Barbara J. Clement

　　Title: Professor

　　Address: 1142 Hawthorne Ave., Crete, NE USA

　　Tel: 001-402-5608680

　　Email:bclement17@unl.edu

　　Education Background:

　　1983-1992  Ph.D.,    University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA

　　1976-1978  M.Sc.,   University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

　　1970-1975  B.Sc.,    University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

　　Working Experiences:

　　2017-present        Lecturer, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

　　1998-2017         Professor, Department of Biology, Doane University, USA

　　1992-1998         Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Bellevue University, NE

　　Research Interests:

　　General: Biofilms formed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa

　　Specific inquiries: Quorum sensing inhibition by sulfur-containing metabolites of garlic.

　　Inhibition of P. aeruginosa biofilms on cystic fibrosis epithelial cells in culture

　　Role of cyclic diGMP-related genes on formation of biofilms by P.

　　aeruginosa , imaged by confocal microscopy.

　　Other:

　　Functional gene analysis in biofilm residues near seeps in the Niobrara valley NE USA

　　Geomicrobiology of soda lakes in western Nebraska, USA