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Diana L. McGill
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Department of Chemistry Email:
mcgill@nku.edu |
The
courses I teach this fall semester are:|
Course Number |
Course Title / Description |
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CHE 482 |
Biochemistry I |
My
schedule this semester is:
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
7:00
Course Prep
Problem Session 7-8 SC 402
8:00 CHE 482 SC402 8 - 9:15
OFFICE HOUR SC 204F 9:30 - 10:30
CHE 482 SC402 8 - 9:15 OFFICE HOUR SC 204F 9:30 - 10:30
9:00
OFFICE HOUR
SC 204F
10:00
11:00
12:00
Meetings
1:00
Meetings
2:00
Meetings Dept. Meetings
3:00
Meetings
Meetings Meetings
4:00
Meetings
Meetings
Research
Interests
I conduct my research on proteins with undergraduates during the summer and academic year. The McGill lab is interested in the enzymology of proteins involved in ion homeostasis.
The current research in the lab involves P-type ATPases that are potentially involved in magnesium transport. Students working on these projects can do anything from using analytical chemistry to determine magnesium concentration to using molecular biology to create expression vectors for the putative magnesium transporters. This work is in collaboration with Drs. Schultheis and Martines (Biological Sciences) and Dr. Bardgett (Psychology).
A second line of research in the lab involves a collaboration with Dr. Bardgett. Our role in the project involves the determination of drug concentrations of rat water and blood. The drugs are used in behavioral studies.
Lastly, a third line of study involves expression studies focused on chimeras of rat Na,K ATPase and the related H,K ATPase. Students use classical molecular techniques to assemble chimeric cDNAs, to make mammalian expression constructs with these cDNAs, then to express the rat proteins in human HeLa cells. Studies of many different chimeras are at various stages of study
Adam Ketron presenting his work at the National ACS Meeting in Atlanta, March 2006
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