Dr. Heather McDonald joined the University of West Alabama in the Fall of 2009 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where her research focused on studying proteins that play a role in the development of osteoporosis. Since coming to the University of West Alabama,
Dr. McDonald has continued her research involving crystallizing protein complexes for X-ray diffraction analysis and studying protein-protein interactions using self-interaction chromatography and light scattering techniques.
Education
Postdoc- Metabolic Bone Disease
University of Alabama at Birmingham
2009
Postdoc- Biophysical Sciences and Engineering
University of Alabama at Birmingham
2006
Ph.D- Physical Chemistry
Mississippi State University Department of Chemistry
2002
Graduate Intern
NASA’s Glenn Research Center
1999
BS- Chemistry
Mississippi College
1993
Recent Publications
McDonald, H.M., Macon, K., Johnson, D., McCombs, D., Teale, M., Wall, S.B., Wilson, W.W., DeLucas, L. J. Self-interaction chromatography and human osteoprotegrin. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Sciences, 2015, Vol. 86 No.1: 1-14.
Publication
2015
McDonald, H.M., Pruett, P.S., Deivanayagam, C., Protasevich, I., Carson, M., DeLucas, L.J., Brouillette, W., Brouillette, C. Structural adaptation of an interacting non-native C-terminal helical extension revealed in the crystal structure of NAD+ syntheta
Publication
2007
Carson, M., Johnson, D., McDonald, H., Brouillette, C., and DeLucas, L. His-tag impact on structure. Acta. Cryst. (2007) D63: 295-301.
Publication
2007
Demoruelle, K., Guo, B., Kao, S., McDonald, H., Nikic, D., Holman, S. and Wilson, W. (2002) Correlation of the Second Virial Coefficient and Solubility for Equine Serum Albumin and Ovalbumin. Acta. Cryst. D, 58, 1544-1548.
Publication
2002
Asanov, A., McDonald, H., Oldham, P., Jedrzejas, M. and Wilson, W. Intrinsic Fluorescence as a Potential Rapid Scoring Tool for Protein Crystals. (2001) J. Cryst. Growth, 232, 603-609.
Publication
2001
Guo, B., Kao, S., McDonald, H., Asanov, A., Combs, L. and Wilson, W. Correlation of Second Virial Coefficients and Solubilities Useful in Protein Crystal Growth. (1999) J. Cryst. Growth, 196, 424-433.
Publication
1999
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