I predict she gets tenure on her next try.
She brought a gun with her-perhaps they were on the right track denying her tenure..
Not suprised...
Here in Colorado, there is a big fight on campuses to allow students to carry weapons. After all, everybody on campus are adults or have their parents with them.
Somehow, its gotta be the old man's fault.
But...but...guns are banned from campus. She couldn’t possibly have a gun in a gun-free zone. That would be against the law. It’s a good thing the law-abiding citizens weren’t carrying guns on campus, or they might have stood a fighting chance. Can’t have anybody using those evil guns to protect their own lives. Thank God our elected officials are wise enough to know that gun-free zones are the best way to protect the innocent. What with guns being so bad and all.
A few of her latest publications...
J Neurochem. 2009 Apr;109(1):93-104. Epub 2009 Jan 19.
Differential sensitivity of oligodendrocytes and motor neurons to reactive nitrogen species: implications for multiple sclerosis.
Bishop A, Hobbs KG, Eguchi A, Jeffrey S, Smallwood L, Pennie C, Anderson J, Estévez AG.
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama 35899, USA. bishopa@uah.edu
Depending on its concentration, nitric oxide (NO) has beneficial or toxic effects. In pathological conditions, NO reacts with superoxide to form peroxynitrite, which nitrates proteins forming nitrotyrosine residues (3NY), leading to loss of protein function, perturbation of signal transduction, and cell death. 3NY immunoreactivity is present in many CNS diseases, particularly multiple sclerosis. Here, using the high flux NO donor, spermine-NONOate, we report that oligodendrocytes are resistant to NO, while motor neurons are NO sensitive. Motor neuron sensitivity correlates with the NO-dependent formation of 3NY, which is significantly more pronounced in motor neurons when compared with oligodendrocytes, suggesting peroxynitrite as the toxic molecule. The heme-metabolizing enzyme, heme-oxygenase-1 (HO1), is necessary for oligodendrocyte NO resistance, as demonstrated by loss of resistance after HO1 inhibition. Resistance is reinstated by peroxynitrite scavenging with uric acid further implicating peroxynitrite as responsible for NO sensitivity. Most importantly, differential sensitivity to NO is also present in cultures of primary oligodendrocytes and motor neurons. Finally, motor neurons cocultured with oligodendrocytes, or oligodendrocyte-conditioned media, become resistant to NO toxicity. Preliminary studies suggest oligodendrocytes release a soluble factor that protects motor neurons. Our findings challenge the current paradigm that oligodendrocytes are the exclusive target of multiple sclerosis pathology.
J Neurochem. 2009 Apr;109(1):74-84. Epub 2009 Jan 13.
Mitigation of peroxynitrite-mediated nitric oxide (NO) toxicity as a mechanism of induced adaptive NO resistance in the CNS.
Bishop A, Gooch R, Eguchi A, Jeffrey S, Smallwood L, Anderson J, Estevez AG.
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama 35899, USA. bishopa@uah.edu
During CNS injury and diseases, nitric oxide (NO) is released at a high flux rate leading to formation of peroxynitrite (ONOO(*)) and other reactive nitrogenous species, which nitrate tyrosines of proteins to form 3-nitrotyrosine (3NY), leading to cell death. Previously, we have found that motor neurons exposed to low levels of NO become resistant to subsequent cytotoxic NO challenge; an effect dubbed induced adaptive resistance (IAR). Here, we report IAR mitigates, not only cell death, but 3NY formation in response to cytotoxic NO. Addition of an NO scavenger before NO challenge duplicates IAR, implicating reactive nitrogenous species in cell death. Addition of uric acid (a peroxynitrite scavenger) before cytotoxic NO challenge, duplicates IAR, implicating peroxynitrite, with subsequent 3NY formation, in cell death, and abrogation of this pathway as a mechanism of IAR. IAR is dependent on the heme-metabolizing enzyme, heme oxygenase-1 (HO1), as indicated by the elimination of IAR by a specific HO1 inhibitor, and by the finding that neurons isolated from HO1 null mice have increased NO sensitivity with concomitant increased 3NY formation. This data indicate that IAR is an HO1-dependent mechanism that prevents peroxynitrite-mediated NO toxicity in motor neurons, thereby elucidating therapeutic targets for the mitigation of CNS disease and injury.
Toxicology. 2005 Mar 15;208(2):193-205.
NO signaling in the CNS: from the physiological to the pathological.
Bishop A, Anderson JE.
