Areas Todd Primm is Knowledgeable in:
science education, bacteriology, infectious disease, antibiotic development and drug resistance
Todd Primm's Problem Solving Skills:
- UV/vis and fluorescence spectroscopy
- curriculum and instructional design
- bacterial identification
- microbial culture
- protein electrophoresis
- DNA electrophoresis
- PCR
- online learning
- classroom learning
- light microscopy
- technical writing
- whole cell compound screening
Todd Primm's Problem Solving Experience:
- developed a laboratory for college biology courses that better models the real scietific discovery process; exploratory labs
- developed methods to improve the effectiveness of lectures in science courses
- screened a compound library to identify compounds that kill red fire ants, Solenopsis invicta
- developed a simple method to examine bacterial species for positive and negative growth interactions
- screened a compound library to identify compounds that inhibit motility of the algae Chlamadymonas
- screened a compound library to identify compounds that kill Mycobacterium
- developed a colometric assay for screening bacteria for toxicity of compounds