Curriculum Vitae

• University of California, Riverside, Ph.D. Biochemistry
• Chapman University, B.S. Biology and Chemistry

Research Interests   

• utilize molecular biology techniques to gain knowledge on how the polyphenols in pomegranate juice extract inhibit pancreatic cancer cell growth by promoting apoptosis and up-regulating proteins involved in cell adhesion.  Another long-term project in our laboratory has been to gain knowledge on how cancer-derived TGF-?s acts to promote pancreatic cancer cell growth.

• Rowland-Goldsmith, M.A., (2009) Laboratory exercises:  A new way to introduce microarray technology in a lecture/laboratory setting by studying the evolution of this modern technology.  Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education.
• Moss M., Rowland-Goldsmith M.A., Sawant, L., Fahy, M. (submitted to Computational Science Education Reference Desk).  Mutant X - a bioinformatics exercise for undergraduate biology students.  Computational Biology simulated teaching module developed at Computational Biology for Biology Educators Workshop at Houston Community College (July 2008).
• Rowland-Goldsmith, M.A., Maruyama, H., Matsuda, K., Idezawa, T., Ralli, M., Ralli, S., & Korc M. (2002).  Soluble type II transforming growth factor-b receptor attenuates expression of metastasis-associated genes and suppresses pancreatic cancer cell metastasis.  Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 1, 161-167.
• Rowland-Goldsmith, M.A., Maruyama, H., Kusama, T., Ralli, S., & Korc, M. (2001) Soluble type II transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-b) receptor inhibits TGF-b signaling in COLO-357 pancreatic cancer cells in vitro and attenuates tumor formation. Clinical Cancer Research, 7, 2931-40.

          Note: Underlined authors are Chapman University students.