Ruth Gordon (bacteriologist)

Ruth E. Gordon (1910-2003) was an American bacterial taxonomist.[1] She was member of the American Type Culture Collection. The bacteria genus Gordona and species Mycobacterium gordonae are named after her.[2][3][4]

Gordon received her Ph.D in bacteriology from Cornell University in 1934.[3]

Career

Gordon worked at the Division of Soil Microbiology at the United States Department of Agriculture from 1939 to 1942. She studied streptomycetes, which became her area of emphasis.[3] In 1946 she began working for the American Type Culture Collection as a bacteriologist. She was promoted to curator in 1947.[3] In 1954 she became an assistant professor at Rutgers University. She became a full professor in 1971.[3][5] Gordon retired in 1981 but continued to work as a visiting investigator for the American Type Culture Collection.[3]

Research

Gordon had a role in many different research studies through out her career. In 1952, she was involved in a study focusing on aerobic sporeforming bacteria.[3] This research study worked to identify, classify and name types of aerobic sporeforming bacteria located in the soil.[3]

In 1953, Gordon assisted in research on rapidly growing, acid fast bacteria. In this study, she helped collaborate information on the presence of types of bacteria that grow quickly in acid, and helped with expressing the importance of naming and classifying these types of bacteria.[6]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ Nathan Raymond Smith; Ruth Evelyn Gordon; Francis Eugene Clark (1946). Aerobic Mesophilic Sporeforming Bacteria. U.S. Department of Agriculture. p. 1.
  2. ↑ Mycobacterium gordonae at eMedicine
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Wayne, Tiffany K. (2011). American Women of Science Since 1900. ABC-CLIO. pp. 448–9. ISBN 978-1-59884-158-9.
  4. ↑ Ivanova, Natalia; Sikorski, Johannes; Jando, Marlen; Lapidus, Alla; Nolan, Matt; Lucas, Susan; Del Rio, Tijana Glavina; Tice, Hope; Copeland, Alex; Cheng, Jan-Fang; Chen, Feng; Bruce, David; Goodwin, Lynne; Pitluck, Sam; Mavromatis, Konstantinos; Ovchinnikova, Galina; Pati, Amrita; Chen, Amy; Palaniappan, Krishna; Land, Miriam; Hauser, Loren; Chang, Yun-Juan; Jeffries, Cynthia D.; Chain, Patrick; Saunders, Elizabeth; Han, Cliff; Detter, John C.; Brettin, Thomas; Rohde, Manfred; Göker, Markus; Bristow, Jim; Eisen, Jonathan A.; Markowitz, Victor; Hugenholtz, Philip; Klenk, Hans-Peter; Kyrpides, Nikos C. (28 January 2010). "Complete genome sequence of Gordonia bronchialis type strain (3410T)". Standards in Genomic Sciences. 2 (1): 19–28. doi:10.4056/sigs.611106.
  5. ↑ "History of the Department". Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  6. ↑ Gordon, Ruth E.; Smith, Mildred M. (1953). "Rapidly Growing, Acid Fast Bacteria" (PDF). Department of Microbiology, Rutgers University. Rutgers University.
  7. ↑ Gordon, Ruth E; Hagan, W. A. (1936). "A Study of Some Acid-Fast Actinomycetes from Soil with Special Reference to Pathogenicity for Animals". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. Oxford University Press. 59: 200–206. JSTOR 30088372.
  8. ↑ Gordon, Ruth E; Stark, C.N. (1937). "A Study of Some of the Properties of the Toxic Substances Produced by Salmonella Paratyphi A and B". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. Oxford University Press. 60: 283–244. JSTOR 30089184.
  9. ↑ Gordon, Ruth E.; Stark, C.N. (1938). "The Toxicity of Young Cells of Salmonella Paratyphi A and B When Lysed by Bacteriophage". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. Oxford University Press. 62: 45–47.
  10. ↑ "Aerobic Mesophilic Sporeforming Bacteria". United States Department of Agriculture. Washington D.C.

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