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Kenneth Johnston, PhD

School of Medicine
Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology
KHJOHNS@lsuhsc.edu

   

Keywords Associated with Work oysters innate immunity cavortin pelonase
post streptococcal glomerulonephritis nephrostreptokinase
Streptodornase and Streptokinase
Vibrio vulnificus
Primary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests microbial pathogenesis
Secondary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests Teaching Dental and Dental Hygene Microbiology/ Microbial pathogenesis to Medical Students and Graduate Students
Unique Equipment Used HPLC
Maldi-TOF
Unique Techniques Used or Developed chromatofocusing
magnetic bead based bioassays
Solid phase elisa and proteolytic assays Developed the antibody based NBT-alkaline phosphatase assay for Western blots. Developed solid phase based plasmin assays that can be applied to other protease assays. Developed methods to immobilize enzymes to study enzyme-substrate interactions and their products.
Last Updated: 01/24/2017