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"Lesley-Ann Giddings, assistant professor of chemistry, published Isolation and Genome Analysis of an Amoeba-Associated Bacterium Dyella terrae Strain Ely Copper Mine from Acid Rock Drainage in Vermont, United States...." READ MORE HERE
"Lesley-Ann Giddings ’05, assistant professor of chemistry, is the recipient of a prestigious $615,416 National Science Foundation CAREER grant..." READ MORE HERE
"Earlier this summer, Giddings approached the Urban League with the idea of having her SURF students lead workshops during a portion of the camp season designed for girls..." READ MORE HERE
"Growing up, Lesley-Ann Giddings loved to read mystery novels, but she knew early on that scary crime scenes weren’t for her. “I didn’t know how I was going to fulfill my need to solve mysteries,” she remembers..." READ MORE HERE
Green Mountain Access Television: Current Topics in Science
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dr. Lesley-Ann Giddings presents the Acid Mine Drainage Microbiome as part of the Current Topics in Science Series at the Vermont University-Johnson. The presentation is one of the many ways NVU-Johnson provides learning opportunities beyond the classroom to help students expand their knowledge and make connections with professionals in their field of study. READ MORE HERE
"I love to train students to be critical, independent thinkers and use creative ways to problem solve. I find it extremely gratifying to teach someone a subject and have him or her turn around and show me an even better way of solving a problem in that area of research..." READ MORE HERE
Middlebury's Newsroom
"Lesley-Ann Giddings, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, who organized the event, said she created the lecture series to provide role models for science, technology, engineering and math students of color at Middlebury..." READ MORE HERE
"Lesley-Ann Giddings, a professor in the biology department, launched a new research project this August that combines her interest in extremophiles, organisms thriving in extreme environments, with a local focus on Vermont’s abandoned copper mines." READ MORE HERE
Chemical and Engineering News
Middlebury's Newsroom
Lesley-Ann Giddings, a natural products chemist at Middlebury College, thinks it’s interesting to co-culture two fungi, because most researchers who have used this strategy to identify new molecules have grown a bacterium and a fungus simultaneously. READ MORE HERE
Lesley-Ann Giddings (Chemistry and Biochemistry) received a pilot grant titled Induction of Cryptic Genes in Rare Antarctic Marinobacter for the Production of Novel Secondary Metabolites. READ MORE HERE
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Chemical and Engineering News
Lesley-Ann Giddings, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Middlebury College in Vermont. Lesley-Ann teaches biochemistry and maintains an active research group consisting solely of undergraduates. READ MORE HERE
Giddings hopes to understand how seasonal changes affect resistance to heavy metals and secondary metabolism in the mine microbes. Rapidly identifying the potential functions of secondary-metabolite genes, however, requires scientists to compare the genes they find with similar DNA in databases... READ MORE HERE