Teaching Positions

• 2002 - Present
  Professor of Rainforest Biology
  La Suerte Biological Station
  Primavera, Costa Rica
• 1998 - Present
  Assistant Professor of Biology
  Science Department
  Tusculum College
  Greeneville, Tennessee
• 1993 - 1998
  Assistant Professor of Biology
  Biology Department
  High Point University
  High Point, NC
• 1987 - 1993
  Graduate Teaching Assistant
  Biology Department
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Blacksburg, VA

• Tropical Rainforest Biology and Conservation
• Capstone Studies in Costa Rica
• Costa Rica Field Biology
• Tropical Field Biology
• Environmental Science
• Biology of Animals
• Research and Writing in Biology
• Senior Research
• Parasitology
• Microbiology
• Genetics

Activities 2002

• Instructed Rainforest Biology and Conservation at La Suerte Biological field station.
• Spanish language instruction. CPI, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
• Ecochallenge at Ometepe, Nicaragua
• 2001 Three weeks in Costa Rica studying natural history.
• Spanish language instruction. CPI, Monteverde, Costa Rica.
• Morphology and Taxonomy of Vascular Plants. Tusculum College, Greeneville, TN.
• 2000 Biotechnology: Policy Issues and Regulatory Frameworks. Salzburg Seminar Fellow. Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria.

1999

• General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology participant.
• National Benthological Society's Annual Meeting participant.

1998

• Roan Mountain Naturalist Rally participant.
• Hawk Migration Association of North America hawk survey participant.
• Four weeks in Costa Rica studying natural history.

1997

• Introduction to Spanish. High Point University
• Tennessee Anuran Monitoring Project workshop participant.
• Hawk Migration Association of North America hawk survey participant.
• Two weeks in Costa Rica studying natural history.
• Mount Rogers Naturalist Rally participant.

1996

• Molecular Techniques used by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to Identify Pathogens". Chatagua short course.
• Two weeks in Costa Rica studying natural history.
• Tennessee Anuran Monitoring Project workshop participant.
• NorthEast Tennessee New Years Eve Bird Watch survey participant.
• Hawk Migration Association of North America hawk survey participant.

1995

• Two weeks in Costa Rica studying natural history.
• Mount Rogers Naturalist Rally participant.

1994

• Two weeks in Costa Rica studying natural history.

1993

• NorthEast Tennessee New Years Eve Bird Watch survey participant.

Publications

Published Articles

• Meade, Tara and Ian J. VanLare. Plasmids of Bacillus thuringiensis and the Possibility of their Transfer to Root Dwelling (Nitrogen-fixing) Acetobacter to confer Insect Pathogen Resistance to Roots. Journal of North Carolina Academy of Science. 1994.

Seminars

• Tropical Forests of Costa Rica. Biology Club, High Point University. 1988

Published Abstracts

• VanLare, Ian J. and G. William Claus. Substrate Specificity of the Membrane-bound Sorbitol Dehydrogenase of Gluconobacter oxydans. Abstracts of the 93rd General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. 1993.
• VanLare, Ian J. and G. William Claus. Purification and Initial Characterization of the Membrane-bound [Cofactor-independent] Sorbitol Dehydrogenase Complex from Gluconobacter oxydans. Abstracts of the 92nd General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. 1992.
• VanLare, Ian J. and G. William Claus. Comparison of Limited Oxidations Performed by the Membrane and Cytoplasmic Fractions of Gluconobacter oxydans. Virginia Journal of Science, 42. 1991.
• VanLare, Ian J. and G. William Claus. The Effect of Detergents and Artificial Electron Acceptors on Detecting Membrane-bound [NAD(P)-independent] Sorbitol Dehydrogenase of Gluconobacter oxydans. Abstracts of the 91st General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. 1991.
• VanLare, Ian J. and G. William Claus. Regulation and Purification of Sorbitol Dehydrogenase of Gluconobacter oxydans. Virginia Journal of Science, 41. 1990
• VanLare, Ian J. and G. William Claus. Purification of the Plasma Membrane from Gluconobacter oxydans. Graduate Research Symposium, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 1989
• VanLare, Ian J. and G. William Claus. Solubilization and Partial Characterization of Sorbitol Dehydrogenase from Gluconobacter oxydans. Virginia Journal of Science, 40. 1989.
• VanLare, Ian J. and G. William Claus. Solubilization and Partial Characterization of Sorbitol Dehydrogenase from Gluconobacter oxydans. Abstracts of the 89th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. 1989.

Manuscripts In Preparation

• VanLare, Ian J. and G. William Claus. Purification and Initial Characterization of the Membrane-bound [NAD(P)-independent] Polyol Dehydrogenase from Gluconobacter oxydans.
• VanLare, Ian J. and G. William Claus. The Prosthetic Group of the Membrane-bound [NAD(P)-independent] Polyol Dehydrogenase from Gluconobacter oxydans.
• VanLare, Ian J. and G. William Claus. Electron Transfer from the Membrane-bound Polyol Dehydrogenase to Cytochrome C via Coenzyme Q in Gluconobacter oxydans.