Jon is a fifth-year graduate student at Baylor University and researcher for the Sayes Group. He was born and raised in Louisiana where he received a B.S. in Integrative Biology (2017) and an M.S. in Biology (2019), the latter specializing in electrophysiology and biophysics. His current research is investigating the extent of biological harm caused by e-cigarettes in the pulmonary region, how to quantify said harm and clearly disclose the results to the public, and how to optimize strategies & methods for the field of vape research.

PUBLICATIONS

Beard, J., Shockett, P., and O'Reilly, J. (2020). Substituted cysteine scanning in D1-S6 of the sodium channel hNav1.4 alters kinetics and structural interactions of slow inactivation. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, 1862(2), 183129.

PRESENTATIONS

American Chemical Society. "Effect of e-cigarette flavoring molecule ethyl maltol against lung cells." Poster. Chicago, IL (Aug 2022).

American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting. "Effect of flavoring molecules in e-cigarette liquids on A549 Lung cells." Poster. Baton Rouge, LA (Nov 2022).

Lone Star Regional Chapter of the Society of Toxicology. "Effect of flavoring molecules in e-cigarette liquids on A549 Lung cells." Poster. Houston, TX (Nov 2022).

63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society. "Using SCAM to investigate reconfiguration of molecular determinants in D1-S6 during slow inactivation of hNav1.4." Poster. Baltimore, MD (Mar 2019).

ULL's 18th Annual Graduate Student Symposium. "Investigating the slow inactivation of sodium channels." Oral. Lafayette, LA (Oct 2018).

ULL's 18th Annual Graduate Student Symposium. "Using SCAM to investigate reconfiguration of molecular determinants in D1-S6 during slow inactivation of hHav1.4." Poster. Lafayette, LA (Oct 2018).