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AMMYE.
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INTJERBiology Department, King’s College Phone: 570.208.8102
133 River Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711 E-mail: [email protected] EDUCATION
2005 Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with a Minor in Plant Sciences. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Committee: Drs. K. Clay, C. Lively, M. Tansey, and M. Watson
1995 B.S. in Biology with a Major in Environmental Science. Auburn University at Montgomery, AL Graduated Summa cum laude
FELLOWSHIPS,AWARDS AND GRANTS
2013 King’s College Summer Research Grant ($3,000)
2003-2005 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation ($4,000) 2003 Plant Sciences Fellowship, Indiana University ($7,000)
1998-2003 Women in Science Fellowship, Indiana University ($3,500/year, for 5 years) 1994-1995 Biology Student of the Year, Auburn University at Montgomery
1993-1995 Academic Scholarship, Auburn University at Montgomery (full tuition) RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2009-present Population and community ecology of endophyte-infected Elymus species. King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA
1998-2005 Dissertation Research: Horizontal and vertical transmission in the host-parasite interaction, Elymus
hystrix infected with Epichloë elymi. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1993-1994 Research and Herbarium Assistant, supervisor: Dr. James F. White, Jr.
Assisted with fungal endophyte research, maintained AUM Herbarium and Greenhouse. Auburn University at Montgomery, AL
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2010-present Assistant Professor of Biology, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA Freshman Seminar (BIOL 110)
General Biology I, lecture & lab (BIOL111/111L) General Biology II, lecture & lab (BIOL112/112L) Evolution and Diversity, lecture & lab (BIOL 113/113L)
Organisms and their Ecosystems, lecture & lab (BIOL 210/210L) Independent Research (BIOL 229)
Microbiology, lecture (BIOL314) Biology Seminar (BIOL 370)
Peru Tropical Ecosystems (Biol401M) Botany, lecture & lab (BIOL 420/420L) Biological Research (BIOL 490/491)
2006-2010 Assistant Professor of Biology, Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods College, St. Mary of the Woods, IN Undergraduate courses
Ecology (BI341)
Conservation Biology (BI340)
Science Communications (BI325/326) Principles of Biology (BI141/142) Biology: Unity and Diversity (BI101) Environmental Concerns (BI/EV100)
Integrative Sciences II (SC202), yearly (campus and distance formats) Graduate courses
Concepts of Earth Literacy (EL501)
Principles of Evolution and Change (EL510)
2005-2006 Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, Hendrix College, Conway, AR Ecology and Evolution with Laboratory (B365)
Environmental Biology with Laboratory (B104) 1998-2005 Teaching Assistant, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Vascular Plants Lecture and Laboratory (B300) Fungi Laboratory (B352)
Evolution (L318)
Field and Laboratory Ecology (L474)
The Biological Basis of Sex Differences (L340)
2004 Team Member, Inquiry Based Curriculum Enhancement. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Developed, implemented, and evaluated interactive activities to enhance inquiry-based learning in small discussion groups of introductory biology courses (L111, L112) For more information: http://www.bio.indiana.edu/community/faculty/
MENTORING EXPERIENCE
2015 Bernard Shandrick, advised undergraduate research project. King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA 2014 Gordon Custer, Jade Janowski, Mary Elizabeth Karis, Matthew Kolbeck, and Alena Leger, advised
undergraduate research projects. King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA
2013 Ashley Desiderio, Ranya Gryzboski, Daniel Hewitt, Steven Hippeli, Alyxandra Howard, Jacqueline Kiernan, Adam Kita, and Brian Morris, advised undergraduate research projects. King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA
2012 Kyle Kidd, Dawn Long, Greg Maresca, Amber Mays-Kidd, Kelsey Mellert, Tabitha Munlyn, and Emily Polachek, advised undergraduate research projects. King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA
2006-2009 April Baranowski, Katherine Frerick, Sarah Addison, Marissa Goetschel, Jamie Torrence, Miranda Butcher, and Erin Brackney, advised undergraduate research projects, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, St. Mary of the Woods, IN
2005-2006 Ken Maclean, advised honour’s thesis research project (for Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland), “Impact of Epichloë elymi endophytic fungus on the herbivory of fall armyworm larvae, Spodoptera
frugiperda, and germination of Elymus hystrix, native to North-America, temperate grass.” Hendrix
2002-2005 Brian Fishman, Juna Summerton, Neelima Rehil and Long Nguyen, advised undergraduate research projects including “Population variation in fungal endophyte infection of Elymus hystrix seeds
and plants” and “Host and fungal genotype effects on drought tolerance of endophyte-infected Elymus
hystrix.” Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2002 Brandon Gumbiner, advised undergraduate research project funded by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, “In vitro growth rate of fungal endophyte of Elymus hystrix from seeds.” Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
PUBLICATIONS
Kolbeck, M. and T. Tintjer. 2015. The use of a brine shrimp assay to detect bioactivity in the endophyte-infected grass,
Agrostis hyemalis Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science. Manuscript accepted.
