Faculty Research in the Department of Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Dr. Sheila (Prabhakar) Abraham

Publications

• 2009. Crook, D. J., Prabhakar, S. and Oppert, B. “Protein digestion in the larvae of red oak borer, Enaphalodes rufulus.” Physiological Entomology 34: 152-157.
• 2007.  Prabhakar, S., Chen, M-S., Elpidina, E.N., Vinokurov, K.S., Smith, C.M., Marshall, J. and Oppert, B. “Molecular Characterization of Digestive Proteinases and Sequence Analysis of the Yellow Mealworm, Tenebrio molitor L.” Insect Molecular Biology 16 (4) 455-468.
• 2006.  Vinokurov, K.S., Elpidina, E.N., Oppert, B., Prabhakar, S., Zhuzhikov, D.P., Dunaevsky, Y.E., and Belozersky, M.A. “Diversity of digestive proteinases in Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) larvae.” Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part B 145: 126-137.
• 2006.  Vinokurov, K.S., Elpidina, E.N., Oppert, B., Prabhakar, S., Zhuzhikov, D.P., Dunaevsky, Y.E., and Belozersky, M.A. “Fractionation of digestive proteinases from Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) larvae and role in protein digestion.” Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part B 145: 138-146.
• 2005. Boina, D., Prabhakar, S., Smith, C.M., Starkey, L., Zhu, L., Boyko, E. and Reese, J.C. “Categories of Resistance to Biotype I Greenbugs (Homoptera: Aphididae) in Wheat Lines Containing the Greenbug Resistance Genes Gbx and Gby.” Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 78 (3): 252-260.
• 2002.  Divakar, B.J. and Prabhakar, S. “Entomopathogens in the Management of Agro-ecosystem.” In Bio-inoculants for sustainable agriculture and forestry. Ed. S.M. Reddy, S. Ram Reddy, M.A. Signara Chary, and S. Girisham. Scientific Publishers, Jodhpur (India). 125-132.

Presentations

• 2005. “Analysis of the midgut transcripts of the yellow mealworm, Tenebrio molitorL.” Section B Student competition, 2005 ESA Annual Meeting. Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
• 2005. “Digestive proteinase gene expression in Tenebrio molitorL.- an important key to identifying new pest control methods” Fifth Annual Meeting of the consortium for the Integrated Management of Stored product Insect Pests, USDA CSREES Risk Avoidance and mitigation Program. Manhattan, Kans.
• 2005. “Molecular Studies of proteinase genes in Tenebrio molitor L.” 137^th Annual Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Sciences. Overland Park, Kans.
• 2005.  “Classical biological control.” Guest lecturer in insect biocontrol (ENTOM 820). Kansas State University
• 2004.  “Molecular characterization of digestive proteinases of the yellow mealworm, Tenebrio molitor L.” 52^nd Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America (ESA) and the fourth Annual Meeting of the Consortium for the Integrated Management of Stored Product Insect Pests, USDA CREES Risk Avoidance and Mitigation Program, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• 2004. “India’s Combat with the malarial killer vector – Win or Lose?” Non-dissertation seminar. Kansas State University.
• 2004. “Molecular characterization of digestive proteinases of the yellow mealworm, Tenebrio molitorL.” Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society. Manhattan, Kans.
• 2004.  “Insect nervous and endocrine system.” Guest lecture in General Entomology (ENTOM 312). Kansas State University.
• 2003.  “Molecular characterization of digestive proteinases of the yellow meal worm, Tenebrio molitorL.” COMSPIP-RAMP Conference held at the USDA ARS-GMPRC. Manhattan, Kans.
• 2003. “Food digestion in larval red oak borer, Enaphalodes rurulus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).” Poster presentation. 51^st Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America. Cincinnati, Ohio.
• 2003. “Food digestion in the larval red oak borer, Enaphalodes rurulus (Haldeman) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).” Poster presentation. 135^th Annual Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science. Pittsburg, Kansas.
• 2003. “Food digestion in the larval red oak borer, Enaphalodes rurulus (Haldeman) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).” Poster presentation. 79^th Annual Meeting of the Central States Entomological Society of America. Manhattan, Kans.

