Kathryn Gogolin Reynolds, Ph.D.
Teaching Research Associate
321 Colton Hall
330.569.5266
I am originally a northeastern Ohioan, born and raised; however for eight years I was living in Alabama, Vermont, and Colorado. Recently, in 2007, I joined the Hiram College family were I teach classes in the Biology Department. My research experience has included areas of plant molecular biology, wetland biology, tropical ecology, cave ecology, and stream ecology; of which some of this research has been conducted internationally in Spain, Panama, as well as the Bahamas. I have worked on several species of organisms, including Arabidopsis thaliana for cellular and genetic studies and have utilized Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae for genetic manipulation and molecular assays. In my current position, I also work with Agrobacterium tumefaciens as well as Acidovorax avenae with students in a teaching environment. As you may have already noticed, my research interests have changed over the years. Currently, I am happily focused on my teaching but in the future would like to experiment with integrating my ecology and cell/molecular backgrounds into a small research program for undergraduates.
Education
Wittenberg University (Biology), B.A.
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (Biological Sciences), M.S.
Colorado State University (Botany), Ph.D.
Courses Taught at Hiram
Vertebrate Biology Lecture
Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory
Genetics Laboratory
Basic Biochemistry Laboratory
Other Interests
- International travel, especially Europe
- Travel and nature photography
- Environmental sustainability
- Art – realism, impressionism, and contemporary
- Road biking
- Hiking
- Volunteering for the places and people that I love
- Red wine and dark chocolate (but then again, what woman doesn’t? Lake Champlain Chocolates are my favorite!)
Publications
- Puig, Sergi, Helena Mira, Eavan Dorcey, Vincente Sancenon, Nuria Andres-Colas, Antoni Garcia-Molina, Jason L. Burkhead, Kathryn A. Gogolin, Salah E. Abdel-Ghany, Dennis J. Thiele, Joseph R. Ecker, Marinus Pilon, and Lola Penarrubia. 2007. Higher plants possess two different types of ATX1-like copper chaperones. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 354(2):385-390.
- Pilon, Marinus, Salah E Abdel-Ghany, Christopher M Cohu, Kathryn A Gogolin, and Hong Ye. 2006. Copper cofactor delivery in plant cells. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 9(3):256-263.
- Abdel-Ghany, Salah E.*, Jason L. Burkhead*, Kathryn A. Gogolin*, Nuria Andres-Colas, Jared R. Bodecker, Sergi Puig, Lola Penarrubia, and Marinus Pilon. 2005. AtCCS is a functional homolog of the yeast copper chaperone Ccs1/Lys7. FEBS Letters, 579: 2307-2312. (* Primary authors)
- E. Hagen and K. Gogolin. 2001. A biological and physiological assessment of Freeland’s Cave, Adams County, Ohio. Pholeos, 19(1&2):2-15.
- Gogolin, Kathryn. 1999. A comparative study of the physicochemical characteristics of five inland blue holes on Andros Island, Bahamas. National Council for Undergraduate Research Proceedings, Volume IV:1105-1109.
- Gogolin, Kathryn. 1999. A comparative study of the physicochemical characteristics of five inland blue holes on Andros Island, Bahamas. Pholeos, 18(1):4-16.