Affiliation: Kent State University at Salem, Department of Biological Sciences, Salem, Ohio, USA

Dr. Louise M. Steele currently works as an Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Kent State University’s Salem Campus.  She earned her PhD in molecular biology from Case Western Reserve University and completed her bachelor’s in biology at Penn State Behrend.  She carried out her postdoctoral fellowships at the Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute and at Seattle Children’s Research Institute.  In the lab, her current research interests include studying the biological effects of ultrasound (high-frequency sound) by using C. elegans nematode worms as a model organism.  Dr. Steele and her talented group of undergraduate researchers have found that therapeutic ultrasound alters worm movement, reproduction, and survival.  They are now investigating subtler forms of ultrasound-induced damage and repair.  In the classroom, Dr. Steele enjoys teaching biology courses for pre-nursing and pre-radiology students and sharing her enthusiasm for science in courses for non-science majors.