Dr. Jeremy Day-Storms

Publications

• 2010.  Koutmou, K. S., Day-Storms, J. J., and Fierke, C. A. “The RNR motif of B. subtilis RNase P interacts with PRNA and pre-tRNA to stabilize the active conformation.” RNA (submitted 2010).
• 2007. Niranjanakumari, S., Day-Storms, J. J., Ahmed, M., Hsieh, J., Zahler, N. H., Venters, R. A., and Fierke, C. A. “Probing the architecture of B. subtilis RNase P holoenzyme active site by cross-linking and affinity cleavage.” RNA 13: 521-535.
• 2005. Rueda, D., Hsieh, J., Day-Storms, J.J., Fierke, C.A., and Walter, N.G.  “The 5’ leader of precursor tRNA^Asp bound to the B. subtilis RNase P Holoenzyme has an extended conformation.” Biochemistry 44: 16130-9.
• 2005. Xiao, S., Day-Storms, J.J., Srisawat, C., Fierke, C.A., and Engelke, D.R. “Characterization of conserved structural elements in eukaryotic RNase P RNA reveals roles in holoenzyme assembly and tRNA processing.” RNA 11:885-96.
• 2004. Day-Storms, J.J., Niranjanakumari, S., and Fierke, C.A.  “Ionic interactions between PRNA and P protein in Bacillus subtilis RNase P characterized using a magnetocapture-based assay.” RNA 10: 1595-1608.
• 2000.  Ziehler, W.A., Day, J.J., Fierke, C.A., and Engelke, D.R.  “Effects of 5’ leader and 3’ trailer structures on pre-tRNA processing by nuclear RNase P.” Biochemistry 39: 9909-16

Abstracts

• 2003. Day, J.J., Niranjanakumari, S., Hsieh, J., and Fierke, C.A. Poster Presentation. “Investigations into the PRNA●P protein interactions within the Bacillus subtilis RNase P holoenzyme.” Eighth Annual Meeting of the RNA Society. Vienna, Austria.
• 2003. Hsieh, J., Day, J.J., and Fierke, C.A. Poster Presentation. “A fluorescence assay for studying the binding and cleavage kinetics of the B. subtilis RNase P holoenzyme.” 2003 Michigan RNA Society Meeting. East Lansing, Michigan.
• 2003. Chamberlin, S.I., Henkels, C.H., Day, J.J., Niranjanakumari, S., Fierke, C.A., Oas, T.G. Poster Presentation. “Designing small RNAs for NMR studies of RNase P Protein.” The Seventh Johns Hopkins Folding Meeting. Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.
• 2002. Day, J.J., Niranjanakumari, S., Venters, R., and Fierke, C.A. Poster Presentation. “Elucidation of the interactions between the P protein and P RNA in Bacillus subtilis RNase P.” Molecular Biophysics Symposium 2002. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• 2002. Rueda, D., Day, J.J., Andrews, A.J., Fierke, C.A., and Walter, N.G. Poster Presentation. “Ribonuclease P: a structural study using time resolved FRET.” Seventh Annual Meeting of the RNA Society. Madison, Wisconsin.
• 2001. Day, J.J., Ziehler, W.A., Engelke, D.R., and Fierke, C.A. Poster Presentation. “Effects of 5’ leader and 3’ trailer sequences on S. cerevisiae RNase P catalysis.” Sixth Annual Meeting of the RNA Society. Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Dr. Berhane Ghaim

Publications

• Ghaim, Berhane, and Emily Sprague. (manuscript in preparation) “An Implication of Representing Irrational Numbers by Regular Continued Fraction Expansion”
• 2003. Ghaim, Berhane. “An addendum to D. Popa’s paper: some examples of weakly compact, compact, absolutely summing and nuclear operators on the space $C[0,1]$” Quaestiones Mathematicae 26.1 (2003): 53-56.
• 2003. Ghaim, Berhane; Diestel, Joe; Swart, Johan; and Emily Sprague. “Equimeasurability, nuclearity and representability.” Atti Sem. Mat. Fis. Univ. Modena 51.1 (2003): 99-110.

Presentations

• 2008 & 2009.  Participated in Panel on inquiry-based teaching (IBL). The Legacy of R.L. Moor conference. Austin, Tex.
• 2008. Ghaim, Berhane, and Emily Sprague. “A reexamination of the structure of the irrational numbers.” Presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings. San Diego, Calif.
• 2007. Participated in Panel Discussion for Ohio Project NExT and Ohio section MAA meeting. Wittenburg University. Springfield, Ohio.
• 2007. Participated in Panel Discussion for the Center of Transformational Learning, B-W east and Evening/Weekend Program seminar “From Pedagogy to Andragogy: Making the Shift to Teach Adult Students.”
• 2006.  Ghaim, Berhane. “Non-differentiability Mappings into a Banach Space.” Graduate Enrichment Seminar. Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
• 2006. Participated in the Barbara Byrd-Bennett Summer Scholars Program teaching mathematics.
• 2006. Participated in Panel Discussion and workshop for the Center for Transformational Learning Summer Academy.
• 2005. Participated in the Barbara Byrd-Bennett Summer Scholars Program teaching mathematics.
• 2005. Participated in Panel Discussion for the Center for Transformational Learning Summer Academy. Miami University. Oxford, Ohio
• 2000. Participated in IMA Summer Program for Graduate Students on Number Theory. Kent State University.

