- Contact
- Academic History
- Assistant Professor, Washburn University, August 2009-present
Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow, Pomona College, August 2008-May 2009
- Scholarly Interests/Activities
- Research: "Exploring the Roles of Trans-Acting Proteins in E. coli Ribosome Assembly"
Interest: Chemistry of Cooking and Food
- Service Interests/Activities
Chemistry Club (American Chemical Society Student Chapter) Advisor
Women in Science Day at Washburn University Session Co-Organizer
Chemistry Day at Washburn University
Secretary of the Wakarusa Valley Section of the American Chemical Society
College Faculty Council Member
University Honors Advisory Board
K-12 chemistry outreach
- Career Accomplishments
- Publications:
Sharpe Elles, L.M.; Sykes, M.T.; Williamson, J.R.; and Uhlenbeck, O.C., A dominant negative mutant of the E. coli RNA helicase, DbpA, blocks late stage assembly of the 50S ribosomal subunit, Nucleic Acids Research, 37, (19), 6503-6514, (2009)
Sharpe Elles, L.M. and Uhlenbeck, O.C., Mutation of the arginine finger in the active site of Escherichia coli DbpA abolishes ATPase and helicase activity and confers a dominant slow growth phenotype, Nucleic Acids Research, 36(1), 41-50 (2008).