Patrick J. P. Brown, Ph.D.

Patrick Jerry Paul Brown Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

East Tennessee State University

Phone: (423) 439-4564

Fax: (423) 439-4562

The University of Georgia

1999-2003

PhD. in Cellular Biology

Dissertation: Evolution and comparative morphology of the euglenophyte plastid.

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

1994-1998

B.S. in Biology - Cum Laude

• 2011 – Present: Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Department, College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University.

• 2007-2011: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, King College, Bristol, Tennessee.

• 2004-2007: Research Assistant Professor, Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Science. 

• 2005: Interim Co-director, South Carolina Algal Ecology Lab. 

• 2003-2004: Phytoplankton Taxonomist, South Carolina Algal Ecology Lab. 

• 1999-2003: Graduate Research Assistant at the Center for Advanced Ultrastructural Research in Athens, Georgia. 

• 1998-2003: Graduate Teaching assistant at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. 

§  2011 – Invited participant to the POGIL National Meeting and training workshop. Saint Louis, Missouri.

§  2011 – Invited participant in the 1^st POGIL facilitator’s training workshop, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

§  2010 – POGIL-n-Grits: SE Regional POGIL Meeting and Workshop, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA.

§  20009 – Strategies for Success Workshop – increasing active learning in the Biology classroom.  Chattanooga State Technical and Community College, Chattanooga, TN.

§  2008 - GRAD 7850, Mentoring Undergraduate Research, 1 credit graduate course at East Tennessee State University.

§  2008 - POGIL (Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning) 3-day workshop at Guillford College, Greensboro, NC.

§  2011 – Co-facilitator, Human Anatomy and Physiology active learning workshop. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

§  2011 – Co-facilitator, Southeast Regional POGIL meeting and workshop. Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

§  2010 – Increasing student participation through group work in a lecture class.  1 hour workshop given to the faculty of King College.

§  2009 – Introduction to POGIL.  1 hour workshop given to the faculty of King College.

·         American Society for Microbiology

·         Phycological Society of America

·         Society of Protozoologists

·         Southeastern Microscopy Society

-    Student member of organizing committee for SEMS 2002

-    Webmaster 2003-2007

Sigma Xi – The Scientific Research Society	2004
Winner of the Ruska Award for Student Research, SEMS	2003
Outstanding Teaching Assistant (Top 10% at UGA)	2001
Student Representative to the Cellular Biology Curriculum Committee	2001-2002
Social Chariman: Cellular Biology Grad. Student Assoc.	2001-2002
President: Cellular Biology Grad. Student Assoc.	2000-2001
Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society	1995 - 1998
Mortar Board Honor Society	1997 - 1998
Golden Key National Honor Society	1995 - 1998
Phi Delta Theta Foundation Scholarship	1996
Order of Omega	1995 - 1998
Member of University Honors Program U.T.C.	1994- 1998
William E. Brock Scholar	1994 - 1998

Brown, P.J.P., (2010) Process-oriented guided-inquiry learning in an introductory anatomy and physiology class with a diverse student population. Advances in Physiology Education 34: 150-155.

Liu, J., Brown, P.J.P., Lewitus, A. J., & Wilde, S. B. (2008) Growth promoting effects of a bacterium on raphidophytes and other phytoplankton. Harmful Algae 7: 1-10.

Brown, P.J.P. and M. A. Farmer (201?) Ultrastructure and comparative morphology of chloroplast division and partitioning in the euglenoid flagellates. Protoplasma (subm).

Adolf, J.E., T.R. Bachvaroff, D.N. Krupatkina, H. Nonogaki, P.J.P. Brown, A.J. Lewitus, H.R. Harvey, and A.R. Place. (2005) Species specificity and potential roles of Karlodinium micrum toxin. Proceedings of the 11^th International Conference on Harmful Algal Blooms.

Brosnan, S. C., Brown, P.J.P., Farmer, M.A., and Triemer, R.E. (2005) Morphological separation of the genera Trachelomonas and Strombomonas based on lorica development and pellicle strip reduction. J. Phycol. 41 590-605.

Brown, P. J. P., Zakrys, B., and Farmer, M. A. (2003) Plastid Morphology, Ultrastructure, and Development in Colacium and the loricate euglenophytes

(Euglenophyceae).  Journal of Phycology 39 (2) 122-138.

Brown, P. J.P., B. S. Leander, and M. A. Farmer, (2002) A redescription of Euglena rustica: a rare euglenophyte from the intertidal zone. Phycologia 41 (5) 445-452.

Brown, P.J.P., 2010 Improvements in learning outcomes after the introduction of POGIL into an introductory anatomy and physiology course. SE regional POGIL meeting, June 2010.

Brown, P.J.P., Lewitus, A., Wilde, S. B., and Chapman, R. 2007 Revolutionary new tools for multiple species detection.   Invited Symposium speaker, AAAS annual meeting, 2007.

Brown, P.J.P., Chapman, R., and Lewitus, A. 2005 Two step chimeric multiplex fluorescent PCR as a means of detecting harmful algal species from the environment.  Invited presentation at the Estuarine Research Foundation’s special session on Oceans and Human Health. ERF 2005 Norfolk, Virginia USA.

Brown, P.J.P., 2005 Chimero-Fluor a new universally labeled multiplex PCR detection method for Harmful Algal Blooms.  Invited Lecturer to the Fort Johnson Marine Biology Seminar Series, Charleston, SC USA.

Brown, P.J.P., and A. J. Lewitus 2004 Virioplankton population dynamics in two brackish stormwater detention ponds.  Podium presentation at SEERS 2004, the annual meeting of the Southeastern Estuarine Research Society. Wilmington, North Carolina, USA.

