Associate Professor and Associate Chair
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Bradley University
United States of America
"Dr. Fry earned a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Shippensburg University were she conducted organic synthesis research under the guidance of James A. Beres and received the Southeastern Pennsylvania section of the American Chemical Society Outstanding Senior Chemistry Student Award in 1987. She then pursued graduate studies in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. There she joined the laboratory of Dr. Richard Franson to study the role of phospholipase A2, a membrane-modifying enzyme, in the membrane fusion events of fertilization. As a graduate student, she was recognized with the John C. Forbes Research Paper Award for best research proposal and licensed a monoclonal anti-human sperm phospholipase A2 antibody with her faculty advisor. Upon earning her Ph.D., Dr. Fry joined the laboratory of Dr. Vytas Bankaitis in the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham as a National Institutes of Health post-doctoral fellow. During her post-doctoral training, she examined structure-function relationships for SEC14p, a yeast phospholipid transfer protein involved in the late stages of the secretory pathway. Since 1995, Dr. Fry has been a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and enjoyed a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor appointment in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Florida from 2003 to 2004 as a sabbatical leave. During this time, she worked with Dr. William A. Dunn, Jr. on the structure-function relationship of Vac8p, a vacuolar protein involved in the membrane altering steps of regulated autophagy in yeast. In research, she has mentored over 50 undergraduate students, 5 graduate students, and 6 high school students. Dr. Fry has been recognized with a BU Parent's Association Award of Excellence-Certificate of Merit and named in the 6th edition of Who’s Who In American Education. She has served as the Interim Associate Chairperson of the department between 2008 and 2010 when the chair was asked to serve as the interim Dean of the Graduate School and as the Associate Chairperson since 2013."
Fundamentals of General Chemistry, Fundamentals of Organic and Biochemistry and associated laboratory, General Chemistry I and associated laboratory, Engineering Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biochemistry Laboratory (undergraduate), Intermediary Metabolism (undergraduate and graduate), Lipid Metabolism biochemistry special topics course (undergraduate and graduate), Biochemical Control Processes biochemistry special topics course (undergraduate and graduate), Women in Science honors seminar course (undergraduate)