Dr. Shira Rabin — Department of Biology

Dr. Shira Rabin

Associate Professor

Department of Biology

University of Louisville

Louisville, KY 40292

Office: (502) 852-7218

My primary role in the department is as an instructor, mostly in the undergraduate core classes. My teaching and research interests are in the fields of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pedagogy.>

TEACHING

I teach Introductory Biology for majors (Biol 240) and non-majors (Biol 102), Microbiology lecture and lab for non-majors/pre-nursing students (Biol 257/258), and Immunology (Biol 480).

RESEARCH

I am collaborating with professors in the Department of English and the College of Education as well as teachers at Marion C. Moore Middle School to help 6^th -8 ^th grade students from around the world develop a greater understanding of the local and global impacts of climate change. This investigation includes but goes beyond conventional data to includethe physical, economic, social, cultural, and political impacts of climate change. As part of this project, we host a Day of Science at University of Louisville each winter with graduate students and faculty from the departments of Biology, Geography & Geosciences, and Sociology.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

2005 – 2009: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Periodontics, Endodontics & Dental Hygiene, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY; Dr. Donald Demuth (mentor)

1999 - 2005: Ph.D. in Microbiology & Immunology; Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; Dr. Alan Hauser (mentor)

1995 - 1999: B.A. in Biology; Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa