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Irma M. Santoro Associate Professor, Biology Reinhardt University School of Math and Science 7300 Reinhardt Circle Waleska, GA 30183 770-720-9220 [email protected] Education Ph.D. 1998 (Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry, & Microbiology), University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH. Doctoral Thesis: “The Alternative Isoforms of the APC Tumor Suppressor: Their Structure and Function” Postdoctoral Fellow 1998 – 2000, Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX Postdoctoral Fellow 2004 – 2007, Fellowship in Research and Science Teaching (FIRST) Emory University, Atlanta GA Administrative Experience Biology Program Coordinator, Reinhardt University, Waleska, GA; 2013-current Responsibilities include: Providing academic oversight of program and leading regular Program Meetings; supervising program curriculum revisions; website maintenance; maintaining, upkeep and ordering of supplies and equipment for the program; overseeing maintenance of equipment and facilities for the Science Center and Dobbs Hall; managing and supervising undergraduate student workers; developing program reports; developing course schedules for each semester; advising and mentoring new faculty; assisting with admissions events and marketing the program Accomplishments: doubling of student enrollment in Biology and Pre-nursing; assisted with building a 12,000 square foot new science center with five new state of the art laboratories, four new classrooms with improved teaching technology, a computer lab and renovation of the existing Dobbs Hall; supervised equipping the new science center with new science equipment within budget; developed surveys for graduating and transferring students within the major and increased retention rates by 10% Biology Secondary Education Coordinator, Biology Department and Price School of Education, Reinhardt University, Waleska, GA; 2008-2014 I. 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Santoro 1 Responsibilities included: providing academic oversight of program; advising Secondary Biology Education students; actively participated in recruitment and retention committee and Cherokee County Leadership Forums; maintained records and prepared annual end of the year reports; assisted with admissions events and marketing of the program Accomplishments: Assisted with successful Policy Standard Commission (PSC) accreditation renewal Graduate School Coordinator, Academic Professional in The School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; 2007-2008 Responsibilities included: providing academic oversight of program and maintained student records; assisted in maintaining graduate program budgets; assisted with grant applications in support of graduate education; website development and maintenance Accomplishments: establishing a student advising database, streamlined advising and developed an effective training program to train teaching assistants Leadership Experience Chair, New Science Center Committee, 2012-2013 Chair, Hanover Grants Committee, 2011 – 2012 Chair, Faculty Development Committee, 2009 - 2010 President of Graduate Student Association for Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry & Microbiology, 1992-1993 Laboratory Manager, Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, OH; 1989-1991 Teaching Experience Reinhardt University (2008-present) General Biology I (Biology 107) General Biology II (Biology 108) Genetics (Biology 320) Cell Biology and Physiology (Biology 340) Immunobiology (Biology 410) Biochemistry (Biology 440) Environmental Cancer Seminar (Biology 300) Academic Professional, Department of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology Cell Biology (2007) Teaching Fellow, Emory University Graduate School I. 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Santoro 2 Principles of Basic Biomedical and Biological Sciences I (2006) Introductory Biology Laboratory (2005) Instructor, Biology Department, Spelman College Biology of Women Lecture and Laboratory (2006) Science Education Leadership Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Baylor College of Medicine, 1999-2000 - Scientific mentor to elementary educators to enhance science education in elementary schools and science awareness in the community for the Houston Independent school district; Taught science classes and instructed elementary educators how to perform lab techniques and experiments Instructor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Laboratory Techniques Course (1997) Other Employment Web-Based Technical Training Course Scriptor and Editor; 2002-2004 General Electric, Energy Division, GA Designed and edited, web-based training courses on medical and health and safety topics for employees to gain continuing education credits Scientific Database Curation Consultant; 2001 - 2002 Cognia Inc. New York, NY Proteome Inc. Division of Incyte Genomics, MA Reviewed and translated experimental findings from scientific research articles into a standardized information language for inclusion into proprietary genomics databases Involved database mining, and knowledge acquisition; expertise in extracting pertinent information and writing summaries of lengthy scientific manuscripts Laboratory Manager, Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, OH; 1989-1991 Department of Physiology & Biophysics Managed and organized laboratory, trained