NEWS AND ACTIVITIES
Samples of Student Undergraduate Research and Activities
Casey Chitwood & David Zimmerman. 2015. Synthetic regulation of the Lac-Operon through addition of DNA vectors in Escherichia coli.
Tia Wilson & J.H. Rettig. 2015. White-tailed deer native twig browse & percent area browsed.
Eddie Sterling & Robert Snyder. 2015. Analysis of brown trout (Salmo trutta) otoliths.
Daniel Mallette, Doug Mitchell & Robert Snyder. 2014 Missouri Natural Resources Conference. The use of game cameras to estimate white-tailed deer populations.
Title: Professor of Biology & The Henry Robert Herold Chair of Biological Science
Email: dzimmerman@cofo.edu
Teaching Focus: Fundamentals of Cell Biology and Genetics (BIO233), Microbiology (BIO304), Cell and Molecular Biology (BIO384) and Genetics and Genomics (BIO444), and Introduction to Human Biology (BIO 1004) and Medical Microbiology (BIO214)
Education: A.S., Lincoln Land Community College, 1997; B.S., University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign, 1999; Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign, 2012; Postdoc., University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign, 2013
Dr. Zimmerman joined the faculty at College of the Ozarks in 2013. He serves as an academic advisor for Human and Molecular Biology majors and the Physician’s Assistant Pre-Professional Program and is co-sponsor of the Pre-Medicine Club. Dr. Zimmerman is interested in mechanisms of gene regulation and the application of new techniques in gene editing.He has previously overseen Senior Thesis (BIO462) research projects involving synthetic biology systems to study the effects of cis-element copy number and location on reporter gene expression, and the expression of clinically relevant transgenes in probiotics using drug-free selection systems. He is currently investigating the ability of a CRISPR-Cas9 base editor to modify disease associated SNPs in mammalian tissue culture.
Title: Assistant Professor of Biology and Conservation & Wildlife Management
Email: aExendine@cofo.edu
Teaching Focus: Ecology and Conservation Communication
Education: B.S., Missouri State University, 2009; M.S., Missouri State University, 2012; Ed.D., Liberty University, 2026
Professor Exendine joined College of the Ozarks in 2022 and teaches a variety of courses in biology, ecology, and conservation communication.
Title: Assistant Professor of Biology
Email: eshuford@cofo.edu
Education: DDS, Central University of Venezuela School of Dentistry, 2000; Diploma, Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, 2002; MASLA, Missouri State University, 2018
Biography is forthcoming.