Dr. Mark Bolyard
Chair, Biology Department
138 White Hall, Box 3021
Union University
Jackson, Tennessee 38305
(731) 661-6586
email: mbolyard@uu.edu
Department Chair
Questionnaire
Education:
- B. A., Biology and Secondary Certification in Biology and Chemistry: Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana, May 1984.
- Ph. D. in Experimental Pathology: School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, May 1989.
Previous Experience:
- Research Associate, Plant Molecular Biology, Michigan State University , 1989-1991.
- Faculty Member of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, 1991-2006
Courses commonly taught:
- BIO 100: Survey of Biological Concepts:
- BIO 325: Molecular Biology
- BIO 323: Cell Biology
Research/Scholarship Interests:
- Development of novel plant tissue culture procedures
- Production of recombinant proteins and peptides in E. coli
Recent undergraduate research projects supervised:
- Carrie Moore: Identification of endogenous bacteria in shoot tip cultures of European Aspen.
- Danielle Blackstone: Regeneration of African and Cuban Mahoguny from leaf tissue.
- Carson Rider: Evaluation of the Green Fluorescent Protein containing FXa or Thrombin recognition sequences.
- Lauren Parlow: Rooting of regenerated shoots from Southern Wormwood, Artemesia abrotanum L.
- Mary Kathryn LaMar: The effect of multiple acoustic frequencies on the folding of Green Fluorescent Protein
- Brandon Lowe: Site-directed mutagenesis of the Green Fluorescent Protein to restore fluorescence in the periplasmic space of E. coli.
Scholarship (Recent Publications):
- "Integration of Teaching and Research Revisited”, Mark Bolyard, Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, Fall, 2009 (Vol 30 [1]: 35-38)
- “Integrating Research into a Large Teaching Laboratory” Joshua I.T. Jones and Mark Bolyard, Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, Fall, 2009 (Vol 30 [1]: 39-43)
- “A Suggestion for Chairs Looking for Time to do Research”, Mark Bolyard, The Department Chair, Fall, 2009 (Vol 20 [2]: 18-20)
- "Allelopathic activity of a testa-derived solution from Siberian Maple (Acer ginnala Maxim.) seeds", John Cawly, Sara Newton and Bolyard, M., Allelopathy Journal 16:227-238, 2005.
- "Expression and in vitro amidation of recombinant FMRFamide", Ian Grimes, Jason Aleman, Kevin Griffin, Betty Lawton, Tiffany Slater, Kevin Krajniak, and Mark Bolyard, Transactions of the Illniois State Adademy of Sciences 97:23-31, 2004.
- 'Lonesome Ginkgo' lab: Embryo tissue culture from trees', Mark Bolyard and Vicki Gillespie. The American Biology Teacher, 63:1-5, 2001.