Rate My Professor Debra Adair

Debra Adair is an Adjunct Professor in the Biological Sciences department at SUNY Ulster, located at the Stone Ridge Campus in HAR 225. She can be contacted by phone at 845-687-5231. Adair earned her BS in Biology from the University of New Mexico in 1993, MS in Biology from Northern Arizona University in 1999, and Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology from Warsaw Medical University in 2005. At SUNY Ulster, she teaches a range of courses including Microbiology, Anatomy and Physiology, Pathophysiology, General Biology, and Human Biology. Her teaching focuses on foundational and applied aspects of biological sciences, drawing from her extensive background in microbiology.

Debra Adair's primary areas of expertise are Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. Her research contributions include studies on infectious diseases, particularly hepatitis C virus interactions with HIV and bacterial pathogens. Key publications co-authored by Adair include: Tomasz Laskus et al., 'Effect of Hepatitis C Infection on HIV-Induced Apoptosis,' PLoS One (2013); Adair DM et al., 'Differential display analysis of gene expression in brain from hepatitis C infected patients,' AIDS (2005); Laskus T et al., 'Emerging evidence of Hepatitis C neuroinvasion,' AIDS (2005); Radkowski M et al., 'Evidence for viral persistence in anti-hepatitis C antibody positive patients with normal alanine aminotransferase levels,' Journal of Infectious Diseases (2005); Adair DM et al., 'Diversity in a Variable-Number Tandem Repeat from Yersinia pestis,' Journal of Clinical Microbiology (2000); and Jackson PJ et al., 'Molecular Analysis of Tissue Samples from the 1979 Sverdlovsk Anthrax Victims: The Presence of Multiple Bacillus anthracis in Different Victims,' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1998). She received an NIH grant in 2005 for 'Hepatitis C Virus Brain Infection in HCV/HIV Coinfection.' Adair is affiliated with the American Society for Microbiology. A full list of publications is available upon request.