MISSISSIPPI STATE
MISSISSIPPI STATE
UNIVERSITY
Box 9650
Mississippi State, MS 39762
TEL: (662) 325-2640
FAX: (662) 325-8664
Web: www.msstate.edu/dept/biochemistry/
Email: jab@ra.msstate.edu
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dr. John A. Boyle, Chair.
Degrees Offered: B.S, M.S, Ph.D.
Fields of Specialization: Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology.
Interdisciplinary Program: Chemical Sciences (Department of Chemistry) Animal Physiology (Animal
and Dairy Science, Biological Sciences) Nutrition
(Food Science and Technology).
BRAASCH, DWAINE Assistant Professor. B.S, 1989,
Grand Valley State University; Ph.D, 1998, University of
Southern Mississippi. Post-doctoral Fellow, 1999-2003,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Biochemistry; Molecular Biology. Eukaryotic molecular
biology, cell cycle regulation, regulation of gene expression using synthetic nucleic acid oligomers. TEL: (662)
325-2640 FAX: (662) 325-8664
Email: db255@ra.msstate.edu
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BROWN, ASHLI Assistant Research Professor. B.A,
1993, University of South Florida; Ph.D, 2003, University of South Florida. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2004,
University of South Florida; Postdoctoral research fellow, 2004-2006, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.
Biochemistry. Physical biochemistry, emzymology, protein kinases, insect pheromones, gas chromatography and
mass spectrometry. TEL: (662) 325-2640 FAX: (662)
325-8664
Email: ab506@msstate.edu
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JUNG, YEAN-SUNG (b.1962) Assistant Professor.
B.S, 1985, Seoul National University; M.S, 1987, Korea
Advanced Institute of Science and; Ph.D, 1996, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Post-doctoral Associate, 19962002, University of California at Irvine. Biochemistry.
Metals in biology, agriculture and medicine, microbial
molecular biology, the oxidative stress response regulons
of microbial organisms, biological spectroscopy. TEL:
(662) 325-2640 FAX: (662) 325-8664
Email: yj29@ra.msstate.edu
Publication list has not been verified by the department.
Buem-Seek Park, Young-Man Kwon, Rajkumar Pyla, John
A. Boyle and Yean-Sung Jung, E1 component of pyruvate
dehydrogenase complex does not regulate the expression of
NADPH-ferredoxin reductase in Azotobacter vinelandii,
FEMS Microbiol. Lett, 273, 244-252 (2007).
LI, JIAXU Assistant Professor. B.S, 1986, Shenyang
Normal University; M.S, 1989, Hebei Normal University; Ph.D, 1998, Pennsylvania State University. Postdoctoral scholar, 1998-2001, Pennsylvania State University;
Postdoctoral fellow, 2001-2003, Harvard Medical
School. Mass spectrometry; Molecular Biology. Protein
kinases, histone methylation, post-translational modifications, abscisic acid signaling, abiotic stress, peptide sequencing, mass spectrometry, quantitative proteomics.
TEL: (662) 325-2640 FAX: (662) 325-8664
Email: jl305@ra.msstate.edu
Publication list has not been verified by the department.
Haiyan Wang, Jiaxu Li and Yang Kuang, Mathematical
modeling and qualitative analysis of insulin therapies, Math.
Biosci, 210, 17-33 (2007).
Jiaxu Li and Kuang Yang, Analysis of a model of the glucose-insulin regulatory system with two delays, SIAM J.
Appl. Math, 67, 757-776 (2007).
Gaofeng Dong, Din-Pow Ma and Jiaxu Li, The histone
methyltransferase SDG8 regulates shoot branching in Arabidopsis, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun, 373, 659-664
(2008).
Huaqin He and Jiaxu Li, Proteomic analysis of phosphoproteins regulated by abscisic acid in rice leaves, Biochem.
Biophys. Res. Commun, 371, 883-888 (2008).
MA, DIN-POW (b.1948) Professor. B.S, 1970, National Chung-Hsing University; M.S, 1974, National Taiwan
University; Ph.D, 1981, Kent State University. Postdoctoral Fellow, 1981-1984, University of Oklahoma; Visiting Assistant Professor, 1984-1985, University of Okla-
homa; Senior Scientist, 1985-1987, Texas A & M University. Molecular Biology. Molecular biology, gene organization and expression of the mitochondrial genome
in plants, expression and regulation of cotton fiber genes,
mitochondrial tRNAs. TEL: (662) 325-2640 FAX: (662)
325-8664
Email: dm1@ra.msstate.edu
Publication list has not been verified by the department.
