Academic Background
2004- present: Associate Professor, Biology Department,
Davidson College
1998-2004: Assistant Professor, Biology Department, Davidson
College
1996-1998: Research Associate/NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Developmental, Cell
and Molecular Biology Group, Duke University Bruce Kohorn, advisor
1992;
1996: M.A., and Ph.D. Molecular Biology, Princeton
University, Elizabeth
Sztul advisor
1990:
B.A., Biology, Franklin
and Marshall College
, Carl Pike advisor
Selected Publications and Presentations
Research
Papers *denotes undergraduates as
co-authors
Guilford, W.H., L.E. Aust*, and K.K. Bernd (2006) “Whole-cell
flagellum-based motility studied using back focal plane interferometry in
a laser trap transducer” Conference Record of the Fortieth Asilomar
Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers: 178-82.
McCord, R.P.*, Yukich. J. N.. and Bernd, K.K.. 2005. Analysis of Force Generation during Flagellar Assembly Through Optical Trapping of Free-swimming Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 61: 137-144
Bernd, K. K., and Cook, N.*. 2002. Microscale assay monitors algal growth characteristics. Biotechniques 32: 1256-1259. http://www.biotechniques.com/ (subscription free but must register or password then search)
Timm, S., Titus, B., Bernd K., and Barroso, M. (1999) The EF-hand Ca2+-binding Protein p22 Associates with microtubules in an N-myristoylation dependent manner. Molec Bio of the Cell 10: 3473-3488. http://www.molbiolcell.org/cgi/content/full/10/10/3473
Bernd, K.K., and Kohorn, B.D. (1998) Tip loci: Six Chlamydomonas nuclear suppressors that permit the translocation of proteins with mutant thylakoid signal sequences. Genetics 149:1293-1301. http://www.genetics.org/content/vol149/issue3/
Books and Book Chapters
Bernd K.K. 2004 'Biology' In Condense Knowledge Eds W. Pearson, L.
Hunt and M. Hattikudur. Harper Collins. http://www.condensedknowledge.com
Bernd, K.K.' User's Guide'. (2002) Supplemental material for instuctors included with Alberts et al. Molecular Biology of the Cell 4th edition. Available in pdf format at http://www.garlandscience.com/MBoC4/supplements.html
Bernd, K.K., Perret, M.C., and Kohorn, B.D. (1998) Chloroplast protein translocation in Chlamydomonas. In Molecular Biology of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria in Chlamydomonas. Eds. J. D. Rochaix,, M. Goldschmidt-Clermont, and S. Merchant
Books Reviews and Other Articles
TP Msg. 623 “Merging Teaching and Research” a response to ‘Sufficient
Time for Research’ Initially posted 2/14/05, ‘Tomorrow's Professor’ faculty
development resource sponsored by the Stanford University Center for Teaching
and Learning. Posting written at the request of the moderator Rick Reis.
Archived at http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/index.shtml
Bernd, K.K. and V. Statler* (2004) Customer Focus: Undergraduates Study Gene
Expression in S.cerevisiae Using a Student-Optimized Protocol. Epicentre
Forum 11; 4
Bernd, K. (2003) Waiting for 4.1: Review of Roche Genetics Education Program CD-rom version4.0. Cell Biology Education 2: 152-155. http://www.cellbioed.org/articles/vol2no3/article.cfm?articleID=66
Bernd K.K. (2002) Book Review: Mood Genes: Hunting for the Origins of Mania and Depression. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience. 1(1); R1-R2. http://www.funjournal.org/downloads/R1bernd.pdf
Abstracts
*Clodfelter, C., *Shaban, M., Yukich, J., Bernd,
K.K. (submitted) Analysis of Force Generation Patterns During C.
