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Mary Luckey's Bio  
  
Education
  • 1966-1967 and 1969-1970
    Hope College, Holland, Michigan
    Department of Chemistry
    B.A., Magne cum Laude
  • 1968-1969
    American University of Beirut, Lebanon
  • 1970-1976
    University of California, Berkeley, California
    Department of Biochemistry
    Ph.D. with J. B. Neilands
  • 1978-1982
    University of California, Berkeley, California
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology
    Postdoctoral research with H. Nikaido
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Awards
  • Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1970)
  • Mortar Board (1970)
  • National Institutes of Health Traineeship (1970 - 1975)
  • AAAS Mass Media Internship (1975)
  • National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship (1978)
  • Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Research Fellowship (1978)
  • American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship (1978 - 1980)
  • Distinguished Teaching Award, Health and Medical Sciences, University of California, Berkeley (1982)
  • Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award (1986)
  • NIH New Investigator Research Award (1983 - 1986)
  • NIH Research Career Development Award (1987 - 1992) NIH Academic Research Enhancement Awards (1993-6 and 1996-9)
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Sabbaticals
  • Visiting Professor, Fall 1993
    Biocenter of the University of Basel
    Basel, Switzerland
  • CEA Scientist, Fall 1997
    Institut de Biologie Structurale
    Grenoble, France
  • Visiting Scientist, Spring 2001
    Free University
    Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Professional Societies
  • American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Association for Women in Science
  • Biophysical Society
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Courses Taught
  • Biochemistry I and II Lecture courses (majors level)
  • General Biochemistry (nonmajors)
  • Biochemistry Laboratory
  • Special Topics in Biochemistry: Membrane Biogenesis
  • Special Topics in Biochemistry: Molecular Chaperones
  • Membrane Biochemistry (graduate level)
  • The Nature of Cancer (a GE Chemistry course)
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Grants

  • National Institutes of Health, New Investigator Research Award, Transport Mechanism of LamB Protein in Escherichia coli, 12/1/83-5/30/87, $97,500.
  • National Science Foundation Research Instrumentation Award, Centrifuge Facility for Biochemistry Research, M. Luckey, P.I. with W. Z. Plachy and D. Eden, 1/1/85-12/31/85, $77,511.
  • National Science Foundation Chemical Instrumentation Program, High Performance Liquid Chromatography Instrumentation for Chemical and Biochemical Research, M. Luckey, co-P.I. with J. Orenberg, P.I., F. A. Walker and D. Eden, 9/1/85-8/31/86, $30,000.
  • National Institutes of Health, DRR-BRS Shared Instrumentation Grant, Request for GE-Nicolet GN-300 NMR Spectrometer, M. Luckey, Co-P.I. with F. A. Walker, P.I., et al., 12/1/85-11/30/86, $427,196.
  • National Science Foundation Biological Instrumentation Program, Purchase of a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer, M. Luckey, Co.-P.I., with F. A. Walker, P.I., et al., 12/1/85-11/30/86, $156,000.
  • National Institutes of Health Research Career Development Award, LamB Protein Transport Channel in E. coli Outer Membrane, 2/1/87-1/31/92, $217,031.
  • National Institutes of Health AREA Award, Heat Shock Proteins of the E. coli cell envelope, 6/1/93 - 5/30/96, $108,662.
  • National Institutes of Health AREA Award, Do Chaperones Aid LamB Assembly in E. coli Cell Envelope, 8/1/96-7/31/99, $112,034.
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Publications
  • Iron uptake in Salmonella typhimurium:  Utilization of exogenous siderochromes as iron carriers.  1972.  M. Luckey, J. Pollack, R. Wayne, B. N. Ames and J. B. Neilands, Journal of Bacteriology 111, 731-738.
  • In vitro competition between ferrichrome and phage for the outer membrane T5 receptor complex of Escherichia coli.  1975.  M. Luckey, R. Wayne and J. B. Neilands, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 64, 687-693.
