James Bidlack

Career

Most notably, James (Jim) Bidlack is known for his research, textbooks, and involvement with the Doctor James Enderby Bidlack currently works as a professor of Biology at the University of Central Oklahoma conducting research in multi-disciplinary fields. Bidlack has worked with weed control of pigeon pea. He has performed research to determine the nitrogen content and dry weight of chickpeas as well as pigeon peas in a wheat-legume crop rotation for several years.

Some of his most recent work involves measuring the morphology, biomass, and vessel diameter in pigeonpea when being subjected to water stress.

He has also worked in collaboration with Philip M. Silverman to evaluate an active type IV secretion system that makes Escherichia coli sensitive to bile salts. During the mid to late 1990s Bidlack donated specimens to the The was a sperm bank which only stocked specimens from those were thought to be the best and the brightest.

Bidlack also appeared in a documentary on the, which aired on British Broadcasting Corporation Horizon in.

Achievements

• He was interviewed regarding his involvement with this project by Slate Magazine and the book The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank (2005) by David Plotz.

Works

• Other Work

  • Published Works Textbooks Bidlack, J.E., and S.H. Jansky. 2014. Introductory Plant Biology, Thirteenth Edition. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies. Bidlack, J.E., and S.H. Jansky.
    
    2011. Introductory Plant Biology, Twelfth Edition. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies. Stern, K.R., J. Bidlack, and S. Jansky. 2008. Introductory Plant Biology, Eleventh Edition.
    
    New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies. Stern, K.R., J. Bidlack, S. Jansky, and G. Uno. 2006. Introductory Plant Biology, Tenth Edition. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies. Stern, K.R., S. Jansky, and J. Bidlack.
    
    2003. Introductory Plant Biology, Ninth Edition. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies.

Membership

He is a member of the MERLOT Editorial Board MERLOT/Biology, and a past co-sponsor for the Tri-Beta/Biology Club.