CURRICULUM VITAE
BETTY JEAN GAFFNEY
(alternate publication name 1963-1972, Betty Gaffney McFarland)
VITAE
Born: February 23, 1939, Kalispell, MT
Family: Son: Brenden K. McFarland
Brothers: George W. Gaffney, Edward S. Gaffney
CONTACT
3021 Country Club Loop NW email: gaffney@bio.fsu.edu
Olympia, WA 98502 phone: (850) 531-0693
EDUCATION
Stanford University, Stanford, California, B.S., 1961, Chemistry
Stanford University, Stanford, California, Ph.D., 1966, Chemistry (w/ H.S. Mosher)
APPOINTMENTS
1966-7 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Tohoku University, Sendai, JAPAN
1967-8 Varian Associates Postdoc Fellow, Tohoku University, Sendai,
JAPAN (w/ Koji Nakanishi)
1969-73 Research Associate, Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
(w/ H.M. McConnell)
1973 Visiting Research Associate, Biology, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, (periods of several months)
1974-77 Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University
1977-82 Associate Professor, Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University
1982-1996 Professor, Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University
1985-1996 Adjunct Professor, Biology, Johns Hopkins University
1989-1996 Adjunct Professor, Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University
1994-5 Acting Co-Director JHU Institute for Biophysical Research on
Macromolecular Assemblies
1996 Visiting Professor, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel (2 weeks)
1996-2015 Professor, Biological Sciences, Florida State University
2016 Emeritus Professor, Biological Sciences, Florida State University
HONORS
1966-7 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow
1975-80 NIH Research Career Development Award
1994 Plenary Lecturer, Ninth International Conference on
Prostaglandins and Related Compounds, Florence, Italy
2009 Elected Fellow of the Biophysical Society
POSTDOCTORAL,
GRADUATE STUDENT, UNDERGRADUATE ASSOCIATES
Name Gaffney lab dates
POST-DOCTORAL
Diane C. Lin 74-77
Elizabeth S. Rowe 76-77
Shaw-Chen Chen 77-78
Man Wing Tse 78-79
Ronald Scheule 79-83
Dimitrios V. Mavrophilipos 86
Antonio Colom 91-94
Brendan Maguire 96-99
Victoria Kofman 96-97
Tom Morgan 97-98
Guenter Maresch 98-99
PHD STUDENTS
Shaw-Chen Chen 74-77
Gary L. Willingham 76-82
An-Suei Yang 81-87
Dimitrios Mavrophilipos 82-86
Jeffrey Boyington
(LM Amzel student) 89-94
Kutbuddin S. Doctor 91-98
Brendan Maguire 92-99
Fayi Wu 01-06
Albert Garreta (visitng EU) 09
Miles D. Bradshaw 10-15
GRADUATE STUDENTS (M.S.) (* indicates published work)
Mary B. Jones 78
*Celia Elbrecht 79
Matthew Grumbling 86
Andrew Mihailovic 89
*Eugene Tevelrakh 95
David Averett 96
Greg Ottenberg 04
*Ann Imber 04
Undergraduate Students (* with published work in BJG lab)
*Robert Schepp 74-76
*Robert Mich 75
*James Scibilia 79
*Howard Grill 79
*Robert Kelly 80
Albert Cheung (*abstract) 81
*Zacharias Mavrophilipos 84-87
*Kimberly Betsey 98-99
*Leron Katsir 00-03
*Stephen Frausto 07
REPRESENTATIVE TEACHING
Johns Hopkins Seminars on Biological Magnetic Resonance
Physical Chemistry Instrumentation Lab
(designed new experiments on hemoglobin oxygenation,
NMR studies of peptides, diffusion by EPR, EPR imaging)
FL State Cell Structure and Function
Protein Biotechnology Lab
REPRESENTATIVE PAST SERVICE
Regular member, NIH Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry B (2 terms & chair)
Gordon Conf.: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine & Biology (Chair, co-chair)
Council Member, International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR)
Editorial Board, Ann. Reviews of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure (10 yrs)
Editorial Board, Biophysical Journal (two terms)
LIST OF PUBLISHED WORK IN MYBIBLIOGRAPHY:
and on Google Scholar