PARTICIPATING DEPARTMENTS

BRIDGES TO THE BACCALAUREATE DEGREE
PROGRAM (BBDP)

HINDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE

PARTICIPATING BRANCHES

Jackson Campus - Academic Technical Center
3925 Sunset Drive
Jackson, MS 39213-5889

Raymond Campus
Raymond, MS 39154-9799

Jackson Campus - Nursing Allied Health Center
1750 Chadwick Drive
Jackson, MS 39204-3490

Utica Campus
Utica, MS 39175-9599

Rankin Campus
Highway 80 East
Pearl, MS 39208-4925

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

EDUCATION:
Ph.D. 1973, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, Endocrinology/Developmental Biology
M.S. 1965, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX, Experimental Biology
B.S. 1963, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, Biology

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1965 - Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Biological Science, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas
1965-1966 - Instructor, Department of Biological Science, Grambling State University
1967-1969 - Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Grambling State University
1969-1973 - Instructor, Department of Natural Science, Michigan State University
1973-1974 - Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
1974-1978 - Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi
1978-1984 - Professor and Director, Biomedical Sciences Program, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi
1985 - Acting Dean, School of Science and Technology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi
1986 - Present Professor and Director, Minority Institutional Training Program, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND SERVICE
Participant, Gordon Research conference, New London, New Hampshire, 1973.
Ad Hoc Consultant, National Institutes of Health, 1976 and 1977, 1983, 1984.
Who's Who Among Black Americans, 1975.
Participant, Josiah Macy Foundation Institute, Pre-Medical Education, Biology I
Cellular and Developmental Biology, Atlanta University, Summer, 1977.
Mott Foundation Fellow, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, 1970.
Consultant, American Heart Association, Mississippi Affiliate, 1980.
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Post-Doctoral Traineeship in Hypertension
Research (Summer), University of Mississippi Medical Center, 1984
Consultant, National Science Foundation, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984.
Member, Research Advisory and Policy Committee, American Heart Association, Mississippi
Affiliate, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984.
Member, U.S. Cell Bio. Deleg. to Europe (England, Sweden, Chez., Germany) 1984.
Member, Nuclear Hazardous and Chem. Waste Subcom., Emer. Mgnt., City of Jackson, 1985.

FUNDED BIOMEDICAL TRAINING SUPPORT

Health Careers Program (HCOP) R. H. Green Foundation 1983-84, $15,000
Principal Investigator, Research Training Program, MARC-NIH 1977-1980, $10,000
Director, Biomedical Science Program, U.S. Dept. of Education, 1980-84, $750,000
Director, Minority Institutional Research Training Program, NHLBI, 1986-2002, $2,047,165
Director, Bridges to the Baccalaureate Degree Program, BBDP, 1993-98, $816,000

HONORS
Academic Tuition Scholarship, MSU; Member, Sigma Xi; Member, Endocrine Society
Member Tri-Beta Biological Society; Member, Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi (Pres., JSU)
Society of Sigma Xi Award for "Meritorious Research," MSU Chapter
Listed in "Who's Who Among Black Americans," First Edition, 1975
Listed in "Hall of Fame," Fairfield Industrial High School, 1973
Listed in "Dictionary of International Biography," 1976-1977 Edition

PUBLICATIONS

Cameron, J.A. 1984. Effects of Hormones of the Activities of Regulatory Enzymes and Lipid Biosynthesis in Mammary Cultures from Midpregnant mice. Proceedings of People to People International "Cell Biology/Tissue Culture Delegation" to Europe (England, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Germany), Citizen Ambassor Program.
Ahammad-Sahib, K.I., K.S. Moorthy, J.A. Cameron and D. Desaiah. 1988. Isoproterenol Potentiation of Methyl Mercury Effects on Cardiac ATPases and H-Dopamine Uptake. Bull. Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 40:249-254.

Cameron, J.A., A. Harris, O. Presley, F. Wolfe, B. Clower and B. Douglas. 1989. Changes in Serum Cholesterol in Pregnant Rats Fed Fish Oil and Cholesterol Diets. J.Miss. Acad. Sci. XXXIV:72.

Kodavanti, P.R.S., J.A. Cameron, P.R. Yallapragada and D. Desaiah. 1990. Effect of chlordecone (Kepone- R) on calcium transport mechanisms in rat heart sacroplasmic reticulum. Pharmacology and Toxicology 66: 1-8.

Kodavanti, P.R.S., J.A. Cameron, P.R. Yallapragada, P.J.S. Vig and D. Desaiah. 1991. Inhibition of Ca2+-transport associated with cAMP-dependent protein phosphorylation in rat cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum by triorganothins. Arch. Toxicol. 65: 311-317.

Cameron, J.A., P.R.S. Kodavanti, S.N. Pentyala and D. Desaiah. 1991. Triorganotin inhibition of rat cardiac adenosine triphosphatases and catecholamine binding. J. Applied Toxicol. 11(6): 403-409.

Kodavanti, P., S.N. Pentyala, P.R. Yallapragada, J.A. Cameron and D. Desaiah. 1992. Inhibition of rat cardiac calcium pump activity by cationic amphiphilic drugs. Drug Develop Res. 26: 49-59.

Cameron, J.A., C. McCaskill, P.R.S. Kodavanti, F. Wolfe, B. Douglas, M.E. Cameron and D. Desaiah. 1994. Effects of High-Cholesterol and n-3 Polyunsaturated Fish Oil Diets on Tissue and Serum Lipid Composition in Male Rats. International J. of Vit. and Nutr. Research 65:215-220.

Glover-Moore, Alicia, J.F. Reckelhoff, B.S. Hennington, E. J. Blanchard and J.A. Cameron. Gender Differences in Renal NO System: Dissociation Between Expression of Endothelial NO Synthase and Renal Hemodynamic Response to NO synthase Inhibition. Am. J. Hypertension. (In Press).

For more Information write:
Dr. Joseph A. Cameron
Professor
Department of Biology
P.O. Box 18540
Jackson, Mississippi 39217
Phone: (601) 973-3470