W. David Currie, Assistant Professor. (currie@horseshoeridge.com) Ph.D. University of Saskatchewan, Western College of Veterinary Medicine. Veterinary Physiology.Instructional Development in the Sciences.

        International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives. 1998. Total Immersion Learning (Bowers,
        Currie, Powers).

        1998 Computers on Campus Conference. 1998. Anatomy of web based computer assisted instruction
        (CAI): a model for any discipline (Powers, Bowers, Currie, Seymour).

        International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives. 1997. Overcoming obstacles to computer
        literacy (Powers, Bowers & Currie).
 
 

Allan Forsman, Assistant Professor. (forsman@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of North Dakota School of Medicine.
Gravitational Biology, Reproductive Biology.

        Forsman, Allan D., Angela R. Herpich, and Stephen K. Chapes. 1999. Improved soft agar colony
        assay in a Fluid Processing Apparatus. In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. - Animal 35:55-60.

        Chapes, Stephan K., Steven J. Simske, Allan D. Forsman, Ted A. Bateman, and Robert J.
        Zimmerman. 1999. Effects of space flight and IGF-1 on immune function. In press.

        Forsman, Allan D. and John T. McCormack. 1992. Microcorrosion casts of hamster luteal and
        follicular vasculature throughout the estrous cycle. Anatomical Record 233:515-520.
 
 

Michael T. Gallagher, Chair/Professor. (gallaghe@etsu.edu) Ph.D. Transplantation Immunology, Graft-vs Host
Disease, Immunotoxicology and Macrophage Function.

        D.R. Davis; M.T. Gallagher. 1997. The effects of Carbaryll and Propanil on FC R-Mediated
        Phagocytosis of IgG-Sensitized Erythrocytes by Human Monocytes. (In press).

        V.L. Wolfe; P.R. Scheuerman; G.R. Lanza; M.T. Gallagher. Effects of Combinations of Nitrogen,
        Phosphorus, and a Vitamin Mixture on Degradation Rates of Cresol Isomers. (In press).
 
 

Bert C. Lampson, Assistant Professor. (lampson@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of Missouri-Columbia, Medical
School. Bacteriology; Regulation of iron and sulfur metabolism in the industrially important bacterium,
Rhodococcus erythropolis; msDNA, retroelements, and the genetics of the myxobacteria: a prokaryote that
displays a multicellular developmental life cycle.

        Lampson, B.C., Monticello, D.J., and Squires, C.H. 1999. Discovery of a gene very similar to the
        diphtheria toxin repressor gene (dtxR) from a Rhodococcus erythropolis expression library during
        growth in low sulfur medium. (in preparation).

        Lampson, B.C. and Rice, S.A. 1997. Repetitive sequences found in the chromosome of the
        myxobacterium Nannocystis exedens are similar to msDNA: A possible retrotransposition event in
        bacteria. Molecular Microbiology 23: 813-823.

        Rice, S.A. and Lampson, B.C. 1996. Bacterial reverse transcriptase and msDNA. Virus Genes 11:
        2/3, 95-105.
 
 

Eric L. Mustain, Graduate Coordinator Microbiology Concentration, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. University of
Colorado Health Sciences Center. Comparative Immunology; Antibacterial defense mechanisms present in
invertebrates; particularly crayfish. Regulation of the Immune response, History of Microbiology/Immunology.
 

John G. Osborne, Assistant Professor (osbornej@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of Kentucky Medical Center.
Effects of acute alcohol exposure on neural development.

        Osborne, J.G., Kindy, M.S., Spruce, B.A., Hauser, K.F., 1993. Ontogeny of proenkephalin mRNA and
        enkephalin peptide expression in the cerebellar cortex of the rat: spatial and temporal patterns of
        expression follow maturational gradients in the external granular layer and in Purkinje cells. Dev. Brain
        Research. 76: 1-12.

        Osborne, J.G., Spruce, B.A., Hauser, K.F. 1991. Developmental appearance of proenkephalin
        immunoreactivity in primary explant cultures of rat cerebellum. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 17:46.

        Stiene-Martin, A., Osborne, J.G., Hauser, K.F., 1991. Co-localization of proenkephalin mRNA using
        cRNA probes and a cell-type-specific marker for intact astrocytes in vitro. J. Neurosci. Methods, 36:
        119-126.
 
 

Laraine Powers, Assistant Professor (powersl@etsu.edu) Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Memphis. Role of
bacteriophages in microbial ecology, particularly the horizontal transfer of virulence factors and antibiotic
resistance genes.

        Powers, L. and P. Ryan. 1994. Spontaneous Fusions to prv43 Can Suppress the Export Defect of
        Pseudorabies Virus gIII Signal Peptide Mutants. Journal Virology 68: 2787-2794.

        Powers, L., K.S. Wilkinson and P. Ryan. 1994. Characterization of the prv43 Gene of Pseudorabies
        Virus and Demonstration that it is not required for Virus Growth in Cell Culture. Virology 199: 81-88.
 
 

Burl R. Williams, Jr., Assistant Professor (williamb@etsu.edu) Ph.D., University of Montana. Ventilatory control
mechanisms in mammals and birds; ontogeny of ventilatory responsiveness to carbon dioxide.

        Williams, B.R., Jr., D.L. Kilgore, Jr., and D.F. Boggs. 1995. Body Size and Ventilatory Response to
        CO2. Respiration Physiology. 99: 313-319.

        Boggs, D.F., C. Colby, B.R. Williams, Jr. and D.L. Kilgore, Jr. Chemosensitivity and breathing pattern
        regulation of the coatimundi and woodchuck. Respiration Physiology. 89: 157-167.

        Williams, B.R., Jr. and D.L. Kilbore, Jr. 1992. Ontogenetic modification of the hypercapnic ventilatory
        response in the zebra finch. Respiration Physiology. 90: 125-134.