Amornrat Naranuntarat Jensen

CONTACT ADDRESS                                                      

         Department of Pathobiology, Room PR114

         Faculty of Science,  Mahidol University

         272 Rama VI Road

         Bangkok 10400, Thailand

         E-mail : scanr@mahidol.ac.th

EDUCATION 

Ph.D.   2009       Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States of America  

                       Toxicology  

B.S.     2000      Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand  

                       Pharmaceutical Sciences (First Honor Degree) 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 

2009-Present      Faculty member

                        Mahidol University, Department of Pathobiology

                        Bangkok, Thailand 

2003-  2009        Graduate Student 

                        Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health Sciences,

                        Baltimore, Maryland

                                      Investigating the   mitochondrial carrier protein Mtm1p and its role

                        in metal trafficking and   activation of the manganese superoxide dismutase (Sod2p)
                      
                        in S. cerevisiae. 

2001-2003         Researcher

                        Pharmaceutical Organization of Thailand,

                        Research and Development Institute

                        Bangkok, Thailand  

PUBLICATIONS 

1.      Nilsson, R., Schultz, I. J., Pierce, E. L., Soltis, K. A., Naranuntarat, A., Paradkar, P. N.,

         Baughman, J. M., Kingsley, P. D., Culotta, V. C., Kaplan, J., Palis, J., Paw, B. H., and

         Mootha, V. K. (2009) Identifying genes essential for heme biosynthesis through large-scale

         gene expression screening.  Cell Metab. 10, 119-30 

2.      Naranuntarat, N., Jensen, L. T., Pazinci, S., Penner-Hahn, J.E., and Culotta, V. C. (2009)  Interaction of

 mitochondrial iron with superoxide dismutase molecules. J. Biol. Chem., in press  

3.      Reddi, A. R., Jensen, L. T., Naranuntarat, A., Rosenfeld, L., Leung, E., Shah, R., and

         Culotta, V. C. (2008)  The Overlapping Roles of Manganese and Cu/Zn SOD in Oxidative

         Stress Protection.  Free Rad. Biol. Med. 46, 154-162 

4.      Yang, M., Cobine, P. A., Molik, S., Naranuntarat, A., Lill, R., Winge, D. R., and Culotta,

         V. C. (2006)  The effects of mitochondrial iron homeostasis on cofactor specificity of

         superoxide dismutase 2.  EMBO J. 25, 1775-1783

PRESENTATIONS 

Invited Speaker 

Gordon Graduate Research Seminar on Bioinorganic Chemistry

Ventura California, USA (2008)

Title: Effect of differential metal bioavailability on activity of superoxide dismutase enzymes

Poster Presentations 

FASEB Summer Research Conference: Trace Element Metabolism (2008), Snowmass, CO, USA

Title: The role of the Fe-S cluster scaffold Isu in iron inactivation of Sod2p.

Gordon Research Conference: Cell Biology of Metals (2007), Newport, Rhode Island, USA

Title: Effect of differential metal bioavailability on activity of superoxide dismutase enzymes.