Faculty

Jennifer K. Stewart
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Emory University (1975)
jkstewar@vcu.edu
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~jstewart

Office room: 315
Office phone: (804) 828-0650

Lab room: 317
Lab phone: (804) 828-0696

Affiliate appointments:
Departments of physiology and physics (focus on biophysics), School of Medicine

Research interests:
Catecholamines in Macrophages

Funding for this research has been provided by:
National Science Foundation award MCB - 0131419 “Catecholamines in Macrophages.” $360,000, 05/01/02 – 04/30/05

Recent Publications:

Brown, S. W., R. T. Myers, K. M. Brennan, J. M. Rumble, N. Narasimhachari, E.F. Perozzi, J.J. Ryan, J. K. Stewart and K. Fischer-Stenger. Catecholamines in a Macrophage Cell Line. J. Neuroimmunol. 135: 47-55, 2003.

Warthan, M.D., Freeman, J.G., K.E. Loesser, C.W. Lewis, M. Hong, C.M. Conway, and J.K. Stewart. Phenylethanolamine N-methyl transferase expression in mouse thymus and spleen. (Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, Brain, Behavior & Immunity, 16: 493-499, 2002.

Freeman, J.G., J.J. Ryan, C.P. Shelburne, D.P.Bailey, L.A. Bouton,N. Narasimhachari, J.Domen, N. Siméon, F. Couderc, and J.K. Stewart. Catecholamines in murine bone marrow derived mast cells. (J. Neuroimmunol., 119: 231-238, 2001.

Siméon, N., R. Myers, C. Bayle, M. Nertz, J. K. Stewart, and F. Couderc. Some applications of near-ultraviolet laser-induced fluorescence detection in nanomolar- and subnanomolar-range high-performance liquid chromatography or micro-high-performance chromatography. J. Chromatography 913: 253-9. 2001.

Andreassi, J.L.,II, W. B. Eggleston, and and J. K. Stewart. Phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase mRNA in rat spleen and thymus. Neurosci. Let. 241: 75-78, 1998.

Graduate student projects include:
Please see link to personal Web site above and then click on “current findings.”

Courses currently teaching:
BIOL 311 Animal Physiology
BIOL 524 Endocrinology

Dr. Jennifer Stewart is a physiologist specializing in neuroendocrinology. Currently her research is focused on the synthesis, release and function of catecholamines in cells of the immune system. For further information on her research, see the link to http://www.people.vcu.edu/~jstewart.