CURRICULUM
VITAE
JULIETTE
B. BELL, Ph. D.
______________________________________________________________________________
Interim
Dean, College of Basic and Applied Sciences
Professor
of Chemistry
Director,
Biomedical Research (MBRS) Program
Fayetteville
State
University
1200
Murchison Road
Fayetteville
,
NC
28301-4297
Phone:
(910) 672-1659 FAX:
(910) 672-1083
Email:
jbell@uncfsu.edu
Education:
Talladega
College,
Talladega
,
AL
B.A.: 1973-1977 Chemistry (Biology minor)
Atlanta
University,
Atlanta
,GA
Ph.D.: 1982-1987 Chemistry (Biochemistry conc.)
UNC-CH,
Chapel
Hill
,
NC
Post-Doc:1987-1990
Biochemistry
Research
and Professional Experience:
Talladega
College
,
Talladega
,
AL
MBRS Trainee
1975-76
Southern Research Institute, B'ham,
AL
Assistant Chemist
1977-78
South
Carolina
Schools,
Beaufort
,
SC
Teacher
1978-79
Atlanta
University
,
Atlanta
,
GA
NRSA/MARC Trainee
1982-86
UNC-Chapel
Hill
,
NC
Postdoctoral Fellow
1987-90
Natl. Inst. Environmental Health
Sciences Senior Staff Fellow 1990-92
Research
Triangle Park
,
NC
Natl. Inst.
Environmental Health Sciences
Research Biologist
1993(Sum.)
Fayetteville
State
University,
Fay.
,
NC
Associate Professor 1992-1998
Fayetteville
State
University,
Fay.
,
NC
Professor 1998-Pres.
Fayetteville
State
University
Program Director, 1993-Pres.
Biomedical Research Program
Fayetteville
State
University
Interim
Dean
2004-Pres. College of Basic and Applied Sciences
Academic Leadership and Service:
Fayetteville
State
University
Faculty Senate (1996-98)
Graduate Council (Vice-Chair,
2000-2001)
Research Council
Human and Animal Rights Committee
(Chair, 1996-98)
Faculty Development Committee
Grievance Committee (Chair, 1999-2001)
SACS Reaccreditation Self-Study Team
(Chair, Graduate Programs Subcommittee)
College
of
Arts
and Sciences Grants Committee (Co-chair, 1999-present)
Department of Natural Sciences
Committees (Chair or Co-Chair: Honors and Awards, Graduate Admissions, Faculty
Search, New
Science
Building
,
Alumni, Long-Range Planning)
Honors/Awards/Recognition:
- Minority
Access, Inc. “National Role Model Mentoring Award”, September 2001
- The
White House Initiative on Historically
Black
Colleges
and Universities’ “Millennium Award for Excellence in Teaching in
Mathematics, Science, Engineering and Technology at Historically
Black
Colleges
and Universities”, September 2000
-
University
of
North Carolina
Board of Governors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching 2000, April 2000
- Chicago
Museum of Science and Industry’s Exhibit Defying Tradition: African
American Women in Science and Technology (Selected as one of 10 African
American women life scientists for the display on “Life’s Work”) Jan
15-March 6, 2000
- International
Who’s Who of Professional and Business Women (Seventh Edition, 1999)
- National
Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) Research Achievement Award for 1997
- Quality
Education for Minorities (QEM) Network "Giant in Science" Award,
1997
- NIH/MARC
Scientific Review and Evaluation Award
July 1,1995-June
30,1999
- National
Science Foundation Young Investigator Award: 1993-98
- Project
Kaleidoscope Faculty for the 21st Century, Class of 1996
- Profiled
in NIGMS Minority Programs Update, Spring 1996
- American
Men & Women of Science, 1995-96
-
Fayetteville
State
University
:
Þ
"Teacher
of the Year, 1999-2000", University,
College
of
Arts
and Sciences, and
Department of Natural Sciences
