Recent News


"If You Build It, Scientists Will Come"- Lehigh University News. January 2016.
"Physicist Embraces Phages.” Sigma Pi Sigma Radiations Magazine, Fall 2015
"Teaching and Learning at Lehigh"- Lehigh University News. June 2015.
"Structures of Phages"- Acumen, Lehigh University College of Arts and Sciences magazine. April 2015.

Videos 

Lehigh Professors (including me!) Try Snapchat...!

See me, and other Lehigh professors, try to understand millennial slang! 

I am the narrator of this video for the Lehigh Office of International Affairs:

Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journal Articles

McLaughlin K.J. "Understanding Structure: A Computer-Based Macromolecular Biochemistry Lab Activity," J. Chem Educ., 2017, 94 (7), pp 903-906  doi:10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00464 Text/PDF

Agrawal A., McLaughlin K.J., Jenkins J.L., Kielkopf C.L. “A Structure-Guided U2AF65 Variant Improves Recognition and Splicing of a Defective pre-mRNA.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014, 111(49):17420-5 Pubmed

McLaughlin K.J., Nash R.P., Redinbo M.R. “Unique Helicase Determinants in the essential conjugative factor TraI from Salmonella typhimurium plasmid pCU1.”  J. Bacteriol. 2014, 196(17):3082-90 doi:10.1128/JB.01496-14  Pubmed

McLaughlin K.J., Jenkins J.L., Kielkopf C.L. “Large Favorable Enthalpy Changes Drive Specific RNA Recognition by RNA Recognition Motif Proteins.” Biochemistry 2011, 50(9):1429-31 Text/PDF

McLaughlin K.J., Strain-Damerell, C.M., Xie, K., Brekasis, D., Soares, A.S., Paget, M.S. and Kielkopf, C.L. Structural Basis for NADH/NAD+ Redox Sensing by a Rex-Family Repressor. Molecular Cell. 2010 May 28;38(4):563-75.  Text/PDF

Buboltz JT, Bwalya C, Williams K, Schutzer M. “High-resolution mapping of phase behavior in a ternary lipid mixture: do lipid-raft phase boundaries depend on the sample preparation procedure?” Langmuir 2007, 23:11968-71. Text/PDF

 

Article & Video Archive

Press Release June 2010- University of Rochester. "Vitamin B3 Controls Important Life Processes by Changing Shape in Response to Oxygen Level."

Williams K. "Commentary: Putting a new face on physics." Symmetry 2008, 5(1):3  Text  PDF

"Alumna gives science students a peek at possibilities" Colgate University News. November 2007. 

"No Summertime Blues: Student Summer Research at Colgate". Colgate Scene. September 2004.

My Wikipedia 15-minutes of Fame- My final paper from Computational Mechanics, involving the analysis of sound recordings from my steelpan was referenced on the "Steelpan" entry (Ref #4). You can read my paper here.

Colgate Senior Profiles. Video Interview and Article.  May 2006

American Institute  of Physics 75th Anniversary Video Project. 2006

Department of Chemistry at Vassar College

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