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Academic Staff Contact Details
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Dr Kathy Takayama
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BS, Biology, MIT; PhD, Biochemistry, Rutgers Medical School
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Visiting Fellow
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Research Description I:
RNA regulation: My research examines the role of RNA in the regulation of gene expression in bacteria. Our laboratory is interested in determining the pathways and multi-protein complexes that regulate RNA stability and processing, and ultimately control bacterial adaptation to stress and changes in the growth environment.
Selected Publications:
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Takayama, K. & Kjelleberg, S. (2000) The role of RNA stability during bacterial stress responses and starvation. Environmental Microbiology, 2, 355-365.
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Gong, L., Takayama, K. & Kjelleberg, S. (2002) Role of spoT-dependent ppGpp accumulation in the survival of light-exposed starved bacteria. Microbiology, 148, 559-570.
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Hild, E., Takayama, K., Olsson, R. & Kjelleberg, S. (2000) Evidence for a role of rpoE in stressed and unstressed cells of marine Vibrio angustum strain S14. Journal of Bacteriology, 182, 6964-6974.
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Research Description II:
a) Molecular visualisation and educational technology for teaching, research, and communication in science: This research explores the effective use of computer visualisation and educational design in science education and communication.
b) Collaborative communities of practice in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Selected Publications:
- Takayama, K. (2003) Visualising the Science of Genomics – an international online research project. Microbiology Australia, 24, 32 - 33.
- Takayama, K. (2004) Three-dimensional visualizations in teaching genomics and bioinformatics: Mutations in HIV envelope proteins and their consequences for vaccine design. Microbiology Education, 5, 3 - 12.
- Takayama, K. & Wilson, J. (2005) Mapping student learning throughout the collaborative inquiry process: the progressive e-poster. Proceedings of the Blended Learning in Science Teaching and Learning Symposium, The University of Sydney, 2005.
- Takayama, K. (2005) Teaching visualizing the science of genomics, in Visualization in Science Education, John K. Gilbert (ed.), Dordrecht: Springer, pp 217-251.
Awards:
- 2005: Australian Society for Microbiology David White Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 2004: Australian College of Educators NSW Quality Teaching Award
- 2003 & 2005: Invited keynote speaker: International Gordon Research Conference on Visualisation in Science and Education; Oxford University, UK
- 2003 - 2004: Carnegie Scholar (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching)
- 2003: UNSW Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence
- 2002: UNSW Vice Chancellor’s Teaching and Research Award
- 2002: UNSW Innovative Teaching and Educational Technology Fellowship
- UNSW First Year Learning and Teaching Grant Award
Professional Activities:
- Vice President (Australasia), The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Conference Chair and Organiser, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia, 2007
- Editorial Review Board, MountainRise, international e-journal on the scholarship of teaching and learning: http://mountainrise.wcu.edu/edBoard.html
- Co-organiser, American Society for Microbiology Scholars-in-Residence Program
- Editorial review panel for MERLOT, an online resource for teaching and learning
- Member, RNA Society
- Member, American Society for Microbiology
- Member, Australian Society for Microbiology
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