DR. MICHAEL MCCONNELL

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: March 8, 1949, Porterville, California

ADDRESS: Department of Biology TELEPHONES:

Point Loma Nazarene University Home 858-***-****

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San Diego, CA 92106 FAX: 619-***-****

Email: abpwv6@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION AND SABBATICAL EXPERIENCES:

2008-present Visiting Investigator, The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, CA), Laboratory of Dr. Jack

Johnson

2007-2008 Visiting Scholar, Sydney Kimmel Cancer Center (La Jolla, CA), Laboratory of Dr. Michael

McClelland

2007 Visiting Scholar, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Laboratory of Dr. Andrew Kropinski

2001 Visiting Scholar, Department of Medicine, U.C. San Diego, CA. Laboratory of Dr. Donald Guiney,

O-Polysaccharide Polymerase Enzymes in Group E Salmonella enterica bacteria

1994 Visiting Scholar, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA,

Laboratory of Dr. Gerald Joyce, Molecular evolution of ribozymes (involved extensive use of 32P and a brief

refresher course on proper use of radioisotopes)

1994 Visiting Scholar, Department of Microbiology, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Laboratory of Dr. Peter Reeves, Evolutionary relationships between lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis gene

clusters found in enteric bacteria and their phages

1985-86 Visiting Scholar, Laboratory of Dr. Masaki Hayashi, U.C. San Diego, CA. Factors determining

messenger RNA stability (extensive work with 35S)

1983 Visiting Scholar, Laboratory of Dr. Ivor Royston (co-founder of Hybritech), U.C. San Diego Medical

Center, San Diego, CA. Monoclonal antibodies to immunoglobulin idiotypic antigens

1976-78 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Laboratory of Dr. Peter M. Blumberg, Effects of transformation by Rous sarcoma virus on cell surface

structure in chick embryo fibroblasts (involved extensive work with 35S and 125I radioisotopes).

1971-76 Ph.D., Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, MA.

Laboratory of Dr. Andrew Wright, Initial Interactions between Bacteriophage E15 and its Host Cell,

Salmonella anatum (involved extensive work with 35S, 14C, 32P and 3H)

1967-71 B.A., Department of Chemistry, (cum laude), Pasadena/Point Loma Nazarene College; (included

two years of fulltime summer research with Dr. Victor Heasley on addition of acylhypohalites to alkenes with

resulting publications in Tetrahedron Letters and the Journal of Organic Chemistry)

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCES:

1987-present Professor of Biology, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA

1987-92 Chair, Department of Biology, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA

1981-86 Associate Professor of Biology and Chemistry, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA

1978-81 Assistant Professor of Biology and Chemistry, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA.

1975-76 Instructor in genetics and cell physiology, Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA

OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

2009 Principal organizer of the 34th Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research

Conference (Point Loma Nazarene University, April 12, 2008)

2008-2009 Co-Organizer (with Darrel Falk and Dawne Page) of the Eleventh Annual Perspectives on

Science Seminar Series for San Diego County Community College, High School and Middle School Science

Teachers, Point Loma Nazarene University

2008 Principal organizer of the 33rd Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research

Conference (Point Loma Nazarene University, April 12, 2008)

2007-2008 Co-Organizer (with Darrel Falk and Dawne Page) of the Tenth Annual Perspectives on Science

Seminar Series for San Diego County Community College, High School and Middle School Science

Teachers, Point Loma Nazarene University

2006-2007 Co-Organizer (with Darrel Falk and Dawne Page) of the Ninth Annual Perspectives on Science

Seminar Series for San Diego County Community College, High School and Middle School Science

Teachers, Point Loma Nazarene University

2006 Principal rganizer of the 31st Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research

Conference (Point Loma Nazarene University, April 29, 2006)

2005-2006 Co-Organizer (with Darrel Falk and Dawne Page) of the Eighth Annual Perspectives on Science

Seminar Series for San Diego County High School and Middle School Science Teachers, Point Loma

Nazarene University

2004-2005 Co-Organizer (with Darrel Falk and Dawne Page) of the Seventh Annual Perspectives on

Science Seminar Series for San Diego County High School and Middle School Science Teachers, Point

Loma Nazarene University

2004 Principal Organizer of the 29th Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research

Conference (Point Loma Nazarene University, April 24, 2004)

2003-2004 Co-Organizer (with Darrel Falk and Dawne Page) of the Sixth Annual Perspectives on Science

