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Mary Jo Koroly

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Dr. Mary Jo Koroly works in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology IN the University of Florida Medical School and is a research associate professor as well as the director for the Center for Pre-Collegiate Education and Training at the University of Florida[1] .

Background & Education[edit]

Dr. Koroly was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she received her high school education and undergraduate degree at a small liberal arts college in Philadelphia. Dr. Koroly went into college majoring in Latin, but after tutoring students in Latin and biology she had a much greater interest in teaching the sciences and loved the biology related courses and so she changed her major to biology. During her senior year she received the opportunity to work at the University of Pennsylvania for research and was able to teach a junior level lab which solidified her love for science. Dr. Koroly graduated from her undergraduate school and attended Bryn Mawr College as a graduate student. Dr. Koroly received her Ph.D from Bryn Mawr College in 1969 [2]. After graduate school she furthered her education to receive a post-doctorate education.

Positions & Roles[edit]

After her post-doctorate education, Dr. Koroly taught a year at Bryn Mawr College while researching and helping others to do research; while teaching at Bryn Mawr she also taught some classes at her undergraduate college. Dr. Koroly also taught at Haverford college. After teaching at Bryn Mawr, Dr. Koroly worked and taught at Harvard- she worked under the department of surgery and taught in the anatomy department. Dr. Koroly then moved to Florida to work in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University fo Florida medical school.

In the late 1980's and early 1990's, Dr. Koroly had an opportunity with the Interdisciplinary Center for Biomedical Research (ICBR), a center which was revolved around having a series of core labs that had heavy duty equipment that all faculty could use rather than individual professor attempting to buy them through grants. The individual hired to start the course asked Dr. Koroly to make a training facility/workshop with him so more graduate student could be aware on how to use the equipment for lab research; the initial outcome however was all faculty members attending the workshop to learn. Dr. Koroly assisted in gathering equipment from the health science center and setting up the workshop in the group floor of the health science building at the University of Florida. Dr. Koroly also lead labs in the University of Florida medical school on how to isolate, identify, and purify genes and how to use bioinformatics to analyze them; she did this for about 6 years while doing the research faculty and graduate student program.

Dr. Koroly is also involved in the Student Science Teaching Program- a 7-week research program for 90 rising high school seniors that is a centered around research experience, and each of the 90 students work with research faculty members doing research projects.

Dr. Koroly also assisted in creating a platform in which research related to education research could be posted.[3] After Dr. Koroly stopped working with the ICBR, she began to do more research related to research education funded under the National Institute of Health/National Science Foundation (NIH/NSF). [2]

Research Interests[edit]

  • NIH/NSF funded research
    • related to research education and outreach
  • Membrane Biology[1]
  • Cholesterol metabolism   
  • Nerve growth factors   
  • Analyses of Tetrahymena[2]

Awards[edit]

  • Dr. Koroly has received awards for her molecular biology related contributions to the scientific research community.[4]

Publications[edit]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Mary Jo Koroly, Ph.D." UFHealth.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Koroly, M. (2018, October 10). Personal Interview.
  3. "Journal of STEM Outreach". https://www.jstemoutreach.org/editorial-board. External link in |website= (help)
  4. "Mary Jo Koroly". OMICS International.

Additional reference articles:

  1. https://education.ufl.edu/news/2015/11/23/cross-campus-center-teaches-new-methods-to-high-school-bioscience-teachers/

Link to Department Biography: https://biochem.med.ufl.edu/research/primary-faculty/mary-jo-koroly/


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