Dr. Mark Lockett
Assistant Professor of Biology
131 White Hall, Box 1914
Union University
Jackson, Tennessee 38305
(731) 661-5960
email: mlockett@uu.edu
Education:
- B. S. and M. S.; Murray State University
- Ph. D.; University of Tennessee
Previous Experience:
- Research Assistant, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, 1997-2003
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Teaching Assistant in General Biology, Zoology, Parasitology, and Histology,
Murray State University, 1993-1995
Courses commonly taught:
- BIO 221: Human Anatomy and Physiology I
- BIO 222: Human Anatomy and Physiology II
- BIO 300: Pathophysiology
- BIO 310: Histology
- BIO 500: Advanced Pathophysiology
Research/Scholarship Interests:
- Potential inhibitors of coagulation produced by hematophagous parasites, including ticks, mosquitoes, and biting flys.
- How the ability to inhibit host coagulation determines host range in hematophagous parasites.
- Biology of Hippoboscid flys (louseflys) infesting the owls of West Tennessee (Collaboration with Dr. James Huggins).
Recent undergraduate research projects you have coordinated.
-
Hannah Henson: Insertion of a thrombin recognition sequence into Green
Fluorescent Protein
(with Dr. Mark Bolyard). - Dustin Mayfield: Insertion of a factor Xa recognition sequence into Green
Fluorescent Protein.
(with Dr. Mark Bolyard).