Dr. John Neiswinger came to Belhaven in the fall of 2016, after being a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for 2.5 years. He graduated in 2014 from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences.
Since graduation, John has used his knowledge of science to engage in apologetics for the Christian faith, not only with his students, but with other professional scientists. Throughout all of the courses that he teaches, he stresses the beauty and design of biological life and how modern science points to our Creator. He believes that doing science in this way is an act of worship that glorifies God for all He has made.
John has been married to his wife Lauren since 2007 and they have 4 children (all of which he had in graduate school - a decision he does not regret, but does not recommend!). In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, woodworking, and playing piano/keyboard in his bands Orphan Project and Visual Cliff.
Areas of Expertise
Cell and Molecular Biology
Biochemistry
Genetics
Pharmacology
Metabolic Pathways
Apologetics
Teaching Focus
General Biology
Genetics
Cell and Molecular Biology
Biochemistry
Medicinal Chemistry
Food Science
Science and Culture
Scholarly Contributions
Postiglione A, Hampton L, Ekhator E, Patwardhan S, Chaudhari M, Perry D, Pardue A, Kumari A, Tornow O, Kaoud T, Neiswinger J, Jeong JS, Parsonage
D, Nelson K, Kc D, Furdui C, Zhu H, Wommack A, Dalby K, Dong M, Poole L, Keyes J, Newman R. Impact of Redox Modification on the Global Substrate Selection of Extracellular Signal Regulated Kinase 2; Submitted for publication (2021)
Neiswinger J, Han G, Hardiville S, Zhang J, Zhu H, Hart G. Protein Microarrays Reveal Significant GlcNAcylation of the Human Kinome; in preparation (2020)
Neiswinger J, Uzoma I, Cox E, Rho H, Song G, Paul C, Jeong JS, Lu KY, Chen CS, Zhu H. Protein Microarrays: Flexible Tools for Scientific Innovation; Cold Spring Harbor Protoc; doi: 10.1101/pdb.081471; 2015
Neiswinger J, Zhu H, Zhang J, Qian J. Protein Microarrays: A Versatile Tool for Scientific Discovery. Proteomics: Targeted Technologies, Innovations, and Applications; Horizon Scientific Press’s “Molecular Biology” series; 2013
Newman RH, Hu J, Rho H, Xie Z, Woodard C, Neiswinger J, Hwang W, Shirley M, Hu S, Cooper C, Jeong JS, Wu G, Lin J, Gao X, Ni Q, Dalby K, Ji H, Desiderio S, Birnbaum MJ, Cole PA, Knapp S, Ryazanov A, Zack DJ, Blackshaw S, Pawson T, Gingras A-C, Pandey A, Turk BE, Zhang J, Zhu H, Qian J. Construction of Human Activity-Based Phosphorylation Networks. Mol Syst Biol; 9:655. Doi:10.1038/msb.2013.12; 2013
Hu J, Rho HS, Newman RH, Hwang W, Neiswinger J, Zhu H, Zhang J, Qian J. Global Analysis of Phosphorylation Networks in Humans. Biochem Biophys Acta.; doi:pii: S1570-9639(13)00122-2; 2013
Muratore KE, Seeliger MA, Wang Z, Fomina D, Neiswinger J, Havranek JJ, Baker D, Kuriyan J, Cole PA. Comparative Analysis of Mutant Tyrosine Kinase Chemical Rescue. Biochemistry; 48(15):3378-86. Doi:10.1021/bi900057g; 2009
Hartschuh RD, Wargacki SP, Xiong H, Neiswinger J, Kisliuk A, Sihn S, Ward V, Vaia RA, Sokolov AP. How Rigid Are Viruses? Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.; 78(2 Pt 1):021907; 2008
