Faculty: Dr. Darla McCarthy

Darla McCarthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Email: mccarthy@calvin.edu
Office: 227 DeVries Hall
Phone: (616)526-8588
Fax: (616)526-6501

Weekly Schedule
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Detailed Research Information

Education

• B.S. Calvin College, 1991
• Ph.D., Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1998

Thesis: Studies of Tetrachlorohydroquinone Dehalogenase
Advisor: Shelley D. Copley

Professional History

• Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Calvin College, 2000 - present
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, 1998-2000; Research Advisor:  Jack F. Kirsch

Courses

• Chem 103 & 103L: General Chemistry I and General Chemistry I Laboratory
• Chem 104 & 104L: General Chemistry II and General Chemistry II Laboratory
• Chem 115:  Chemistry for the Health Sciences
• Chem 271: Environmental Chemistry
• Chem 281  Laboratory in Environmental Chemistry
• Chem 323: Biochemistry I
• Chem 324  Biochemistry II
• Chem 383  Biochemistry Laboratory
• Interim: Environmental Chemistry
• Interim: Worldviews and the Natural Environment

Research Interests

• Bacterial Degradation of Environmental Pollutants

 

Minors

Minor in Biochemistry

Minor in Chemistry

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