{"id":2,"date":"2008-09-25T19:24:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T02:24:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-30T13:31:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T20:31:38","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/watsonj\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Education and Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>B. S. in Biochemistry and Biophysics<\/strong>, June 1995, <a title=\"Oregon State University homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonstate.edu\" target=\"_self\">Oregon State University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ph. D. in Biological Sciences<\/strong>, January 2002, <a title=\"Purdue University homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.purdue.edu\" target=\"_self\">Purdue University<\/a>.\u00a0 Mentor: <a title=\"Stauffacher faculty page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biology.purdue.edu\/people\/faculty\/index.php?refID=112\" target=\"_self\">Dr. Cynthia V. Stauffacher<\/a>.\u00a0 Thesis Title: Structural Studies of Substrate Binding and Catalysis in <em>Pseudomonas mevalonii<\/em> HMG-CoA Reductase.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professional Experience:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Postdoctoral Research Associate<\/strong>, <a title=\"Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/biochem.science.oregonstate.edu\/\" target=\"_self\">Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics<\/a>, <a title=\"Oregon State University homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonstate.edu\" target=\"_self\">Oregon State University<\/a>.\u00a0 January 2002 to August 2005.\u00a0 Mentor: Dr. P. Shing Ho.\u00a0 Experience included x-ray crystallographic studies of DNA, RNA and protein\/peptide structures, molecular dynamics simulations of protein structure and protein structure prediction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adjunct Faculty<\/strong>, <a title=\"Mature Learning Program homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clark.edu\/corporate_continuing_education\/mature_learning\/\" target=\"_self\">Mature Learning Program<\/a>, <a title=\"Clark College homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clark.edu\/\" target=\"_self\">Clark College<\/a> (Vancouver, Washington).\u00a0 Winter 2005.\u00a0 Developer and Instructor for <em>Genes, Genomes and Society<\/em> course on biotechnology and bioethics for students age 55 and over.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visiting Assistant Professor<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitman.edu\/chemistry\/\">Department of Chemistry<\/a> and <a title=\"BBMB homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitman.edu\/content\/bbmb\" target=\"_self\">Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology Program<\/a>, <a title=\"Whitman College homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitman.edu\" target=\"_self\">Whitman College<\/a>.\u00a0 August 2005 to August 2006.\u00a0 Courses Taught: General chemistry lecture, biochemistry lecture and laboratory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assistant Professor<\/strong>, <a title=\"GU Chemistry homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gonzaga.edu\/Academics\/Colleges-and-Schools\/College-of-Arts-and-Sciences\/Chemistry\/default.asp\" target=\"_self\">Department of Chemistry<\/a>, <a title=\"GU homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gonzaga.edu\" target=\"_self\">Gonzaga University<\/a>.\u00a0 September 2006 to present.\u00a0 For courses taught and research interests, please visit the pages linked at the left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education: B. S. in Biochemistry and Biophysics, June 1995, Oregon State University. Ph. D. in Biological Sciences, January 2002, Purdue University.\u00a0 Mentor: Dr. Cynthia V. Stauffacher.\u00a0 Thesis Title: Structural Studies of Substrate Binding and Catalysis in Pseudomonas mevalonii HMG-CoA Reductase. Professional Experience: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University.\u00a0 January 2002 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/watsonj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/watsonj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/watsonj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/watsonj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/watsonj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/watsonj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/watsonj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.gonzaga.edu\/watsonj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}