Jay Brewster is the Associate Provost and a Professor of Biology at Pepperdine University. He is a teacher, research scientist, and advocate for undergraduate research programs. He has taught in the Natural Science Division at Pepperdine University since 1997. He earned his B.S. degree at Lubbock Christian University and the Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from Rice University. He was awarded the Howard A. White Award for Teaching Excellence in 2006, and was named the Frank R. Seaver Professor of Natural Science in 2010. His research efforts focus upon signal transduction pathways that regulate cell survival and apoptosis. He has mentored over 100 undergraduate research students in his laboratory resulting in undergraduate-authored publications and conference presentations. His research group is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Parsons Foundation, and by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Brewster currently serves as director of the NSF-funded summer undergraduate research in biology (SURB) program at Pepperdine.

Programmed cell death (apoptosis) Strategies for teaching science Stress signaling in cells Stress-induced apoptosis in neurons