personnel, maintained budget Projects included identification and characterization of novel protein products that interacted with muscle specific promoter elements Techniques acquired: promoter analyses, transcription factor purification and primary tissue culture Laboratory Assistant, Euclid Chemical, Cleveland, OH; 1988-1989 Principle project involved testing the strengths of new cement compounds I. M. Santoro 3 Research Assistant, John Carroll University, Biology Department; Cleveland, OH; 1985-1988 Assisted principal investigator with research project focusing on studying stomach ulcer formation in a rat model for diabetes mellitus Honors and Awards Reinhardt Soccer Teacher of the Week Award, September 2011 United Methodist Exemplary Teaching Award, Reinhardt University, 2010-2011 Beta, Beta, Beta, National Biological Honors Society, Faculty Member, 2008 – Present FIRST (Fellowship in Research and Teaching) Fellowship, NIGMS funded through the division of Minority Opportunities in Research, NIH, 2004-2007 Science Education Leadership Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Baylor College of Medicine, 1999 Student of the Year Award in the Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry & Microbiology, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, 1994 Professional Service Service to the University Faculty Senate Parliamentarian, 2013-2014 RU Green Committee, 2013 - Present Curriculum Committee, 2011 – Present Hanover Grants Committee, Chair, 2011 - 2012 Faculty Development Committee, 2008 – 2011; Chair, 2009-2010 Faculty Colloquium Organizer, 2009 – 2011, 2014-2015 Year of Committee, 2010-2011 Convocation of Artists and Scholars Committee, Organizing Math and Science presentations, 2009 – Present Panel member, Student Success Center Sponsored Graduate School Workshop, 2009, 2010 Sustainability Committee 2008 - 2010 Service to School of Math and Sciences Sociology Search Committee, 2011, 2012 Mathematics Search Committee, 2009 New Science Building Equipment Committee, 2010 - Present Service to Department of Biology Biology Search Committee, 2013 Biology Major Field Test Organizer, 2011 - Present Biology Web Master 2011 - Present Biology Search Committee, Chair 2009 General Biology I Laboratory Manual, 2009 - 2012 Beta, Beta, Beta Interim Advisor, 2009 Service to Price School of Education I. 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Santoro 4 Recruitment and Retention Committee, 2010 - 2014 Early Childhood Education Faculty Search Committee, 2009 Dispositions Protocol Committee, Secretary, 2009 Dean of Price School of Education Search Committee, 2009 Service to Community Environmental Committee Chair, Simpson Middle School, Cobb County, Georgia 2010 – 2013 Senior Project Judge, Cherokee High School, 2012 Presented on careers in Biotechnology and Cell and Molecular Biology Research on Career Day at Simpson Middle School, Cobb County Georgia, May 12, 2010 Career Day Presentation on Careers in Molecular Biology, East Cobb Middle School, May 16, 2007 Organized and presented at first Science Day, Rocky Mount Elementary, Cobb County Georgia, March 29, 2007 Founding member of Curieosity, a science club for elementary school girls, 2005 Other Service Graduate Student Representative to Committee on Graduate Education, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, 1994 Search Committee for Vice President for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, 1993 President of Graduate Student Association for Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry & Microbiology, 1992-1993 Professional Organizations American Association for the Advancement of Science Association of Southeastern Biologists Beta Beta Beta Presentations and Abstracts (*Indicates posters presented by mentored undergraduate students) SEEDS - Southeast Educational Data Symposium Roundtable Discussion Leader on success with adaptive learning technologies, Atlanta, Georgia February 20, 2015. Santoro I: Using Historical, Non-fiction Literature as One of the Main Texts to Ignite Interest, Cultivate Critical-Thinking Skills and Confront Ethical and Moral Issues Related to Science in a Biology Classroom. Association of Southeastern Biologists Annual Meeting, Athens, Georgia, 2012. *Wauford R and Santoro I: Are Combined Synthetic Food Dyes Mutagenic. Association of Southeastern Biologists Annual Meeting, Athens, Georgia, 2012. Santoro I, Satre D, Wauford R: Using a mutagenicity assay and Saccharomyces cerevisiae to assess the mutagenic potential of aquatic pollutants. Association of Southeastern Biologists Annual Meeting, Huntsville, Alabama, April 14, 2011. I. M. Santoro 5 Santoro I: Understanding Mutation Avoidance in the budding yeast S. cerevisiae a Model for Human Carcinogenesis. Faculty Colloquium Reinhardt University, November 4, 2010. *Hawkins A and Santoro I: Maize Pan 1 as PAK protein. Association of Southeastern Biologists Annual Meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, April 9, 2010 Santoro I: Three Interactive Technology Tools to Promote Interaction, Engagement and Reinforce Learning in the Undergraduate Classroom. IRACDA 2007 National Conference, San Diego, California, June 10-12, 2007 Santoro I: To mutate or die, that is the question… Regulation of damage tolerance in the budding yeast S. cerevisiae. Benedictine University, February 1, 2007 Santoro I: Regulation of genome stability in the budding yeast S. cerevisiae. Biology Department Seminar Series, Emory