Professor Jan Serie passed away on Sept. 17, 2008. Her site will remain temporarily
available. 

Jan Serie served as the Director of Macalester's Center for Scholarship &
Teaching which was established to encourage, promote and support the pursuit of
excellence in scholarship and teaching within Macalester's distinctive urban liberal
arts setting. She was an immunologist with additional interests in physiology, cell
biology and neuroscience. She won local and national awards for her teaching including
being named the 1999 Minnesota College Science Teacher of the Year. Serie headed the
Taylor Pre-Medical Internship Program as well as the Hughes Program for students
interested in biomedical research. 

EDUCATION: B.S., College of St. Benedict, 1975; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1981

Journal Articles

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Cell biology and general chemistry II: Development of an integrated approach (with A. Schwartz), FASEB Journal (2002)
 

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General Chemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, An Experiment in Curricular Symbiosis (with A.T. Schwartz), Journal of Chemical Education (2001)
 

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Genetic modulation of the murine mucosal IgA response to enteroviral infection (with J Lund), FASEB Journal (2001)
 

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Expression of nociceptin/OFQ receptor and prepro-nociceptin/OFQ in lymphoid tissues (with J.S. Pampusch, M.A. Osinski, V.S. Seybold, M.P. Murtaugh, and D.R. Brown), Peptides (2000)
 

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Exogenous melatonin enhances the mucosal IgA and plasma IgG responses to remove reoviral infection (with C Rolle, W Patton, and L Schiff), FASEB Journal (2000)
 

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Contributions to Books/Essays

Opioid receptor gene expression in the porcine immune system Drugs of Abuse, Immunomodulation and AIDS (with M. Pampusch, M. Osinki, M. Murtaugh, and D. Brown), Drugs of Abuse, Immunomodulation and AIDS (1998)