Kristin M. Fox
Kristin M. Fox

Director of Undergraduate Research
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Office: WOLD 216
Phone: (518) 388-6250
Fax: (518)388-6795
Email: foxk@union.edu

Education:
B.S. Chemistry, Lafayette College, 1988
Ph.D. Biochemistry, Cornell University, 1994


Courses:

CHM 101 Introductory Chemistry I
CHM 101 Lab
CHM 102 Introductory Chemistry II
CHM 102 Lab
CHM 231 Organic Chemistry I
CHM 231 Lab

CHM 335 Survey of Biochemistry
CHM 382 Biochemistry: Structure and Catalysis
CHM 561 Chemical Demonstrations


Research Interests:

Our lab is studying programmed cell death in a simple multicellular fungus, Schizophyllum commune.  We have cloned four of the five genes for this enzyme, and shown that they are homologous to the metacaspases from S. cerevisiae, A. thaliana, and other organisms.  Our current efforts are focused on expression and and purification of the putative metacaspase from S. commune. 

Publications

Research Lab Page

Links:

Chemical Demonstrations

The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a repository for all solved protein structures. It gives coordinates for all atoms and other information about the protein structure.

NCBI holds the Genbank database of gene sequences. Within NCBI is a tool called BLAST which allows searching of a database of sequences for others which are similar to any input sequence.

Swiss-Prot is a database of protein sequences. It contains both those determined empirically and those translated from DNA sequences.

Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) organizes proteins into families based on their structural similarities.