David Brown
Professor
Biochemistry
Florida Gulf Coast University
United States of America
Biography
Professor of Chemistry B.S. Medical Technology, Brigham Young University, 1980 Ph.D. Biochemistry/Biophysics, Oregon State University, 1992 Post-Doctoral research, Washington State University, 1992-1996
Research Interest
Clinical molecular biology. I am particularly interested in developing new methodologies to study genes related to human health and disease. I utilize the techniques of restriction fragment length polymorphism, real-time PCR, and fluorescence melting curve analysis to identify and quantify genes of interest. DNA damage and repair. I am interested in the relationships between DNA damage and repair, chromatin structure, gene expression and cell death. I utilize molecular biology and biochemical techniques to study the effects of oxidative DNA damage. Chemical education. I am interested in developing new teaching tools, such as laboratory exercises, to enhance the teaching of chemistry and biochemistry. I have worked extensively as an author on Cengage Learning's online homework system for organic chemistry, OWL.
Publications
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Jose C. Barreto, Terry Dubetz, David W. Brown, Patricia D. Barreto, Cristina M. Coates, and Allison Cobb, “Determining the Enthalpy, Free Energy, and Entropy for the Solubility of Salicylic Acid Using the van’t Hoff Equation: A Spectrophotometric Determination of Keqâ€, Chem. Educator, 12(1), 18-21 (2007)
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Jose C. Barreto , Terry Dubetz , Diane Schmidt, Sharon Isern, Thomas Beatty, David W. Brown, Edward Gillman, Randall S. Alberte, Nosa O. Egiebor, “Combustion and energy transfer experiments – A laboratory model for linking core concepts across the science curriculumâ€, Journal of College Science Teaching, 36, 50-53 (2007)
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Jose C. Barreto, David W. Brown, Terry Dubetz, Joseph Kakareka, and Randall Alberte, “A spectrophotometric determination of the energy of activation (Ea) for a complexation reaction: The kinetics of formation of Cr(III)/EDTAâ€, Chem. Educator, 10, 196-199 (2005)
