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 Biographical Sketch:
Ben Caldwell received his undergraduate B.S. degree in Chemistry
in 1990 from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. He then
earned his Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry from the University of
Virginia working in the lab of Dr. Charles M. Grisham's lab
studying the Na,K-ATPase using magnetic resonance and kinetic
methods. In 1995 he joined the laboratory of Drs. Betty Eipper
and Dick Mains as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Neuroscience
department at Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine in
Baltimore, MD. There his work focused on examining proteins
involved in the secretion and processing of peptide hormones from
the pituitary. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Missouri
Western State College in the Chemistry Department where he
teaches biochemistry, organic chemistry, pharmaceutical
development, and majors and non-majors introductory chemistry.
His research interests focus on undergraduate projects including
structural characterization of proteins involved in the secretion
and processing of neuropeptides, and physical methods of studying
the specificity of protein-protein and enzyme-ligand
interactions.
Recent Publications and Presentations:
Caldwell, B.D., et al. "The Novel Kinase Peptidylglycine
alpha-Amidating Monooxygenase Interactor Protein 2 Interacts with
the Cytosolic Routing Determinants of the Peptide Processing
Enzyme Peptidylglycine alpha-Amidating Monooxygenase," Journal of
Biological Chemistry 274: 34646-34656 (1999).
Caldwell, B.D. and T.C. Eckdahl. " Development of an Integrated
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Major at Missouri Western
State College." Presented at the 219th National Meeting of the
American Chemical Society, March 26-30, 2000, San Francisco, CA.
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