James Endres Howell
About me
I earned a BS in Molecular Biology (concentrations in Biochemistry and Cell Biology) from the University of Pittsburgh in 1998. I earned a PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California in 2005.
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Courses I teach
- BMB 401 General Biochemistry 1
- BMB/MICRB 251 Molecular and Cell Biology 1
- BMB 464 Molecular Medicine
- ENGL/SC 142N GH/GN Science in Literature
- BISC 2 GN Genetics, Ecology, and Evolution
- BMB 221 Applied Biochemistry
- MICRB 201 Introductory Microbiology
Courses I have taught in the past
Selected Publications
- Howell, J. E. (2019) Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society. Comment on “A Limited Habitable Zone for Complex Life” (Schwieterman et al. 2019 ApJ 878, 19).
- Howell, C. E. and J. E. Howell. (2010) American Biology Teacher 72:313–314. Sectioning clay models makes anatomy and development tangible.
- Pan, C. L., J. E. Howell, S. G. Clark, S. Cordes, C. I. Bargmann, and G. Garriga. (2006) Developmental Cell 10:367-77. Multiple Wnts and frizzled receptors regulate anteriorly directed cell and growth cone migrations in Caenorhabditis elegans.
- McClellan, A. J., J. B. Endres, J. P. Vogel, D. Palazzi, M. D. Rose, and J. L. Brodsky. (1998) Mol. Biol. Cell 9:3533-3545. Specific Molecular Chaperone Interactions and an ATP-dependent Conformational Change Are Required during Posttranslational Protein Translocation into the Yeast ER.