Seminar Series for San Diego County High School and Middle School Science Teachers, Point Loma

Nazarene University

2003-present Faculty Representative to the Board of Research Associates of PLNU

2002-2003 Co-Organizer (with Darrel Falk) of the Fifth Annual Perspectives on Science Seminar Series

for San Diego County High School and Middle School Science Teachers, Point Loma Nazarene University

2001-2002 Co-Organizer (with Darrel Falk) of the Fourth Annual Perspectives on Science Seminar Series

for San Diego County High School Science Teachers, Point Loma Nazarene University

2000-2001 Co-Organizer (with Darrel Falk) of the Third Annual Perspectives on Science Seminar Series

for San Diego County High School Science Teachers, Point Loma Nazarene University

2000 Principal organizer of the 25th Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research

Conference (Point Loma Nazarene University, April 29, 2000)

1999-2000 Co-Organizer (with Darrel Falk) of the Second Annual Perspectives on Science Seminar Series

for San Diego County High School Science Teachers, Point Loma Nazarene University

1998-99 Co-Organizer (with Darrel Falk) of the First Annual Perspectives on Science Seminar Series for

San Diego County High School Science Teachers, Point Loma Nazarene University

1999 Convener for Section on Cell Biology, Endocrinology and Genetics, 24th Annual West Coast Biological

Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, U.C. Irvine, Irvine, CA

1997 Convener for Section on Biochemistry and Enzymology, 22nd Annual West Coast Biological Sciences

Undergraduate Research Conference, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

1996 Organizer of the 21st Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference

(Point Loma Nazarene College, April 27, 1996)

1992 Journal article referee, Canadian Journal of Microbiology.

1992 Organizer of the 17th Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference

(Point Loma Nazarene College, May 2, 1992)

1986 Convener of the Molecular Biology Section for the Eleventh Annual Undergraduate Research

Conference, held at Occidental College, CA

1985 Convener of Microbiology Section, Tenth Annual Undergraduate Research Conference, University of

Santa Clara, CA

1983 Chair of Genetics Section, Eighth Annual Undergraduate Research Conference, University of Santa

Clara, CA;

HONORS AND GRANTS

2008 Co-recipient (with Darrel Falk, Dawne Page, Dianne Anderson and April Maskiewicz) of a

Sustainable Program Partnership Award, presented by the San Diego Science Alliance, in recognition of

the Perspectives on Science Lecture/Dinner Program (May 22, 2008)

2003 Co-Recipient (with Darrel Falk) of the award for University Service to the San Diego K-12

Educational Community, presented by San Diego Science Educators Association, in recognition of the

Perspectives on Science Lecture/Dinner Program. (June 4th, 2003).

1994-98 NIH AREA Grant ($85,430; Grant # 1 R15 GM52696-01); Lipopolysaccharide Modification by

Phage Epsilon 15"

1990 PLNC Alumni Association Teaching Development Award ($1,500)

1988 NSF Research in Undergraduate Institutions REU Supplement Grant ($7,425); "Cell Surface

Conversion Mechanism of Bacteriophage El5"

1987 NSF Research in Undergraduate Institutions REU Supplement Grant ($6,000); "Cell Surface

Conversion Mechanism of Bacteriophage El5"

1986-89 NSF Research in Undergraduate Institutions Grant ($87,395; Grant# DMB-8608480); "Cell Surface

Conversion Mechanism of Bacteriophage E15"

1986 Research Corporation Grant ($8,500), "Cloning and Characterization of the Cell Surface Conversion

Genes of Bacteriophage E15";

1985 NSF College Science Instrumentation Program ($14,783); NSF Research Instrumentation Grant

(coauthor) ($43,000);

1984 PLNC Research and Special Projects Fund (RASP), ($1,000); Research Corporation/Cottrell College

Science Grant ($7,400)

1983 NSF Two-Year and Four-Year College Research Instrumentation Program (Coauthor) ($23,000)

1983 Voted Most Inspirational Professor by Point Loma College graduating seniors (C1ass of '83)

1982-83 Research Corporation/Cottrell College Science Grant ($12,300)

1982 Research Corporation Research Instrumentation Grant (Coauthor) ($6,000)

1981 PLC Alumni Association Teaching Development Award ($1,000)

1980-81 Research Corporation/Cottrell College Science Grant ($10,600)

