Magdalena James-Pederson

Chair, Biology Department
Coordinator Science Bridge Program

Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University
B.A. in Biochemistry, Princeton University

E-mail: mpederson@stonehill.edu
Phone: (508) 565-1573
Office: Shields Science Center, 311

Dr. Pederson received her B.A. in Biochemistry in 1983 from Princeton University, NJ. As an undergraduate she worked in the laboratory of Dr. John C. Wooley and studied chromosomal proteins in Drosophila melanogaster.

In graduate school she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Ross C. Hardison in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at The Pennsylvania State University. Her doctoral research focused on the transcriptional regulation of the rabbit alpha- and beta-globin genes. She taught at East Carolina University and Providence College before attaining her current appointment at Stonehill College.

Courses Taught:

BCH 343 Biochemistry I
BCH 344 Biochemistry II
BCH 345 Biochemistry Laboratory
BIO 212 Genetics
BIO 304 Molecular Biology
CHM 113 General Chemistry I
CHM 232 General Chemistry II
CHM 221 Organic Chemistry I Laboratory