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Stacey Rodenbeck, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biology

Disciplines

  • Biology

Research Interests

  • I completed my Ph.D. in Cellular and Integrative Physiology while working in the lab of Dr. Michael Sturek at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, IN. While there, I developed an intense interest in “broken” biology and the ways in which “breaking” normal biological patterns in one body system would affect other body systems. Metabolic syndrome is defined as the clustering of metabolic conditions, including central obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, hyperinsulinemia, and glucose intolerance. Interestingly, these metabolic conditions are also risk factors for cardiovascular complications. In particular, I am interested in teasing out the contributions of these risk factors to aberrant intracellular calcium handling in the smooth muscle cells lining the coronary arteries. These changes in calcium handling are associated with increases in atherosclerotic plaque formation, which in turn contributes to mortality due to myocardial infarction.

Rebekah Rampey, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair of the Biology Department

Disciplines

  • Biology

Research Interests

  • Auxins are a class of phytohormones that influence virtually every aspect of plant development. Plants regulate auxin levels through complex interactions among de novo synthesis, degradation, influx, efflux, and conjugate synthesis and hydrolysis. A thorough knowledge of these pathways is key to understanding the roles of auxins in plants. In a collaborative effort with Dr. Bethany Zolman, an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Missouri in St. Louis, we are using genetic approaches to better understand the function of certain proteins involved in auxin storage and metabolism in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. A forward genetic screen identified a mutant defective in auxin-conjugate response, J56. We have used next-generation sequencing to compare mutant and genomic sequences and several mutations were identified in J56. Students are working to identify the causative mutation for the J56 auxin phenotype using several approaches, including isolating mutant alleles for candidate genes, using PCR to assay homozygous J56 lines for segregation of each mutation, and using quantitative PCR to measure expression levels of the candidate genes.

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    1. Education 29
    2. Business 26
    3. Nursing 23
    4. Religion 22
    5. Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 22

Research Interest

    1. Ethics 2
    2. 19th Cenutyr Sussex 1
    3. 19th and 20th Century Britain 1
    4. Accounting Education 1
    5. Actor Network Theory as Lens for Collaboration 1
    1. Acute Care 1
    2. Addiction counseling 1
    3. African-American History 1
    4. Agile 1
    5. Alliance and Partner Management 1
    6. Alzheimer's Disease 1
    7. Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Practice 1
    8. American Literature 1
    9. Animation 1
    10. Anthropogenic impacts on wildlife populations 1
    11. Anthropology 1
    12. Anxiety 1
    13. Anxiety disorders 1
    14. Arachnology (primarily working in descriptive ecology of the wolf spider Rabidosa rabida) 1
    15. Arkansas History 1
    16. Arthurian Literature 1
    17. Articulation and Phonological Disorders 1
    18. Artificial Intelligence 1
    19. Assessment 1
    20. Astrophysics 1
    21. Auxins are a class of phytohormones that influence virtually every aspect of plant development. Plants regulate auxin levels through complex interactions among de novo synthesis, degradation, influx, efflux, and conjugate synthesis and hydrolysis. A thorough knowledge of these pathways is key to understanding the roles of auxins in plants. In a collaborative effort with Dr. Bethany Zolman, an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Missouri in St. Louis, we are using genetic approaches to better understand the function of certain proteins involved in auxin storage and metabolism in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. A forward genetic screen identified a mutant defective in auxin-conjugate response, J56. We have used next-generation sequencing to compare mutant and genomic sequences and several mutations were identified in J56. Students are working to identify the causative mutation for the J56 auxin phenotype using several approaches, including isolating mutant alleles for candidate genes, using PCR to assay homozygous J56 lines for segregation of each mutation, and using quantitative PCR to measure expression levels of the candidate genes. 1
    22. BSW Self-Efficacy 1
    23. Bible 1
    24. Biblical Studies 1
    25. Bioethics 1
    26. Bioinorganic assay development 1
    27. Black Mountain College 1
    28. Business History 1
    29. Business Intelligence 1
    30. Business Strategy 1
    31. Cardiology 1
    32. Chaucer 1
    33. Child Sexual Abuse 1
    34. Child Welfare 1
    35. Choral Pedagogy 1
    36. Church History 1
    37. Classical Literature 1
    38. Clifton Strenths and its impact on College students 1
    39. Co-construction of Writer's Voice 1
    40. College student retention 1
    41. Communication 1
    42. Community Development 1
    43. Community Engagement 1
    44. Construction 1
    45. Continental Philosophy 1

Organization

    1. Cannon-Clary College of Education 30
    2. Paul R. Carter College of Business Administration 26
    3. Carr College of Nursing 23
    4. College of Bible & Ministry 21
    5. College of Pharmacy 21

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