1980 NSF Research Instrumentation Grant (Coauthor) ($22,000)

1979 (RASP) PLC Research and Special Projects Fund (S1,300); NSF Instructional Scientific Equipment

Program (Coauthor) ($7,100); Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Undergraduate Traineeship Grant ($1,500)

1976 Recipient of Alumnus of Point Loma (APL) Award (June 5, 1976)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

American Society for Microbiology, 1973-present

PUBLICATIONS:

A. Doctoral Disssertation McConnell, M.R., (1976), Multiple steps are involved in the irreversible

attachment of bacteriophage E15 to its host cell, Salmonella anatum," Ph.D. Thesis, Tufts University, Boston,

MA

B. JOURNAL ARTICLES(asterisks denote PLNC undergraduate coauthors)

1. Heasley, V., G. Heasley, M. McConnell, K. Martin, D. Ingel, and P. Davis (1971), "The reactions of

hypochlorites with olefins in nitromethane", Tetrahedron Letters 50:4819-4822

2. Heasley, V., G. Heasley, R. Loghry and M. McConnell (1972), Comparisons of the reactions of butadiene

with chlorine, bromine, acetyl hypochlorite and acetyl hypobromite", Journal of Organic Chemistry

37:2228-2231

3. McConnell M., and A. Wright (1975), "An anaerobic technique for increasing bacteriophage plaque size",

Virology 65:588-590

4. McConnell, M. R., and P.M. Blumberg (1978), "Subunit structure of surface and shed large, external,

transformatian-sensitive protein of chick embryo fibroblasts", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

312:418-419

5. McConnell, M.R., P.M. Blumberg and P.W. Rossow (1978), The oligomeric structure of the large

external transformation-sensitive protein (LETS) of chick embryo fibroblasts", Journal of Biological

Chemistry 253:7522-7530

6. McConnell, M.R., A. Reznik and A. Wright, (1979), "Studies on the initial interaction of bacteriophage

E15 with its host cell, Salmonella anatum", Virology 94:10-29

7. McConnell, M.R., and A. Wright, (1979), 'Changes in the phage-inactivating capacity of Salmonella

anatum lipopolysaccharide due to growth temperature and mutation". Journal of Bacteriology 137:746-751

8. Wright, A., M. McConnell and S. Kanegasaki (1980), "Lipopolysaccharide as phage receptor", in Virus

Receptors (L. Randall and L. Phillipson, ads.), London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., pp. 27-58

9. McConnell, M.R., D.D. McAbee*, L.E. Heasley* J.E. Schoelz*, D. Reel Harlow* and D.R. Starn* (1982),

"Bacteriophage E15 is released intact from the surface of its host cell, Salmonella anatum, at acidic pH .

Virology, 116:650-653

10. McConnell, M.R. and P.M. Blumberg (1982) Transformation of chick embryo fibroblasts by Rous

Sarcoma Virus does not inhibit the assembly of fibronectin into reduction-sensitive dimer and high molecular

weight complex". Cytobios 33:89-102

11. McConnell, M.R. and J.E. Schoelz* (1983). "Evidence for shorter average O-polysaccharide chainlength

in the lipopolysaccharide of a bacteriophage Felix Ol-sensitive variant of Salmonella anatum Al." J. Gen.

Microbiol. 129:3177-3184.

12. McConnell, M.R., B.D. Foster*, D.P. Davis*, B. Kat*, J.G. Blair*, R.A. Long* and M.M. Steed* (1986).

"A spontaneous1y-produced lipopolysaccharide biosynthetic defect that causes both pleiotropic phage

resistance and mucoid colony morphology in Salmonella anatum, Microbios 48:135-158

13. Hayashi, Marie N., Reza Yaghmai, Michael McConnell and Masaki Hayashi (1989). mRNA stabilizing

signals encoded in the genome of the bacteriophage PhiX174," Molec. and Gen. Genetics 216:364-371

14. McConnell, M.R., B. Walker*, P. Middleton*, J. Chase*, J. Owen*, D. Hyatt*, H. Gutierrez*, M.

Williams*, D. Hambright*, M. Barry, Jr.*, S. Sage*, G. Fuller*, M. Birdwell*, M. Rydelski*, S. Risley* and

