EDUCATION

Ph.D., Georgetown University, Department of Chemistry, 1975.  Major area: Biochemistry
B.Sc. Honours, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Chemistry, 1967.
B.Sc.  University of Cape Town, South Africa. Majors: Chemistry and Microbiology, 1966.

WORK EXPERIENCE

1997-Present:  Full Professor, Montclair State University.   Director of Biochemistry Program (1990-present), Graduate Advisor, Associate Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

1989 - 1997:  Associate Professor,  Montclair State University.

1992-1993: Sabbatical Leave at Lederle Laboratories, Pearl River NY:  "Cloning and Characterization of Secretase" AY 1992-93

Jan 1982 - 1989:  Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Montclair State College.

1979 - 1980 and 1976 - 1977:  Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, Seton Hall University.

1977 - 1978:  Assistant Professor of Chemistry, William Paterson College.

1972 - 1974:  Postdoctoral Fellow, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology.

HONORS AND AWARDS

American Heart Association, 1984 ($17,427), 1985 ($16,088)
National Institutes of Health Academic Research Enhancement Award, 1985 -1987 "Molecular Cloning of Hypertension-related Genes" ($50,000)
National Science Foundation College Science Instrumentation Program Grant, 1986
 " Biochemistry Laboratory Instrumentation"($85,000)
Alzheimer's Association Research Grant with M.P. Vitek, 1992-1995 "Cloning and Characterization of Secretase" ( $135,000)
1992 Margaret and Herman Sokol Faculty Fellowship

MSU Grants:
Career Development Grant, Montclair State College, "Training in the Use of a Protein and DNA Sequence Analysis System", Summer, 1989  $3150
Montclair State College SBR Grant "Rat Cardiac cDNAs:  Sequencing and Hybridization Studies" 1989/90 $2500 (6 s.h. released time + supplies)
Montclair State College Sabbatical Leave, 1992/93   Cloning and Characterization of Secretase, at Lederle Laboratories, Pearl River, NY.
MSC Global Education Grant with R. Allen-Noble, 1992 "Study of Academic Support Programs for Black University Students in South Africa" ($8000)
 

Montclair State College SBR Grant "Cloning and Characterization of Secretase"  $2400 (6 s.h. released time) Fall 1993.
Montclair State University Student Faculty Research Award, "DNA Sequencing of cDNA for Rat Cardiac Cyclic AMP-dependent Protein Kinase"  $1350 (supplies and student support),  June1, 96 - June 1, '97.
Career Development Grant for attendance and presentation at 1997 Annual Meeting of the ASBMB/IUBMB, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Instructor: Great ideas in Science Program for Elementary School Teachers, Montclair State University, July 1997, 1998, and 1999
Instructor: NJ DHE Consortium for the Preparation of Master Teachers in Science (K-8):  Montclair State, Seton Hall University, Upsala College:  summer 1992, Fall 1992
 Workshops for K-8 Teachers in Hillsdale NJ School System, Spring 1991,92
Presenter: Careers in Chemistry and Biochemistry, Chemical Industries Council Career Days, 1992, 1993
Presenter:  Careers in Chemistry; West Essex High School Career Day, 1992
Past grant reviewer for N.S.F. College Science Instrumentation Program, Chemistry section
Consultant for ETS - 1998 - wrote question for the GRE Exam in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology
Member Health Careers/EOF Self Study Steering Committee, MSU.
Chair, SMNS Science and Math General Education  Committee, MSU, 1991-1994
Member Teaching and Learning Subcommittee, Middle States Committee, MSU 1995-96
Past or present Member ACS, ASBMB, Sigma Xi, AAAS, Council on Undergraduate Research,  Phi Kappa Phi

PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS

Education-related
"Biochemistry Program Curricula and Careers in the Field"  Pamela J. Delaney,Stephens Institute of Technology, 1992 Chemical Careers Conference, May 15, 1992.

 " Academic Support Programs in Sciences and Engineering for Black University Students in South Africa":  Pamela J. Delaney and Rosie Allen-Noble, Montclair State College, December 4, 1992.

"The Biochemistry College Curriculum:  Options and Career Paths"
Pamela J. Delaney , New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1993 Chemical Careers Conference, March 16, 1993.

Pamela Delaney  "Automated DNA Sequencing":  An Educational  Poster and Hands On Demonstration, Convocation Day  "Community through Technology", Montclair State University, March 29, 1995.

"A Study of the Academic Support Programs in the Sciences at the Universities of Cape Town and Witwatersrand in the Republic of South Africa", R. Allen Noble and P. Delaney, National Association of Minority Medical Educators  Northeast Regional Newsletter, Part I, Winter 1993 and Part II, Spring 1994

"A Study of the Academic Support Programs in the Sciences at the Universities of Cape Town and Wiwatersrand in the Republic of South Africa" in NAMME National Newsletter, Part I, February 1994 and Part II, September 1994.