Þ
Charter
Member, Chancellor's Million Dollar Club for Sponsored Research & Programs
1997
Þ
"Teacher
of the Year, 1995-96" and "1996-97", Dept. of Natural Sciences
Þ
"Teacher
of the Year, 1995-96",
College
of
Arts
and Sciences
Þ
Dept. of
Natural Sciences Teacher of the Year Nominee 1993-94 and1994-95
Þ
Excellence
in Teaching Award, 1994
Þ
University
Enhancement Service Award, 1993
- National
Research Service Award (NRSA) Postdoctoral Fellowship: 1989-91
-
Carolina
Minority Postdoctoral Scholarship (UNC-CH): 1987-89
- National
Research Service Award (NRSA/MARC) Predoctoral Fellowship: 1982-86
- "Top
Female Student",
School
of
Arts
and Sciences,
Atlanta
University
:
1984-85
- "Outstanding
Doctoral Student", Department of
Chemistry
Atlanta
University
:
1983-84
- "Who's
Who in
American
Colleges
and Universities": 1977
- Valedictorian
of
Talladega
College
Class of 1977: 1977
- Minority
Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Fellowship: 1975-76
Professional
Membership Societies:
NIH MBRS/MARC Program Director’s
Organization (President 1999-2001)
American Society for Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology (Minority Affairs Committee, 1999-2002)
American Association for the
Advancement of Science (1982-2000)
Council on Undergraduate Research
(Councilor, 1997-99)
Association for Women in Science (North
Carolina Triangle, Co-President 1991-92)
North
Carolina
Consortium for Undergraduate Research
North
Carolina
Academy
of Science
Beta Kappa Chi Scientific Honor Society
Alpha Chi National Honor Society
Professional/Consultant
Service Activities:
National Institutes of Health/ National
Institute
of
General Medical Sciences
:
·
Minority Access to Research
Careers (MARC) Program Review
Subcommittee
(7/1995-6/99)
·
NIH Minority Pre-doctoral
Fellowships Review Panel (4/98)
·
MBRS Biological and
Physiological Sciences Special Emphasis Panel (7/95)
·
MORE Program Ad Hoc Advisory
Group (11/94)
·
MARC Review Subcommittee/
Special Reviewer (11/94)
·
MBRS Supplemental
Instrumentation Grant Special Review Committee (7/94)
·
MBRS Biological Sciences Grants
Review Panel (9/94)
·
National Cancer Institute:
Workshop on Specialized Small Grants (4/94)
Spelman
College
Research Infrastructure at Minority Institutions (RIMI) Program
National Science Foundation: Advisory
Panel-Research Experiences for Undergrad. Sites (12/94)
Faculty Sponsor, Glaxo SmithKline Women
in Science Scholars Program (1995-present)
Member,
N.C.
Biotechnology
Center
'Historically
Minority
University
Biotechnology Initiative'
Program
Advisory Panel and Executive Committee Member, Facilities & Infrastructure
Review Committee (1995-present)
North Carolina-Louis Stokes
Alliance
for Minority Participation, Executive Committee (1996-
present)
North
Carolina
State
University
BRIDGE
Program Faculty Liaison and Advisory Board Member
(1996-present)
Annual
Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students Planning Committee Member
(2000-2001)
PUBLICATIONS:
Ph.D. Dissertation:
“Analysis of the Structural and
Kinetic Properties of the Ribonucleotide Reductase from Pseudomonas stutzeri”. (1987) Chemistry Department,
Atlanta
University
,
Atlanta
,
GA.
Advisor:
Dr. Franklin D. Hamilton.
Manuscripts Submitted or In Preparation
Bell
, J.B.
“Manganese promotes transversion and frameshift mutagenesis during in vitro DNA
synthesis by
exonuclease-deficient E coli DNA polymerase I”.