B. Kat* (1992). "Restriction Endonuclease and Genetic Mapping Studies Indicate that the Vegetative

Genome of the Temperate Salmonella-Specific Bacteriophage, Epsilon 15, is Circularly-Permuted", Archives

of Virology 123:215-221

15. McConnell, M.R., Oakes, K.R., Patrick, A. N. and Mills, D.M. (2001). Two functional O-

polysaccharide polymerase wzy (rfc) genes are present in the rfb gene cluster of Group E1 Salmonella

enterica serovar Anatum . FEMS Microbiology Letters 199(2), 235-240

16. Kropinski, Andrew M., Irina V. Kovalyova, Stephen J. Billington, Aaron N. Patrick*, Brent D. Butts*,

Jared A. Guichard*, Trevor J. Pitcher*, Carly C. Guthrie*, Anya D. Sydlaske*, Lisa M. Barnhill*, Kyle A.

Havens*, Kenneth R. Day*, Darrel R. Falk and Michael R. McConnell (2007). The Genome of 15, a

Serotype-Converting, Group E1 Salmonella enterica-Specific Bacteriophage . Virology 369, 234-244.

Manuscripts Currently in Preparation:

1. Kropinski, Andrew, Erika Linghor, Michael Barry, Barry Walker, Kay Jacobs-Navarette, Anya Sydlaske,

Stacie Seelig, Shandee Hutson, Kyle Havens, Josh Haleen, and Michael R. McConnell, The Genome of the

Salmonella enterica serovar Anatum-Specific, Serotype Converting Phage, g341,

2. McConnell, M.R., M.D. Burns*, T.P.Gary*, B. Kat*, D.A. DeRiemer*, M. Quinn*, L. E. Heasley*, M.J.

Rydelski*, P. C. Middleton*, B. Waters*, W.W. Sanford*, D.R. Hyatt* and G.A. Fuller*. "Positional

relationships among proteins in the adsorption apparatus of the Salmonella-specific bacteriophage, Epsilon

15 .

B. PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS (asterisks denote PLNC undergraduate coauthors)

1. McConnell, M., and A. Wright (1975). Multiple steps in the absorption of bacteriophage E15 to its host

cell, Salmonella anatum", Abstract, Phage Meetings, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.

2. Rossow, P.W., M.R. pcCcnnell, and P.M. Blumberg (1977), The subunit structure of LETS protein on the

surface of chick embryo fibroblasts", Federation Proceedings 36:358, A472

3. McConnell, M.R., and J.E. Schoelz* (1981), "Laboratory strains of Salmonella anatum that are sensitive to

bacteriophages Felix 01 and E15". Ann. Meeting of the Amer. Soc. for Microbial. (Dallas, Texas), Abstract

H99, p. 130

4. McAbee*, D., M. McConnell, L. Heasley*, D. Starn*, D. Reel*, and J. Schoelz* (1981), "Bacteriophage

E15 binds reversibly to its host cell, Salmonella anatum, at acidic pH". Fifth International Congress of

Virology (Strasbourg, France) p.274, Abstract pp. 28/10

5. Burns*, M.D., T.P. Gary*, D.A. DeRiemer*, and M.R. McConnell (1983). Mutational suppression of a

DNA ejection defect in bacteriophage E15", Abstract, Eighth Annual Biological Sciences Undergraduate

Research Conference, University of Santa Clara, CA

6. Guthrie*, J.E., R.A. Long*, and M.R. McConnell (1983). Transformation of Salmonella anatum Al by

plasmid pBR322 DNA", Abstract, Eighth Annual Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference,

University of Santa Clara, CA

7. Jensen*, R.A., N.D. Bravo*, D.A. Brown*, D.D. Brown, S.H. Gilkey*, S.B. Oliver* and M.R. McConnell

(1983), "Isolation and preliminary characterization of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa-specific bacteriophage,

Eighth Annual Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, University of Santa Clara, CA

8. Gary*, T., M. Burns*, B. Waters*, L. Heasley*, and M. McConnell (1984), "Intragenic suppression of a

DNA ejection defect caused by a mutation in the tail gene of bacteriophage E15", Abstract, Ninth Annual

Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, University of Santa Clara, CA

9. Birdwell*, M., D. Pospisil*, N. Kemalyan*, B. Foster*, and M. McConnell (1984), "Properties of a

transformable strain of Salmonella anatum". Abstract, Ninth Annual Biological Sciences Undergraduate