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama 35899, USA. bishopa@uah.edu
Nitric oxide (NO) is a free radical gas that has a Janus nature. As indicated by the literature and by our studies, in the cell, NO can either function as a beneficial physiological agent utilized for essential functions such as differentiation or neurotransmission, or as a pathological agent that causes or exacerbates central nervous system (CNS) disease and injury. Whether NO is helpful or harmful depends on a variety of factors, such as the cellular environment in which NO is released, the rate of NO flux, as determined by which NOS isozyme is activated, and what array of second messenger cascades are available for utilization by NO for beneficial or toxic cell signalling. Understanding the mechanisms by which NO is salutary in one set of circumstances and toxic in another is critical and will offer therapeutic targets for the mitigation of NO-mediated damage seen during CNS disease and injury. In fact, we have utilized the duality the NO to, in motor neurons, induce adaptive resistance (IAR) to toxic doses of NO. Understanding how the actions of NO are transduced in the cell will lead us to more targeted application of therapies such as IAR.
Dreadful. RIP.
Evolutionist? I’m just sayin’.
Fox News said she got her Phd at Harvard. Their must have been some trouble brewing for quite a while, else why would she have brought the gun? I am assuming the campus was supposed to be a gun-free zone.
Too bad no one had a gun for self defense. Wonder if it was registered. Wonder if she even had a permit.
Her actions indicate that she thinks she could shoot ahead of everyone else.
Wonder if the gun was registered, and whether she had a concealed carry permit?
Prayers for the victims and their families. I hope the media doesn’t turn this into another “blame the victim” scenario.
Here are her ratings on RateMyProfessors. Nothing at all out of the ordinary in the comments, and overall rating about average for the department or even a bit above average. Absolutely no sign of a problem from what’s there. Odd, though, that there are no ratings from last semester — last rating is from May 2009. It would be very unusual for a professor who was on the verge of a tenure decision not to be teaching for the semester, so more likely no student bothered to put in a rating for the most recent semester (though she’d had a pretty steady flow of ratings for the preceding few semesters). Assuming she was teaching last semester, if she’d done anything really odd or worrisome, most likely a bunch of students would have posted ratings on her.
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Amy Bishop’s Scorecard:
No. of Ratings: 34 Average Easiness: 2.3 Average Helpfulness: 3.7 Average Clarity: 3.4 Hotness Total: 1 Overall Quality: 3.6
5/26/09 BYS314 1 5 5 4 Professor is helpful but the class is super hard! She has classes for extra help since there are so many students in the class.
5/19/09 BYS314 3 5 5 5 This class was great. Bishop makes the class interesting by talking about her research and her friends research. That speaker she had for class was hard to understand but smart. She expects alot and you need to come to every class and study. She is hot but she tries to hide it.And she is a socalist but she only talks about it after class.
5/19/09 BYS313 2 5 5 2 Dr Bishop is an excellent teacher! She is very helpful and nice. She does everything to help students do well. She even offers extra classes! The students who show up and work think she is a good teacher.
11/21/08 BYS314 1 1 1 5 Dr. Bishop does not put what she says will be on the test on the test!!!!! If you study what she tells you to study, you will fail, simple as that. From experience I’m a 4.0 student with a 100 in lab, and a C in her lectures class, if that doesn’t tell you that somethings up, I don’t know what will!! Take Dr. Adcock, she help you learn the material
11/18/08 BYS313 1 1 2 1 Hard class to pass.. Requires a GREAT deal of studying!
11/17/08 bys313 1 1 1 1 Extremely horrible teacher. All she does is read information from the book and never explains anything. Her review is telling you to study everything, and she picks the most insignificant information on tests. You have to teach everything to yourself, but her tests are so insame it’s hard to do well. TAKE ADCOCK
11/6/08 BYS313 1 1 1 4 What a waste of a great resource. Dr Bishop is very intelligent but a horrible teacher. No point going to class, she will tell you to read and know the entire book. She does not teach but gives you a list of topics that you have to teach yourself. Unfortunately this class is only offered with one other instructor! Take it with Adcock if you can.
10/20/08 BYS313 1 2 2 3 Horrible teacher! You’ll learn way more in lab. Previously old tests were sufficient study guides for the exams but she changed everything for fall 2008 so good luck.
6/24/08 BYS313 1 5 5 4 She is an excellent professor! very helpful and very intelligent! Study hard, attend class, take notes when she talks about diseases. Her exams are hard and not the same as her old exams that she gives. Very interesting during lecture. High recommend!! Had her for 313-314. Exam questions were seen on MCAT.
