Lecturer

General Biology I, General Biology Lab Coordinator, Advisor.

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D., Biology, The Pennsylvania State University (2005)
• M.S., Marine Science, San Francisco State University (2000)
• B.S., Marine Science, College of Charleston (1995)

Courses Taught

• BIOL 2120 - General Biology I
• BIOL 4000 - Biology of the Deep Sea
• LBST 2213 - Science, Technology and Society (University Honor's)
• Coordinator for General Biology Labs

Selected Publications

1. Carney SL, Flores JF, Orobona KM, Butterfield DA, Fisher CR, Schaeffer SW. (2007). Environmental differences in hemoglobin gene expression in the hydrothermal vent tubeworm, Ridgeia piscesae. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 146(3):326-337.
2. Flores JF and Hourdez SM. (2006). The zinc-mediated sulfide-binding mechanism of hydrothermal vent tubeworm 400-kDa hemoglobin. Les Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 47(4):371-377.
3. Andersen AC, Flores JF, and Hourdez SM . (2006). Comparative branchial plume biometry between two extreme ecotypes of the tubeworm Ridgeia piscesae. The Canadian Journal of Zoology. 84(12):1810-1822.
4. Lannig G, Flores J and Sokolova I. (2006). Pollution reduces temperature tolerance in oysters. Aquatic Toxicology. 79(3):278-287.
5. Flores JF, Fisher CR, Carney SL, Green BN, Freytag JK, Schaeffer SW and Royer WE . (2005). Sulfide binding is mediated by zinc ions discovered the crystal structure of a hydrothermal vent tubeworm hemoglobin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(8):2713-2718 .
6. Royer WE, Zhu H. and Gorr, T. Flores JF and Knapp JE. (2005). Minireview: Allosteric hemoglobin assembly: Diversity and similarity. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(30):27477-27480.