"Progress in the Use of Automated DNA Sequencing at MSU", Pamela Delaney
Educational Poster and Demonstration, Montclair State University "Community Through Technology"  Convocation Day, March 27, 1996.

"Automated DNA Sequencing in an Undergraduate Biochemistry Laboratory Course"  Annual Meeting of ASBMB/IUBMB, August 26, 1997

"An Undergraduate Biochemistry Experiment for Demonstration of Western Blotting and Gene Expression from a Recombinant Plasmid"  submitted to J. Chem. Educ.
 

Biochemical Research Publications
"Chemical Modification of Sulfhydryl Residues of Rabbit Muscle Triosephosphate Isomerase",
R. Davis, P. Delaney and C. Furfine, Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 159, 11 (1973).

"Photo-induced Crosslinking of 4Srd and Cyd Residues in E. coil tRNA and its Use as a Conformational Probe", Ofengand, J., Delaney, P. and Bierbaum, J.; in Methods in Enzymology, 29, 673-684 (1974).

"Conformational Changes in the Thiouridine Region of Escherichia coli  Transfer RNA as Assessed by Photochemically Induced Crosslinking.  II.  Effect of a Single Base Change in the "Extra" Loop of Formylmethionine tRNA and of Denaturation of Tryptophan tRNA, P. Delaney, J. Bierbaum, and J. Ofengand, Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 161, 260 (1974).

"Changes in in vivo  Levels of Charged Transfer RNA Species During the Development of the Posterior Silkgland of Bombyx mori, P. Delaney and M.A.Q. Siddiqui, Developmental Biology, 44, 54 (1975)

"Increased Levels of Myosin mRNAs in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat Heart", P. Delaney, S. Vitek, M.A.Q. Siddiqui, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm., 132, 820 (1985).

"Heart Myosin Light Chain 2 Gene; Nucleotide Sequence of Full Length cDNA and Expression in Normal and Hypertensive Rat", C. Kumar, L. Cribbs, P. Delaney, K. Chien, and M.A.Q. Siddiqui, J. Biol. Chem., 261, 2866 (1986).

"Expression of Ventricular Type Myosin Light Chain Gene in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat Atria", C. Kumar, C. Saidapet, P. Delaney, C. Mendola, and M.A.Q. Siddiqui,  Circulation Research,   62, 1094-1097 (1988).

"Characterization of a Rat Myosin Alkali Light Chain Gene Expressed in Ventricular and Slow Twitch Skeletal Muscles", with M. Periasamy, R. Wadgaonkar, C. Kumar, B. Jill and MAQ Siddiqui,  Nucleic Acids Research, 17, 7723-7734 (1989).

"Rattus Norvegicus cAMP-dependent Protein Kinase Type I Regulatory Subunit mRNA Partial Coding Sequence"  P.J. Delaney and J.C. Hulit.  Electronic Publication of Sequence in Genbank Database, Genbank Accession Number U75932. October 1996.

Presentations:
"Progress Towards Development of a Method for Cloning of Secretase Utilizing Bacterial and Yeast-based Systems", Pamela J. Delaney:  a talk presented at Lederle Laboratories for the Molecular Neurobiology Group, January 6, 1993

 "Cloning of Secretase - Lac Z/Secretase Cleavage Cassette Strategy" Pamela J. Delaney: a talk presented at the Alzheimer's Disease Program Review, Lederle Laboratories, January 25 and 27, 1993.

"Engineering and DNA Sequencing of Plasmid Constructs for Expression of Amyloid Peptides in E. Coli Cells",  Pamela J. Delaney ,  Faculty Research Poster:  Sigma Xi Research Conference, Montclair State University, May 6, 1995.

RECENT STUDENT PRESENTATIONS - SIGMA Xi STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCES

"Detection of Heat Shock Protein (HSP70) Produced in Cultured Cells" Laurie Johanson, Gasner Coreus, A.M. DiLorenzo and Pamela Delaney, May 1995

"DNA Sequencing of  cDNA for the Regulatory Subunit of Cyclic-AMP dependent Protein Kinase from Rat Heart" James Hulit and P. Delaney. May 4, 1996

"Automated DNA Sequenicng of a  cDNA Clone for Cyclic-AMP Dependent Protein Kinase Regulatory Subunit from Human Liver", Danielle Nardin, Hala Shehadeh, Elias Triantafillou and Ashraf Salameh, Pamela J. Delaney, May 2, 1998

"Automated DNA Sequencing of a Plasmid Insert by Two Methods", Sukwinder Singh, Sorin Dioconescu,  Valentino Soriano, Pamela J. Delaney; May 8, 1999.