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Dr. Naowarat (Ann) Cheeptham
Professor
Faculty of Science
Biological Sciences
Summary
Dr. Cheeptham's research interest and focus have included cave microbiomes/new drug discovery, white-nose syndrome in bats, alternative treatment tools against multidrug-resistant infections, geomicrobiology, and microbiology education. Her work has fortunately been featured in the New York Times, WIRED, Bloomberg TV network’s Spark series, Al Jazeera TV, the CBC’s Nature of Things (The Antibiotic Hunters episode), Global TV (Global 16x9 and Global Health), Knowledge Network, CBC radio (Daybreak) and in several International and Canadian magazines. In 2013, she chief-edited and co-authored a book entitled Cave Microbiomes: A Novel Resource for Drug Discovery, invited and published by Springer. Ann is also drawn to pedagogical issues in microbiology education. In 2009, she was selected as one of the biology research residency scholars in the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)/National Science Foundation (NSF) Biology Research Residency Scholars Program and participated in an NSF-sponsored residency in Washington DC. She has continuously been involved with ASM’s Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education (JMBE) as a reviewer while being a section editor until 2018. In the course of Ann’s career at TRU, she has been honored as a recipient of many faculty awards. Dr. Cheeptham was the recipient of the 2022 3M National Teaching Fellowship from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) and 3M, the 2020 TRU Faculty Excellence Award, and the 2020 D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning STLHE and D2L (Desire2Learn).
Expertise, interests and research
Biology
Languages
English, Thai, Japanese
