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PERSONAL INFO

When I am not doing and teaching chemistry or biochemistry (see below; also Courses and Research), I spend time with my husband, William, and our two cats, Klaus and Lossey. I also love to read and work in the garden. My husband sings and plays guitar at venues around the Quad Cities Area - he is involved with a group of acoustic musicians called the River Prairie Minstrels, which plays monthly on the first Staurday of the month at the River Music Experience in Davenport, IA.

Several times a year, my husband and I dress up and go to Renaissance Festivals. At these festivals, in addition to having fun,  we play celtic music, and debuting in September 2007, Pam does chemistry demonstrations as a renaissance alchymist  - "Dr. Pamel" (photo at left).  We'll both be performing at the upcoming Four Kingdoms Renaissance Festival  September 26th and 27th , 2009.

In spring 2009, I had opportunity to teach on the Vienna Term abroad with  Augustana colleagues, Dan Culver (music) and Bill Coker (psychology). I taught a course entitled "Genes, Germs and Quanta" (CH301), covering a number of famous natural scientists from the area. The other two courses will be about Viennese music/history and Sigmund Freud. Check out a few pics from the trip: Vienna.

PAMELA J. TROTTER
  
 
 
PROFESSIONAL BIO
 
EDUCATION  
1986-1992

 Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts; Ph.D., June 1992. Division of Medical Sciences, Program in Cell and Developmental Biology.
1982-1986

 Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington; B.S. summa cum laude in Biology, minors in Chemistry and German.
 
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
  
2006-Present

 

 Associate Professor and Robert W. Beart Chair in Chemistry. Department of Chemistry, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL. Responsible for teaching biochemistry courses.
2001-2006

 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL. Responsible for teaching biochemistry courses.
1996-2001


 Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences, Department of Human Ecology, University of Texas at Austin. Member of Nutritional Sciences, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry graduate programs.
1997-2001
Fellow, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
 
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
 
1992-1996


Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO. Genetics and biochemistry of aminophospholipid metabolism and transport in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Advisor: Dr. Dennis R. Voelker.
1986-92


Doctoral Student, Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard University, Boston, MA. Fatty acid uptake and metabolism in a human intestinal cell line (Caco-2). Advisor: Dr. Judith Storch, at that time faculty in Nutritional Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
 
EXTRAMURAL FUNDING

 

National Institutes of Health – Academic Research Enhancement Award, R15-GM6937-02: “Mitochondrial Transporters Involved in Glutamate and Fatty Acid Metabolism”, April 2008- March 2011, $142,500 direct, PI: Pamela J. Trotter.

Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program, Student/faculty research support for Augustana biology and chemistry departments, 2007-2009, $60,000 direct, Co-PIs: Mary Ellen Biggin, Patrick A. Crawford, C. Kevin Geedey,  Lori R. Scott, Jason Singer and Pamela J. Trotter.

National Institutes of Health – Academic Research Enhancement Award, R15-GM69372-01: “Yeast Fatty Acid Metabolism and the Role of Mitochondrial Transporters”, April 2004- March 2008, $150,000 direct, PI: Pamela J. Trotter.

National Science Foundation-MRI/RUI program; CHE 0320267:  “Acquisition of a 400 MHz NMR to Enhance Faculty and Undergraduate Research and Chemistry Education at Augustana College”, July 2003-June 2006:Co-PIs: Pamela J. Trotter, Dell Jensen and Richard M. Narske. 

National Institutes of Health; R01-DK55525: “Fatty Acid Transport in Eukaryotes”, September 1998-August 2004: PI: Pamela J. Trotter

 

PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Articles

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 Trotter, P.J., A.L. Adamson, A.C. Ghrist, L. Rowe, L.R. Scott, M.P. Sherman, N.C. Stites, Y.Sun, M.A. Tawiah-Boateng, A.S. Tibbetts, M.C. Wadington, A.C. West (2005). Mitochondrial transporters involved in oleic acid utilization and glutamate metabolism in yeast. Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 442:21-32.
 
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 Tibbetts, A.S, Y. Sun, N.A. Lyon, A.C. Ghrist and P.J. Trotter (2002). The yeast mitochondrial oxodicarboxylate transporters are important for growth on oleic acid. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 406:96-104.
 