Research Conference, University of Santa Clara, CA

10. Steed*, M., R. Jensen*, K. Heaney*, T. Lithgow* and M. McConnell (1985), "Characterization of the

cell surface receptor recognized by NB4, a Pseudomonas aeruginosa-specific bacteriophage", Abstract, Tenth

Annual Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, University of Santa Clara, CA

11. Pospisil-Davis*, D. and M. McConnell (1985), "Characterization of the restriction/modification

phenotypes of Group E1 Salmonellae stains", Abstract, Tenth Anneal Biological Sciences Undergraduate

Research Conference, University of Santa Clara, CA

12. Gutierrez*, H. and M. McConnell (1986), "Linear ordering of the fragments generated by digestion of the

Bacteriophage E15 chromosome with restriction endonucleases Bam HI and Pst I, Abstract, Eleventh

Annual Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, Occidental College, CA

13. Steed*, M.M. and M.R. McConnell (1986), "Bacteriophage NB4 interacts with both cell surface proteins

and carbohydrate antigens during adsorption to Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Abstract, Eleventh Annual

Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, Occidental College, CA

14. McConnell, M.R., M.D. Burns*, D.A. DeRiemer*, T.P. Gary*, L.E. Heasley* and B. Kat* (1986), The

role of the tail protein in the DNA ejection mechanism of bacteriophage E15, Abstract, Tenth Biennial

Meeting on Bacteriophage Assembly, MacDonald College of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

15. McConnell, M.R., D.P. Davis* and H.G. Gutierrez* (1986), "Cloning of the cell surface conversion genes

of bacteriophage E15 - A preliminary report", Abstract, Tenth Biennial Meeting on Bacteriophage Assembly,

MacDonald College of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

16. Middleton*, P.C., M.J. Rydelski* and M.R. McConnell (1987), "Characterization of the cell surface

conversion genes of E15, a Salmonella-specific bacteriophage", Abstract, Tenth Annual West Coast

Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, University of Santa Clara, CA

17. McConnell, M.R., P.C. Middleton*, M.J. Rydelski*, H.G. Gutierrez* J.D. Owens*, S.L. Risley* and

W.W. Sanford* (1987), "Screening of cloned E15 DNA fragments for the genes that govern cell surface

conversion upon infection of Salmonella anatum, A126, 1987 Meeting on Molecular Genetics of Bacteria

and Phage, Cold Spring Harbor laboratory, N.Y.

18. Owens*, J.D., P.C. Middleton*, W.W. Sanford*, G.A. Fuller* and M.R. McConnell (1988)

"Identification of the chromosomal location of the cell surface conversion genes of E15, a Salmonella

anatum-specific bacteriophage" Abstract, Thirteenth Annual Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research

Conference, Occidental College, CA

19. McConnell, M.R. and P.C. Middleton* (1988), "Characterization of the DNA Ejection Mechanism of

Bacteriophage E15: Evidence Implicating the 109,000, the 93,000, and the 85,000 Dalton Virion

Polypeptides as Components of the E15 DNA Ejection Apparatus . Eleventh Biennial Meeting on

Bacteriophage Assembly Asilomar, CA

20. Walker*, B., J. Chase*, J. Fuller*, W. Sanford* and M. McConnell (1989), "Chromosomal Endonuclease

Restriction Mapping and DNA Packaging Mechanism for the Salmonella anatum-specific Bacteriophage,

E15" Abstract, Fourteenth Annual Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, University of

Santa Clara, CA

21. McConnell, M.R., B. Walker*, P. Middleton*, J. Chase*, J. Fuller* and D. Hyatt* (1989),

"Organizational and Functional Aspects of the Genome of the Salmonella Bacteriophage E15, as Revealed by

Restriction Endonuclease Mapping and Marker Rescue Assays", Abstract, 1989 Annual Meeting on the

Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY

22. McConnell, M.R., W. Sanford* and P. Middleton* (1990), "Cloning the Lipopolysaccharide Conversion

Genes of Bacteriophage E15 - A Preliminary Report", Abstract I-P-6, First Annual Congress of the

International Endotoxin Society, San Diego, CA (May, 1990)

23. McConnell, M.R., D. Falk, M. Williams*, B. Walker*, D. Hambright*, J. Chase*, D. Hyatt*, P.

Middleton*, M. Barry, Jr.* and S. Sage*, The Lipopolysaccharide Conversion Genes are Adjacent to the

Integration Site in the Genome of the Temperate Salmonella Phage E15", Abstract A-138, 1990 Annual

Meeting on the Molecular Genetics of bacteria and Phages Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, N. Y.

