Recent Presentations: (1996-2002)

                A laboratory Approach to Molecular Genetics as an Adjunct to a General Biology Sequence and Clinical Chemistry Course. Arnold T.P. and York, N.

                The Genetics Revolution: A Catalyst for Education and Public Policy; American Association of Community Colleges, The Exxon Foundation, The League for innovation, and North Lake College (1996)

 

                Reinforcing Concepts of Molecular Biology by Teaching Applied skills and Research Applications in the Biology Laboratory.

                Arnold, T.P., Mathews, S., Ems-Wilson, J., and Frierson, F.

The Florida Academy of Sciences, Annual Meeting, Punta Gorda, Florida. (1997)

 

                Enhancing The Honors Biology Course by Teaching state of the Art Research Methods in the Laboratory.

                Thomas P. Arnold, Francis Frierson and Ronald Brandolinni. 

                National Collegiate Honors Council, Annual National Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia (1997)

 

                Teaching Biological research Methods as a Means of Enhancing Minority Educational  Opportunities.  T.P Arnold, F.A. Frierson, J.D. Patterson and R.J. Keiper. The Florida Academy of Sciences, Annual Meeting, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. (1998)

 

                A Rapid Field Method for the Extraction and Preparation of Algal Pigments for Later Analysis by HPLC. J.D. Patterson and T.P. Arnold. The Florida Academy of Sciences, Annual Meeting, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. (1998)

 


 

                Sowing the Seeds for Grant Success While Developing Curricula in the Honors Biology Courses. Thomas P. Arnold, Frances A. Frierson, and Ronald R. Keiper, Valencia Community College, National Collegiate Honors Council, Annual National Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (1998)

 

                Facilitating Active Learning of the Scientific Method. Thomas P. Arnold, Frances A. Frierson, Neil Sebacher Jr. and Ronald R. Keiper. Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida. NISOD, Austin Texas, (1999)

 

                Developing Curricula at a Community College to Address the Expectations of Internship Mentors at a Research University. Thomas P. Arnold, Frances A. Frierson, Jodi D. Patterson, Jerry C. Collins, Deborah M. Lancaster and Ronald R. Keiper.  National Institutes of Health, Program Directors Meeting. Leesburg, Virginia, (1999)

 

                Teaching Scientific Literacy in an Honors Biology Course. Thomas P. Arnold, Frances A. Frierson, Neil Sebacher Jr. and Ronald R. Keiper. Valencia Community College. National Collegiate Honors Council, Annual National Meeting, Orlando, Florida (1999)

 

                Facilitating Active Learning in Biology. Thomas P. Arnold, Frances A. Frierson, Neil Sebacher Jr. and Ronald R. Keiper. National Collegiate Honors Council, Annual National Meeting, Washington D.C. (2000)

 


 

                Encouraging Scientific Literacy. Thomas P. Arnold, Frances A. Frierson, Neil Sebacher Jr. and Ronald R. Keiper. Florida Collegiate Honors Council, Annual Meeting, Jupiter Florida (2001)

 

                7-Dehydrocholestero and 24-Dehydrocholesterol Promote the Formation of Lipid Rafts. R.K. Keller, T.P. Arnold, J. Sutton, and S.J. Fliesler Annual meeting of the American Society of Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (New Orleans, La. March, 2002)

 

Publications:

                Downregulation of protein Kinase C and Insulin Stimulated 2-Deoxyglucose uptake in Rat Adipocytes by Phorbol Esters, Glucose and Insulin. Ishizuka, T., Cooper, D.R., Arnold, T., Hernandez, H. and Farese, R.V.  Diabetes (1992), 40: 1274-1281

 

                        Effects of Insulin on Diacylglycerol, Protein Kinase C and Glucose        Transport in Rat Skeletal Muscle. Yu, B., Standaert, M., Arnold, T., Hernandez, H., Watson, J., Ways, K., Cooper, D.R. and Farese, R.V.  Endocrinology (1992), 130 (6): 3345-3355.

 

                Effects of Insulin and Phorbol Esters on Subcellular distribution of Protein Kinase C isoforms in Rat Adipocytes.  Farese, R.V., Standaert, M.L., Arnold, T.P., Fransouis, A.J., Ways,K., Hernandez, H., and Cooper,D.R. Biochemistry Journal (1992), 288,319-323

 

                The role of Protein Kinase C in Insulin Action. (Review) Farese, R.V., Standaert, M., Arnold, T., Yu, B., Ishizuka, T., Hoffman, J., Villa, M. and Cooper, D.R. 

                Endocrinology (1993), 132: 689-692.


 

                Effect of Insulin and phorbol esters on MARKS phosphorylation in rat adipocytes,

                rat soleus muscle and BC3H-1 myocytes. Arnold, T.P., Standaert, M.L., Hernandez, H.H., Watson, Mischak, H., Kazanietz, M.G.,J.C., Zhou, X., Cooper, D.R and Farese, Biochemistry Journal (1993) 295,155-164

 

                Insulin Translocates PKC-ε and Phorbol esters induce and persistantly translocates PKC-β2 in BC3H-1 myocytes. Standaert, M.L., Avignon, A., Arnold, T.P., Saba, S.I., Cooper, D.R, Watson, J.C., Zhou, X., Galloway, L. and Farese, R.V. Cell Signal (1996) 8; 4,313-316

 

                A laboratory Approach to Molecular Genetics as an Adjunct to a General Biology Sequence and Clinical Chemistry Course. Arnold T.P. and York, N. The Genetics Revolution: A Catalyst for Education and Public Policy; American Association of Community Colleges, Monograph (1998) The league of Innovation.

 

                An NIH and NSF Funded Program in Biological Research for Community College Students. Arnold, T.P., Frierson F.A. and Sebacher, N. The Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council (Fall/Winter 2000; published March 2001).

 

                R.Kennedy Keller, Thomas P. Arnold and Steven J. Fliesler.

                Formation of 7-dehydrocholesterol-containing membrane rafts in vitro and in vivo, with relevance to the Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome.

                The Journal of Lipid Research, 2004

 

                Texts: Research Methods 2000, 2nd Ed. Arnold & Frierson,  Pearson Publishing

                Dissertation: Modulation of Insulin Action in Cultured Cells by Calmodulin (1990).