Marquette Compendium News of Faculty and Staff Activities SUMMER 2012
The summer 2012 issue of Compendium is a compilation of Marquette University faculty research, scholarship and accomplishments from November 2011 through May 2012, and grants reported by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs from December 2011 through May 2012. The purpose of this compilation is to recognize faculty and staff who are making advancements in their fields of expertise as well as to allow fellow faculty to see opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration. To submit a scholarly activity, full-time and clinical faculty can opt in to sharing scholarly activities entered into the Faculty Activities Database with Compendium and e-Publications by checking the appropriate box on the FAD “Report Permissions” tab. Part-time and adjunct faculty who do not use the FAD should submit via marquette.edu/omc/compendium.php. Citations will be posted on the Marquette University research website, marquette.edu/research/ compendium.php. For more information or additional copies, contact the Office of Marketing and Communication, 414.288.6712.
Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences Dr. William Donaldson
Associate Dean and Professor of Chemistry Published: “Recent Applications of the Simple Hydrocarbon Cyclooctatetraene as a Starting Material for Complex Molecule Synthesis,” Mini-Reviews in Organic Chemistry, Vol. 9, No. 1 (February 2012), pp 31-43, with Kevin Glaske.
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Dr. Edward Blumenthal Associate Professor
Grant: $153,080, “REU Site: Undergraduate Summer Research in Molecular and Cellular Biology,” National Science Foundation, with Dr. Gail Waring, Department of Biological Sciences. Published: “Introduction to the Special Issue on Insect Epithelial Transport,” Journal of Insect Physiology, Vol. 58, No. 4 (April 2012), p 427. Presented: “Characterization of the Drosophila Drop-Dead Gene,” University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Jan. 30, 2012. Presented: “The Enlarged Crop Phenotype Observed in Drop-Dead Mutants Does Not Correlate with Starvation,” Drosophila Research Conference, Chicago, March 7-11, 2012, with graduate student Christine Sansone. Presented: “Tyramine: A Paracrine Diuretic Agent in the Drosophila Malpighian Tubule,” University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, May 24, 2012.
Dr. Thomas Eddinger Professor
Published: see entry for Dr. John LaDisa, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering.
Dr. Kathleen Karrer Professor
Published: “Nuclear Dualism,” Methods in Cell Biology: Tetrahymena Thermophila, (2012), Kathleen Collins and Eduardo Orias (editors), pp 29-52, Elsevier, Inc.
Dr. Gail Schumann Adjunct Professor
Published: Hungry Planet: Stories of Plant Diseases, (2012), American Phytopathological Society Press, with Cleora J. D’Arcy.
Dr. Martin St. Maurice Assistant Professor
Grant: $93,638, “The Structure and Function of Pyruvate Carboxylase,” National Institutes of Health. Published: “Structure of Mandelate Racemase with Bound Intermediate Analogues Benzohydroxamate and Cupferron,” Biochemistry, Vol. 51, No. 6 ( January 2012), pp 1160-70, with Adam D. Lietzan, Mitesh Nagar, Elize A. Pellmann, Jennifer R. Bourque and Stephen L. Bearne. Presented: “Snapshots of Catalysis in Rhizobium Etli Pyruvate Carboxylase,” Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function, Lorne, Australia, February 2012, with graduate student Adam Lietzan, A.L. Menefee, Tonya Zeczycki, John C. Wallace, Paul V. Attwood and W. Wallace Cleland.
Dr. Rosemary Stuart Professor
Published: “Rcf1 and Rcf2, Members of the Hypoxia-Induced Gene 1 Protein Family, are Critical Components of the Mitochondrial Cytochrome bc1-Cytochrome Oxidase Supercomplex,” Molecular and Cellular Biology, Vol. 32, No. 8 (April 2012), pp 1363-73, with teaching assistants Vera Strogolova and Joshua Garlic, and graduate students Andrew Furness and Michaela Robb-McGrath. Presented: “The Conserved Hypoxia Induced Gene 1 Protein Family Members are Novel Components of the Mitochondrial Cytochrome C Oxidase Complex,” University of California–Los Angeles, Los Angeles, March 9, 2012.
Dr. Rajendra Rathore
Dr. Gail Waring
Dr. Chieu Tran
Grant: see entry for Dr. Edward Blumenthal, Department of Biological Sciences.
Grant: $339,077, “Polysaccharide Ecocomposite Materials: Recyclable Synthesis and Applications,” National Institutes of Health.
Professor
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY Dr. Adam Fiedler Assistant Professor
Grant: $220,000, “Biomimetic Chemistry Relevant to Nonheme Iron Dioxygenases Involved in Bioremediation Process,” National Science Foundation. Awarded: Way Klingler Young Scholar Award, March 2012.
Dr. James Kincaid
Pfletschinger Habermann Chair and Professor
Grant: $250,379, “Raman Studies of Mammalian Cytochromes P450,” National Institutes of Health. Grant: $199,948, “Structural Characterization of Highly Reactive Heme Enzyme Intermediates,” National Science Foundation.
Dr. Rajendra Rathore Professor
Grant: $64,879, “Targeting DUSP5 to Treat Vascular Anomalies,” National Institutes of Health. Awarded: Way Klingler Fellowship in Science, March 2012.
Pfletchinger-Habermann Professor
Dr. Charles Wilkie
Pfletschinger Habermann Chair and Professor Emeritus
Grant: $97,000, “New NanoDimensional Materials for Fire Retardancy,” National Institute of Standards and Technology, with Dr. Jeanne Hossenlopp, Graduate School, Office of the Provost.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Dr. Amy Blair
Associate Professor
Published: Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States, (2011), Temple University Press. Presented: “The Author At Home,” C19 Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists Biannual Conference, University of California–Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif., April 14, 2012. Appointed: Co-editor of Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History, (Reception Study Society), 2011.