.
Professional Affiliation:
AAAS, Chair, Section Q: Education, 2009; Chair-Elect, 2008.
Project Kaleidoscope, Senior Fellow for Faculty Development Initiatives, 2007--present
Selected Publications:
Seifert, K., A. Fenster, J.A. Dilts, and L.M. Temple. 2009. An investigartive, cooperative learning approach to the general microbiology laboratory CBE Life Sci Educ 8:147-153.
Morrison, J.A., T.J. Allen, J.A. Dilts, and D.P. Heruth. 2009. Characterization of apoptotic mechansims involved in R body induced death in Paramecium tetraurelia. BIOS 80: 1-8.
Brakke, D.F., J. Dilts, S. Nadler and J. Narum. 2003. Building consensus and implementing a vision. The Department Chair 13: 26-27.
Smith, G. R., J. A. Dilts, P. W. Gabrielson, D. P. Heruth, J. E. Rettig, and A. F. Strautman. 1999. Using laptops in the biology classroom and laboratory. Bioscene 25:11-12.
Dilts, J. 1994. Mary Frances Lyon (1925- ) In: Louise S. Grinstein, Carol A. Biermann, and Rose K. Rose, editors: Women in the Biological Sciences. A Biobibliographic Sourcebook. Greenwood Press. Westport, Connecticut. 1997. 640 pages.
Heruth, D. P., F. R. Pond, J. A. Dilts, and R. L. Quackenbush. 1994. Characterization of the genetic determinants for R body synthesis and assembly Caedibacter taeniospiralis, strains 47 and 116. J. Bacteriol. 176:3559-3567.
Redshaw, P., and J. A. Dilts. 1991. Project Kaleidoscope: a report from biologists. CUR Newsletter XI(4):68-71.
Dilts, J. A. 1986. The importance of the refractile body in expression of the killer trait in Paramecium. In : R. B. Wickner et al. (eds.), Extrachromosomal Elements in Lower Eukaryotes. Plenum Press, New York, pp. 279-289.
Dilts, J. A., and R. L. Quackenbush. 1986. A mutation in the R body-coding sequence destroys expression of the killer trait in P. tetraurelia. Science 32:641-643.
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