Chuan-Yu Hsu, Chuanfu An, Sukumar Saha, Din-Pow Ma,
Johnie N. Jenkins, Brian Scheffler and David M. Stelly, Molecular and SNP characterization of two genome specific
transcription factor genes GhMyb8 and GhMyb10 in cotton
species, Euphytica, 159, 259-273 (2007).
Gaofeng Dong, Din-Pow Ma and Jiaxu Li, The histone
methyltransferase SDG8 regulates shoot branching in Arabidopsis, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun, 373, 659-664
(2008).
Chuanfu An, Sukumar Saha, Johnie N. Jenkins, Din-Pow
Ma, Brian E. Scheffler, Russell J. Kohel, John Z. Yu and David M. Stelly, Cotton (Gossypium spp.) R2R3-MYB transcription factors SNP identification, phylogenomic characterization, chromosome localization, and linkage mapping,
Theor. Appl. Genet, 116, 1015-1026 (2008).
PENG, ZHAOHUA (b.1962) Assistant Professor. B.S,
1984, Beijing Agricultural University; M.S, 1987, Beijing Agricultural University; Ph.D, 1997, Ohio State University. Postdoctoral fellow, 1997-2001, Yale. Molecular
Biology. Plant molecular biology, plant development.
TEL: (662) 325-2640 FAX: (662) 325-8664
Email: zp7@ra.msstate.edu
Publication list has not been verified by the department.
Brahmananda Reddy Chitteti and Zhaohua Peng, Proteome
and phosphoproteome differential expression under salinity
stress in rice (Oryza sativa) roots, J. Proteome Res, 6, 17181727 (2007).
Brahmananda Reddy Chitteti and Zhaohua Peng, Proteome
and phosphoproteome dynamic change during cell dedifferentiation in Arabidopsis, Proteomics, 7, 1473-1500 (2007).
Feng Tan, Guosheng Li, Brahmananda Reddy Chitteti and
Zhaohua Peng, Proteome and phosphoproteome analysis of
chromatin associated proteins in rice (Oryza sativa), Proteomics, 7, 4511-4527 (2007).
Guosheng Li, Babi Ramesh Reddy Nallamilli, Feng Tan
and Zhaohua Peng, Removal of high-abundance proteins for
nuclear subproteome studies in rice (Oryza sativa) endosperm, Electrophoresis, 29, 604-617 (2008).
Brahmananda Reddy Chitteti, Feng Tan, Hana Mujahid,
Bryce G. Magee, Susan M. Bridges and Zhaohua Peng, Comparative analysis of proteome differential regulation during
cell dedifferentiation in Arabidopsis, Proteomics, 8, 43034316 (2008).
WILKINSON, JEFFREY Assistant Professor. B.S,
1993, Texas A&M University; M.S, 1997, Texas A&M
University-Commerce; Ph.D, 2003, University of North
Texas. Postdoctoral Fellow, 2003-2006, United States
Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Southern Regional Research Center. Biochemistry;
Molecular Biology. Molecular biology, fungal genomics,
plant pathogen interactions, and pathogenesis related
proteins. TEL: (662) 325-2640 FAX: (662) 325-8664
Email: jrw434@msstate.edu
Publication list has not been verified by the department.
Tomasz Laskus, Jeffrey Wilkinson, Roksana Karim, Wendy Mack, Marek Radkowski, Marina de Giacomo, Jonathan
Nasseri, Zhi Chen, Jiaao Xu and Andrea Kovacs, Hepatitis C
virus quasispecies in HIV-infected women: role of injecting
drug use and highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART),
Hepatology (Hoboken, NJ, U. S.), 46, 359-370 (2007).
WILLEFORD, KENNETH OWEN (b.1955) Associate Professor. B.S, 1978, California State University
(Fullerton); Ph.D, 1986, University of California (Riverside). DOE Fellowship, 1986-1989, Brandeis University;
NSF Fellow, 1989-1990, University of California, Riverside. Biochemistry; Immunology. Physical biochemistry,
enzymology of plants, molecular basis of regulation of
multienyzme aggregates in plants. TEL: (662) 325-2651
FAX: (662) 325-8664
Email: kowmsu@ra.msstate.edu
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