Michèle Shuster
Title: Assistant Professor
Research area: Science Education and Genetics
Office location: FH 475
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Email Address: mshuster@nmsu.edu
Office Phone: 575-646-3916
Lab Webpage: http://web.me.com/micheleshuster/Michele_Shuster/About_Me.html
My current focus is on undergraduate and K-8 education in the biomedical sciences, including projects in intro biology, allied-health microbiology, cancer biology and K-8 science education & outreach.
My background is in molecular genetics. My Ph.D. was with Dean Dawson at Tufts Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences (Dean is now at the OMRF). I generated and characterized yeast mutants that were defective in accurate meiotic chromosome segregation. I became very interested in chromosome structure, particularly chromosomal rearrangements in oral cancer. As a post-doc in Susanne Gollin’s lab in the Dept. of Human Genetics at the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh I had the opportunity to use molecular cytogenetics techniques to assess consistent chromosomal rearrangements in oral squamous cell carcinomas.