Whitehead,
K., Pittman, S. and
Bell
, J.B. “Lead is a frameshift mutator
during in vitro DNA
synthesis by
exonuclease-deficient E coli DNA polymerase I”.
McGee, D. and
Bell
,
J.B. “Cu2+-induced
mutagenicity during in vitro DNA
synthesis by
exonuclease-deficient
E coli DNA polymerase I”.
Burroughs, T.A., Allen, S. A. and
Bell
, J.B.
“Analysis of Ni2+ -induced mutagenicity during
in
vitro DNA synthesis by E. coli DNA
polymerase I”.
Published Research Journal Articles
Bell, J.B., Eckert, K.,
Joyce, C., and Kunkel, T.A. “Base Miscoding and strand misalignment
errors
by mutator Klenow polymerases with amino acid substitutions in the O helix of
the fingers subdomain”. (1997) J. Biol. Chem. 272: 7345-7351.
Morrison, A. M.,
Bell
, J. B.,
Kunkel, T. A., and Sugino, A. “Eukaryotic DNA polymerase amino
acid sequence
required for 3'-5' exonuclease activity”. (1991) Proc. Nat'l.
Acad. Sci. USA 88: 9473-9477.
Bell,
J. B. and Jones, M. E. “Purification and
characterization of yeast orotidine 5'-
monophosphate
decarboxylase overexpressed from plasmid pGU2”. (1991) J. Biol.
Chem.
266: 12662-12667.
Bell,
J. B., Jones, M. E., and Carter, C. W. Jr.
“Crystallization of yeast orotidine 5'-
monophosphate
decarboxylase complexed with 1-(5'-phospho- b -D-ribofuranosyl)
barbituric acid”. (1991) PROTEINS: Structure, Function, and Genetics 9:
143-151.
Smiley, J. A., Paneth, P. O'Leary, M.
H.,
Bell
, J. B., and
Jones, M. E. “Investigation of the
enzymatic
mechanism of yeast orotidine- 5'-monophosphate decarboxylase using 13C kinetic isotope effects”. (1991) Biochemistry 30:
6216- 6223.
Acheson, S. A.,
Bell
, J. B.,
Jones, M. E., and Wolfenden, R. “Orotidine 5'-monophosphate decarboxylase
catalysis: kinetic isotope effects and the state of hybridization of a bound
transition state analog”. (1990) Biochemistry 49:3198-3202.
Published
Abstracts in Peer-Reviewed Journals
·
Allen, S.V. and J.B. Bell “The effects of Ni2+ on the fidelity of in
vitro DNA synthesis by E. coli DNA polymerase I”. (1995) Journal of the
Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 111(4):37.
·
Bell
, J. B. “Mn2+ is a potent mutagen during in
vitro DNA gap-filling synthesis”. (1995)
The FASEB Journal 9 (6):1076.
·
Bell
, J. B., Eckert, K., Joyce, C., and
Kunkel, T. A. “Identification of
antimutator and mutator phenotypes among E.
coli DNA polymerase derivatives”. (1994) The FASEB Journal 8(7):423.
·
Burroughs, T.*,
Allen, S. A., and
Bell
, J. B.
“A comparison of the specificity
of temperature and Ni2+-induced mutagenicity”.
(1999) Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 115
(3):184.*
·
Ford, J.
and
Bell
, J. B. “Site-directed
mutagenesis of Asp96 of yeast orotidine 5’- monophosphate decarboxylase from
plasmid pGU2”. (1999) Journal of the Elisha
Mitchell Scientific Society 115 (3):182.*
·
Hester
,
S.D.
and J.B. Bell “Fe2+ -
induced mutagenic effects during in vitro DNA synthesis”. (1995) Journal of
the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 111(4):36.
·
Johnson, E. Jr., and
Bell
, J. B. “Site-directed
mutagenesis of the yeast orotidine
5’- monophosphate
decarboxylase gene nucleotide sequences encoding Asp91 and Asp96”.