University, January 23, 2007 Santoro I, Jinks-Robertson S: Effects of Post-Translational Modifications of Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen on DNA Damage Tolerance. Gordon Research Conference on Mutagenesis, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, August 6-11, 2006 *Fishman I, Santoro I, Jinks-Robertson S: Do all 3 subunits of PCNA require ubiquitylation for translesion synthesis? SURE Undergraduate Research Symposium, Emory University, August 2006 Santoro I, Jinks-Robertson S: Effects of Post-Translational Modifications of Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen on DNA Damage Tolerance. IRACDA Conference 2006, Kansas City, Missouri, June 14-17, 2006 Kirby AE, Santoro I, Edlund A: Integration of case studies in a biology lab for non-science majors. Annual Conference on Case Study Teaching in Science. Buffalo, NY, October 2005 *Hampton A, Santoro I, Jinks-Robertson S: The effects of PCNA post-translational modification on the activity of Pol zeta, a low fidelity translesion synthesis polymerase. SURE Undergraduate Research Symposium, Emory University, August 2005 Santoro I, Minesinger B, Jinks-Robertson S: Effects of Ubiquitin and Sumo Modifications of PCNA on Spontaneous Lesion Bypass. IRACDA Conference 2005, Tucson, AZ, June 22-25 Santoro IM, Luo G, Vogel, H and Bradley A: Interaction Between Germline Mutations in BLM and APC Predisposes to Increased Intestinal Malignancy. The 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, San Francisco, CA, April 1-5, 2000 I. M. Santoro 6 Santoro IM, Pyles RB, Groden J and Parysek LM: Unique Protein Isoforms of the APC Tumor Suppressor are Present in Post-Mitotic Cells. The 17th Annual Graduate Student Research Forum, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 1997 Santoro IM, Pyles RB, Groden J and Parysek LM: Unique APC Protein Isoforms are Identified in Post-Mitotic Cells. Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology, Growth Control, Keystone, CO, January 4-10, 1997 Santoro IM and Groden J: Alternative Splicing of the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC) Gene and its Association with Terminal Differentiation. The 16th Annual Graduate Student Research Forum, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 1996 Santoro IM and Groden J: Alternative Splicing of the APC Gene and its Association with Terminal Differentiation. American Association for Cancer Research, Cancer Susceptibility Genes and Molecular Carcinogenesis, Keystone, CO, February 19-25, 1996 Santoro IM and Groden J: Alternative Splicing of the APC Gene, a Putative Tumor Suppressor. The 14th Annual Graduate Student Research Forum, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 1994 Santoro IM and Flechtner V: The Statistical Analysis of the Cloning Efficiency with Respect to Size of Lambda Hind III Fragments. The 98th Annual Meeting of the Ohio Academy of Science, Parma, OH, April, 1989 Publications Brandão, L. N., Ferguson, R., Santoro, I., Jinks-Robertson, S., & Sclafani, R. A. (2014). The Role of Dbf4-Dependent Protein Kinase in DNA Polymerase ζ-Dependent Mutagenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics, 114:, 2014. D’Costa A. R., Santoro, I. The effect of UV radiation on the survival of yeast and its implication to a real-life situation. Proceedings of the 29th Workshop/Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE). Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching. 30: 371-382, 2009 Santoro I, Jinks-Robertson S. Effects of Post-Translational Modifications of Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen on Spontaneous DNA Damage Tolerance. (In Preparation, 2014) Carson DJ, Santoro IM, Groden J. Isoforms of the APC tumor suppressor and their ability to inhibit cell growth and tumorigenicity. Oncogene. Sep 16;23(42):7144-8, 2004 Liou GI, Samuel S, Matragoon S, Goss KH, Santoro I, Groden J, Hunt RC, Wang F, Miller SS, Caldwell RB, Rustgi AK, Singh H, Marcus DM. Alternative splicing of the I. M. Santoro 7 APC gene in the neural retina and retinal pigment epithelium. Mol Vis. Jun 14;10:383-91, 2004. Steigerwald K, Santoro IM, et al. A distinct splice form of APC is highly expressed in neurons but not commonly mutated in neuroepithelial tumours. J Med Genet. Apr;38(4):257-62, 2001. Luo G, *Santoro IM, McDaniel LD, Nishijima I, Mills M, Youssoufian H, Vogel, H, Schultz RA, Bradley A. Cancer predisposition caused by elevated mitotic recombination in Bloom mice. Nature Genetics, 26: 424-429, 2000. (*Both authors contributed equally to this work) Pyles RB, Santoro IM, Groden J and Parysek LM. Novel protein isoforms of the APC tumor suppressor in neural tissue. Oncogene, 16: 77-82, 1998. Santoro IM and Groden J. Alternative splicing of the APC gene and its association with terminal differentiation. Cancer Research 57: 488-494, 1997. Gaulberto A, Lowry J, Santoro IM and Walsh K. Parameters that influence the extent of site occupancy by a candidate telomere end-binding protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 270: 4509-4517, 1995. Santoro IM & Walsh K. Natural and synthetic DNA elements with the CArG motif differ in expression and protein-binding properties. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 11: 62966305, 1991. Santoro IM, Yi T and Walsh K. Identification of single-stranded-DNA-binding proteins that interact with muscle gene elements. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 11: 1944-1953, 1991. I. M. Santoro 8