Ronald Cerny, PhD

Select Publications

1. A Dendritic Macrocyclic Organic Polyradical with a Very High Spin of S = 10, A. Rajca, J. Wongsriratanakul, S. Rajca, and R.L. Cerny, Agnew. Chem. Int. Ed., 37, 1229-1232 (1998).
2. Antineoplastic Agents 369. Isolation and Structure of Dolastatin 17, G.R. Pettit, J.-p. Xu, F. Hogan, and R.L. Cerny, . Heterocycles, 47, 491-496 (1998).
3. Structural Analysis of Peptide Substrates for Mucin-Type O-Glycosylation, L. Kirnarsky, M. Nomoto, Y. Ikematsu, H. Hassan, E.P. Bennet, R.L. Cerny, H. Clausen, .A.Hollingsworth, and S. Sherman, Biochemistry, 37, 12811-12817 (1998).
4. Chrysoclamic Acid, a New Diterpenoid Quinol from Chrysoclamys ulei that Inhibits DNA Polymerase b J.-Z. Deng, D-A. Sun, S.R. Starck S.M. Hecht, R.L. Cerny and J.R. Engen, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1147-1149 (1999).
5. Capillary Electrophoresis/MS/MS with Array Detection, L.J. Deterding, J.M.Y. Wellemans, R.L. Cerny, M.L. Gross, M. Khaledi and K.B. Tomer, J. European Mass Spectrometry, Eur. Mass Spectrom., 5, 33-40 (1999).
6. Soybean Nodule Sucrose Synthase (nodulin-100): Further Analysis of Its Phosphorylation Using Recombinant and Authentic Root-Nodule Enzymes, X.-Q. Zhang, A.A. Lund, G. Sarath, R.L. Cerny, D.M. Roberts, and R. Chollet, Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 371, 70-82 (1999).
7. A Virus-Encoded Glycosyltransferase Involved in Glycosylating the Major Coat Protein, M.V. Graves, C. Bernadt, R.L. Cerny, J.L Van Etten, Virology, 285, 332-345 (2001).
8. In Vivo Modifications of the Maize Mitochondrial Small Heat Stress Protein, HSP22, A.A. Lund, D.M. Rhoads, A.L. Lund, R.L. Cerny, T.E Elthon, J. Biolog. Chem., in press.
9. Structural Specificity of Acceptor Substrates of UDP-N-Acetyl-A-D-Galactosamine: Polypeptide N-Acetyl Galactosaminyltransferase, GalNAc-T1, -T2, and -T3" P.S. Rao, M. Nomoto, S. Vogen, S. Sanderson, F. Perini, L. Kirnarsky, S. Sherman, R.L. Cerny, H. Clausen, M.A . Hollingsworth, submitted.

Education

University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
BS, Chemistry, 1973-77

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
PhD, Chemistry, 1978-83

University of Nebraska - Lincoln (M.L. Gross)
Post-doctoral, Chemistry, 1983-84

Professional Positions:

1977-78
Analytical Research Chemist
Dorsey Laboratories, Lincoln, NE.

1984 -
Associate Director
Nebraska Center for Mass Spectrometry

1987-99
Assistant Research Professor
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

1999 -
Associate Research Professor
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

Honors and Awards

Outstanding Senior Chemistry Student Award, American Chemical Society, 1977

Senior Chemistry Student Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1977

The American Chemical Society; Chairman, Nebraska Section, 1986

The American Society of Mass Spectrometry

The Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities