Research

I am interested in integrating molecular and environmental approaches in fungal biology and bioremediation. My previous work has focused on Nanolipoprotein Particles (NLPs), pathogen detection and mitigation, and DNA damage and repair mechanisms.

 

B.S. in Biochemistry, University of California, Davis

Certificate of Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, Air Force Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Engineering and Management

 

•  Urbin, S. S., Casey, H., Price, A. P. C., LaBauve, A. E., & Fisher, C. L. (2025). Novel disk diffusion assay to assess filamentous fungi susceptibility to antifungals (DAFFS). Journal of Microbiology Methods, 235, 107145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2025.107145

• Lyman M, Urbin S, Strout C, Rubinfeld, B. ‘The Oleaginous Red Yeast Rhodotorula/ Rhodosporidium: A Factory for Industrial Bioproducts’. Yeasts in Biotechnology, IntechOpen, 7 Aug. 2019. Crossref, doi:10.5772/intechopen.84129.

• Fischer NO, Weilhammer DR, Dunkle A, Thomas C, Hwang M, Corzett M, Lychak C, Urbin S, Collette C, Chang JC, Loots G, Rasley A, Blanchette C. (2014) Evaluation of Nanolipoprotein Particles (NLPs) as an In Vivo Delivery Platform. PLoS ONE 9(3): e93342. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0093342

• Urbin S.S., Elvers, I., Hinz J.M., Helleday, T., Thompson L.H. Role of Rad51 paralogs and Rad51 focus formation in cellular sensitivity to inhibition of DNA replication. Environ Mol Mutagen. 2012 Mar;53(2):114-24. doi: 10.1002/em.21672.

• Wilson P.F., Hinz J.M, Urbin S.S., Nham P.B., Thompson L.H. (2010). Influence of homologous recombination repair on cell survival and chromosomal aberration induction throughout the cell cycle in irradiated CHO cells DNA Repair (Amst). 2010 Jul 1;9(7):737-44. doi: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2010.03.009.

• Wilson P.F., Nham P.B., Urbin S.S., Hinz J.M., Jones I.M., Thompson L.H. (2010). Inter-individual variation in DNA double-strand break repair in human fibroblasts before and after exposure to low doses of ionizing radiation. Mutat Res. 683(1-2):91-7.

• Hinz J.M., Urbin S.S., Thompson L.H. (2009). RAD51D- and FANCG-dependent base substitution mutagenesis at the ATP1A1 locus in mammalian cells. Mutat Res. 665 (1-2):61-6.

• Fan J., Wilson P.F., Wong H.K., Urbin, S.S., Thompson L.H., Wilson, D.M. 3rd (2007). XRCC1 downregulation in human cells leads to DNA-damaging agent hypersensitivity, elevated sister chromatid exchange, and reduced survival of BRCA2 mutant cells. Envirn. Mol. Mutagen. 48, 491-500.

• Hinz J.M., Nham P.B., Urbin S.S., Jones I.M., Thompson L.H. (2007). Disparate contributions of the Fanconi anemia pathway and homologous recombination in preventing spontaneous mutagenesis. Nucleic Acids Research 35, 1-8.

• Wiese C., Hinz, J. M., Tebbs, R. S., Nham, P. B., Urbin, S.S., Collins, D. W., Thompson, L. H., and Schild, D. (2006). Disparate requirements for the Walker A and B ATPase motifs of human RAD51D in homologous recombination. Nucleic Acid Res. 34, 2833-2843.

• Hinz J. M., Tebbs R. S., Wilson P. F., Nham P. B., Salazar E. P., Nagasawa H., Urbin S. S., Bedford J. S., and Thompson L. H. (2006). Repression of mutagenesis by Rad51D-mediated homologous recombination. Nucleic Acid Res., 34, 1358-1368.