Dr. Marc Lockett
Assistant Professor of Biology
134 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, Memphis
Previous Experience:
- Research Assistant, University of Tennessee, Memphis, 1997-2003
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Teaching Assistant in General Biology, Zoology, Parasitology, and Histology,
Murray State University, 1993-1995
Majors you advise:
- Pre-Pharmacy
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
- BIO 505: Applied Anatomy and Physiology I
- BIO 507: Applied Anatomy and Physiology II
Research/Scholarship Interests:
- Potential inhibitors of coagulation produced by hematophagous parasites, including ticks, mosquitoes, and biting flies.
- How the ability to inhibit host coagulation determines host range in hematophagous parasites.
- Biology of Hippoboscid flies (louseflies) infesting the owls of West Tennessee (Collaboration with Dr. James Huggins).
Recent undergraduate research projects supervised:
- Brian Bodnarchuk: Intestinal helminths of the gray squirrel (Sciurus caolinensis) in western Kentucky and western Tennessee
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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). - Brian Bodnarchuk: Establishment of a non-host dependent laboratory colony of Hippoboscid flies for the enzymatic analysis of salivary proteins (with Dr. James Huggins).
- Jesse Daigle: Establishment of a stable salivary gland cell line derived from Hippoboscid flies.
Professional Memberships:
- American Society of Parasitologists