CURRICULUM VITAE
IRIS JANE TURKENKOPF

Office: Villa Home - 7 Meadow View Drive
Mount Saint Mary College Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12603
330 Powell Avenue

(845) 462-7483

Newburgh, NY 12550  
(845) 569-3128  

turkenko@msmc.edu

 
 

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Ph.D. in Nutrition, Columbia University, New York, NY American Society for Nutritional Sciences

M.Ph. in Nutrition, Columbia University, New York, NY

American Association for the Advancement of Science
.M.S. in Biology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY New York Academy of Science
B.S. in Biology, Brooklyn, C.U.N.Y., Brooklyn, NY North American Association for the Study of Obesity
Council on Undergraduate Research
 

HONORS

 

New York State Regents College Scholarship

New York State Teaching Fellowship
Teaching Assistantship from Vassar College
Cum laude graduate of Brooklyn College
NSF Chataugua Short Course for College Teachers
NSF Science Faculty Professional Development Award
Graduate Research Assistantship - Columbia University
Finalist in American Institute of Nutrition Graduate Student Competition - Travel Award
 
 

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

 
1991 - 94 Chairperson, Division of Natural Sciences, Mount Saint Mary College
1990 - Member of National Institutes of Health Special Study Section - "Genetic and Metabolic Aspects of Obesity"
1989 -91 Coordinator of Biology and Medical Technology, Mount Saint Mary College
1987 - Professor, Department of Biology, Mount Saint Mary College
1987 - 93 Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, Vassar College
1985 - 87 Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Vassar College
1983 - 89 Chairperson, Department of Biology, Mount Saint Mary College
1982 - 87 Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Mount Saint Mary College
1981 - 84 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Vassar College

1980 - 81 Graduate Research Assistant, Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University

1979 - 81 Research Associate, Department of Biology, Vassar College
1977 - 82 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Mount Saint Mary College
1978 - 81 Graduate Student, Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University
1974 - 77 Instructor, Department of Biology, Mount Saint Mary College
1973 - 74 Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, Vassar College
1971 - 72 Lecturer, Departments of Biology and Chemistry, Vassar College

1970 - Part-time Instructor, Department of Biology, Dutchess Community College

1968 - 72 Research Assistant, Laboratory of Dr. Ann Gounaris, Vassar College

1967 - 68 Research Assistant, Laboratory of Dr. Anita Zorzoli, Vassar College

1965 - 67 Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, Vassar College

1964 - 65 Part-time Research Assistant, Laboratory of Dr. Clara Blake, Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y.

 
 

PUBLICATIONS

 

1) Zorzoli, A., Turkenkopf, I.J., Mueller, V.L, Gluconeogenesis in developing rat kidney cortex. Biochemical Journal 111:181, 1969.

2) Gounaris, A.D., Turkenkopf, I.J., Buckwald, S., Young, A., Pyruvate Decarboxylase. Journal of Biological Chemistry,246:1302, 1971.

3) Gounaris, A.D., Turkenkopf, I.J., Civerchia, L.L., Greenlie, J.,Pyruvate Decarboxylase III. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta,405:492, 1975.
4) Turkenkopf, I.J., Olsen, J.L., Moray, L., Greenwood, M.R.C., and Johnson, P.R., Hepatic Lipogenesis in the Preobese Zucker Rat. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med. 164:530-533, 1980.
5) Turkenkopf, I.J., The Role of the Liver and the Pancreas in the Development of Obesity in the Preobese Zucker Rat. Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1981.
6) Turkenkopf, I.J., Johnson, P.R., Greenwood, M.R.C., Development of Pancreatic and Plasma Insulin in Prenatal and Suckling Zucker Rats. Am. J. of Physiology 242 (Endocrinol Metab. 5): E220-E225, 1982.
7) Turkenkopf, I.J., Maggio, C.A., Greenwood, M.R.C., Effect of High Fat Weaning Diets Containing Either Medium-Chain Triglycerides or Long-Chain Triglycerides on the Development of Obesity in the Zucker Rat. J. Nutrition 112:1254-1263, 1982.

8) Greenwood, M.R.C., and Turkenkopf, I.J., Genetic and Metabolic Aspects. Contemporary Issues in Clinical Nutrition, Volume 4; Obesity, ed. by M.R.C. Greenwood, Churchill Livingstone, New York,1983.

9) Goldstein, A.L., Greenwood, M.R.C., Johnson, P.R., Palmer, J.E., Turkenkopf I.J., and Francendese, A., Adipoblasts from the Zucker(fafa) Rat. Int. J. Obesity, 9(1):55-60, 1985.

10) Turkenkopf, I.J., Chow, G., East-Palmer, J., Greenwood, M.R.C., and Johnson, P.R., Regional and Genotypic Differences in Stromal-Vascular Cells from Obese and Lean Zucker Rats. Int. J. Obesity, 12(6):515-524, 1988.

11) Johnson, P.R., Rosen, B., Turkenkopf, I.J., Ree, H., Spiegelman, B., and M.R.C. Greenwood. Reduced Adipsin mRNA and Circulating Adipsin Protein are Modulated by Adrenal Steroids in Genetically Obese Zucker Rats. Am. J. Physiol., 259:R184-188, 1990.

