Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Faculty
Dr. Christina Goode
Professor Biochemistry
Phone: (657) 278-3980/7105
Email: cgoode@fullerton.edu

Teaching
CHEM 111 Nutrition and Health
CHEM 540 Protein Biochemistry
Education
Postdoctoral California State University, Fullerton, CA
Ph.D. University of Guelph, Canada
B.Sc. University of London, England
Research Interests
Dr. Goode’s research interests are in the area of membrane receptor proteins. Specifically she is looking at the interaction between egg and sperm in fertilization and the mechanisms that exist in nature to block this interaction and prevent the catastrophic event of polyspermy.
Publications
Robert, L.K., Lucio-Gough, L.M., Goode, C.A., McKinney, K. and Lambert, C.C. (1999) Activation of a cell surface phospholipase by a tyrosine kinase dependent pathway is an essential event in ascidian fertilization, Molecular Reproduction and Development, 54, 69-75.
.Goode, C.A., Gamboa-Pinto, A.J., Cruz, R., Lucio-Gough, L., Lund, C.V., Lambert, C.C. (1997) Evidence for Internal Phospholipase Activity in Ascidian Eggs. Development, Growth and Differentiation, 39, 655-660.
Linder, M.C., Hazegh-Azam, M., Zhao, Schaeffer, K.J., Goode, C.A. and Nagel, G.M. (1997). Structure and Cloning of Serum Ferritin. In Trace Elements in Man and Animals; Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium (P.W.F. Fischer, M.R.L., Abbe, K.A. Cockell and R.S. Gibson, NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Canada, pp. 384-385 ed.).
Lambert, C.C., Lambert, G., MacDougall, A., Robert, L. , Lucio, L. and Goode, C.A. (1996) Activation of Ascidian Eggs Involves Two Separate Calcium Dependent Pathways, Animal Biology 5, 82-83.
Fischer, A.C. and Goode, C.A. (1994) Interaction of Bovine Ceruloplasmin with Erythrocytes, Prep. Biochem. 24, 151-165.
Lambert, C.C. and Goode, C.A. (1992) Glycolipid Linkage of a Polyspermy Blocking Glycosidase to the Ascidian Egg Surface, Dev. Biol. 154, 95-100.
Goode, C.A. (1992) Copper and Disease in "The Biochemistry of Copper" by M. C. Linder, ed. E. Frieden, published by Plenum Press.
Goode, C.A., Dinh, C.T. and Linder, M.C. (1990) Mechanisms of Copper Transport and Delivery in Mammals: Review and Recent Findings, Proc. Soc. Adv. Exp. Biol. Med., 253:131 - 144.


