July 25th Inland Empire Creation Science Association
The Inland Empire Creation Science Association presents Ross Anderson, Ph.D. speaking on:
“Hemoglobin: A Precision Designed Protein"
Hemoglobin is probably one of the most familiar of
proteins; it is so common that and familiar that we often take it for granted.
Yet, all
of life depends on it. How much do we really know about our very lives depend
moment to moment on this average sized protein? How many of us know that from
very early in embryonic development we depend on hemoglobin? Hemoglobin is
beautifully designed to carry out its functions under a variety of different
conditions. While most know hemoglobin is essential in delivering oxygen to the
tissues from the lungs, it is also instrumental in helping to maintain proper
acid-base balance in the blood, and for delivery of other compounds such as
nitric oxide.
Hemoglobin consists of four
subunits. The subunits are encoded by separate genes on different chromosomes,
yet they are coordinately regulated to provide just the right amounts of each
subunit.
We will examine the structure of
hemoglobin and see how it is able to carry out its intended functions, and we
will examine the coordinated regulation of the genes which encode its subunits.
Dr.
Anderson received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, TX. He did his post-doctoral work in the Molecular Genetics Division
of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Houston Neurosensory Center. There he
worked on aspects of light transduction in the retina of the eye.
Dr. Anderson has taught
Biochemistry to medical and graduate students at Baylor College of Medicine and
directed research activities of many of these same students. He later became a
member of both the undergraduate and graduate faculty in the Department of
Biology at Lamar University, a state university, in Texas. There he taught and
directed the research of students working toward a Masters Degree in Biology.
Dr.
Anderson’s research interests are in the areas of cellular and sub-cellular
biology and physiology. He currently works on the synthesis and expression of
synthetic genes coding for human DNA polymerases for the purpose of protein
structure-function studies. Dr. Anderson has authored or co-authored several
research publications in major, peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of the
Sigma Xi Biological Research Society and the American Chemical Society.
Dr.
Anderson is currently a full professor in the Department of Biological and
Physical Sciences at The Master’s College, Santa Clarita, CA where he has been
for the past nineteen years.
NOTE: The odd thing is there is no reference to any publication made by Ross Anderson, except he spoke at the South Bay Creation Science Association: http://www.creationinthecrossfire.org/2017/03/next-meeting-march-25-2017-7-pm-ross-anderson-ph-d/
The last Tuesday of
the month
Jul. 25, 2017 at 7:00
PM
At the Seventh Day
Baptist Church
5901 Chicago Ave., Riverside,
CA 92506
Downstairs in Room 1.
We will be giving a
door prize!
“God's
Wondrous Machine”
The Breathtaking
Respiratory System
By
Lainna Callentine
M.Ed., M.D.
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