Professor of Biological Sciences, Ed.D. Biology 1989: Ball State University. Prior to appointment at CSUSM in Fall 1993, Dr. Read worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Microbiology Department at The Ohio State University. Dr. Read's area of specialization is Molecular Cell Biology. Her general research interests lie in plant molecular biology and she is currently working on the structure and function of ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase.

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Wahlund, T.M. , X. Zhang, and B.A. Read. 2004. EST Expression Profiles from Calcifying and Non-Calcifying Cultures of Emiliania huxleyi . Journal of Micropaleontology. Accepted April, 2004. Publication Date, Special Issue, Fall 2004.

Wahlund, T.M., Hadaegh, A.R., Clark, R*., Nguyen, B*., Fanelli, M*., and B.A. Read. Analysis of Expressed Sequence Tags from Calcifying Cells of the Marine Coccolithophorid, Emiliania huxleyi. Journal of Marine Biotechnology, In Press, March 2004.

 Laguna, R*., J. Romo*, B.A. Read, and T.M. Wahlund. 2001. Induction of Phase Variation Events in the Life Cycle of the Marine Coccolithophore Emilania huxleyi. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67(9):3824-3831.

Read, B.A. & F.R. Tabita.  1994. High substrate specificity factor ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase from eucaryotic marine algae and properties of recombinant cyanobacterial rubisco containing "algal" residue modifications. Arch. of Biochem. and Biophys., 312(l), 210-218.

Read, B.A. & F.R. Tabita. 1992. A hybrid ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase enzyme exhibiting a substantial increase in substrate specificity factor. Biochemistry, 31, 5553-5560.

Read, B.A. & F.R. Tabita. 1992. Amino acid substitutions in the small subunit of ribulse- 1, 5 -bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase that influence the catalytic activity of the holoenzyme. Biochemistry, 30, 519525.

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