Tintjer, T., Leuchtmann, A. and Clay, K. 2008. Variation in horizontal and vertical transmission of the endophyte
Epichloë elymi infecting the grass Elymus hystrix. New Phytologist. 179: 236-245.
Tintjer, T. and J. A. Rudgers. 2006. Grass herbivore interactions altered by strains of a native endophyte. New
Phytologist. 170: 513-521.
Clay, K., Reinhart, K., Rudgers, J., Tintjer, T., Koslow, J. and S. L. Flory. 2008. Red queen communities. Pp. 145-178, In Ecology of Infectious Diseases: Interactions between diseases and ecosystems. (V. Eviner, F. Keesing and R. Ostfeld, Eds.). Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Flory, S.L., E. Ingram, B. Heidinger, T. Tintjer. 2005. Hands–On in the Non-Laboratory Classroom: Reconstructing Plant Phylogenies Using Morphological Characters. The American Biology Teacher 67(9):542-547.
White, J. F. Jr., T. E. Drake (Tintjer) and T. I. Martin. 1996. Endophyte-host associations in grasses: XXIII. A study of two species of Balansia that form stromata on nodes of grasses. Mycologia 88 (1): 89-97.
PRESENTATIONS
Kolbeck, M. and T. Tintjer. 2015. Use of a brine shrimp (Artemia salina) assay to evaluate endophyte-infected Agrostis
hyemalis toxicity.Poster presentation at Pennsylvania Academy of Science Annual Meeting at Lebanon Valley
College. Annville, PA
Leger, A. and T. Tintjer. 2015. Success Rate and Effects on Growth of Artificial Combinations of Cool Season Grasses and Strains of Fungal Endophytes.Poster presentation at Pennsylvania Academy of Science Annual Meeting at Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA
Hippeli, S. and T. Tintjer. 2014. The role of the endophyte Neotyphodium coenophialum in the invasive properties of
Festuca arundinacea through soil community feedback. Poster presentation at Pennsylvania Academy of Science
Annual Meeting at Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
Custer, G., T. Tintjer, and J. Belanger. 2014. Assessment of Protection of Host Tissues by Vertically Transmitted Fungal Endophytes. Poster presentation at Pennsylvania Academy of Science Annual Meeting at Susquehanna
University, Selinsgrove, PA
Tintjer, T. 2014. Fungal Endophyte- Friend or Foe of Grasses? Invited seminar at King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA Tintjer, T. 2013. Fungal Endophyte-Friend or Foe? Invited seminar at Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
Barna, L. and T. Tintjer. 2013. Longitudinal Study of Foraging Preferences of Castor canadensis in a Leatherleaf-Sedge Wetland Habitat. Poster presentation at Pennsylvania Academy of Science Annual Meeting, University of Pittsburgh-Bradford, Bradford, PA
Barna, L. and T. Tintjer. 2012. Foraging Preferences of Castor canadensis in a Leatherleaf-sedge Wetland Habitat. Poster presentation at Pennsylvania Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Cedar Crest College. Allentown, PA
Tintjer, T. 2008. Horizontal and vertical transmission in the host-symbiont interaction of Elymus hystrix infected with
Epichloë elymi. Invited seminar presentation at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
Tintjer, T, and K. Clay. 2004. Host plant and fungal genotype influence parasite transmission mode in a grass-fungal endophyte association. Poster Presentation at 5th International Symposium on Neotyphodium/Grass Interactions, Fayetteville, AR
Tintjer, T. and K. Clay. 2003. Host plant influences parasite transmission mode in a grass-fungal endophyte association. Oral Presentation at Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Savannah, GA
VOLUNTEER AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
2014- present Director at Large of Pennsylvania Academy of Science. 2012- 2015 Judge. Pennsylvania Academy of Science Annual Meetings.
2013- 2015 Division A Representative to Faculty Council. King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA.
2012 & 2014 Instructor. Hispanic Outreach Summer Residential Enrichment Program. King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA.
2012- 2014 Safety Committee Member. King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA.
2010 Judge. Indiana Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. St. Mary of the Woods, IN.
2008- 2009 Co-organizer of Focus the Woods and Focus the Nation at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, campus-wide, day-long teach-ins on environmental sustainability (2009) and climate change (2008), St. Mary of the Woods, IN.
2007- 2010 Co-chair, Greening the Woods Committee at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. Building and promoting campus environmental sustainability initiatives. St. Mary of the Woods, IN.
2007- 2010 Board Member, TREES, Inc. Organizing and promoting projects for local community environmental action. Terre Haute, IN.
2007- 2010 Member of Planning Group and Vice-president of Board of Directors, Terre Foods Cooperative Market. Working to open a cooperatively-owned, natural/organic/local foods grocery. Terre Haute, IN.
2007- 2008 Chair of Committee for Development, Ouabache Land Conservancy. Worked to preserve land in Vigo and surrounding counties. Terre Haute, IN.
1999-2004 Botanist, International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI). Conducted forest composition surveys and plant identification. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
2012-2015 Pennsylvania Academy of Science 2006-2009 Indiana Academy of Sciences 2003-2010 Ecological Society of America
