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Zaldy F. Doyungan
Assistant Professor of Biology

Office Phone: 641-784-5285
Home Phone: 641-784-6883
doyungan@yahoo.com
Education
  • Post-doc, Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (January 2004- June 2005)
  • Post-doc, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (September 1999 – September 2002)
  • Post-doc, National Institutes of Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology, University of the Philipppines at Los Ba_os, College, Laguna, Philippines (June-November 1995)
  • Ph.D. Genetics (minor in Biochemistry), University of the Philippines at Los Ba_os, College, Laguna, Philippines, April 1995
  • M.S. Biology (major in Genetics), University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, April 1984
  • B.S. Zoology, Southwestern University, Cebu City, Philippines, March 1981

    All these degrees were evaluated to be equivalent to those granted by the regionally accredited U.S. institutions by the Educational Perspectives, Inc.
Professional Experience
A. As professor
Sixteen years of university teaching in the Philippines (Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, Iligan City, Philippines). Courses taught:
  • General Biology
  • General Zoology
  • Cell Biology
  • Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
  • Animal Physiology
  • Developmental Biology
  • Radiation Biology
  • General Entomology
  • Biiology Research
Other academic-related experience:
  • Academic advising
  • Research/thesis advisment (undergraduate and graduate)
  • Committee assignments
  • Curriculum development and review
B. As administrator
While working as a faculty member in the Department of Biological Sciences of a state-run university in the Philippines from June 1985 to September 1999, was designated with some administrative duties.
  • Three times (3x) designated as Department Chair (a department with 30 faculty and staff members, 300 undergraduate/graduate students, and offering 4 baccalaureate, 2 masters and one doctorate programs).
  • For four years, designated as university’s Director for Research
  • For three years, designated as Graduate Program Coordinator (concurrent position as Department Chair).
C. As Researcher
  • From three post-doc research projects conducted, gained excellent experience and developed great skills in various molecular biology research methodologies including (but not limited to) genomic/plasmid DNA isolation, restriction enzyme digestion, DNA cloning and transformation, electroporation, PCR, primer design, DNA sequence analysis, DNA quantification, PAGE and agarose gel electrophoresis, gel documentation, single-stranded DNA conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis, population genetics/evolutionary data analyses, etc.
  • Other expertise included analyses of population variability using comparative karyotyping/karyomorphology and isozyme/protein electrophoresis.
Publications
  • Lorenzen , MD, Doyungan , Z.F. et al., 2005. Genetic linkage maps of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, based on bacterial artificial chromosomes and expressed sequence tags. Genetics 170:741-747
  • Doyungan, Z.F. 1999. Phophoglucose isomerase polymorphism in the giant toad, Bufo marinus Linn. The Philippine Scientist 36:77-82.
  • Doyungan, Z.F. 1999. Polymorphism in plasma esterase in natural populations of giant toad, Bufo marinus (Amphibia:Bufonidae). Mindanao Forum 12: 153-158
  • Doyungan,Z.F. and A.A. Barrion. 1999. Genetic variability in populations of giant toad, Bufo marinus in the Philippines. Mindanao Forum 12:143-152.
  • Doyungan, Z.F., C.D. Mencias, S.P. Isidro and M.T.U. Rosales. 1998. Electrophoretic variability in feral populations of three freshwater species of fish. Mindanao Forum 13:77-82.
  • Doyungan, Z.F. and A.K. Raymundo. 1997. Genetic fingerprinting of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola from the Mindanao area using repetitive sequence-based PCR. The Philippine Scientist 34:33-46.
  • Doyungan, ZF. and A.A. Barrion. 1995. Comparative karyomorphology in populations of giant toad, Bufo marinus Linn. in the Philippines. Asia Life Sciences 4:171-180.
  • Doyungan, Z.F. and A.T. Aranez. 1986. Radiobiological effects of varying dose levels of gamma radiation on sorghum, S.bicolor L. Moench. The Technician 5:60-75.
  • Doyungan, Z.F. 1988. The radiobiological effects of fast neutrons on sorghum, S. bicolor L. Moench. The Technician 8: 116-125.
Lectures/Papers/Posters Presented:
  • The 43rd Annual Drosophila Conference, March 2002. San Diego, CA.
  • Seminar on Info-transfer of Recent Molecular Biology and Microbiology Technologies. December 13, 2003 at Iligan City, Philippines.
  • Seminar-Workshop on Promoting Popular Awareness of Biotechnology on July 22-23, 1999 at Iligan City, Philippines.
  • Annual Scientific Meeting, National Academy of the Philippines, July 1999. Manila Philippines
  • The 1st General Assembly of the Mindanao Advanced Education Project (MAEP) on February 1998 at Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines
  • The 25th Annual Convention of the Philippine Society of Microbiology, Inc. on May 1997 at Lumban, Laguna, Philippines
  • First Annual Convention of the Philippine Society of Microbiology ,Inc- Mindanao Chapter, November 1996 at Iligan City, Philippines
  • Symposium on Molecular Approaches in Biology on January 1995 at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
  • The 3rd National Genetics Symposium on December 8-9, 1994 at the University of the Philippines Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines
  • The 23rd Annual Convention of the Federation of Institutions for Marine and Freshwater Sciences on December 12-14, 1990 at Naawan, Misamis Oriental, Philippines
Honors and Activities
  • Associate Member, National Research Council of the Philippines
  • Affiliate Member, Genetics Society of America
  • Regular Member, Sigma Xi Research Society, Kansas State University Chapter
  • Phi Kappa Phi, University of the Philippines Chapter
  • Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society for Agriculture, University of the Philippines Chapter
  • Philippine Environmental Mutagens Society
  • Biology Teachers’ Association of the Philippines
  • Radioisotope Society of the Philippines
  • Founding member, Philippine Association for the Advancement of Genetics
Special Awards/Recognition
  • 1996 Outstanding Ph.D. Scholar by the Philippine Council for Advanced Science and Technology, Department of Science and Technology, Manila, Philippines
  • 1996 Most Outstanding Teacher Award in Genetics by the MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology, Iligan City, Philippines
  • 1991 Research Grant for equipment for MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology by the Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy
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