Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Laura Jarboe

Assistant Professor

3051 Sweeney Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2230

Phone (515)294-2319
Fax (515)294-2689

jarboe@ufl.edu

Education
Ph.D., Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006
B.S., Chemical Engineering with Environmental Engineering Certificate, University of Kentucky, 2000

Research Interests

Transcriptome-based identification of nitric oxide response elements in E. coli, stochastic modeling of pap operon regulation in uropathogetnic E. coli, and investigation of the role of the Fis transcription factor duing nutrional upshift in E. coli.

Selected Recent Publications

D. R. Hyduke*, L. R. Jarboe*, L. M. Tran, K. C. Chou and J. C. Liao, “Integrated network analysis identifies nitric oxide response networks and dihydroxyacid dehydratase as a crucial target in Escherichia coli,PNAS 104(20), 8484 (2007) *these authors contributed equally to this work.

L. R. Jarboe, K. T. Shanmugan, and L. O. Ingram.  “Ethanol,” Encyclopedia of Microbiology (3rd Ed) Ed. D. Majumder-Russell. Elsevier, 2007.

L. R Jarboe, T. B. Grabar, L. P. Yomano, K. T. Shanmugan, and L. O. Ingram.  “Development of Ethanologenic Bacteria” Advances in Biochemical Engineering: Biofuels.  Ed. L. Olsson. Springer, 2007.

G. W. Luli, L. R. Jarboe, and L. O. Ingram.  “The Development of Ethanologenic Bacteria for Fuel Ethanol Production” Bioenergy. Ed. A. Demain.  ASM Press, 2007.

B. Zhou, D. Beckwith, L. R. Jarboe and J. C. Liao, "Markov Chain Modeling of Pyelonephritis-Associated Pili Expression in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli," Biophysical Journal, 88, 2541-2553 (2005).

L. R. Jarboe, D. Beckwith and J. C. Liao, "Stochastic Modeling of the Phase-Variable pap Operon Regulation in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli," Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 88(2), 189-203 (2004).