(1998) Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 114
(2):16.
·
Locklear-Mariani, G. and
Bell
, J.B. "Analysis of CdCl2-effect on the fidelity of in
vitro DNA synthesis”. (1997) Journal of the Elisha
Mitchell Scientific Society 113(2):34.
·
McGee, D. and
Bell
, J.B. “Analysis
of Cu2+ mutagenicity during in vitro DNA synthesis
by E.coli DNA polymerase I”. (1998) Journal of the Elisha
Mitchell Scientific Society 114 (2):17.
·
McNeill, C. and J.B. Bell
“Optimization of crystallization conditions for native yeast ODCase”. (1995)
Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 111(4):38.
·
Minnick, D.T.,
Bell
, J.B.,
Bebenek, K., Eckert, K.A., Joyce, C.M., and Kunkel,
T.A. “Fidelity of mutant
derivatives of Klenow fragment DNA polymerase”. (1995) The FASEB Journal
9 (6):1071.
·
Pittman, S. and
Bell
, J.B. "An analysis of the effect of lead chloride on
the fidelity of DNA synthesis". (1997) Journal
of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 113(2):35
·
Shivers, R.M.
and
Bell
, J. B.
“Analysis of Co2+
mutagenicity during in vitro DNA synthesis by E.coli DNA polymerase I”.
(2001) The FASEB Journal 15 (4): 436.15.*
·
Snead, K.*
and Bell, J. B. “Examination of the putative antimutagenic effect of
selenium compounds on in vitro DNA synthesis by E. coli DNA polymerase I”
(1999) Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 115
(3):171.*
·
Tyler
,
Tana and
Bell
, J.B.
“Analysis
of Fe2+ mutagenicity during in vitro
DNA synthesis by E. coli DNA
polymerase I”. (1998)
Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 114 (2):60.
·
Whitehead, K.D.
and
Bell
, J. B.
“Mutational analysis of the
effects of PbCl2 on the fidelity of in vitro DNA synthesis”.
(2001) The FASEB Journal 15 (4): 436.12.*
Abstracts
of Selected Sponsored Student Presentations (1996-2001)
·
Burroughs, T., Allen, S. A., and
Bell
, J. B.
“The specificity of
Nickel-induced mutagenesis during in vitro DNA synthesis”. National
Minority Research Symposium,
November
8-11, 2000
,
Washington
,
DC
.
·
Burroughs, T., Allen, S. A., and
Bell
, J. B.
“Comparison of Ni2+-induced
frameshifts in forward and reversion mutation assays “.National Minority
Research Symposium,
November 10-13, 1999
,
Phoenix
,
AZ.
·
Burroughs, T., Allen, S. A., and
Bell
, J. B.
“An analysis of the effect of DNA
preincubation temperature on the
specificity of nickel chloride-induced mutagenicity”.
N.C.
Academy
of Sciences Annual Conference,
March
27, 1999
,
Elon
College,
NC
.
·
Burroughs, T., Allen, S. A., and
Bell
, J. B.
“A comparison of the effect of
temperature on the specificity
of nickel chloride-induced mutagenicity”. National
Minority Research Symposium,
November 21-24, 1998
,
New York,
NY
.
·
Burroughs, T.,
Allen
,
S.A.
,
and
Bell
, J.B. “Analysis
of Ni2+ mutagenicity during in vitro DNA synthesis by E. coli
DNA polymerase I”. N. C. Academy of Sciences Annual
Conference, March 27, 1998, Greensboro, NC;10th
National Conference on Undergraduate Research, April 18-20, 1996,
Asheville, NC; National Minority
Research Symposium, November 13-17, 1996, Miami, FL; and 5th Annual
National Science Foundation Alliance for Minority Participation, Research
Conference, July 24-27, 1997, Las Cruces, NM.
