Kyle MacLea will join the UNH Manchester faculty this fall as an Assistant Professor of Biology.
Originally from Londonderry, NH, MacLea will be returning to his home state and will teach General Microbiology, Pathogenic Microbiology, Principles of Biology, and other courses in microbiology and molecular biology at UNH Manchester.
MacLea was previously a visiting Assistant Professor of Biology for two years with Linfield College in Oregon where he taught Principles of Biology, Introduction to Microbiology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. He had post-doctoral research appointments at the University of Pennsylvania, the USDA Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory, the University of Delaware, and Colorado State University where he studied prions in a yeast model system.
Research interests include understanding how yeast prions are transmitted between mother and daughter cells. "We remain hopeful that understanding how yeast prions transmit between cells could actually prove useful to understanding transmission of human prions, although that remains to be seen," says MacLea.
Other projects of interest are microbial genome sequencing and annotation, which he hopes to undertake in his microbiology classes. MacLea added, "I retain a lot of interest in crustacean biology as well, particularly the processes of molting and limb regeneration. I would also like to undertake some experiments looking at the molecular genetics of these physiological processes in crabs, lobsters, and crayfish in New Hampshire as well."
MacLea studied at Cornell University (A.B.) and Dartmouth College (PhD).
