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Source 1:

https://cas.illinois.edu/node/1765

-ADDED: she started conducting microbiology research as a post-doctoral researcher at Virginia Polytech Institute.

-ADDED Wrote two textbooks for the undergraduate level. One of them she worked on with Dixie Whitt, Bacterial Pathogenesis: A Molecular Approach, while working on the curriculum for a clinical microbiology class she was teaching at Illinois. She wanted to make the curriculum more interesting

(from here: Whitaker R. 2018. Abigail Salyers: An Almost Unbeatable Force, p 243-251. In Whitaker R, Barton H (ed), Women in Microbiology. ASM Press, Washington, DC. doi: 10.1128/9781555819545.ch27)


Source 2:

Whitaker R. 2018. Abigail Salyers: An Almost Unbeatable Force, p 243-251. In Whitaker R, Barton H (ed), Women in Microbiology. ASM Press, Washington, DC. doi: 10.1128/9781555819545.ch27

-ADDED: Will change 200 articles to published over 220 articles

-ADDED: Will change "Despite almost being expelled from high school because she was pregnant," in article to something else, because it is paraphrasing the source "In spite of being pregnant in her senior year (and facing threats of expulsion for this)..."

-ADDED: In 1959, she graduated from Wakefield High School in Arlington, VA

-ADDED: Discovery of conjugative transposons, which can transfer antibiotic resistance genes among gut bacteria.


Source 3:

https://mcb.illinois.edu/remembering/abigail_salyers/

-ADDED: will change: "was made the first female tenured professor in Microbiology at Illinois in 1983 and a full professor in 1988" as the structure is similar to what is found in the source "Dr. Salyers joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1978 and became the first female tenured professor in Microbiology in 1983 and a full professor in 1988."


Source 4: https://www.mbl.edu/obituaries/abigail-a-salyers/

-ADDED: Born in Louisville, KY

-ADDED: With the help of her high school English teacher, Mrs. Baker, she applied to college ~~~~


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  1. Abigail Salyers was born in Louisville, Kentucky and attended high school in Arlington, Virginia at Wakefield High School. During high school, she was at risk of expulsion due to being pregnant, but she graduated in 1959 and with the help of her English teacher, Mrs. Baker, applied to college.
    1. Whitaker R. 2018. Abigail Salyers: An Almost Unbeatable Force, p 243-251. In Whitaker R, Barton H (ed), Women in Microbiology. ASM Press, Washington, DC. doi: 10.1128/9781555819545.ch27
    2. https://www.mbl.edu/obituaries/abigail-a-salyers/ ~~~~
  2. as a post-doctoral researcher at Virginia Polytech Institute
    1. Whitaker R. 2018. Abigail Salyers: An Almost Unbeatable Force, p 243-251. In Whitaker R, Barton H (ed), Women in Microbiology. ASM Press, Washington, DC. doi: 10.1128/9781555819545.ch27
  3. In 1978, Salyers started her own lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1983, she became the first woman professor in the Microbiology Department to be granted tenure, and in 1988 was promoted to full professor.
    1. https://mcb.illinois.edu/remembering/abigail_salyers/
    2. Whitaker R. 2018. Abigail Salyers: An Almost Unbeatable Force, p 243-251. In Whitaker R, Barton H (ed), Women in Microbiology. ASM Press, Washington, DC. doi: 10.1128/9781555819545.ch27
  4. Her lab discovered conjugative transposons, which can transfer antibiotic resistance genes among gut bacteria
    1. Whitaker R. 2018. Abigail Salyers: An Almost Unbeatable Force, p 243-251. In Whitaker R, Barton H (ed), Women in Microbiology. ASM Press, Washington, DC. doi: 10.1128/9781555819545.ch27
  5. 220 articles
    1. Whitaker R. 2018. Abigail Salyers: An Almost Unbeatable Force, p 243-251. In Whitaker R, Barton H (ed), Women in Microbiology. ASM Press, Washington, DC. doi: 10.1128/9781555819545.ch27
  6. While teaching clinical microbiology at Illinois, Salyers updated the curriculum to be more interesting to the students, which entailed co-authoring the textbook Bacterial Pathogenesis: A Molecular Approach with Dixie Whitt.
    1. Whitaker R. 2018. Abigail Salyers: An Almost Unbeatable Force, p 243-251. In Whitaker R, Barton H (ed), Women in Microbiology. ASM Press, Washington, DC. doi: 10.1128/9781555819545.ch27
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