  • Specificity of diffusion channels produced by the lambda receptor protein of Escherichia coli. 1980.  M. Luckey and H. Nikaido, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 77, 167-171.
  • Diffusion of solutes through channels produced by phage lambda receptor protein of Escherichia coli:  Inhibition by higher oligosaccharides of maltose series.  1980.  M. Luckey and H. Nikaido, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 93, 166-171.
  • Non-specific and specific diffusion channels in the outer membrane of Escherichia coli.  1980.  H. Nikaido, M. Luckey and E. Y. Rosenberg, J. of Supramol. Str. 13, 305-313.
  • Role of a disulfide bond in the thermal stability of the LamB protein trimer in Escherichia coli outer membrane.  1991.  M. Luckey, R. Ling, A. Dose and B. Malloy, J. Biol. Chem. 266, 1866-1871.
  • Structural and Functional Characterization of OmpF Porin Mutants Selected for Larger Pore Size, II. Functional Characterization.  1996.  N. Saint, K.L. Lou, C. Widmer, M. Luckey, T. Schirmer and J.P. Rosenbusch. J. Biological Chemistry, 271, 20676-20680.
  • Author of textbook: Membrane Structural Biology with Biochemical and Biophysical Foundations, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Poster Presentations
  • Effects of detergent and chemical modification on LamB protein. B. Malloy and M. Luckey, Protein Chemistry Symposium, Sept. 1985.
  • Role of the outer membrane vitamin B-12 receptor protein in bleomycin transport in Escherichia coli K-12. Andrea Dose and M. Luckey, Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Sept. 1986.
  • Evidence for a disulfide bond in LamB protein. B. Malloy and M. Luckey, Gordon Research Conference, July, 1988.
  • The role of cysteinyl residues in LamB protein. M. Luckey, A. Dose and R. Ling, Gordon Research Conference (invited presentation), July, 1990.
  • Physical evidence for a nonessential disulfide bond in LamB protein of Escherichia coli outer membrane. R. Ling, E. Yuen, A. Dose and M. Luckey, Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Feb., 1991.
  • The role of disulfide bonds in dissociation and reassembly of LamB protein trimer purified from Escherichia coli. R. Ling, A. Dose, E. Yuen and M. Luckey, Gordon Research Conference, Aug.,1991.
  • The disulfide bond in LamB protein from Escherichia coli. R. Ling, A. Dose, E. Yuen and M. Luckey, Gordon Research Conference, July, 1992.
  • Heat Shock Proteins of E. coli cell envelope. F. King, J. Li, L. Cui, D. Mohl and M. Luckey, Gordon Research Conference, July 1996.
  • Compact Monomer of LamB Protein Behaves like an Assembly Intermediate. M. Bhatia, J. Rosenbusch and M. Luckey, Gordon Research Conference, July 1996, and FASEB Conference on Protein Folding, July 1996.
  • Characterization of a compact monomer of LamB protein. V. Baldwin, M. Bhatia and M. Luckey, Annual Meeting of Association for Cell Biology, December, 1996.
  • Is the compact monomer of LamB protein an assembly intermediate? M. Bhatia, V. Baldwin and M. Luckey, European Research Conference, April, 1997.
  • Disulfide bond confers stability to a folding intermediate of LamB protein purified from E. coli outer membrane. V. Baldwin and M. Luckey, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, May, 1998.
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Experience
  • 1982-Present
    Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
    San Francisco State University
  • 1980-1982
    Visiting Lecturer
    Health and Medical Sciences Program
    University of California, Berkeley
  • 1981
    Lecturer for Microbiology Laboratory Course
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology
    University of California, Berkeley
  • 1976-1978
    Lecturer, and 1975-1976, Associate
    Collegiate Seminar Program
    University of California, Berkeley
  • 1975 (Summer)
    Science writing Intern
    AAAS Mass Media Internship
    San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA
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