Rick Roberts, Ph.D.

• Pre-health Coordinator
• Pre-health Professions Advising
• Cellular and Molecular Biology
• Animal and Plant Biology

• Life Science Educational Strategies.

• Creation Research Society
• National Association of Advisors of Health Professions

• Roberts, R. C., 2019, Introducing the Scientific Granting Process: Instructing Students through Simulated Genetics Grant Writing and Peer Review.  J. Micro. Biol. Edu. Submitted for publication.
• Roberts, R. C. and Shapiro, L. 1997, Transcription of genes encoding DNA replication proteins is coincident with cell cycle control of DNA replication in Caulobacter crecentus. J. Bacteriol. 179:2319-2330.
• Roberts, R. C., Mohr, C. D. and Shapiro, L., 1996, Developmental Programs in Bacteria, In Pedersen, R. A. and Schatten, G. P. eds. Current Topics in Developmental Biology, Vol. 34, Academic Press, San Diego, p. 207-257.
• Roberts, R. C., Toochinda, C., Avedissian, M., Baldini, R. L. Gomes, S. L., and Shapiro, L., 1996, Identification of Caulobacter crecentus operon encoring hrcA, involved in negatively regulating heat-inducible transcription, and the chaperone gene grgE, J. Bacteriol. 178:1829-1841.
• Roberts, R. C. and Shapiro, L., 1995, Transcription of the essential, cell cycle-regulated dnaN gene of Caulobacter crescentus is heat shock inducible, J. Cell. Blochem, 5:115.
• Sia, E. A., Roberts, R. C., Easter, C., Helinski, D. R. and Figurski, D. H., 1995, Different relative importances of the par operons and the effect of conjugal transfer on the maintenance of intact promiscuous plasmid RK2, J. Bacteriol. 177:2789-2797.
• Roberts, R. C., Strom, A. R. and Helinski, D. R., 1994, The parDe operon of the broad-host-range plasmid RK2 specifies growth inhibition associated with plasmid loss, J. Mol. Biol. 237:35-51.
• Roberts, R. C., Spangler, C. and Helinski, D. R., 1993, Characteristics and significance of DNA binding activity or plasmid stabilization protein ParD from the broad-host-range plasmid RK2, J. Biol. Chem. 268:27109-27117.
• Helinski, D. R., Monson, E. K., Roberts, R.C., Weinstein, M., Lois, A. F., Agron, P.G. and Ditta, G. S., 1992, The mechanism of oxygen-sensing in Rhizobium meliloti and the development of plasmid vectors stably maintained in Rhizobium in planta and ex planta, in Villa, T. G. and Abide, J., eds., Profiles in Biotechnology. Servicio De Publicasions, Universidade de Santiago de Conpostela, p. 677-689.
• Weinstein, M., Roberts, R. C., and Helinski, D. R., 1992, A region of the broad-host-range plasmid RK2 causes stable in planta inheritance of plasmids in Rhizobium meliloti cells isolated from alfalfa root codules, J. Bacteriol. 174:7486-7489.
• Roberts, R. C. and Helinski, D. R., 1992, Definition of a minimal plasmid stailization system from the broad-host-range plasmid RK2, J. Bacteriol. 174:8118-8132.
• Davis, T. L., Helinski, D. R., 1992, Transcription and autoregulation of the stabilizing functions of broad-host-range plasmid RK2 in Escherichia coli, Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Pseudomona auroginosa, Mol. Microbiol, 6:1981-1994.
• Roberts, R. C., Burioni, R. and Helinski, D. R., 1990, Genetic characterization of the stabilizing functions of a region of broad-host-range plasmid RK2, J. Bacteriol. 172:6204-6216.
• Roberts, R. C., and Ranu, R. S., 1987, Transfection of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus with bacteriophage MAC-1 DNA, FEMS Microbiol. Letters 43:207-211.
• Roberts, R. C., Keefer, M. A. and Ranu, R. S., 1987, Characterization of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus bacteriophage MAC-1, J. Gen. Microbiol. 133:3065-3070.
• Roberts, R. C., and Ranu, R. S., 1986, Regulation of protein synthesis in rabbit reticulocyte lysates: requirement of initiation factor eIF-2 holoprotein for substrate specificity of heme-regulated protein kinase, FEBS Letters 209:162-164.
• Ranu, R. S., and Roberts, R. C., 1983, Regulation of protein synthesis in rabbit reticulocyte lysates: separation of heme regulated protein kinsase into a high and a low molecular weight species, Blochem, Biophys. Res. Commun. 110:951-958.

“I’ve served as a Children’s Pastor for 14 years prior to coming to teach at Grace, and continue to serve in Children’s Ministries. My wife and I have three grown children; investing in their families’ lives keeps us busy as well.”

“The ability to get to know students well and see them develop in their passion for science and for the Lord”