24. Marvin*, M. and M.R. McConnell (1991), Use of Transposon Tn5SupF as a tool for locating the

conversion Genes in the Genome of Bacteriophage E15 - A preliminary report, Abstract, Sixteenth Annual

West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, University of Santa Clara, CA

25. Sage*, S., M. Barry, Jr.*, M. Williams*, M. Marvin* and M.R. McConnell (1991), Evidence for Close

Proximity of Lipopolysaccharide conversion Genes and the Integration Site in the Genome of the Temperate

Salmonella Bacteriophage E15, Abstract, Sixteenth Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate

Research Conference, University of Santa Clara, CA

26. McConnell, M.R., D. Falk, M. Williams*, M. Marvin*, M. Barry, Jr.* and S. Sage* (1991), "Alternative

approaches to mapping the Lipopolysaccharide conversion genes in the genome of the temperate Salmonella

bacteriophage, E15", Abstract, Twelfth International Bacteriophage Assembly Meeting, Cable, WI (June,

1991)

27. Barry, Jr.* M, and M. McConnell (1992), "Development of a transposon system suitable for mapping the

cell surface conversion genes of Salmonella bacteriophage, E15, by insertion mutagenesis, Abstract,

Seventeenth Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, Point Loma

Nazarene College, San Diego, CA

28. Kerns*, S., A. Miller* and M. McConnell (1994), Cloning of the transacetylase repressor gene of

Epsilon 15, a Group E1 Salmonellae-converting bacteriophage...a progress report, Abstract, Nineteenth

Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, Occidental College, Los

Angeles, CA

29. McConnell, M.R., B. Butts*, F. Conte*, D. Brock* and V. Tran* (1995) Initial characterization of

genes from the Group E1 Salmonellae-specific, lipopolysaccharide converting phages, Epsilon 15 and c341,

the protein products of which are believed to inhibit production of host cell O-polysaccharide transacetylase

enzyme, Abstract 164, 49th Annual Meeting on Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages, Cold Spring

Harbor Laboratory, NY

30. Butts*, Brent, and Michael McConnell (1995) Initial characterization of the transacetylase repressor

genes of the Group E1 Salmonellae-converting phages, Epsilon 15 and c341", Abstract, Twentieth Annual

West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, University of San Francisco, CA

31. Brock, David, Vitruc Tran and M. McConnell (1996), A cloned copy of the Epsilon 15 transacetylase

repressor gene alters the in vitro phage receptor activity of Group E1 Salmonellae lipopolysaccharide,

Abstract, Twenty-First Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, Point

Loma Nazarene College, San Diego, CA

32. Butts*, Brent, and M. McConnell (1996), Detection of the beta polymerase gene of bacteriophage

Epsilon 15 by PCR, using primers based upon the O-polysaccharide alpha polymerase gene sequence of

Salmonella anatum, Abstract, Twenty-First Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate

Research Conference, Point Loma Nazarene College, San Diego, CA

33. Eastis*, J., B. Whitehead* and M. McConnell (1997), Probable primary structure of the transacetylase

repressor protein of bacteriophage Epsilon 15", Abstract, Twenty-Second Annual West Coast Biological

Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

34. McConnell, Michael (1997), Characterization of a gene in bacteriophage Epsilon 15 whose expression

blocks acetylation of Salmonella O-polysaccharide, First Annual Meeting of the San Diego Microbiology

Group (May 17, 1997)

35. McConnell, M., B. Butts*, K.A. Johnson*, B. Whitehead*, J. Eastis*, D. Mills*, S. Norton*, F. Conte*,

D. Brock* and V. Tran* (1997), Control of acetylation of Group E1 Salmonellae endotoxin by

bacteriophages, Annual Meeting on Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Response, Cold Spring Harbor

Laboratory, NY

36. Norton*, Suzanne, Kenneth Day* and Michael McConnell (1998), A new model for the mechanism of

inhibition of O-polysaccharide transacetylase by bacteriophage Epsilon 15", Abstract, Twenty-third Annual

West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, University of San Francisco, CA

37. Day*, Kenneth, Suzanne Norton* and Michael McConnell (1999) Establishment of the correct ORF for

the bacteriophage Epsilon 15 transacetylase repressor gene by in vitro mutagenesis, using altered PCR

primers, Abstract, Twenty-Fourth Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research

Conference, University of California at Irvine

38. Mills*, David, Michael McConnell and Stephen Billington (1999) A Genomics approach to the search

for beta polymerase, a hypothesized cell surface conversion gene of bacteriophage Epsilon 15", Abstract,

Twenty-Fourth Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, University of

California at Irvine

39. Patrick*, Aaron, Kenneth Oakes* and Michael McConnell (2001) Two functional O-polysaccharide

polymerase genes are present in the rfb gene cluster of Group E1 Salmonella enterica, Abstract, Twenty-

sixth Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, Santa Clara University.

