Dr. Kenneth Stedman - Curriculum vitae

Education

Ph.D., 1996, Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, under the direction of Sydney Kustu
B.Sc., 1987, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University

Employment and Experience

9/07-	Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
2/09-6/11	Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, University of Kiel, Germany.
9/01-8/07	Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
5/00-9/01	Senior Research Fellow. Thermal Biology Institute with Professor Mark Young. Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, U.S.A.
1/00-5/00	Research Fellow: Bacterial Genetics Group, Microbiology Department Wageningen University, THE NETHERLANDS.
11/98-11/99	NSF-NATO Post-doctoral Research Fellow with Professor Wolfram Zillig at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, GERMANY
10/96-10/98	Marie-Curie Post-doctoral Research Fellow with Professor Wolfram Zillig at the Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, GERMANY.
8/90-6/96	Graduate Student Researcher with Professor Sydney Kustu, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
9/87-6/90	Biotechniker: Sandoz Pharma, Ltd. Basel, SWITZERLAND
6/86-9/86	Research Associate: Genentech, Inc, South San Francisco, U.S.A.

Research

Selected Publications

All Publications

Teaching Achievements

John Eliot Allen Teaching Award, 2003-2004

Courses Taught at PSU

Students

Current Service

Community

Collaborate with Local High Schools
Consult with Science Museums
Science Pub Presentation
Documentary Film Preparation

University, College, and Department

OUS Germany Advisory Board
Operations Committee: Center for Electron Microscopy and Nano-fabrication
Biosafety Committee, Chair
Radiation Safety Committee
PSU SARS Committee
PSU HIV Committee
Biology department
- Curriculum committee (Chair)

Professional

Editorial Service

Ad hoc reviewer for: Archaea, Archives of Virology, Astrobiology, Extremophiles, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, FEMS Letters, FEMS Microbial Ecology, Genome Biology, Journal of General Virology, Journal of Virology, Molecular Genetics and Genomics, Molecular Microbiology, Nature, Nature Reviews Microbiology, PNAS, Research in Microbiology, Trends in Microbiology, Virology, and Virus Genes.
- Ad hoc reviewer: DOE, NSF, NASA , CRDF (U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation) and Maine NASA-EPSCoR.
- Invited reviewer, Brock, Microbiology.
Committees, Panels, and Advisory Boards
- Chair NASA-Astrobiology Institute Virus Focus Group. October 2003-present.
- International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses: Prokaryotic viruses Subcommittee: 2000-present
- Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI): 2007-present

Honors, Grants, and Fellowships

Honors and Awards

Most Improved Elevator Pitch – Lab2Market, 14 Aug 2013
Biomed Central Research Award (best paper in 2012 in all BioMedCentral Journals)
Biomed Central Research Category Award ‘Computational and high-throughput studies in genomics and systems biology’ 2012
Elected Chair of Gordon Research Conference on Archaea, 2011
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, 2009-2011
John Eliot Allen Teaching Award, 2003-2004
NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1998-1999
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 1996-1998
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award, 1991.

Grants

>$100,000 Current

MCB 1243963 “Extreme Virus Morphology: The Structure and Assembly of SSV1, the Prototypical Fusellovirus” (PI) National Science Foundation, $402,150. Jan 2013 – Dec 2015
RUI: MO: Collaborative Research: An Integrated Study of Eukaryotic, Prokaryotic and Viral Diversity in an Acidic Hot Lake” National Science Foundation, Microbial Observatories Program. $365,143. 2008 - 2012 (no cost extension).
Previous
Molecular and Genetic Investigations of RNA Stability in Hyperthermophilic Archaea” NASA. $380,441. (CoI with Dirk Iwata-Reuyl, PSU Chemistry department). 2007 – 2010.
Biomolecular Substrates for Extraterrestrial Life: Revealing the Secrets of Extremophilic Archaea and their Viruses” NASA –EPSCoR Montana Space Grant program. $142,084. 2008-2010
Microbial Observatories: Viruses from Yellowstone Thermal Acidic Environments. National Science Foundation. Co-Principal Investigator: $749,920, 2003-2007
Aberration-Corrected Photoelectron Microscope: Opening the Nanometer Scale for Organic Matter Microscopy. National Science Foundation. $740,990. 2004-2006. Co-Principal Investigator
In vivo Gene Regulation in the Extremely Thermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus. American Heart Association Pacific-Mountain Affiliate Beginning Grant in Aid. Jan. 2004 - Dec. 2005. $110,000.

Membership in Professional Societies

American Society for Virology
American Society for Microbiology
American Association for the Advancement of Science
International Society for Extremophiles
Marie Curie Fellowship Association

Last updated: 15 Nov. 13

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Education

Employment and Experience

Research

Selected Publications

All Publications

Teaching Achievements

John Eliot Allen Teaching Award, 2003-2004

Courses Taught at PSU

Students

Current Service

Community

University, College, and Department

Professional

Editorial Service

Committees, Panels, and Advisory Boards

Honors, Grants, and Fellowships

Honors and Awards

Grants

>$100,000 Current

Membership in Professional Societies