Research Interests: Fish physiology; Conservation physiology; Investigating the cellular
mechanisms governing fish osmoregulation, ion-regulation, and thermoregulation while
living in dynamic and anthropogenically influenced aquatic environments.
Research Interests: Developmental Biology and Cell Biology, focusing on a developmental comparative anatomy approach to understand how one organ
that accomplishes one goal, to detect light and convert it into electro-chemical impulses
in neurons, can be utilized in so many diverse ways.
Research Interests: Investigates the molecular mechanisms of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing
to better understand and improve gene editing outcomes. He also continues to investigate
genetic, molecular, and cellular mechanisms of DNA repair genes to more fully understand
how disruption of these genes leads to disease.
Research Interests: Focuses on the role of proteases and their receptors in prostate
cancer progression.
Dr. Glasscock is specifically interested in how these proteins regulate the ability
of prostate tumor cells to invade and metastasize and how they regulate the process
of angiogenesis.
Research Interests: Conservation of an endangered sunflower species (Schweinitz's
sunflower) that endemic to the Piedmont region.
Dr. Grubbs research work also includes the study of higher plant systematics with
a focus on a genus Eupatorium, a member of the sunflower family (Asteraceae).
Research Interests:Various aspects of meiotic and mitotic recombination using both
transmission genetics and molecular genetics in the model system drosophila melanogaster
(the fruit fly).
This basic research has implications for human health since DNA repair is crucial
to maintaining genome stability and aberrant meiotic crossing over can result in gametes
(sperm or eggs) with an improper chromosome complement (aneuploidy).
Dr. Stovall’s research interests lie in the epigenetic mechanisms that contribute
to the progression of human cancer. He is an author on twenty peer-reviewed disciplinary
scientific articles and additional pedagogical papers. He enthusiastically incorporates
both undergraduate and thesis-based Master’s students into his cancer research at
Winthrop. His students have presented their work through multiple internal symposia
and externally at annual meetings of the National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical Research
Excellence, the National SAEOPPP McNair/SSS Scholars Research Conference, the Association
of Southeastern Biologists, and the SC INBRE Annual Science Symposium.
Resesarch Interest: Coomunity Ecologist with a background in anthropogenic global
change and consumer-resource interactions.
Elizabeth King Endowment
The R. Morrison & Miriam D. King Endowment was established by Dr. Elizabeth N. King
in honor of her parents in November of 2001. This endowment offers faculty members
further opportunities for research and development.