reinhardtii Flagella Regeneration. America Society for Cell Biology Annual
Meeting, Washington, D.C. Dec 2007
Bernd, K.K., DeForest Hauser, C., *Nam, A., *Raver, C., *Weaver, A. (submitted) An epithelial Type II Cell System to Investigate Links between Environmental Factors and Lung Injury. America Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. Dec 2007
Yukich, J. *Shaban, M., * Clodfelter, C., Bernd. KK 2007. Measurement of swimming force generation during flagella regeneration in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. SES Meeting of the American Physical Society. Nashville, TN. Nov 2007
Yukich, J. *Shaban, M., * Clodfelter, C., Bernd. KK 2007. Measurement of swimming force generation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii using optical tweezers. Optics in the Southeast Annual Meeting. Clemson University Oct 2007
Guilford W., *Aust,L, Bernd, K.K., (2006) Whole-cell flagellum-based motility studied using back focal plane interferometry in a laser trap transducer. 40th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers. Pacific Grove, California Platform talk. Nov 2006
Shaban, M.*, Bernd, K, and Yukich, J., (2006) Improving Optical Trap Calibration Techniques for Chlamydomonas Cells. NCS-AAPT meeting Elon College. Sept 2006. Mona Shaban presented platform talk.
Yukich, J., Bernd, K.K., and R.P.McCord*. 2005. Biophysical analysis of swimming force by Chlamydomonas flagella. Annual Meeting of the SE section of the American Physical Society. Platform talk.
Newton, K.*, Pickens, A.*, and K.K.Bernd. 2005. Novel organic compounds DRR 3 and DRR 5 affect growth rate differentially in model bacteria Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, and Staphylococcus simulans. North Carolina Academy of Science Annual Meeting. Meredith College, Raleigh, NC.
McCord, R.P.*, Yukich. J. N., and K.K. Bernd. 2004 Optical Trap Analysis Reveals Exhibit Complex Patterns of Swimming Force Increase During Flagella Elongation Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting, Washington, DC.
Bernd, K. K. 2004. Undergraduates Ranking Grant Proposals and Writing a Curriculum Vitae Why and How? American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting, Washington, DC.McCord, R.P.*, Bernd, K.K., and J.N. Yukich (2003) The
Design and Construction of an Optical Tweezers Laser Apparatus to Measure Piconewton
Scale Biological Forces. Annual Meeting of the SE section of the American Physical
Society. Wilmington, NC. Awarded Second place in Undergraduate Poster Division.
Neill, J.*, Wilson, A.*, Bernd, K.K. and E. Stevens (2003) Synthesis
and Biological Activity of 1,2,3-triazoles. American Chemical Society annual
meeting. Atlanta, GA, November 2003.
Newton, K.*, Chase, M.*, Toran, P.*, and K.K. Bernd (2003) Characterizing golgin targeting requirements. Poster at North Carolina Academy of Science Meeting, at UNC-Wilmington, Wilmington, NC. Awarded Third Place John Derieux Award for Outstanding Undergradaute Research; Student Poster division.
Statler, V.* and K.K. Bernd (2003) Optimizing Comparative RT-PCR for undergraduate
Cell Biology laboratories. Presentation at North Carolina
Academy of Science Meeting, at UNC-Wilmington, Wilmington, NC. Awarded Second
Place John Derieux Award for Outstanding Undergradaute Research; Science Education
division. Presentated by Victoria Statler ('03)
Bernd, K. K. and Cook, N.* 2001. Protein translocation
mutants demonstrate altered herbicide resistance in novel microscale assay.
Poster at American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting, Washington,
DC.
Larned, C.*, Nugent, E*, McKillop, J. C.*, Bernd, K.K. and D. Wessner. Use of Rapid, Chemiluminescent DNA Sequencing and Phenol-free RNA Isolation Protocols in the Undergraduate Curriculum. ASM Annual Meeting abstract/poster, Orlando, FL
McKillop, J. C. * and K. K. Bernd (2001) Optimizing S. cerevisiae differential gene expression protocols for use in undergraduate laboratories. NC Academy of Science meeting, presentation by J. McKillop (class of '01).
Bernd, K K (2000) Linking the WWWeb and Seminar Courses: Lessons learned from Vesicular Traffic: Dogma or Myth. Invited Speaker American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting.
