{"id":31,"date":"2013-04-16T01:19:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T01:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2025-07-14T18:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:13:32","slug":"background-and-publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/background-and-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"89\"<\/a>I teach courses in biochemistry, metabolism, and physiology.\u00a0 I’ve had the good fortune to mentor nearly seventy-five undergraduate students in my research programs.\u00a0 I serve as the co-investigator of several National Science Foundation research program for research and curricular innovation and I directed the first Global Scholars study abroad program at the college.<\/p>\n

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My lab studies secondary metabolism in plants and animals.\u00a0 Lately, our work has focused on the ability of plant HDACis to alter animal behavior and sabotage herbivore development.\u00a0 We are particularly interested in how epigenetics can restore endosomal cycling systems, which has implications for human health\u00a0 (especially the development of neurodenerative diseases in humans).<\/p>\n

In the past my work has focused on how sugars are transported in plants and converted the natural products that serve as antibiotics, herbivore deterrents, chemical cues, nutritional supplements, and other potential drugs.<\/p>\n

My lab specializes in studies of plant phenolic substances, such as tannins, lignins, and smaller compounds as well as plant metabolites acting has histone deacetylase inhibitors.\u00a0 I’m interested in how these compounds are produced in response to stress and changing environments.<\/p>\n

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This work has been supported by awards from the National Science Foundation and\u00a0published in journals such as PLoS ONE,\u00a0New Phytologist, Frontiers in Plant Science, and the Marine Ecology Progress Series.<\/p>\n

I am also involved in efforts to screen marine natural products for the ability to inhibit the aggregation of amyloid proteins, such as those occurring in Alzheimer’s disease.<\/p>\n

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