Mohini Kulp

Laboratory Instructor
Smith College

Office: 401 Burton
Phone: (413)-585-3735
Fax: (413)-585-3786
Email: mkulp(at)email.smith.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2005.
Thesis: Mechanistic Studies of Disulfide Bond Formation in the Endoplasmic Reticulum.
Advisor: Jonathan Weissman.

A. B., Mount Holyoke College, Biochemistry and Mathematics, 2000.
Advisor: Sean Decatur

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Smith College, 2009-present 
Laboratory Instructor, Chemistry

Smith College, 2006-2009
Instrumentation and Techniques Instructor, Center for Proteomics

COURSES

CHM 111: Introduction to Chemistry I, Laboratory
CHM 224: General Chemistry IV, Laboratory
CHM 346: Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Laboratory

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am interested in developing exercises that teach students to use analytical chemistry techniques to answer questions of interest at the interface of chemistry and biology. 

PUBLICATIONS

Starzyk A, Barber-Armstrong W, Sridharan M, Decatur SM. (2005) Biochemistry. 44, 369-76.
Kulp MS, Frickel EM, Ellgaard L, Weissman JS. (2006) J. Biol. Chem. Jan 13; 281(2): 876-84. (Paper of the Week)
Gorczynski MJ, Grembecka J, Zhou Y, Kong Y, Roudaia L, Douvas MG, Newman M, Bielnicka I, Baber G, Corpora T, Shi J, Sridharan M, Lilien R, Donald BR, Speck NA, Brown ML, Bushweller JH. (2007) Chem Biol. Oct;14(10):1186-97.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Society for Mass Spectroscopy
Sigma Xi