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Diana L. McGill's Home Page

The courses I teach this fall semester are:

My schedule this semester is:

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
7:00		Problem Session 7-8 SC 402		Problem Session 7-8 SC 402
8:00		CHE 482         SC402                 8 - 9:15		CHE 482         SC402                 8 - 9:15  OFFICE HOUR SC 204F        9:30 - 10:30
9:00			OFFICE HOUR SC 204F
10:00
11:00
12:00	Meetings
1:00	OFFICE HOUR SC 204F		Meetings
2:00			Meetings		Dept. Meetings
3:00	Meetings		Meetings		Meetings
4:00	Meetings				Meetings

Research Interests

	I conduct my research on proteins with undergraduates during the summer and academic year.  The McGill lab is interested in the enzymology of proteins involved in ion homeostasis.

 

 

The current research in the lab involves P-type ATPases that are potentially involved in magnesium transport.  Students working on these projects can do anything from using analytical chemistry to determine magnesium concentration to using molecular biology to create expression vectors for the putative magnesium transporters.  This work is in collaboration with Drs. Schultheis and Martines (Biological Sciences) and Dr. Bardgett (Psychology). A second line of study involves expression studies  focused on chimeras of rat Na,K ATPase and the related H,K ATPase.  Students use classical molecular techniques to assemble chimeric cDNAs, to make mammalian expression constructs with these cDNAs, then to express the rat proteins in human HeLa cells.  Studies of many different chimeras are at various stages of study

Adam Ketron presenting his work at the National ACS Meeting in Atlanta, March 2006

 

 

Family is always most important........

           

Emily's 2008 graduation from Depauw University                                        Tom's 2008 graduation from our own NKU

 

Useful links:

• Blackboard (for Biochemistry Lecture)
• Chemistry Department
• NKU Student ACS Affiliates (a GREAT organization to join!)
• NKU Home Page
• The Protein Data Bank