Dr. Douglas C. Pearson Jr.

Assistant Professor of Physics
Shorter College
315 Shorter Avenue, Campus Box 2130
Rome, GA 30165

office: 317-A Rome Hall, (706) 233-7398
academic e-mail: cpearson at shorter dot edu
personal e-mail: chuck dot pearson at gmail dot com

E D U C A T I O N

• B.S. (Physics), Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN), May 1993
• Ph.D. (Biophysics), The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH), December 1999

E M P L O Y M E N T

• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alabama-Birmingham 1999-2000
  Research on macromolecular modeling of protein complexes, particularly the cardiac troponin C/I complex; Perl script development for macromolecular structure manipulation; software tutorial development
  
  
• Assistant Professor of Physics, Middle Georgia College (Cochran, GA) 2000-2003
  Teaching of general education science courses, freshman level courses in chemistry, and freshman/sophmore level courses in physics
  
  
• Assistant Professor of Physics, Shorter College (Rome, GA) 2003--

Teaching of freshman/sophomore level courses in physics
Senior level courses in physical chemistry and biochemistry

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

• D.C. Pearson Jr., E.L. Gross, and E.S. David.  1996.  The electrostatic properties of cytochrome f: implications for docking with plastocyanin. Biophys. J. 71:64-76 
  
  
• D.C. Pearson Jr. and E.L. Gross.  1998.  Brownian Dynamics Study of the Interaction between Plastocyanin and Cytochrome f.  Biophys. J.  75:2698-2711.
• E.L. Gross and D.C. Pearson Jr. 2003. Brownian Dynamics Simulations of the Interaction of Chlamydomonas Cytochrome f with Plastocyanin and Cytochrome c₆. Biophys. J. 2003 85: 2055-2068.

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