Profile

• Organization

  SIU

  
  
• Website

  https://riethlab.weebly.com/

  
  
• Telephone

  TBA

  
  
• ORCID

  0000-0002-9616-4864

  
  
• Interests

  1. active learning
  2. assessment practices
  3. Biochemistry
  4. biophysics
  5. core competencies
  6. curriculum design
  7. Curriculum development
  8. finding some activities to apply to my courses
  9. incorporating more quantitative exercises in my courses
  10. integration of teaching and research
  11. learning objectives
  12. project based learning
  13. staying current with educational techniques
  14. teaching strategies

  
  
• Address

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• Biography

  Monica Rieth began her independent lab as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. Before starting her tenure-track position she held a postdoctoral appointment at the University of California, Santa Barbara for several years in the Department of Chemical Engineering investigating the oligomeric behavior of the human adenosine A2a receptor, a G-protein coupled receptor intimately involved in human health and disease. Dr. Rieth obtained her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Lehigh University under the supervision of Professor Jebrell Glover, a pioneering leader in the field of caveolin research.
  Her research is aimed at investigating questions that address our understanding of membrane protein structure and function using a combination of biophysical and cell biology-based methods to analyze their behavior. Her lab incorporates engineering approaches to interrogate the biochemical aspects of their structure and function both in vivo and in vitro, and also uses it as a way to optimize heterologous expression in model organisms such as E. coli and S. cerevisiae. Since starting her lab in 2017, her group has published several peer-reviewed papers and preprints on projects related to membrane protein expression in yeast and reconstitution in lipid mimetic systems. She continues to find ways to harness the new knowledge generated from this work to develop robust technologies across multiple industries in both academia and industry including healthcare, the environment and agriculture.
  In addition to research Prof. Rieth has also spent considerable time devoted to applying and developing active learning methods in both the lab and the classroom. She has also published papers on course and curriculum development in biophysics along with adapting research experiments to teaching undergraduates in a research lab (paper under review).
  Her lab is currently in the process of moving.

  
  
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