12) Turkenkopf, I.J., Kava, R.A., Feldweg, A, Horowitz, C., Greenwood, M.R.C., and P.R. Johnson. Zucker and Wistar Diabetic Fatty rats show different response to adrenalectomy. Am. J. Physiology, 261 (Reg. Integ. & Comp.30)R912-919, 1991.
13) Fried, S.K., Turkenkopf, I.J., Goldberg, I.J., Doolittle, M.H., Kirchgessner, T.G., Schotz, M.C., Johnson, P.R. and M.R.C. Greenwood. Mechanisms of increased lipoprotein lipase in fat cells of obese Zucker rats. Am. J. Physiology, 261(Endocrinol. Metab.24):E653-E660, 1991.
 

ABSTRACTS

 
1) Turkenkopf, I.J., Olsen, J.L., Johnson, P.R., Hepatic Lipogenic Enzyme Activity in the Preobese Zucker Rat, Red. Proc. 38:547, 1979.

2) Turkenkopf, I.J., Maggio, C., Jenson, K., Greenwood, M.R.C. High Fat Diets Containing Medium-Chain Triglycerides Lower Lipoprotein Lipase Activity and Reduce Obesity in Young Zucker (fafa) Rats. Presented at Third International Congress on Obesity, Oct., 1980.

3) Turkenkopf, I.J., Maggio, C., Greenwood, M.R.C., Medium-Chain Triglycerides Reduce Weight But Not Obesity in Young (fafa) Rats. Fed. Proc. 40:842, 1981.
4) Turkenkopf, I.J., Johnson, P.R., and Greenwood, M.R.C., Plasma and Pancreatic Insulin in Fetal and Suckling Preobese and Lean Zucker Rats. Endocrinology 108, Supplement: 143, 1981.
5) Turkenkopf, I.J., Chow, G., Goldstein, A.L., and Greenwood, M.R.C., Fatty (fa) Gene Effects in Utero in Zucker Rats. Fed. Proc. 41:459, 1982.
6) Gapp, D.A., Turkenkopf, I.J., and Greenwood, M.R.C., Morphometric Analysis of Inlet Cell Populations in Zucker Fatty Rats. Diabetes, 1982.
7) Turkenkopf, I.J., Chow, G., Palmer, J., Greenwood, M.R.C., and Johnson, P.R., Genotype and Site Differences in Adipoblasts From Zucker Rats in Primary Culture. Fed. Proc. 43:797, 1984.
8) Kava, R., West, D. B., Lukasik, V., Turkenkopf, I.J., and Greenwood, M.R.C., A high Sucrose Diet Impairs Glucose Tolerance in a Sexually Dimorphic Manner in the Wistar Kyoto Fatty (WKY fafa) Rat. 5th International Congress on Obesity, Sept. 14-19, 1986.
9) Holliday, M., East-Palmer, J. and Turkenkopf, I.J., Isolation of RNA from Tissue of Obese and lean Zucker Rats. Undergraduate Research Summer Institute Minosymposium, Vassar College, Oct. 1, 1986.
10) Brown, T.E., Lizotte, J., West, D., Kava, R., Turkenkopf, I.J., Stein, L., Brownell, K., and Greenwood, M.R.C., Repeated Dieting in Male Rats Fails to Suppress High Fat Induced Obesity. Fed. Proc., 1987.
11) Turkenkopf, I.J., Sztalryd, C., East-Palmer, J., and Greenwood, M.R.C., Hypeplastic Potential of Epididymal Fat Pad Studied in Primary Culture. Int. J. Obesity, 11(4):459A, 1987.
12) Turkenkopf, I.J., East-Palmer, J., Tacinelli, M., Holliday, M., Johnson, P.R., and Greenwood, M.R.C., Growth and Differentiation of Stromal-Vascular Cells from Obese and Lean Zucker Rats in Primary Culture Using Serum-free Medium. Int. J. Obesity, 13(3):409, 1989.
13) Feldweg, A., Johnson, P., Turkenkopf, I., and Greenwood, M., Effect of Adrenalectomy on the Zucker Rat. Undergraduate Research Summer Institute Minisymposium, Vassar College, Sept. 14, 1988.
14) Francis, A., East-Palmer, J., Greenwood, M.R.C., and Turkenkopf, I.J., Growth and Differentiation of Adipose Precursors from Three Different Fat Depots of Sprague-Dawley Rats in Serum and Serum-free Media. Undergraduate Research Summer Institute Minisymposium, Vassar College, Sept. 14, 1988.
15) Kava, R., Horowitz, C., Feldweg, A., Turkenkopf, I., Johnson, P., and M.R.C. Greenwood. Short-term Effects of Adrenalectomy and Adiposity, Glycemia and Glucose Tolerance in Obese and Lean Zucker Rats. FASEB J. 3(3):A356, 1989.
16) Turkenkopf, I., Feldweg, A., Kava, R., East-Palmer, J., Johnson, P., and M.R.C. Greenwood. Adrenectomy Decreases Adiposity and Alters Cellularity in a Depot and Strain Dependent Manner in Obese Wistar Fatty and Zucker Rats. NAASO Abstract, 1989.
17) Kava, R., Horowitz, C., Wojnar, Z., Turkenkopf, I., Johnsoh, P.R and M.R.C. Greenwood, Adrenalectomy Alters Glucose Homeostasis in a Strain-dependent Manner in Zucker and Wistar Fatty Rats. NAASO Abstract, 1989.
18) Ree, H.K., Turkenkopf, I., Tacinelli, M., Kava, R., Johnson, P.R. and M.R.C. Greenwood, Adrenalectomy Increases Level of Adiposin mRNA in Adipose Tissue of Obese Zucker Rats. NAASO Abstract, 1989.