Brown, P.J.P., and Mark Farmer, 2003 Use of multiphoton microscopy to reveal novel mechanisms of plastid development in the Euglenophytes.  Annual meeting of the Southeastern Microscopy Society, Columbia, SC.  Winner of the Ruska Award for best student research.

Funding History

2010 Erika Snapp: Biology major at King College – Senior research.

2009 Tehra James: Undergraduate Biology major at King College – Senior research.

2008 Rachel Harding: Undergraduate Biology major at King College - Summer
Research experience.

2007 Alexia Melo: Undergraduate Biology major at King College, Senior research.

2005 Nezhla Sanderson: Summer intern for the Minorities in Marine and Environmental Science program at the Marine Resources Research Institute (SC Department of Natural Resources), Now a junior at Allen University, Columbia, SC.

2005 Carolyn Abbott: MUSC Ph.D. student; lab rotation.

2004 Sophia Moorer: Summer intern for the Minorities in Marine and Environmental Science program at the Marine Resources Research Institute (SC Department of Natural Resources), Now a senior at South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC.

2003 Arena Richardson: Summer intern for the Minorities in Marine and Environmental Science program at the Marine Resources Research Institute (SC Department of Natural Resources), Now a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia

2003 Shanna Chambliss: Summer intern for the Minorities in Marine and Environmental Science program at the Marine Resources Research Institute (SC Department of Natural Resources), Now a M.S. student at Delaware State University.

BIOL 3400 (King College) Microbiology and Bioinformatics. Lecture and Lab

BIOL 3500 (King College) Histology. Lecture and Lab

BIOL 3160 (King College) Photosynthetic Life. Lecture and Lab

BIOL 1020 (King College) Human Anatomy and Physiology II.  Lecture and Lab

BIOL 2500 (King College) Microbiology and Immunology.  Lecture and Lab

EVSS 693 (Univ. of Charleston) Independent study on algal biology and microscopy.  Course Coordinator/Lecturer on the fundamentals of microscopic theory and technique and its applications to study of algal biology.

Graduate Studies 7770 (UGA) Graduate Internship: Guest lecturer on the differences between undergraduate and graduate education.

Cellular Biology/Biology/Veterinary Pathology 7050L (UGA) Graduate Course in Electron Microscopy: Laboratory.  Involved modification of the curriculum and syllabus, creation of new laboratory exercises, and instruction of graduate students.

Cellular Biology/Biology/Veterinary Pathology 7040 (UGA) Graduate Course in Electron Microscopy.  Guest Lecturer

Biology/Cellular Biology/Botany 6600 (UGA) Biology of Protists. Lecturer under the auspices of an internship in undergraduate education.

Cellular Biology 2200L (UGA) Human Anatomy and Physiology I.  Involved instuction of laboratories for health-science majors.

Cellular Biology 2210L (UGA) Human Anatomy and Physiology II.  Involved instuction of laboratories for health-science majors.

Biology 1103L (UGA) Introductory Biology for non-majors.  Involved instruction of a general biology lab for non-biology majors.

Biology 1104 (UGA) Organismal Biology for non-majors.  Lecturer under the auspices of an internship in undergraduate education.

Biology 121 (UTC) Principals of Biology Lab. Involved set-up and instruction of a general introductory biology laboratory.

Biology 122 (UTC) Principals of Biology II Lab. Involved set-up and instruction of three sections of general introductory biology laboratory.

(2009 – present) Member of Knights of Columbus council 4263, Johnson City, TN [Warden 2010 – 2011, Deputy Grand Knight (vice-president) 2011-2012]

(2008 - present) High School Catechist, St. Mary's Catholic Church, Johnson City, TN

(2007 - present) Lector, St. Mary's Catholic Church, Johnson City, TN

(2003-2007) Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist, St. John the Beloved Catholic Church, Summerville, SC.

(2004-2007) Volunteer for High School Youth Ministry, St. John the Beloved Catholic Church, Summerville, SC.

(2005, 2006) Volunteer Judge at the Citadel’s Undergraduate Research Symposium.

(2004, 2005, 2006) Volunteer Judge for the Lowcountry Science Fair.

(2000-2003) Volunteer Coordinator and member of the Board of Directors for Athens Canine Rescue.

(1998 - 2003) Volunteer for Athens Canine Rescue, an all-breed non-kill canine shelter.

(1999- 2002) Volunteer Judge for the Georgia State Science and Engineering Fair.

· (August, 2010) Volunteer, St. Anne’s Catholic School Science and Discovery Center.  Service and maintenance of all school microscopy equipment.

·  (November 22, 2005) Invited speaker at Clinton Elementary School, Clinton, Tennessee.  Involved a 1-hour presentation to the entire 6^th grade regarding careers in marine science.  Shared pictures with students, took questions, and distributed educational materials (posters, bookmarks, books, CDs, etc).

·   (May 21, 2002) UGA Science day for Madison County Schools.  Involved 30 minute mini-classes to fourth grade students on the cellular nature of life.  Topics included microbes, the cells of blood, and cheek epithelium.  Students were allowed to prepare a mount of their own cheek cells and took a picture home with them.

·  (March 30, 2001) Invited Scientist at Cleveland Road Elementary Science Day, Athens, Georgia.  This involved giving short (7-10) minute presentations about symbiosis, and microbial life.

·  (November 8, 2000) Invited Speaker at Lake City Middle School, Lake City, Tennessee.  Involved giving three, one-hour long presentations to middle school students ages 11-14 about the cellular nature of life, as well as the diversity of microbial life.

 

 

 

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Patrick J. P. Brown
PO Box 70673
Jonson City, TN 37614
(423) 439-4566

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