Norman Dollahon, EM

Location - Mendel Hall Room 010
Office Hours
Phone - 610-519-4512
Fax - 610-519-7836
Email - norman.dollahon@villanova.edu

 

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  Oncopeltus fasciatus -adults and nymphs        Thin section of parasites and friends in the insect intestine

 

Recent visitors to the Mendel Hall Electron Microscope Facility

 Mr. Chubb's class SS1 2007

Science and Theatre Magic 2007

 

Images for the Science and Theatre Magic Participants 2006

Education

B.S. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 1966
M.S. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 1968
Ph.D. University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1971
 

Research Application of light microscopy, SEM and TEM techniques to basic research. The
study of the interaction of parasites with tissues of their hosts by means of light and electron
microscopy (kinetoplastid flagellates in insects and reptiles and apicomplexa of annelids).
Teaching
  • Bio 2106: General Biology II
  • Bio 3225: Introduction to Electron Microscopy
  • Bio 3755: Parasitology
  • Bio 7905: Eukaryotic Microbiology
  • Bio 8205: Electron Microscopy
     
Publications - since 1990
 

Geraghty, J. M.P. Russell and & N. Dollahon. 2008. A quantitative assessment of spermatatozoan morphology in Nutricola confusa and Nutricola tantilla (Bivalvia: Veneridae). Veliger 50:263-268.

Regulacio,M.D.,S. Kar,E. Zuniga, G. Wang, N.R. Dollahon, G.T. Yee, and S.L. Stoll.2008. Size-dependent magnetism of EuS nanoparticles. Chem. Mater 20:3368-3376.

Gopi, K.K., N. Dollahon and T. S. Ahmadi. 2007. "Fabrication and Characterization of Solid PbI2 Nanocrystals."  Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 40: 1778-1783.

Miranda, O. R., N. Dollahon and T. S. Ahmadi. 2006.  "Critical Concentration and Role of Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) in the Crystalliztion of Gold Nanorods within Hexadecyltrimethyl Ammonium Bromide (CTAB)/Tetraoctyl Ammonium Bromide (TOAB) Micelles."  Crystal Growth and Design 6:  2747-2753. 

George, S., M. Nelson, N. Dollahon and A. Bamezai.  2006.  "A Novel Approach to Examining Compositional Heterogeneity of Detergent-resistant Lipid Rafts."  Immunology and Cell Biology 84:  192-202

Reinhart, M. and N. Dollahon.  2003.  "Responses of Coelomocytes from Lumbricus terrestris to Native and Non-native Eukaryotic Parasites."   Paedobiologia 47: 710-716.

Reinhart, M. , N. Dollahon and M. Kasschau. 2002. "Invertebrate Immune Responses to Eukaryotic Parasites:  Reaction of Coelomocytes of Lumbricus terrestris to Native and Non-native parasites." In E.L. Cooper et al. (eds) A New Model for Analyzing Antimicrobial Peptides with Biomedical Applications, pp. 167-173.

Takeuchi, K. J.; Marschilok, A. C.; Bessel, C. A.; Dollahon, N. R. “Synthesis, Characterization and Catalytic Use of Acicular Iron Particles,” J.Catal.2002, 208, 150-157.

Meyers, C.J.; Shah, S.D;  Patel, S.C; Sneeringer, R.M.;  Bessel, C.A.; Dollahon, N.R.; Randolph, R.A.; Takeuchi, E.S.  "Templated Sythesis of Carbon Materials from Zeolites (Y, Beta, and ZSM-5) and a Montmorillonite Clay (K10):   Physical and Electrochemical Characterization,"  The J. of Phys. Chem. B. 2001, 105, 2143-2152.

Hermann,B.P.;  Mal, T.K.; Williams, R.J.; Dollahon, N.R.  "Quantitative Evaluation of Stigma Polymorphism in a Tristylous Weed, Lythrum salicaria (Lythraceae),"  Amer. J. Bot. 1999, 86(8), 1121-1129.

Maksymowych, R.; Dollahon, N.R.; Williams, R.J.; Orkwiszewski. J.A. "Chloroplast Division During Leaf Development of Xanthium pensylvanicum Wallr. (Compositae),"  Acta Soc.Botan. Polon. 1999.  68(1), 5-7.

Selinsky, B.S.; Zho, Z.; Fojtik, K.B.; Jones, S.R.; Dollahon, N.R. ; Shinar, A.E. "The Amniosterolantibiotic Squalamine Permeabilized Large Unilamellar Phospholipid Vesicles," Biochem. Biophys. Acta. 1998, 1370:218-234.

Dollahon, N.R.; Bauer, A.M.; Russell, A.P.  "Haemoparasitic Protozoans (Plasmodiidae and Haemogregarinidae) from a New Caledonia Gekkonid Lizard, Rhacodactylus leachianus,"  Can. J. Zoo. 1996, 74:2104-2108.

Vassiliou, J.K.;  Mehrotra, V.;  Otto, J.W.;  Dollahon, N.R.. "Optical Absorption Tail and Superparamagnetism of g-Fe2O3 Nanoparticles in a Polymer Matrix," Mat. Sci. For. 1996,  225-227, 725-730.

Skaf, D.W.; Warner, A.W.; Dollahon, N.R. "Microstructure and Properties of CVD Tungsten Carbide from Tungsten Hexafluoride and Dimethyl Ether," Mater. Char. 1994, 334, 393-402.

Maksymowych, R.; Dollahon, N.R.; diCola, L.P.; Orkwiszewski, J.A.J. "Chloroplasts in tissues of some herbaceous stems,"  Acta Soc.Polon. 1993, 62:123-126.

 Pastore, G.N.; DiCola, L.P.; Dollahon, N.R.; Gardner, R.M. "Effect of Estriol on the Structure and Organization of Collagen in the Lamina Propria of the Immature Rat Uterus," Biol. Reprod. 1992, 47, 83-91.

 Bauer, A.M.; Russell, A.P.; Dollahon, N.R. "Skin Folds in the Gekkonid Lizard Genus Rhacodactylus: A Natural test of the Damage Limitation Hypothesis of Mite Pocket Function," Can. J. Zool. 1990. 68, 1196-1201.