A Science Lecture with Dr. Marilyn Roossinck

Join us for a Science Lecture by Dr. Marilyn Roossinck, Professor of Plant Pathology, Environmental Microbiology, and Biology at Pennsylvania State University and Author of Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 101 Incredible Microbes.

Contrary to popular belief, not all viruses are bad for you. Learn more at this informative Lecture!

About Marilyn Roossinck

Marilyn Roossinck started college at the Community College of Denver as an adult student, with a plan to go take two years of courses and then transfer to nursing school. She then took a Microbiology course and learned about bacterial viruses and was "totally smitten by how amazing viruses were" and changed her educational path.

She ripped up her application to nursing school and instead transferred to the University of Colorado to pursue a degree in Biology. Marilyn received a B.A. degree in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and in Evolutionary, Populational and Organismal Biology, from the University of Colorado in 1982. She received her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 1986. She did a postdoc in plant virology at Cornell University, and joined the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation as an assistant professor of Plant Biology in 1991.

In 2011 she moved to the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Huck Institute of Life Sciences, at the Pennsylvania State University, as a full Professor, where she teaches a course in Virus Ecology. She has published over 100 scientific papers, edited or co-edited two books, and written one popular press book on viruses. Her research includes experimental evolution of plant RNA viruses, biodiversity studies of viruses in wild plants, viruses involved in plant adaptation to extreme environments, and the ecology of persistent viruses of plants and fungi. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Agriculture, as well as a number of private and local funding agencies. She currently serves as an editor for the journals Virus Evolution, Current Opinion in Virology, mSphere, and Advances in Virus Research, and is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of General Virology and Virology.

Pizza will be served.

For more information, contact: Terry.Williams@ccd.edu