EDUCATION

Duke University, Durham, NC           (2005-present)
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Chemistry    Advisor: Dr. Alvin Crumbliss       

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA
B.S., Major in Biochemistry, Minor in Chemistry
Summa Cum Laude, GPA 3.97, Chemistry GPA 4.0

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND COURSE DEVELOPMENT

Graduate Student Instructor for Chemistry of Art and Archeology,
Duke University (2006-present)

  • Developed and taught a Science, Technology, and Society Freshman Seminar Course for Duke undergraduates
  • Redesigned Chemistry of Art and Archeology and am currently teaching course for the second time
  • Participated in Teaching College Chemistry course to design and evaluate potential seminar topics

Head Teaching Assistant for General Chemistry II,
Duke University (2005-2007)

  • Developed new recitation format focusing on problem manipulation skills in collaboration with Academic Skills Center and Dr. Richard MacPhail
  • Created all recitation materials and trained fellow teaching assistants
  • Led student recitation sections and exam review sessions
  • Wrote all quizzes and preliminary drafts of tests questions
  • Designed assessment tools to evaluate effectiveness of problem manipulation methodology (manuscript in preparation for publication)
  • Performed chemical demonstrations to supplement professor’s lectures

Laboratory and Recitation Teaching Assistant,
Duke University (2005-2007)
Courses: Accelerated General Chemistry (1 semester), General Chemistry I (2 semesters), General Chemistry II (4 semesters), and Advanced Analytical Techniques (1 semester)

  • Presented pre-experiment lectures and supervised student work
  • Developed and evaluated all journal writing assignments
  • Evaluated laboratory reports, tests and presentations by the students
  • Designed and implemented environmental laboratory experiment
  • Lectured in the professor’s absence
  • Prepared and maintained laboratory equipment and reagents

Undergraduate Research Mentor, Crumbliss Lab,
Duke University (2005-present)
Mentored three undergraduate chemistry majors and a Project Seed high school student

Recitation Teaching Assistant, General Chemistry
Virginia Tech (2003-2004)

  • Led weekly problem solving sessions and facilitated small group work
  • Designed and evaluated homework assignments and quizzes

 

PRESENTATIONS (Teaching)

“Chemistry, Art, and Archeology:  An Engaging Combination for a Vibrant and Relevant Seminar”, C. J. Parker Siburt, S. Crider, G. West, E. Tristani, and J. Bonk, Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching Poster Session, Greensboro, NC, February 2009

“Manipulating Problems:  A tool to connect with students”, C. J. Parker Siburt, invited Tutor Inservice Workshop for the Peer Tutoring Program at Duke University, Durham, NC, February 2009

“Manipulating problems in the General Chemistry classroom:  A metacognitive approach”, C. J. Parker Siburt, A. N. Bissell, and R. MacPhail, Second Annual Round Table Conference on Learning Services at Highly Selective Colleges/Universities, presentation invited by Donna Hall, Academic Resource Center of Duke University, Durham, NC, November 2008

“Teaching Ideas: TA Survival Skills”, C. J. Parker Siburt, panel member invited by Dr. Doug James, Graduate School of Duke University, Durham, NC, September 2008

"Manipulating problems in the General Chemistry classroom: A metacognitive approach", C. J. Parker Siburt, A. N. Bissell, and R. MacPahil, 20th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Bloomington, IN, July 2008

“Generation Symposium:  Chemical Demonstrations”, C. J. Parker Siburt, A. Kasper, and K. Lyle, 20th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Bloomington, IN, July 2008

 

REASEARCH EXPERIENCE

Ph.D. Candidate,  Duke University, Department of Chemistry,
Advisor: Dr. Alvin Crumbliss (2005-present)

  • Biophysical, thermodynamic, and kinetic investigations of metal transport in humans and bacteria
  • Electrochemical investigations of Hemoglobins from various species
  • Design of multi-week laboratory projects for Advanced General Chemistry laboratory courses (manuscript in preparation for publication)

Undergraduate Research,  Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine,
Advisor: Dr. Thomas Inzana (2003)
Genetic investigations of the factors that affect the virulence of Haemophilus somnus, which causes bovine shipping fever

PRESENTATIONS (Research)

“Hijacking transferrin bound iron: protein-receptor interactions essential for iron transport in N. gonorrhoeae”, C. J. Parker Siburt, P. L. Roulhac, K. D. Weaver, J. M. Noto, T. A. Mietzner, C. N. Cornelissen, M. C. Fitzgerald, A. L. Crumbliss, submitted for publication, 2009

“Hijacking transferrin-bound Iron:  iron transport from outside the cell to the periplasm of pathogenic N. gonorrhoeae”,  C. J. Parker Siburt and A. L. Crumbliss, Gordon Research Conference on Bioinorganic Chemsitry, Ventura, CA, January 2009

“Usinge SUPREX to investiage iron transport in N. gonorrhoeae”, C. J. Parker Siburt, J. J. Heymann, K. D. Weaver, P. L. Roulhac, M. C. Fitzgerald, T. A. Mietzner, A. L. Crumbliss, Gordon Research Conference on Bioinorganic Chemsitry Biometals Poster Session, Ventura, CA, January 2009

“Clams, carp, and chemistry:  protein structure-function relationships from the metal’s perspective”,  C. J. Parker Siburt, A. L. Crumbliss, C. Bonaventura, SBB Seminar Series, Duke University, Durham, NC, November 2008

