Nebraska Wesleyan University

Jerry Bricker

Faculty/Staff profile

Associate Professor of Biology

Phone:

(402) 465-2446

Email:

jbricker@nebrwesleyan.edu

Office:

Olin Hall 213

Office hours:

My online calendar is updated daily. You can find it at http://biology.nebrwesleyan.edu/jbricker/Brickers_Schedule.html.

Education:

Ph.D. in Botany, Arizona State University
M.S. in Botany, Arizona State University
B.S. in Biology, Western Michigan University

Courses taught:

Liberal Arts Seminar, General Biology of Plants, Medical Botany, Medical Botany Lab, Plant Taxonomy, Ecology, Tropical Biology of Belize, Principles of Marine Biology, Applied Marine Biology, Senior Research.

Support pages (course descriptions, syllabi, etc.) can be found at http://biology.nebrwesleyan.edu/jbricker/Brickers_Course_Websites.html.

Course schedule:

My online calendar is updated daily. You can find it at http://biology.nebrwesleyan.edu/jbricker/Brickers_Schedule.html.

Research and academic interests:

The focus of my research is the search (better known as "bioprospecting") for biologically active endophytes (definition: an organism, such as a fungus, that grows within the tissues or cells of another plant). My primary goal is to identify organisms that produce novel compounds that exhibit biological activity, hopefully against human diseases.

Please visit my research webpage at http://biology.nebrwesleyan.edu/jbricker/Research.html.