CV-Jessica R. Sieber
EDUCATION

Ph.D., Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 2011   
B.S, Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 2004
    Minor, Chemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
    Minor, History of Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2011-Present
Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.

Research Assistant-2006-2011
Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Teaching Assistant-June 2009
United States-European Commission Task Force on Biotechnology Research
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Course:Theoretical and Practical Molecular Approaches for in situ Biodegradation

Teaching Assistant-2004-2006
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Courses: Fundamentals of Microbiology Fall 2004 and Fall 2005,
Microbial Physiology & Molecular Biology Laboratory Spring 2005 and Spring 2006

PUBLICATIONS

Sieber JR, Sims DR, Han C, Kim E, Lykidis A, Lapidus AL, McDonnald E, Rohlin L, Culley DE, Gunsalus RP, McInerney MJ. The genome of Syntrophomonas wolfei: new insights into syntrophic metabolism and biohydrogen production. Environ Microbiol. 12: 2289-2301.

McInerney MJ, Rohlin L, Mouttaki H, Kim U, Krupp RS, Rios-Hernandez L, Sieber JR, Struchtemeyer CG, Bhattacharyya A, Campbell JW, Gunsalus RP. 2007 The genome of Syntrophus aciditrophicus: life at the thermodynamic limit of microbial growth. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. May 1;104(18):7600-5.

REVIEWS

Sieber JR, McInerney MJ, Plugge CM, Schink B, Gunsalus RP. 2010 Methanogenesis: syntrophic metabolism. In Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology. Timmis, K.N. (ed): Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 337-355.

McInerney MJ, Sieber JR, Gunsalus RP. 2009 Syntrophy in Anaerobic Global Carbon Cycles. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 20:623-32.

McInerney MJ, Struchtemeyer CG, Sieber JR, Mouttaki H, Stams AJM, Schink B et al. (2008)    Physiology, ecology, phylogeny, and genomics of microorganisms capable of syntrophic metabolism. In Incredible Anaerobes From Physiology to Genomics to Fuels Wiegel, J., Maier, R.J., and Adams, M.W. (eds): Ann N Y Acad Sci, pp. 58-72.

IN PREP/SUBMISSION

Sieber JR, Crable BR, Shiek CS, Hurst GB, McInerney MJ. Proteomic analysis of the syntrophic, fatty acid-oxidizing organism, Syntrophomonas wolfei.

Sieber JR, McInerney MJ. Interspecies electron transfer during syntrophic fatty acid- and aromatic acid metabolism.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Sieber JR, Crable BR, Hurst GB, McInerney MJ. Proteomic analysis of the syntrophic, fatty acid-oxidizing organism, Syntrophomonas wolfei. 111th General Meeting of American Society for Microbiology, New Orleans, LA, May 2011

Sieber JR, Rohlin L, Gunsalus RP,  McInerney MJ. Interspecies electron transfer during syntrophic aromatic, alicyclic, fatty acid metabolism.110th General Meeting of American Society for Microbiology, San Diego, CA, May 2010
Sieber JR, Gunsalus RP, Rohlin L, McInerney MJ, Sims DR, Han C, Kim E, Lykidis A, Lapidus AL. Genomic Insights into Syntrophic Fatty Acid Metabolism: Electron Transfer Processes of Syntrophomonas wolfei. 108th General Meeting of American Society for Microbiology, Boston, MA, June 2008

Sieber JR, Struchtemeyer CG, Mouttaki HM, Rios-Hernandez L, Gunsalus R, Rohlin L, McInerney MJ. The Genome of Syntrophomonas wolfei. Incredible Anaerobes: From physiology to genomics to fuels. Athens, GA, March 2007

FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2010 Outstanding Graduate Student-Research Assistant, OU Graduate Student Senate
2010 George L. and Cleo Cross Graduate Student Endowed Scholarship, University of Oklahoma
2008 Transatlantic Environmental Biotechnology Fellowship (Funding Source)
2008 Harrison L. Chance Scholarship, Dept. of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND MEMBERSHIPS
American Society of Microbiology, 2006-present.