40. Sydlaske*, Anya and Michael McConnell (2002) Identification of the gene coding for the tail fiber

protein of the Salmonella-specific bacteriophage, Epsilon 15, Abstract, Twenty-seventh Annual West Coast

Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, Loyola Marymount University

41. Hutson*, Shandee M. and Michael McConnell (2003) The use of chimer protein constructs to examine

structure/function relationships in Group E1 Salmonella enterica O-polysaccharide polymerase enzymes

Abstract, Twenty-Eighth Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference,

Colorado College, Colorado Springs.

INVITED RESEARCH SEMINARS AND PROFESSIONAL MEETING SEMINAR

PRESENTATIONS

1975 Cold Spring Harbor Phage Meetings, Cold Spring Harbor, New York

1984 Department of Biology, Biola University, La Mirada, CA

1984 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

1984 Basic Sciences Seminar, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA

1985 Department of Molecular Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

1986 Tenth Biennial Meeting on Bacteriophage Assembly (two seminars), MacDonald College of McGill

University, Montreal, Quebec

1988 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts

University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

1988 Eleventh Biennial Meeting on Bacteriophage Assembly, Asilomar, CA

1991 12th International Meeting on Bacteriophage Assembly, Cable, WI

1992 Department of Microbiology, Montana State University, Boseman, MT

1994 Department of Microbiology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

1997 Annual Conference of the San Diego Microbiology Group (May 17, 1997)

1999 Annual Conference of the San Diego Microbiology Group (May 22, 1999)

2001 Department of Medicine, U.C. San Diego, CA (July 5, 2001)

2005 Departments of Biology and Chemistry, Azusa Pacific University (April 21, 2005

2005 Annual Conference of the San Diego Microbiology Group (May 28, 2005

EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1986 Gene cloning in the High School Classroom using inexpensive, homemade models, Workshop for

Secondary Science Teachers, Point Loma Nazarene College, (August, 1986)

1987 Gene cloning in the classroom, 3rd Annual Science Educator s Conference K-12, San Diego County

Office of Education (February 11, 1987)

1988 Adjudicator for 34th Annual Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair

1989 Adjudicator for 35th Annual Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair

1990 DNA and the age of genetic engineering, Seminar presentation for Outward Bound students,

presented at U.C. San Diego (July 5, 1990)

1996 Scientific Consultant for Murdock Charitable Trust (Seattle, WA)

1996 Presentation on Microbes and Personal Hygiene, Warren Walker School, Grade K (March 19, 1996)

1997 Presentation on Anton van Leeuwenhoek and Microscopy, Warren Walker School, Grade 1 (May 13,

1997)

1997 Immunoglobulin Genes - Structure and Function, California Scope, Sequence and Coordination

Southern Summer Institute (High School Science Teacher Workshop), Point Loma Nazarene College, (July

17, 1997)

1998 Member, West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference Steering Committee

1998 Presentation on Properties of RNA and Proteins, Warren Walker School, Grade 2 (May 22, 1998)

1998 Scientific Consultant for Murdock Charitable Trust (Seattle, WA)

1999 Presentation on Arthropods, Warren Walker School, Grade 3 (6/2/99)

2000 Presentation on Mammalian Circulatory and Excretory Systems, Warren Walker School, Grade 4 (May

31, 2000)

2001 Presentation on the Human Central Nervous System, Warren Walker School, Grade 5 (May 31, 2001)

ADDITIONAL COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Sept. 1989 Vocal Music Entertainment for PLUS, a Point Loma Community Senior Citizens Group

Feb. 1991 Vocal Music Entertainment for Active Adults, a Senior Citizens Group of the First United

Methodist Church, San Diego, CA

Jan-March 1998 Coach for YMCA Basketball Program (Boys age 7-8)

1990-2002 Member, Linda Vista Civic Association

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