Jessica Boyd
Dr. Jessica Boyd
BiologyOffice: Burke Bldg 311
Email: jessica.boyd@smu.ca
BSc (hons) Dalhousie University
Ph.D. Boston University
BSc (hons) Dalhousie University
Ph.D. Boston University
Boyd worked for several years as a research scientist studying bacterial interactions with humans and animals. She specializes in bacterial virulence factor gene expression during infections using techniques that include molecular biology, genomics, and microscopy.
In 2008 Dr. Boyd switched careers to undergraduate biology teaching and has taught biology students at local Halifax universities (Dalhousie, MSVU and St. Mary’s) as well as Nationally (University of Calgary) and Internationally (American University of Nigeria).
Selected Publications
Michael E. Reith, Rama K. Singh, Bruce Curtis, Jessica M. Boyd, Anne Bouevitch, Jennifer Kimball, Janet Munholland, Colleen Murphy, Darren Sarty, Jason Williams, John H.E. Nash, Stewart C. Johnson and Laura L Brown. 2008 The genome of Aeromonas salmonicida subsp. salmonicida A449: insights into the evolution of a fish pathogen. BMC Genomics 9:427
Jessica Boyd, Andrew Dacanay, Leah Knickle, Ahmed Touhami, Laura L. Brown, Manfred Jericho, Stewart Johnson, Michael Reith. 2008 Contribution of Type IV Pili to the Virulence of A. salmonicida subsp. salmonicida in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) Infection and Immunity. 76(4):1445-55
Michael Shepel, Jessica Boyd, Joanne Luider and Alan Patrick Gibb. 2001. Interaction of Yersinia enterocolitica and Y. pseudotuberculosis with platelets. J. Med Micro 50:1030-1038.
Julie Ethier and Jessica Boyd. 2000. Topological analysis and role of the transmembrane domain in polar targeting of PilS, a Pseudomonas aeruginosa sensor kinase. Mol. Micro. 38:891-903.
Jessica Boyd and Stephen Lory. 1996. Dual function of PilS during transcriptional activation of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa pilin subunit gene. J. Bacteriol. 178: 831-839.
Jessica Boyd, Manish N. Oza, and John R. Murphy. 1990. Molecular Cloning and DNA Sequence Analysis of a Diphtheria tox Iron-Dependent Regulatory Element (dtxR) from Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 87:5968-5972.