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Dr. Benjamin Caldwell

Associate Professor and

Chairperson of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry Room SM 302 Missouri Western State University
4525 Downs Drive
Saint Joseph, Missouri 64507
Phone: (816) 271-4392
E-mail: caldwell@missouriwestern.edu

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ASBMB Regional Director for South-Central Region Undergraduate Affiliate Network's

Dr. Benjamin Caldwell

  • Education
    • B.S., Chemistry, Randolph-Macon College - Ashland, VA 
    • Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Virginia - Charlottesville, VA
    • Post-Doctoral Fellow - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Neuroscience Department, Baltimore, MD
  • Teaching Specialties
    • Biochemistry
    • Organic
  • Courses Taught
    • Chemistry 101 - Introduction to Chemistry
    • Chemistry 104 - Fundamentals of Chemistry
    • Chemistry 111 - General Chemistry I
    • Chemistry 310 - Organic Chemistry I
    • Chemistry 311 - Organic Chemistry I Lab
    • Chemistry 340 - Physical Chemistry for the Biological Sciences
    • Chemistry 370 - Biochemistry I
    • Chemistry 470 - Biochemistry II
    • Chemistry 495 - Seminar in Chemistry
    • Honors 395 - Finding the Science in Science Fiction
    • Western Challenge
  • Research Interests
    • Protein function in living systems
    • Structure function relationships in protein trafficking
    • Small GTP binding protein-ligand interactions/exchange
    • Nucleotide-analog binding
    • Inhibition of ATP/GTPases