Facility Resources
Instrumentation
The Molecular Biology Core Facility is located in room 2-22, on the second floor of Building 119 on the VA campus.
The facility houses a Beckman CEQ 8000 genetic analyzer, Syngene G:box XX6 imager, Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer, Agilent 2200 Tapestation, Eppendorf epMotion 5070 robot, Turner Biosystems Modulus Microplate reader, Bio-Rad Cfx96, Eppendorf Gradient Mastercycler, Bio-Rad Bio-Plex Mag-Pix, Protein Simple Abby Western blotting system, and Nanodrop One spectrophotometer, along with a variety of other molecular biology equipment.
Personnel
Dr. Regenia Campbell
Assistant Director
Dr. Regenia Campbell is our facility’s go -to expert for all things related to the
microbiome and has published on the role of fecal flora in both heart failure and
sexually transmitted infections. Her research interests all focus on the role our
environment plays in whether we will respond to a disease intervention. Current projects
include work on how gut microbes may impact neural signaling in heart failure (for
which she is funded by the American Heart Association) and the influence of the maternal
microbiome on childhood obesity in breastfed infants.
Dr. Campbell teaches in the second-year medical curriculum where she shares her knowledge
of anatomy, physiology, microbiology, and neuroscience. She must do a pretty good
job because sometimes she is nominated for teaching awards. Dr. Campbell cares a lot
about scientific outreach and especially likes making candy DNA models with five-year-olds.
She is impassioned to ride her double-helix-induced sugar high to make science accessible
to often forgotten populations and is convinced that increasing scientific literacy
among senior citizens may one day save the world.
Dr. Campbell received her doctoral degree in Biomedical Science with a specialization
in Microbiology here at East Tennessee State University. Her dissertation work explored
how antibiotic exposure induced a treatment-resistant phenotype in chlamydia genital
infections. Her five years spent getting too well acquainted with the wrong end of
a mouse was recently rewarded when her work influenced the CDC to change the treatment
guidelines for chlamydial infections in pregnant women. She completed a postdoctoral
fellowship in Neurocardiology. Dr. Campbell joined the faculty at the James H. Quillen
College of Medicine at ETSU in 2021, where she is currently an Assistant Professor
in the Department of Medical Education.