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Received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for 鈥淐ollaborative Research: Developing Biology Undergraduates鈥 Scientific Literacy and Identity Through Peer Review of Scientific Manuscripts,鈥 under the IUSE (Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources) program. The project is for three years.


Was featured by the journal Trends in Microbiology as an .


McDowell, G.S., Fankhauser, S., Saderi, D., Balgopal, M. and Lijek, R.S. (2022), Use of preprint peer review to educate and enculturate science undergraduates. Learned Publishing, 35, 405-412.


Dresler M, Aries O, Fallman E, Farrukh R, Guzman-Rubalcaba S, Shrum V, Wang R, Yin S, & Lijek RS. (2022). A Rubric to Evaluate Preprint Peer Reviews. Zenodo.


Webster, E. [MHC'20], Seiger, K. W. [MHC'19], Core, S. B., Collar, A. L., Knapp-Broas, H. [MHC'20], Graham, J. [MHC'19], Shrestha, M. [MHC'22], Afzaal, S. [MHC'19], Geisler, W. M., Wheeler, C. M., Chackerian, B., Frietze, K. M., & Lijek, R. S. (2022). Immunogenicity and Protective Capacity of a Virus-like Particle Vaccine against Chlamydia trachomatis Type 3 Secretion System Tip Protein, CT584. Vaccines, 10(1), 111.


McDowell, G. S., Niziolek, C. A., & Lijek, R. S. (2021). How to bring peer review ghostwriters out of the dark. Molecular Biology of the Cell32(6), 461鈥466. 


Mcdowell G, Niziolek CA, & Lijek RS. (2020). Practical changes to reduce ghostwriting in peer review. MetaArXiv. .


McDowell, G.S., Knutsen, J.D., Graham, J.M. [MHC '19], Oelker, S.K. [MHC LITS], and Lijek, R.S. (2019) Co-reviewing and ghostwriting by early-career researchers in the peer review of manuscripts. eLife, 8:e48425.


Gave a talk "Developing undergraduates鈥 scientific literacy and identity using preprint peer review" at the 2022 American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators.


Was selected as one of ten national ImmunoReach Education Scholars for 2022, an NSF-funded faculty mentoring network for immunology educators.