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 Hagerman, R.A., P.J. Trotter and R.A. Willis (2002). The regulation of COQ5 gene expression by energy source. Free Rad. Res. 36:485-490.
 
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 Hagerman, R.A. and P.J. Trotter (2001). A mutation in the yeast mitochondrial ribosomal protein Rml2p is associated with a defect in catalase gene expression. Mol. Cell Biol. Res. Commun. 4:299-306.
 
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 Trotter, P.J. (2000). A novel pathway for transport and metabolism of a fluorescent phosphatidic acid analog in yeast. Traffic 5:425-434.
 
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 Trotter, P.J., R.A. Hagerman and D.R. Voelker (1999). A yeast strain defective in oleic acid utilization has a mutation in the RML2 gene. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1438:223-238.
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 Trotter, P.J., W.-I. Wu, J. Pedretti, R. Yates, and D.R.Voelker. (1998). A genetic screen for mutants defective in aminophospholipid transport identifies the phosphatidylinositol-4-kinase, Stt4p, as an essential component in phosphatidylserine metabolism. J. Biol. Chem. 273:13189-13196.
 
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 Trotter, P.J., S. Y. Ho and J. Storch (1996). Fatty acid uptake by Caco-2 human intestinal cells. J. Lipid Res 37:336-346.
 
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 Achleitner, G., D. Zweytick, P. J. Trotter, D. R. Voelker and G. Daum. (1995). Synthesis and intracellular transport of aminoglycerophospholipids in permeabilized cells of the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J. Biol. Chem. 270:29836-29842.
 
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 Trotter, P.J., J. Pedretti, R. Yates and D. R. Voelker. (1995). Phosphatidylserine decarboxylase 2 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Cloning and mapping of the gene, heterologous expression and creation of the null allele. J. Biol. Chem. 270:6071-6080.
 
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 Trotter, P.J. and D. R. Voelker (1995). Identification of a non-mitochondrial phosphatidylserine decarboxylase activity (PSD2) in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J. Biol. Chem. 270:6062-6070.
 
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 Trotter, P.J., J. Pedretti and D. R. Voelker. (1993). Phosphatidylserine decarboxylase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Isolation of mutants, cloning of the gene and creation of the null allele. Biol. Chem. 268:21416-21424.
 
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 Trotter, P.J. and J. Storch (1993). Fatty acid esterification during differentiation of the human intestinal cell line Caco-2. J. Biol. Chem. 268:10017-10023.
 
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 Trotter, P.J. and J. Storch (1993). Nutritional control of fatty acid esterification in differentiating Caco-2 intestinal cells is mediated by cellular diacylglycerol concentrations. J. Nutrition 123:728-736.
 
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 Trotter, P.J. and J. Storch (1991). Fatty acid uptake and metabolism in a human intestinal cell line (Caco-2): Comparison of apical and basolateral incubation. J. Lipid Res. 32:293-304.
 
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 Trotter, P.J. and J. Storch (1989). 3-[p-(Phenyl)-1,3,5-hexatrienyl]-phenylpropionic acid (PA-DPH): Characterization as a fluorescent membrane probe and binding to fatty acid binding proteins. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 982:131-139.
 
Invited Reviews
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Freeland-Graves, J. and P.J. Trotter (2000). Minerals-Dietary importance. In: Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition, B. Cabellero, L. Trugo and P. Finglas (eds), Academic Press, London. In Press.
 
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 Freeland-Graves, J. and P.J. Trotter (2000). Minerals-Dietary importance. In: Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition, B. Cabellero, L. Trugo and P. Finglas (eds), Academic Press, London. In Press.
 
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 Trotter, P.J., and D. R. Voelker. (1996). Phosphatidylserine dynamics and membrane biogenesis. In: Advances in Molecular and Cell Biology: Lipobiology, R. Gross (ed), JAI Press, Inc., Greenwich, Conn., Vol. 1:299-335.
 
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 Trotter, P.J. and D. R. Voelker (1994). Lipid transport processes in eukaryotic cells. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1213:242-262.