Dr. TaeEun Kim

Publications

• Kim, T.E. (manuscript in preparation) “A system of partial differential equations.”
• Kang, S.H. and TaeEun Kim. (manuscript in press) “Boundedness of Teoplitz Operators with symbol L¹ – functions.” Elcrat, A., Kim, T.E. and R. Treinen. (2004). “Annular Capillary Surfaces.” Archiv der Mathematik 82: 449-467.
• 2001. Kim, T.E. “Capillary Surface Interfaces in Annular Domains,” Dissertation. Wichita State University.
• 1991. Kim, T.E. (1991) “On the Relations of Theta Function.” Thesis. Kyungnam University.

Dr. Brittany (Wetzel) McConchie

Publications

• 2007. Norris, H.H., Peterson, M.E., Stebbins, C.C., McConchie, B.W., Bundoc, V.G., Trivedi, S., Hodges, M.G., Anthony, R.M., Urban, J.F. Jr, Long, E.O., Keane-Myers, A.M. “Inhibitory receptor gp49B regulates eosinophil infiltration during allergic inflammation.” Journal of Leukocyte Biology 82.6: 1531-1541.
• 2006. McConchie, B.W., Norris, H.H., Bundoc, V.G., Trivedi, S., Boesen, A., Urban, J.F. Jr., Keane-Myers, A.M. “Ascaris suum-Derived Products Suppress Mucosal Allergic Inflammation in an Interleukin-10-Independent Manner via Interference with Dendritic Cell Function.” Infection and Immunity. 74.12: 6632-6641.
• 2005. Schopf, L., Luccioli, S., Bundoc, V., Justice, P., Chan, C.C., Wetzel, B.J., Norris, H.H., Urban, J.F., and Keane-Myers, A. “Differential Modulation of Allergic Eye Disease by Chronic and Acute Ascaris Infection.” Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 46.8: 2772-2780.
• 2002. Wetzel B.J., Nindl, G., Vesper, D.N., Swez, J.A., Johnson, M.T. “Quantitative characterization of rat tendinitis to evaluate the efficacy of therapeutic interventions.” Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation. 38: 157-162.
• 2001. Jasti, A.C., Wetzel, B.J., Aviles, H., Vesper, D.N., Nindl, G. and Johnson, M.T. “Effect of a wound healing electromagnetic field on inflammatory cytokine gene expression in rats.” Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation. 37:209-214.
• 2001. Wetzel, B.J., Nindl, G., Vesper, D.N., Swez, J.A., Jasti, A.C. and Johnson, M.T. “Electromagnetic field effects: changes in protein phosphorylation in the Jurkat E6.1 cell line.” Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation. 37:203-208.
• 2000. Nindl, G, Balcavage, W.X., Vesper, D.N. Swez, J.A. Wetzel, B.J., Chamberlain, J.K. and Fox, M.T. “Experiments showing that electromagnetic fields can be used to treat inflammatory diseases.” Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation. 36:7-13.
• 1999. Akeson, A.L., Wetzel, B.J., Thompson, F.Y., Brooks, S.K., Parakis, H., Gendron, R.L. and Greenberg, J.M. “Embryonic vasculogenesis by endothelial precursor cells derived from lung mesenchyme.” Developmental Dynamics. 217:11-23.

