DR. HARoLD ARVIDSON

Dr. Harold Arvidson

Associate Professor of Chemistry
School of Arts and Sciences

Educational Background:

• PhD, Department of Chemistry (Field: biochemistry) State University of New York-Albany, USA

Dr. Arvidson has held faculty positions in the United States and North Africa. He teaches a range of lecture and laboratory courses that include biochemistry, molecular genetics, cell biology, microbiology and general and organic chemistry.

Previous Posts:

• Asst. Professor, Department of Chemistry, Physics, and Geology, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, USA
• Professor, Biochemistry and Genetics, School of Medicine, Ahfad University for Women, Omdurman, Sudan
• Research Scientist, Post-Doctoral, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
• Instructor, Dept. of Chemistry, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA

Selected Publications:

• "Use of glycerol as an alternative to freeze-drying for long-term preservation of antigen for the direct agglutination test." el Harith, A., el Mutasim, M., Mansour, D., Mustafa, F., and Arvidson, H. Tropical Medicine International Health 8: 1025-1029, 2003.
• "Specificity of Bacillus thuringiensis for Lepidopteran larvae: factors involved in vivo and in the structure of a purified protoxin." Arvidson, H., Dunn, P.E., Strand, S., and Aronson, A.I. Molecular Microbiology 3: 1533-1544, 1989.
• "Toxic trypsin digest fragment from the Bacillus thuringiensis parasporal protein." Aronson, J.N. and Arvidson, H.C. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 53: 416-421, 1987.

Research Interests:

• Parasitic diseases, using bioinformatics
• Biochemical metabolism, using computer modeling
• Environmental chemistry

Selected Affiliations:

• American Chemical Society
• American Association for the Advancement of Sciences
• South Carolina Academy of Science

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