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Lab workers in white coats working in the lab Our primary laboratory is located on USC’s University Park Campus.  We work in the Allan Hancock Foundation Building of USC’s Department of Biological Sciences, where the laboratories of the faculty in the Marine and Environmental Biology research group are located.

Examples of laboratory results in physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology:

A line graph measuring respiration. The line goes up.Physiology

Respiration rate at 15 deg. C during development of the purpse sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, from the embryonic to the pluteus larval stage.

Scatter plot of second dimension separationBiochemistry

Newly-synthesized proteins (35S-Met/Cys labeled) in larvae of the oyster, Crassostrea gigas, separated by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis.

Diagram showing the deduced amino acid sequence from a cloned cDNA. Proposed structure of the transporter molecule has 12 membrane-spanning domains.Molecular Biology

Amino acid transporter in 4-day-old embryos of the temperate sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Diagram below shows the deduced amino acid sequence from a cloned cDNA. Proposed structure of the transporter molecule has 12 membrane-spanning domains.

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Professor Donal T. Manahan

Department of Biological Sciences
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0371

 

(213) 740 – 5973