Abstracts

• 2005. Wetzel, B.J., Norris, H.H., Bundoc, V., Urban, J. and Keane-Myers, A. “Ascaris antigen modulates allergic disease in a mouse model of allergic inflammation.” Abstract. Keystone Symposia. Santa Fe, N.M.
• 2005. Keane-Myers, A., Spolski, R. Norris, H. Ozaki, K. Luccioli, S. Bundoc, V. Wetzel, B., Ward, J. J., Leonard, W.J. and Brewer, L.  “Opposing roles for IL-21 in mouse models of asthma.” Abstract. Keystone Symposia. Santa Fe, N.M.
• 2005. Norris, H.H., Stebbins, C., Peterson, M.E., Wetzel, B.J., Bundoc, V., Urban Jr. J.F., Long, E.O., and Keane-Myers, A.  “The Expression of gp49B and the role during allergic inflammation.” Abstract. Keystone Symposia. Santa Fe, N.M.
• 2004. Wetzel, B.J., Schopf, L. Bundoc, V., Urban, J. and Keane-Myers, A. (2004). “Duration of Ascaris infection modulates disease in a mouse model of allergic conjunctivitis.” Abstract. American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology meeting. San Francisco, Calif.
• 2004. Wetzel, B.J., Norris, H.H., Bundoc, V., Urban, J. and Keane-Myers, A. (2004). “Ascaris antigen modulates allergic disease in a mouse model of allergic inflammation.” Abstract. Keystone Symposia on Immunology: Cytokines, Disease, and Therapeutic Intervention. Santa Fe, N.M., February 12-17, 2005.
• 2003. Wetzel, B.J., Schopf, L. Bundoc, V., Urban, J. and Keane-Myers, A. “Acute/Chronic Ascaris infection-alterations in allergic disease.” Abstract. Immunology Interest Group Retreat. Airlie, Va.

Dr. Todd Schraw

Publications

• 2009. Halberg, N., Schraw, T.D., Wang, Z.V., Kim, J.Y., Yi, J., Hamilton, M.P., Luby-Phelps, K., Scherer, P.E. "Systemic fate of the adipocyte-derived factor adiponectin." Diabetes. 58(9): 1961-70. Epub. Jul 6.
• 2008. Wang, Z.V., Mu, J., Schraw, T.D., Gautron, L., Elmquist, J.K., Zhang, B.B., Brownlee, M., and Scherer, P.E. “PANIC-ATTAC, a mouse model for inducible and reversible beta cell ablation.” Diabetes. 57(8): 2137-48. Epub May 9.
• 2008. Schraw, T., Wang, Z.V., Halberg, N., Hawkins, M., and Scherer, P.E. “Plasma adiponectin complexes have distinct biochemical characteristics.” Diabetes. ???
• 2007. Sinha, M.K., Songer, T., Xiao, Q., Sloan, J.H., Wang, J., Ji, S., Alborn, W.E., Davis, R.A., Swarbrick, M.M., Stanhope, K.L., Wolfe, B.M., Havel, P.J., Schraw, T., Konrad, R.J., Scherer, P.E., Mistry, J.S. “Analytical validation and biological evaluation of a high molecular-weight adiponectin ELISA.” Clinical Chemistry. 53(12): 1244-51. Epub. Oct. 19.
• 2007. Kim, J., van de Wall, E., Laplante, M, Trujillo, M.E., Hofmann, S., Schraw, T.D., Durand, J., Li, H, Li, G, Jelicks, L. A., Mehler, M.F., Hui, D., Deshaies, Y., Shulman, G.I., Schwarz, G. J. and Scherer, P.E. “Obesity-associated improvements in metabolic profile through expansion of adipose tissue.” The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 117(9): 2621-2637
• 2007. Wang, Z.V., Schraw, T.D., Kim, J.Y., Khan, T., Rajala, M.W., Scherer, P.E.  “Secretion of the adipocyte-specific secretory protein adiponectin critically depends on thiol-mediated protein retention.“ Molecular and Cellular Biology. 27(10): 3716-31.
• 2007. Cnop, M., Vidal, J., Hull, R.L., Utzschneider, K.M., Carr, D.B., Schraw, T., Scherer, P.E., Boyko, E.J., Fujimoto, W.Y., Kahn, S.E. “Progressive loss of beta-cell function leads to worsening glucose tolerance in first-degree relatives of subjects with type 2 diabetes.“ Diabetes Care. 30(3): 677-82.
• 2007. Semple, R.K., Halberg, N.H., Burling, K., Soos, M.A., Schraw, T., Luan, J., Cochran, E.K., Dunger, D.B., Wareham, N.J., Scherer, P.E., Gorden, P., O'Rahilly, S. “Paradoxical elevation of high molecular weight adiponectin in acquired extreme insulin resistance due to insulin receptor antibodies.” Diabetes. 56(6): 1712-1717.
• 2007. Kusminski, C.M., McTernan, P.G., Schraw, T., Kos, K., O'Hare, J.P., Ahima, R., Kumar, S., Scherer, P.E. “Adiponectin complexes in human cerebrospinal fluid: distinct complex distribution from serum.“ Diabetologia. 50(3): 634-42.
• 2005. Schraw, T.D. and Whiteheart, S.W. “The development of a quantitative ELISA to detect human platelet factor 4.” Transfusion. 45(5): 717-724.