K K Bernd, *C Larned,, *J McKillop, *E Nugent, *S Riedley, and D Wessner (2000). DNA Sequencing and Differential Expression Studies: Non-radioactive, Non-toxic and Accessible. American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting. MCB Supplement
Web-based resources
Please also see homepage resources at
http://bio.davidson.edu/people/kabernd/BerndCV/BerndCV.html
http://biology.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/chlamyteach/microscale.htm Growing Chlamydomonas in microscale liquid cultures Guide
to help use Chlamydomonas as a teaching tool. Part of Research 2000 Coordinated
and Web-mastered by Michael Adams, Eastern Connecticut State University
Presentations
‘Making Labs Engaging’ Guest
speaker in Graduate course entitled: Bio390: Seminar in Teaching College
Biology. Duke University, Durham,
NC. March
4, 2006.
'The Broad Spectrum of Academia: How academic cultures
vary across institutions' Panelist with Albert Young, Assistant Professor,
Physics, North Carolina State University; and Jeff Rathmell, Assistant Professor,
Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center. January 2005.
Duke University Postdoctoral Association organized event. Duke University, Durham,
NC.
'Integrating Research, Teaching, and
Learning' Guest speaker in Graduate course entitled: Seminar in Teaching Biology
March 2004. Duke University, Durham, NC.
'Protein Translocation and Herbicide Resistance: How
the Summer Sun Causes the Birth of an Assay' Invited speaker Biology Evening
Seminar Series March 2003 Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
Guest lecturer in Bio334: Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology: Metabolism and Information Pathways.March 2003 Franklin and
Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
'Information Fluency' Invited
PFF program speaker (Preparing Future Faculty) March 2002 Duke University,
Durham, NC.
'Integrating Webauthoring into Seminar Courses' Invited PFF program speaker (Preparing Future Faculty) March 2001 Guilford College, Greensboro, NC.
'Linking the WWWeb and Seminar Courses: Lessons learned from Vesicular Traffic: Dogma or Myth'. Invited Speaker American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting. (12/2000)
Selected Funding and Awards (five years)
Interdisciplinary Summer Internship Program in Biochemistry (funded by Merck
-AAAS) Karen Bernd and Cindy Hauser co-PIs. 3 year grant to support collaborative
research in the Chemistry and Biology departments.Each intern is involved in
research in biochemistry fields and has advisors in both departments. Grant
supports 1) stipend for 4 students per summer; 2) travel and supply money for
each student; 3) summer lunch lab group lunches 4) student fieldtrip (per summer)
to explore industry 5) fall lecture series inviting Biochemical researchers.
$60,000 2007-2009
“Characterization of Functional Flagella with Optical Tweezers’ HHMI Summer Research Program. Student Fellow support. Co-Advisor Karen Bernd and John Yukich $5700. Summer 2007
Establishing models to study the effects of ozone on surfactant and lung epithelial
cells’ Faculty
Study and Research Grants Davidson
College, Davidson, NC: $3,200 Summer 2007
“Forensic Serology Seminar: Communicating Scientific
Information to Audiences with Different Scientific Backgrounds” Faculty
Study and Research: Teaching Improvement Grant, Davidson College, Davidson,
NC: $2,600 Summer 2005
"REU Site: Developing Student Scientists: Collaborative
Research in the Life Sciences at Davidson College." NSF-REU Site Grant
: Co-PI: Michael E. Dorcas, Mark T. Stanback, Karen K. Bernd, $248,101 2002-2006
Interdisciplinary Summer Internship Program in Biochemistry (funded by Merck
-AAAS) Karen Bernd and Erland Stevens co-PIs. 3 year grant to support collaborative
research in the Chemistry and Biology departments.Each intern is involved
in research in biochemistry fields and has advisors in both departments.
