Laurie A. Davidson

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Texas A&M University
Nutrition and Food Science
Research Scientist
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Mailing Address

Department of Nutrition and Food Science
Texas A&M University
2253 TAMU
College Station, Texas 77843-2253
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (979) 845-0448
L-davidson@tamu.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Nutrition and Physiological Chemistry, 1987.
B.S., University of California, Davis, Biochemistry, 1982.

Expertise and Research Interests

Non-invasive detection of colon cancer; effects of diet and carcinogen on colonic ras signaling; use of colonic cell lines to study cytokinetics.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Animal Science, Biochemistry, Nutrition or Dietetics.

Memberships

American Society for Clinical Nutrition
American Society for Nutritional Sciences
Faculty of Nutrition, Texas A&M University

Honors and Awards

1985-1986, Jastro-Shields Graduate Research Scholarship,
1985-1987, USDA Food and Agricultural Sciences Graduate Research Fellow,
1984-1986, American Institute of Nutrition Graduate Research Award,

Previous Positions

1996-1998, Assistant Research Scientist, Texas A&M University, Faculty of Nutrition, Animal Science
1992-1996, Senior Research Associate, Texas A&M University, Faculty of Nutrition, Animal Science
1989-1990, Lecturer, Texas A&M University, Biochemistry and Biophysics
1988-1992, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Texas A&M University, Biochemistry and Biophysics
1987-1988, Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of California, Davis, Nutrition and School of Medicine, Rheumatology, Nutrition and Molecular Biology
1983-1984, Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Nutrition

Patents

Noninvasive detection of colonic biomarkers using fecal messenger RNA, Patent Number: US # 6258541, 1997, R. Chapkin, L. Davidson, .

Publications

  • N.R. Murray, C. Weems, L. Chen, J. Leon, W. Yu, L.A. Davidson, L. Jamieson, R.S. Chapkin, A. Thompson, A.P. Fields, Protein kinase C bII and TGFbRII in w-3 fatty acid-mediated inhibition of colon carcinogenesis, Journal of Cell Biology, 157, 915-920, 2002
  • R.S. Chapkin, M.Y. Hong, Y.Y. Fan, L.A. Davidson, L.M. Sanders, C.E. Henderson, N.D. Turner, R. Barhoumi, R.C. Burghardt, J.R. Lupton, Dietary n-3 fatty acids alter colonocyte mitochondrial membrane composition and function, Lipids, 37, 193-199, 2002
  • Laurie A. Davidson, Joanne R. Lupton, Emil Miskovsky, Alan P. Fields, Robert S. Chapkin, Quantitation of human intestinal gene expression profiles using exfoliated colonocytes, Biomarkers, 2002
  • M.Y. Hong, R.S. Chapkin, J.S. Morris, N. Wang, R.J. Carroll, N.D. Turner, W.C. Chang, L.A. Davidson, J.R. Lupton, Anatomical site-specific response to DNA damage is related to later tumor development in the rat AOM colon carcinogenesis model, Carcinogenesis, 22, 1831-1835, 2001
  • E.D. Collett, L.A. Davidson, J.R. Lupton, R.S. Chapkin., n-6 and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids differentially modulate oncogenic ras activation in colonocytes, American Journal of Physiology. Cell Physiology, 280, C1066-C1075, 2001
  • M.Y. Hong, J.R. Lupton, J.S. Morris, N.Wang, R.J. Carroll, L.A. Davidson, R.H. Elder, R.S. Chapkin., Dietary fish oil reduces DNA adduct levels in rat colon in part by increasing apoptosis during tumor initiation, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, 9, 819 - 826, 2001
  • L.A. Davidson, R.E. Brown, W.C. Chang, J.R. Lupton, J.S. Morris, N. Wang, R.J. Carroll, N.D. Turner, R.S. Chapkin, Morphodensitometric analysis of protein kinase CBII expression in rat colon; modulation by diet and relation to in situ cell proliferation and apoptosis, Carcinogenesis, 21, 1513-1519, 2000
  • Davidson, L.A, Lupton, J.R, Jiang, Y.H, Chapkin, R.S., Carcinogen and dietary lipid regulate ras expression and localization in rat colon without affecting farnesylation kinetics, Carcinogenesis, 20, 785-791, 1999
  • Murray, N.R, Davidson, L.A, Chapkin, R.S, Gustafson, W.C, Schattenberg, D.G, Fields, A.P., Overexpression of protein kinase C beta II in the colonic epithelium causes hyperproliferation and increased sensitivity to colon carcinogenesis, Journal of Cell Biology, 699-711, 1999
  • Davidson, L.A, Aymond, C.M, Jiang, Y.H, Turner, N.D, Lupton, J.R, Chapkin, R.S., Noninvasive detection of fecal protein kinase CII and messenger RNA: Putative biomarkers for colon cancer, Carcinogenesis, 19, 253-257, 1998
  • Chapkin, R.S, Clark, A.E, Davidson, L.A, Schroeder, F, Lupton, J.R., Dietary fiber differentially alters cellular fatty acid binding protein expression in exfoliated colonocytes during tumor development, Nutrition and Cancer, 32, 107-112, 1998
  • Aukema, H.M, Davidson, L.A, Pence, B.C, Jiang, Y.H, Lupton, J.R, Chapkin, R.S., Butyrate alters activity of specific cAMP-receptor proteins in a transgenic mouse colonic cell line, Journal of Nutrition, 127, 18-24, 1997
  • Weber, T.J, Chapkin, R.S, Davidson, L.A, Ramos, K.S., Modulation of protein kinase C (PKC)- related signal transduction by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin exhibits cell cycle dependence, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 328, 227-232, 1996
  • Jiang, Y.H, Davidson, L.A, Lupton, J.R, Chapkin, R.S., Rapid competitive PCR determination of relative gene expression in limiting tissue samples, Clinical Chemistry, 42, 227-231, 1996
  • Davidson, L.A, Lupton, J.R, Jiang, Y.H, Chang, W.C, Aukena, H.M, Chapkin, R.S., Dietary fat and fiber alter rat colon protein kinase C isozyme expression, Journal of Nutrition, 125, 49-56, 1995
  • Davidson, L.A, Jiang, Y.H, Lupton, J.R, Chapkin, R.S., Non-invasive detection of putative biomarkers for colon cancer using fecal mRNA, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, 4, 643-647, 1995
  • Jiang, Y.H, Aukema, H.M, Davidson, L.A, Lupton, J.R, Chapkin, R.S., Localization of protein kinase C isozymes in rat colon, Cell Growth and Differentiation, 6, 1381-1386, 1995

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