Robert M. Q. Shanks

Education

Dr. Shanks received his baccalaureate degree from Alfred University in Alfred, NY; his masters from Tufts Sackler School of Biomedical Science in Boston, MA and his PhD from Dartmouth Medical School, in Hanover NH.

Current Positions

  • January 2007: Assistant Professor Dept. of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • January 2007: Assistant Professor Dept of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh 
  • July 2006: Associate Research Director, Charles T. Campbell Laboratory of Ophthalmic Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • July 2006: Visiting Assistant Professor Dept. of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Recent Honors

  • 2008:Research to Prevent Blindness Career Development Award
  • 2004: Dartmouth Medical School, Dept of Medicine Research Poster Contest, 1st place
  • 1999: Cold Spring Harbor Yeast Genetics Course, Teaching Assistant

Recent Publications

  • Horzempa, J., Shanks, R.M., Brown, M.J., Russo, B.C., O’Dee, D.M., and Nau, G.J. (2009) “Utilization of a semi-replicative plasmid and the I-Sce endonuclease to generate routine markerless deletion mutants in Francisella tularensis”. J. Microb Methods, in press.
  • Shanks, R.M., Kadouri, D.E., MacEachran, D.P., and O’Toole, G.A. (2009) New yeast recombineering tools for bacteria.  Plasmid, 62:88-97.
  • Romanowski, E. G., K.A. Yates, R. M. Shanks, and Y. J. Gordon. (2009) “Anti-adenoviral efficacy of antimicrobial peptide CAP37”  Current Eye Research, 34:241-9.
  • Siamak, N. M., R. P. Kowalski, P.P. Thompson, E.G. Romanowski, R. M. Q. Shanks, Y. J. Gordon (2009) “RPS Adeno detector” Ophthalmol. 116:591.