Ben Mcfarland
Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Seattle Pacific University
United States of America
Biography
Seattle Pacific University , Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Hired September 1, 2003 as Assi stant Professor in Biochemistry. Promoted September 1, 2008 to Associate Professor. Promoted S eptember 1, 2013 to Professor. Education and Graduate Research Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Division of Basic Sciences. Cancer Research Institute postdo ctoral fellow, 2001 -2003 . Advisor: Roland K. Strong. Research topic: Structural analysis of innate immunity and receptor -ligand interaction kinetics. University of Washington, Biomolecular Structure and Design Program , Department of Chemistry. Ph.D., 1996- 2001. Thesis advisor: Craig C. Beeson. Research topic: The r ole of hydrogen bonds in MH C- peptide dissociation kinetics . University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and College of Journalism. Dual B.S. degree, 1992 -1996, with honors in Chemistry, with highest honors in Public Relations, specializing in Technical Communicat ions. Visiting biochemistry professor, April 2015, Hope Africa University, Bujumbura, Burundi, teaching Pathological Biochemistry to 175 largely French -speaking African students.
Research Interest
Protien chemistry
Publications
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Peterson MJ, Snyder WK, Westerman S, McFarland BJ. Preparative protein production from inclusion bodies and crystallization: a seven-week biochemistry sequence. Journal of chemical education. 2011 Apr 18;88(7):986-9.
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Henager SH, Hale MA, Maurice NJ, Dunnington EC, Swanson CJ, Peterson MJ, Ban JJ, Culpepper DJ, Davies LD, Sanders LK, McFarland BJ. Combining different design strategies for rational affinity maturation of the MICAâ€NKG2D interface. Protein Science. 2012 Sep 1;21(9):1396-402.
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Gavlovsky PJ, Tonnerre P, Gérard N, Nedellec S, Daman AW, McFarland BJ, Charreau B. Alternative Splice Transcripts for MHC Class I–like MICA Encode Novel NKG2D Ligands with Agonist or Antagonist Functions. The Journal of Immunology. 2016 Aug 1;197(3):736-46.
