- Biology Department
- Pre-Health Advisory Committee
- GIS Center
- Medical Laboratory Science
- Museum of the Earth Sciences
- Mathematics and Statistics
- REALISE
- Chemistry Department
- Radford University Planetarium
- Department of Physics
- Anthropological Sciences
- Geology
- Selu Observatory
- Center for Information Security
- Forensic Science Institute
- Biomedical Science
- Geospatial Science
- School of Computing and Information Sciences
- MS in Data And Information Management
Dr. Robin Lee Davies
Professor
Cell Biologist
Office: Radford University Carilion, CRCH 908
101 Elm Avenue SE, Roanoke, VA 24013-2222
Tel: (540) 224-4505
E-mail: rdavies@radford.edu
COURSES TAUGHT
RUC and RU Courses
- BIOL 100 – Introduction to the Biological Sciences
- BIOL 105 – Biology for the Health Sciences
- BIOL 160 – Introductory Seminar in Biology
- BIOL 305 – Introduction to the Biomedical Literature
- BIOL 312 – Research Methodology
- BIOL 491 – Directed Study & Research
ABOUT
My research with students involves drug discovery and may be broadly described as bioprospecting. My students have isolated and evaluated antibacterial, antifungal, and anticancer agents from Streptomyces species and from the American mistletoe. Students have tested commercial fruit and berry extracts against a variety of human cancer cell lines for cytotoxic activity in culture. We have also collaborated with synthetic chemists and their students producing platinum and palladium compounds and furanones for anticancer testing. A new line of research in collaboration with Dr. Chet Bhatta will examine honey and propolis from stingless bees for anticancer activities.
I am also interested in biomathematics education, and for many years offered a team-taught course in Biomathematics at Sweet Briar College. I have co-organized a number of workshops for the Professional Enhancement Program of the Mathematical Association of America. In addition to co-authoring a text and laboratory manual published in 2008, I have also contributed chapters to several more recent texts, writing laboratory exercises and educational modules utilizing a variety of mathematical and modeling techniques which can be applied to biological questions.