19) Olszewski, L., Brown, J., Turkenkopf, I., and M.R.C. Greenwood. Lipolytic Rates of Lactating Versus Non-lactating Rats and the Effects of Adenosine Deaminase on Lipolysis. Undergraduate Research Summer Institute Mini-symposium, Oct. 4, 1989.

20) Fried, S.K., Turkenkopf, I., Goldberg, I.J., Doolittle, M.,BenZeer, O., Schotz, M.C., and M.R.C. Greenwood. Lipoprotein Lipase Synthesis and Degradation in Adipocytes from Lean and Obese Zucker Rats. FASEB J. 4(4):A917, 1990.

21) Turkenkopf, I., Kava, R., Ree, H., Johnson, P.R. and M.R.C. Greenwood. Levels of hepatic PEP-CK mRNA reflect strain differences between Wistar Diabetic Fatty and Zucker rats. Int. J.Obesity 14(Supp. 2): 41, 1990.

22) Susskind, K., Turkenkopf, I. and R. Kava. The effects of adrenalectomy on hepatic enzymes in Zucker and Wistar Diabetic Fatty rats. Undergraduate Research Summer Institute Mini-Symposium, Vassar College, Oct. 3, 1990.

 

REVIEWS

 
1) For BioScience - A book review of "Nutrition and Nutritional Disease: The Evolution of Concepts" by Karl Y. Guggenheim, 1982.
2) Peer Reviewer for the International Journal of Obesity, 1986.

3) Peer Reviewer for Hormones and Metabolic Research, Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 1989.

4) Peer Reviewer for Journal of Nutrition, 1990.
5) Peer Reviewer for Obesity Research, 1993.
 

COLLEGE SERVICE

 
Chairperson of Science Facilities Committee, 2000-
Chairperson of Task Force on Traditional Undergraduate Programs, Long Range Plan 2000-2005
Prepared and submitted NSF, CCLI/DUE/A&I proposal, 1999
Chairperson of Committee on Committees, 1999-present; Member 1998-present
Member of Honors Advisory Board, 1997-present
Member of Library Committee, 1997-8
Chairperson of Physical Therapy Advisory Committee, 1995-present

Chairperson of Analytical Studies Team, 1995-6; Member 1993-7

Member of Middle States Steering Committee, 1995-7; 1985-6
Member of Long Range Planning team, 1993-7; Subcommitte to revise LRP for 1995-2000.
Chairperson of Division of Natural Sciences 1991-94
Chairperson of Promotion and Tenure Committee 1991-92; Member 1990-3

Prepared and submitted NSF, Reserach Careers for Minority Scholars Grant, 1990

Co-Coordinator of Women and Minorities in Science Day, 1989-

Coordinator of Biology and Medical Technology 1989-91

Chairperson of Admissions Committee 1988-90; Member 1987-90
Organized Spring 1986 meeting of Mid Hudson Area Biologists at MSMC.

Chairperson of Faculty Senate - 1984-85; Member 1982-6

Chairperson of Task Force for the Improvement of Basic Skills, 1983-84

Search Committee for Public Relations Director - 1983
Science Division Ad Hoc Committee on Remediation - 1983
Member of Science Division Sub-committee on Computer Literacy at MSMC

Participant in Admissions Office sponsored College Nights - 1982

Member of Academic Standards Committee - 1981-82

Advisor to Tri-Beta Honor Society - 1976-77, 1982-83, 1983-84

Chairperson of Curriculum Committee - 1977-78; Member 1975-8
Organized and Chaired Interdivisional Planning Committee for Cancer Seminar at Mount Saint Mary College - 1978
Presentation to Board of Trustees' Academic Programs Committee on Future Programs at the College - 1976
Prepared and submitted N.S.F. equipment grant - 1976
Established chapter of Tri-Beta at College - 1974-75
Chaired divisional sub-committee to investigate possibility of interdisciplinary Biochemistry major - Spring, 1976
 

RESEARCH FUNDING

 

Obesity CORE Center Feasibility Grant, Principle Investigator: The Use of Sodium Butryte and Serum-free Medium to Study the Recruitment and Differentiation of Adipocyte Precursors from Obese and Lean Zucker Rats in Primary Culture - Funded, 1987-88.

NICHD Grant, Investigator: Nutrition and Adipocyte Growth and Development (Renewal) - Funded, 1987-90.

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