Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology

Faculty

Background:

Helen Nivison is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics.  Dr. Nivison received a B.A. degree in Literature from UC Santa Cruz and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from UC Davis.  She carried out postdoctoral work at Cornell on protein synthesis in chloroplasts and mitochondrial gene expression.  Dr. Nivison taught at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville) and the College of Charleston (South Carolina) before joining the Department at Cornell in 1996 as a Lecturer.  She serves on the Health Careers Evaluation Committee and as an undergraduate advisor for students in the Colleges of Arts & Sciences and Agriculture & Life Sciences.

Courses:

Courses Currently Taught:

BIOBM 4400 Laboratory in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
BIOBM 3330 Principles of Biochemistry: Proteins, Metabolism, and Molecular Biology

Other Courses Taught:

Plant Physiology
Introductory Biology
Plant Development
Plant Molecular Biology

Papers:

Hanson, M.R., H.T. Nivison and C.A. Conley.  1995.  Cytoplasmic male sterility in Petunia.  In:  Molecular Biology of the Mitochondria (C.S. Levings III and I.K. Vasil, eds.), Dordrecht:  Kluwer Academic.

Nivison, H.T., C.A. Sutton, R.K. Wilson and M.R. Hanson.  1994.  Sequencing, processing, and localization of the petunia CMS-associated mitochondrial protein.  The Plant Journal 5:  613-623.

Hanson, M.R., M.B. Connett, O. Folkerts, S. Izhar, S.M. McEvoy, H.T. Nivison and K.D. Pruitt.  1991.  Cytoplasmic male sterility in Petunia.  In: Plant Molecular Biology,  (R.G. Herrmann and B.A. Larkins, eds.), pp. 383-399.   Plenum Press,  London.

Nivison, H.T. and M.R. Hanson.  1989.  Identification of a mitochondrial protein associated with cytoplasmic male sterility in petunia.  The Plant Cell 1: 1121-1130.

Hanson, M.R., K.D. Pruitt and H.T. Nivison.  1989.  Male sterility loci in plant mitochondrial genomes.  Oxford Surveys of Plant Molecular and Cell Biology 6: 61-85.

Nivison, H.T., L.E. Fish and A.T. Jagendorf. 1988.  Translation by isolated pea chloroplasts.  In:  Methods for Plant Molecular Biology (A. Weissbach, H. Weissbach, eds.), pp. 159-172.  Academic Press, San Diego.

Nivison, H.T. and M.R. Hanson.  1987.  Production and purification of synthetic peptide antibodies.  Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 5: 295-309.

Nivison, H.T., L.E. Fish and A.T. Jagendorf. 1986.  Translation by isolated pea chloroplasts. In:  Methods in Enzymology, Vol. 118 (A. Weissbach, H. Weissbach, eds.), pp. 282-295.  Academic Press, Orlando.

Hanson, M.R., M.L. Boeshore, P.E. McClean, M.A. O'Connell and H.T. Nivison.  1986.  The isolation of mitochondria and mitochondrial DNA.  In:  Methods in Enzymology, Vol. 118 (A. Weissbach, H. Weissbach, eds.), pp. 437-453.  Academic Press, Orlando.

Hanson, M.R., M. Rothenberg, M.L. Boeshore and H.T. Nivison.  1985.  Organelle segregation and recombination following protoplast fusion:  Analysis of sterile cytoplasms.  In:  Biotechnology and Plant Science:  Relevance to Agriculture in the Eighties, (M. Zaitlin, P. Day, eds.) pp. 129-144.  Academic Press, Orlando.

Nivison, H.T.  and A.T. Jagendorf.  1984.  Factors permitting prolonged translation by isolated pea chloroplasts.  Plant Physiol. 75: 1001-1008.

Nivison, H.T. and C.R. Stocking.  1983.  Ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase synthesis in barley leaves:  A developmental approach to the question of coordinated subunit synthesis.  Plant Physiol.  73: 906-911.