Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Rob Brooker

We are pleased to have with us this week Dr. Rob Brooker from the University of Minnesota.  Dr. Brooker's visit is sponsored by McGraw-Hill publishers and his time here is associated with a morning session devoted to active learner, a field in biology education in which Dr. Brooker is an expert.

He is also a committed investigator into sugar transport mechanisms.  His research seminar is entitled "Using Genetic Approaches to Understand the Function of a Sugar Transporter".

Some of his work can be found in the following published articles:

Evidence that highly conserved residues of transmembrane segment 6 of Escherichia coli MntH are important for transport activity.

Haemig HA, Moen PJ, Brooker RJ.

Biochemistry. 2010 Jun 8;49(22):4662-71

A suppressor analysis of residues involved in cation transport in the lactose permease: identification of a coupling sensor.

Franco PJ, Matzke EA, Johnson JL, Wiczer BM, Brooker RJ.

J Membr Biol. 2006;211(2):101-13 

Please be sure to welcome Dr. Brooker to the department and the university.