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Gregory W Buck
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Summary
B.S. Morehouse College 1981
M.S. Georgia State University, 1992
Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1999
Postdoc, Emory University, 1999-2001
Work details
Associate Professor of Biology & Biomedical Sciences
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
September 2001
Life Sciences
I am an Associate Professor of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, and I also serve as Biomedical Sciences Program Coordinator. Previously I also served as Assistant Department chair for five years and briefly as Interim Department Chair. I received a BS degree in Biology magna cum laude from Morehouse College with Honors in Undergraduate Research. I worked as a research specialist at Emory University Medical School where I studied the bacterium Salmonella. I started teaching high school science in 1988 and received my MS and PhD in Biology from Georgia State. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Emory University Medical School for two years and joined the faculty of Texas A&M Univ.-Corpus Christi (TAMUCC) in September 2001, where I have taught over 8600 students in 12 different undergraduate and graduate courses. My research projects on gene regulation and antibiotic resistance in the salt-water bacterium Vibrio vulnificus have involved the training of 95 undergraduate students, co-chairing (5) or chairing (9) Masters’ students or serving as committee member of 26 other Masters’ students and five doctoral students. I was also on the joint TAMUCC-City-County Covid-19 Task Force. I have collaborated on other research projects while at TAMUCC, including a project on microbial fuel cells with TAMU-Kingsville faculty, and a project involving metallic nanoparticles with TAMUCC Chemistry faculty.