David G. McConnell
Professor Emeritus
  • A.B. and A.M. 1949, Columbia University
  • Ph.D. 1957, Indiana University
  • Research Associate, 1956-61, Ohio State University
  • Faculty Member, 1962-72, Ohio State University
    Visiting Associate Professor, 1964-66, University of Wisconsin
  • Professor, 1973-2000, Michigan State University

mcconne6@msu.edu
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David G. McConnell

Research Interests

David McConnell is an Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. His primary research for more than four decades has focused on visual transduction in the vertebrate retina. He has also contributed to research on RAS proteins and osteopathic manual medicine.

He developed an online introductory biochemistry course(http://www.bmb.msu.edu/courses/401/ss2007/740.htm) at MSU and at Coppin State College in Baltimore, where he is Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry.

In the late sixties and early seventies, McConnell was an unpaid NAACP labor official in Columbus, Ohio. He is also the author of a novel, The Destruction of Crown City, Vantage Press, 1974.

Representative Publications

Roze, L.V., Mahanti, N., Mehigh, R., McConnell, D.G. and Linz, J.E. Evidence that Mras1 and Mras3 proteins are associated with distinct cellular functions during growth and morphogenesis in the fungus Mucor racemosus. Fungal Genetics and Biology 28, 171-189 (1999).

Gehm, B.D., Pinke, R.M., Laquerre, S., Chafouleas J. G., Schultz, D.A., Pepperl, D.J. and McConnell, D.G. Activation of bovine rod outer segment phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate phospholipase C by calmodulin antagonists does not depend on calmodulin. Biochemistry 30:11302-11306 (1991).

Pittler, S.J., Baehr, W., Wasmuth, J.J., McConnell, D.G., Champagne, M.S., Van Tuinen, P., Ledbetter D. and Davis, R.L. Molecular characterization of human and bovinerod photoreceptor cGMP phosphodiesterase -subunit and chromosomal localization of the human gene. Genomics 6:272-283 (1990).

Casale, W.L., McConnell, D.G., Wang, S.-Y-, Lee, Y.-J. and Linz, J.E. Expression of a gene family in the dimorphic fungus Mucor racemosus which exhibits striking similarity to human ras genes. Molec. Cell Biol 10:6654-6663 (1990).

Gehm, B.D. and McConnell, D.G., Phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bis-phosphate phospholipase C in bovine rod outer segments. Biochemistry 29:5447-5452 (1990). MORE