Grant supports 1) stipend for 4 students per summer; 2) travel and supply
money for each student; 3) summer lunch lab group lunches 4) student fieldtrip
(per summer) to explore industry 5) fall lecture series inviting Biochemical
researchers. $60,000 Summer 2003-2006
"Optimizing Comparative RT-PCR for Cell Biology" Faculty Study and
Research Grant Davidson College $2400 Summer 2003
"Building Optical Tweezers" Faculty Study and Research Grant Davidson College $600 Summer 2003
Providing Connections: Resources for Cell Biology Mellon Technology Fellow, Associated Colleges of the South $2500 Summer 2002
Microscale screening: Testing the general applicability of a novel technique Faculty Study and Research Grant Davidson College, $2750 Summer 2002 Student researcher: Casssandra Sams ('03)
Characterizing the resistance of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii tip mutants
to the herbicide Valor Faculty Study and Research Grant
Davidson College, $3000 Summer 2001 Student researcher Brian Strife ('02)
Maximizing Audience and Student-Perceived Relevance: Teaching Information
Fluency in Introductory Biology Courses Information Fluency Grant, Associated
Colleges of the South co-Investigators M. Muchane (Center for Instructional
Technology), F. Molinek (Library) and V. Statler ('03) $3655 May 2001-April
2002
Rachel McCord '04 Building Optical Tweezers (see
Center for Interdisciplinary Studies section below)
Summer 2002
Cassandra Sams '03 Microscale screening: Testing
the general applicability of a novel technique
Summer 2001
Brian Strife '02 Mating type makes a difference: Characterizating
the herbicide resistance of mt- tip1 mutants
Summer 2000
John McKillop '01 Differential expression of yeast genes:
Developed non caustic and non-radioactive 'Dot' Bot methods.
(Generously supported by the Abernethy Fund and an NCBC
Educational Enhancement Grant)
Carrie Smith '01 'Resource' vs tip1 isolates: Characterizing the resistance of mutant algae strain to flumichloric pentyl ester.
Summer 1999
Nathaniel Cook '00 Developing microscale assays for
algae characterization: There has got to be a better way.
Spring 2001
Cat Kizer '01 Tip-ing the scales: Do all the tip translocation
mutant suppressor strains provide herbicide resistance like tip1? (A characterization
of 12 strains).
John McKillop '01: Developing and optimizing protocols for detecting RNA. (continuation of project from summer 2000)
Victoria Statler '03 Exploring options: internship and research into the life of a pediatric rheumatologist (Internship funded through the Howard Hughes Women in Science mentor program)
Spring 2000
Jessica Reynolds-Kenneally: The
Molecular Basis of Disease
Fall 1999
Kelly Carter 'The Trojan Horse: A study of HIV/AIDs
and the progress toward a vaccine' (Fall 1999)
Spring 1999
The following three students worked around a central theme of optimizing methods
needed to detect intracellular signaling in the mating reaction
of S. cerevisiae (budding yeast)
Kelly Carter '00 'Using fluorescence microscopy to study cell signaling: optimizing fus1 and control marker fluorescence in S. cerevisiae'
Tyler Richmond '99 'How little is too little? Determining the levels of fluorescence nucleotides required for Fluor S detection'
Evans Thompson '99 'Seeing' signaling at the transcript level: optimizing RNA isolation and detection methods for undergraduate laboratory use'Before 1999
Edward Kim: senior thesis 'Cloning of wild type tip1 locus and chloroplastic SRP54 from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii(Spring 1997-Spring 1998, Duke University)Elizabeth Wagner: senior thesis 'Are trafficking signals conserved? Expression of mammalian pIgA-R in S. cerevisiae (Fall 1995-Spring 1996, Princeton University)
Nathaniel
Cook 'Translocation meets resistance: Characterizing herbicide resistance
in the tip mutants of Chlamydomonas
reinhardtii (Spring 1999- Spring 2000).
Andrea Chang 'Cloning and sequence analysis of p22, a novel protein involved
in constitutive vesicular traffic' (Spring
1993-Spring1995, Princeton University)
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American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB): N.C. Congresional Liason Committee member |
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National Association of Biology Teacher (NABT) | |
Phi Beta Kappa (fBK) | |
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