·
Ford, Jermaine and
Bell
, J.B. “Site-directed
mutagenesis if Asp96 of yeast
orotidine 5’- monophosphate
decarboxylase from plasmid pGU2”. N. C. Academy of Sciences
Annual Conference,
March
27, 1999
,
Elon
College
,
NC
.
·
Johnson, E. Jr., and
Bell
, J. B. “Site-directed
mutagenesis of the yeast orotidine 5’- monophosphate
decarboxylase gene nucleotide sequences encoding Asp91 and Asp96”.
N. C. Academy of Sciences Annual Conference, March 27, 1998, Greensboro, NC;
1998 NC State University BRIDGE/PMADD Symposium, October 30, 1998, Raleigh, NC;
National Minority Research Symposium, November 21-24, 1998, New York, NY.
·
Locklear-Mariani, G. and
Bell
, J.B. "Analysis of CdCl2-effect on the fidelity of in vitro DNA synthesis”.
N. C. Academy of Sciences Annual Conference,
March 22, 1997
,
Durham
,
NC
.
·
McGee, D. and
Bell
, J.B. “DNA
Sequence analysis of Cu2+-induced mutations”. National Minority
Research Symposium,
November 10-13, 1999
,
Phoenix
,
AZ.
·
McGee, D. and
Bell
, J.B. “Analysis
of Cu2+ mutagenicity during in vitro DNA synthesis
by E.coli DNA polymerase I”. N. C.
Academy of Sciences Annual Conference, March 27, 1998, Greensboro, NC; 1998 NC
State University BRIDGE/PMADD Symposium, October 30, 1998, Raleigh, NC; National
Minority Research Symposium, November 21-24, 1998, New York, NY
·
Pittman, S. and
Bell
, J.B. "An analysis of the effect of lead chloride on
the fidelity of DNA synthesis"
. N. C. Academy of Sciences Annual Conference,
March 22, 1997
,
Durham
,
NC
.
·
Pittman, S. and
Bell
, J.B. "Mutational analysis of lead chloride induced
errors during in vitro DNA
synthesis".
National Minority Research Symposium,
November 13-17, 1996
,
Miami
,
FL.
·
Shivers, R. and
Bell
, J.B. “Analysis
of Co2+ mutagenicity during in vitro DNA synthesis by E.coli DNA
polymerase I”. National Minority Research Symposium,
November
8-11, 2000
,
Washington
,
DC
;
4th Annual NC-LSAMP Undergraduate Research Conference, April 2000,
Winston-Salem,
NC
;
National Minority Research Symposium,
November 10-13, 1999
,
Phoenix
,
AZ
·
Snead, K. and Bell, J.B. “Examination of
the putative antimutagenic effect of selenium compounds on in vitro DNA
synthesis by E. coli DNA polymerase I”. National
Minority Research Symposium, November 21-24, 1998, New York, NY; NC
Academy of Sciences Annual Conference, March 27,1999, Elon College, NCSnead, K.
and Bell, J.B. "Cr3+ -induced mutagenesis during in
vitro DNA synthesis by E. coli DNA polymerase I” . National
Minority Research Symposium,
November
13-17, 1996
,
Miami
,
FL.
·
Tatum,
E.C. and Bell, J.B. “Analysis
of the effect of BaCl2 on the fidelity of in vitro DNA synthesis by Escherichia
coli DNA polymerase I” 2001
Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, Oct.31-Nov.3,
Orlando, FL; 5th
Annual NC-LSAMP Undergraduate Research Conference, April 2001,
Greensboro, NC
·
Tyler
,
Tana and
Bell
, J.B.
“Analysis
of Fe2+ mutagenicity during in vitro
DNA synthesis
by E. coli DNA polymerase I”.
2nd Annual NCAMP Undergraduate Research Conference, April
1998,
Charlotte
,
NC
;
6th Annual National Science Foundation
Alliance
for Minority Participation, Research Conference,
July 17-21,1998
,