Faculty & Instructional Staff

Chair, Biology Department
138 White Hall, Box 3021
Union University
Jackson, Tennessee 38305
(731) 661-6586
mbolyard@uu.edu

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

Research/Scholarship Interests

Recent undergraduate research projects supervised

Liane Gozmao: Introduction of multiple FXa or thrombin recognition sequences into the Green Fluorescent Protein.
Travis Shutt: Evaluation of removal of a disulfide bond from GFP on protein activity following secretion.
David Koh. Evaluation of thidiazuron kinetin and zeatin on regeneration of African mahoghany
Jordann Staples: Callus formation from leaf tissues of African mahoghany; examination of cytokinins and media

Completed undergraduate research projects supervised

Carrie Moore: Identification of endogenous bacteria in shoot tip cultures of European Aspen.
Carson Rider: Evaluation of the Green Fluorescent Protein containing FXa or Thrombin recognition sequences (with Dr. Mark Lockett).
Danielle Blackstone: Regeneration of African and Cuban Mahoghany from leaf tissue.
Callie Bodnarchuk: Expression of human secretin as a fusion with Green Fluorescent Protein in E. coli.
Hannah Henson: Insertion of a thrombin recognition sequence into Green Flourescent Protein (with Dr. Marc Lockett).
Mary Kathryn LaMar: The effect of multiple acoustic frequencies on the folding of Green Fluorescent Protein
Dustin Mayfield: Insertion of a factor Xa recognition sequence into Green Fluorescent Protein (with Dr. Marc Lockett).
Lauren Parlow: Rooting of regenerated shoots from Southern Wormwood, Artemesia abrotanum L.
Brandon Lowe: Site-directed mutagenesis of the Green Fluorescent Protein to restore fluorescence in the periplasmic space of E. coli.
Melissa Ratliff: Plant pectin as an alternative source of arabinose for GFP production in E. coli via Erwinia chrysanthemi pectinase activity
Tsegayesus Temtem: Optimization of Secretion of Green Fluorescent Protein from 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 Academy 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.