Selected Publications:

2004 Wan, Jinrog, Michael A. Torres, and Gary Stacey. Proteomic Analysis of Soybean Root Hairs After Infection by Bradyrhizobium japonicum. Manuscript in preparation

2003 Torres, Michael A. and Gary Stacey. " Physiology and Genetics of Rhizobia � Legume Nitrogen Fixation". Advances in Plant Physiology �an International treatise series. Ed. A. Hemantaranjan. Vol 6, 413 � 441.

2000 Torres, M. A. "The Genetics of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation." BIOS, Vol.71 #3, 91 � 95.

1997 Cain, J*. and M.A. Torres. "The changes in Lipid Concentration Over the Duration of One Feed in Human Breast Milk." BIOS, vol. 68, #3, 70-76.

1996 Leal, A. and M.A. Torres. "Comparación del contenido nuclear en ADN de nodulos apicales y esféricos de varias Leguminosas." Asociación Latinoamericana de Rhizobiologia. ALAR, vol. 8, 273-275.

1996 Leal, A. and M.A. Torres. "Proposión de una metodologia para la determinación de la eficiencia de la actividad nitrogenosa en la simbiosis Rhizobium-Leguminosa." ALAR, vol 18, 277-279.

1996 Brantley, D*. and M.A. Torres. "Apolipoprotein E Synthesis by Transplanted Bone Marrow Derived Cells in Apolipoprotein E Deficient Mice. BIOS, vol. 67, #2, 74-82.

1994 Torres, Michael. "The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance". BIOS, vol 65,#4, 215 � 218.

* Undergraduate students

Professional Experience:

2004 - present Faculty member in the Department of Biology at Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC

1990 - 2004 Faculty member in the Department of Biology at Maryville College, Maryville TN

1995 - Present Faculty Consultant and Question Table leader for the Educational Testing Service (ETS) on their Advance Placement Biology Tests

1997 - 1998 Sabbatical research year in the Microbiology Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville in Dr. Gary Stacey�s lab

1978 - 1990 Faculty member in the Department of Biology at St. Andrews College, Laurinburg, North Carolina

1984 - 1985 Sabbatical research year in the Department of Botany at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina in Dr. J. Miksche�s lab

1976 - 1978 Faculty member and Canadian Research Council Research Fellow in the Department of Microbiology, Guelph University, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

1974 - 1976 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in Dr. W. Ford Doolitle�s lab