Claire A. Rinehart Associate Professor Department of Biology Western Kentucky University. 1906 College Heights Blvd. 11080 Bowling Green, KY 42101-1080 (270) 745-5997 (w) (270) 745-6856 (fax)  (270) 843-9028 (h) Specialty - Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Virology email: Claire.Rinehart@wku.edu

Research Interests:    The Structure and Function of Proteins   Current Projects:    Protein folding and misfolding    Developing and applying Bioinformatics Tools    Prediction of the conservation of protein structure and function using amino acid properties.

Academic:

Office Hours

Classes that I teach-

• Current Semester Courses
• Bio 320 Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology
• Bio 321 Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology Laboratory
• Bio 350 Introduction to Recombinant Gene Technology
• Bio 407 Virology
• Bio 450 Recombinant Gene Technology Laboratory
• Bio 495 Molecular Genetics
• Bio 566 Advanced Molecular Genetics

Education: Ph.D, Department of Botany, University of Georgia, 1984. M.S., Department of Botany, Brigham Young University, 1980. B.S., Department of Microbiology, Brigham Young University, 1977.

Outside Interests:

• Ham Radio
• Scouting
• Canoeing
• Sailing
• Rapelling

Publications:

• "Repression of the prolactin promoter, a functional consequence of the heterodimerization between Pit-1 and Pit-1 beta" (2006) Romeo A. Sporici, Jacob S. Hodskins, Dawn M. Locasto, Laura B. Meszaros, Amy L. Ferry, Adam M. Weidner, Claire A. Rinehart*, Joshua C. Bailey, Ira M. Mains and Scott E. Diamond, Journal of Molecular Endocrinology
• "Astrobiology as a tool for getting high school students interested in science" (2000) BW Van der Meer, JJ Alletto, D Bryant, M Carini, L Elliott, R Gelderman, W Mason, K McDaniel, CH McGruder III, C Rinehart, R Tyler, L Walker, In Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology III, Richard B. Hoover, Editor, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4137, page 106-112 (2000).
• Crossover - Concepts and Applications in Genetics, Evolution and Breeding: An Interactive Computer-Based Laboratory Manual. (1994) Staub, J.E., Braunschweig, K., and Rinehart, C.A., The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI.
• An Expert System Apporoach to Teaching Problem Solving in Biological Instrumentation. (1993) Rinehart, C.A., Annals of the New York Academy of Science, vol. 701, "Promoting Active Learning in the Life Science Classroom" Eds. H.I. Nodell, J.A. Michael, New York Academy of Science, New York, NY.
• Microcomputer simulation of expected gains from 8 methods of intrapopulation recurrent selection. (1989) Coors, J.G., Staub, J.E., Senalik, D., and Rinehart, C.A., Agronomy Journal 81, 317-320.
• Sequence and organization of southern bean mosaic virus genomic RNA. (1987) Wu, S., Rinehart, C.A., Kaesberg, P.K., Virology 161, 73-80.
• Immunological determination of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase, the large and small subunits of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase in leaves of the C4 plant pearl millet during greening of etiolated seedlings. (1985) Bassett, C.L., Rinehart, C.A., and Rawson, J.R.Y., Plant Physiology 77: 828-832.
• Variability of reaction kinetics for ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase in a barley population. (1983) Rinehart, C.A., Tingey, S.V., and Andersen, W.R., Plant Physiology 72: 76-79.
• Cloning and restriction endonuclease mapping of the ribosomal RNA genes and short single copy DNA sequence of the chloroplast RNA of pearl millet. (1981) Rawson, J.R.Y., Clegg, M.T., Thomas, K., Rinehart, C.A., Wood, B., Gene 16: 11-19.
• A method for obtaining the 14C-isotope distribution in malate (C-2,3). (1977) Kent, S.S., Rinehart, C.A., and Andersen, W.R., Analytical Biochemistry 80: 176-182.

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