“Iron transport across the periplasm in Neisseria”,  A. L. Crumbliss, K. D. Weaver, J. J. Heymann, C. J. Parker Siburt, T. A. Mietzner, 236th National ACS Conference, Philadelphia, PA, August 2008

“Ferric binding protein:  moving iron and anions across the periplasm”, A. L. Crumbliss, J. J. Heymann, K. D.  Weaver, C. J. Parker Siburt, P. L. Roulhac, P. D. DeArmond, M. C. Fitzgerald, J. M. Noto, C. N. Cornelissen, D. S. Anderson, T. A. Mietzner, Biometals, Spain, July 2008

“Origin of the root effect in fish Hbs:  moderate proton-dependence of redox potentials suggests steric hindrance dominance”,  C. J. Parker Siburt, C. Bonaventura, and A. L. Crumbliss, 235th National ACS Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 2008

“A computational model for metal ion speciation in multiple component systems applied to gallium sequestration by a bacterial transferrin”,  A. Mehta,  C. J. Parker Siburt, J. J. Heymann, K. D. Weaver, and A. L. Crumbliss, Beckman Scholars Poster Session, 235th National ACS Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 2008

“Bioinorganic investigation of transferrin mediated titanium ion transport”, C. J. Parker Siburt, A. L. Crumbliss, 121st NC-ACS Sectional Conference, Durham, NC, April 2007

 “Inorganic biochemistry of iron proteins”,  J. J. Heymann, C. J. Parker Siburt, K. D. Weaver, and A. L. Crumbliss,  East Coast Iron Club Meeting, Winston-Salem, NC, November 2006

 

PROGRAMS AND CERTIFICATES

Preparing Future Faculty Fellow, Duke University
Mentor:  Dr. Nancy Harris at Elon University, Elon, NC (2008-present)
PFF is a national initiative designed to introduce graduate students to the various responsibilities of faculty life. Participation includes: site visits at a variety of local college and universities, observing faculty in the classroom, being observed in the classroom by a mentor, attending teaching and pedagogy workshops, and observing committee and faculty meetings

Structural Biochemistry and Biophysics Certificate Program
Program Director:  Dr. Dave Richardson (2007-present)
SBB is a certificate granting program, which trains graduate students to understand
biological problems at the molecular level.  Participation includes:  prescribed course
work, attending a weekly seminar, presenting one seminar per year, and examining
structure-function relationships of biological molecules as part of one’s dissertation work

 

APPOINTMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

  • Duke University Graduate Course, Instructional Uses of Technology (2009)
  • Graduate and Professional Student Council, Rep on the University Scheduling Committee (2005-present)
  • Phi Lambda Upsilon, Coordinator for Professional Development Speaker (2007-present)
  • Duke University Chemistry Demonstration Team, Evening of Chemistry Demo Show Presenter (2005-present)
  • Department of Chemistry Representative to the Graduate and Professional Student Council (2007-2008)
  • Duke University Graduate Course, Introduction to College Teaching Participant (2006)

 

AWARDS AND HONORARY ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Duke University Graduate School Travel Grant, Duke University (2009)
  • Division of Inorganic Chemistry Travel Grant, American Chemical Society (2008)
  • Phi Lambda Upsilon Travel Grant, PLU Duke University Chapter (2008)
  • Duke University Graduate School Travel Grant, Duke University (2008)
  • Pelham Wilder Teaching Award, Chemistry Department, Duke University (2007-2008)
  • John Herbert Pearson Award, Chemistry Department, Duke University (2008)
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Honors Society, inducted at Virginia Tech (2003)
  • Commonwealth Award, Virginia Tech (2000-2004)
  • Davidson C. Wysor Scholarship, Virginia Tech (2003-2004)
  • Winslow Trust Scholarship, Virginia Tech (2002-2004)
  • Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society of Agriculture, Biochemistry Department, Virginia Tech (2003)
  • Phi Lambda Upsilon Honorary Chemical Society, inducted at Virginia Tech (2003)
  • Phi Kappa Phi, Honors Society, inducted at Virginia Tech (2002)
  • Marshall T. Hahn Engineering Scholarship, Virginia Tech (2000-2001)
  • YMCA of Western North Carolina Volunteer of the Year, Asheville, NC (2000)

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

Laboratory Technician, Enzyme Division, Syngenta Biotechnology (Olsten Staffing),
Research Triangle Park, NC (2005)

  • Analyzed customers’ samples for quantity and efficacy of administered enzyme products using company-designed biochemical assay
  • Trained fellow employees in analysis technique and improve productivity for large scale product analysis
Public Health Intern, Environmental Health Division, Roanoke City/County Health Dept.,
Roanoke, VA (2003)

  • Assisted Environmental Health Specialists with West Nile Virus surveillance program and inspections of restaurants and swimming pools
  • Created educational brochure about sanitation of ice machines for distribution to food service providers
  • Developed and implemented an immunization awareness campaign
Site Team Leader and Tutor, Virginia Tech Literacy Corps, Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg, VA (2000-2003)

  • Designed, implemented, and supervised a new after-school tutoring program at the Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library (6 student-tutor pairs)
  • Assessed 3-6 students per semester and created corresponding lesson plans (1-2 sessions per child per week)
  • Taught elementary students a variety of subjects in and out of classroom setting
Pool Manager and Resident Staff, Craig Springs Camp and Retreat Center,
New Castle, VA (2001-2003)

  • Maintained water chemistry, property and machinery, safety, budget, and records
  • Wrote a pool management and maintenance manual

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