5/14/08 CLASSSECT 3 3 2 5 If you have the old tests, you should do fine...she doesnt change them that often.
4/14/08 BYS4000 4 3 4 1 Neuroscience essentially turns into a bioethics class. She’s a liberal from “Hahvahd” and let’s you know exactly how she feels about particular subjects. Class is a breeze, but you’ll have to put a bit of concentrated effort into a few things.
11/30/07 anatoPhys 1 5 5 1 I am in her lab and her class. She is smart, talks about more stuff than just the book. She lets me sit in her office and study. She always dresses nice. She should stop trying to straighten her hair and go natural!
4/30/07 BYS400 4 3 3 3 No Comments
1/13/07 BYS313 2 5 5 4 Bishop uses the online stuff, the internet, powerpoint, from the book and some stuff not from the book. If you show up to class and listen to what she tells you what is important and what is not as important you will get an A. Her animations from that anatomy program always crash the laptop(last year). This year her she bought her own laptop.
12/10/06 BYS313 5 5 1 5 Study wha she tells u to study. If you have previous exams, u are more likely to get an A. Make sure u have good friends in that class, b/c they might have more resources to share with ya. Dont sweat it and go for it.
6/1/06 Biology 2 5 5 5 Dr.Bishop is so cool!
4/7/06 BYS 313 3 3 3 4 She is very nice, but her class is boring. Human A&P all we do is highlight the book. She reads straight from the book. I can do that at home. There is tons of material and she doesn’t really narrow down what’s going to be on the test. However, the class wasn’t too hard though. There’s just a lot of studying.
2/8/06 BYS400 1 5 5 5 This prof is absolutely the bomb! Knows her stuff cold, and quick witted too. Never met anyone who knows more random knowledge. Sci-fi to quantum mechanics with a little art history thrown in the mix. Who knew? Definitely take one of her courses!
1/24/06 BYS313 1 5 5 5 Dr. Bishop says she has to teach us about so much so we are ready for nursing classes. It is so much material! But she is nice, helpful and makes it interesting. I like her study day she has before the test.I heard she is from Harvard.I hope she remembers that she is not at Harvard.
1/9/06 BYS 313 1 5 5 3 Dr. Bishop is a great teacher! She talks about the stuff in the book but then she talks about extra stuff like diseases. This makes the class fun. She’s super smart and thinks everyone else is too so sometimes she goes too fast.
12/9/05 A&P I 2 1 1 4 Dr. Bishop tries to be a good teacher, but it’s really pointless to come to class. All you do is highlight the book word for word. She is also very vague about her tests and what you should study; her answer is just study everything (which is the entire book.) She might have graduated from Harvard, but she has very little common sense.
9/22/05 human anatomy 4 1 2 4 No Comments
9/3/05 A&P 3 2 2 5 I don’t know what you people are talking about! She is not “easy” unless you are her favorite. She gets off on random**** all the time and is sooo completely scatter brained! I was there everyday, studied HARD, and still barely passed. I don’t like her and don’t recomend her.
4/6/05 BSY 313 1 5 3 5 Beware of Tangent Square Root!
1/12/05 BYS 313 3 5 4 4 Awesome teacher. She tends to make a lot of tangents but you learn a lot and she’s always willing to help you out.
1/6/05 BYS 313 2 4 5 5 Mrs Bishop was totally awesome! She made this class fun and entertaining with her great sense of humor. She is always willing to help, and is great at working with students. I highly recommend this teacher!!
11/25/04 bys313 1 5 5 5 brilliant & hot
11/17/04 BYS313 1 5 5 3 She makes class fun eventhough it is still hard.I thought because she is from Harvard she would be a snob but she isn’t.She does not give multiple choice tests so her tests are hard. By the way Diane teaches BYS310 not Dr. Bishop.
10/18/04 BYS 313-14 3 4 4 3 If you didn’t understand something in this class, she was willing to take time and give you a hand. She does what a professor is suppose to do: helps you and doesn’t make you feel stupid.
6/23/04 BYS 310 5 4 1 She makes it seem like it is going to be hard but it is extremly easy. She is very unorganized, but its easy to get an A
6/14/04 BYS313,314 3 5 5 Dr. Bishop is brilliant. Her research is fascinating. She will surely get the Nobel Prize. She is the best teacher I have ever had.
6/14/04 BYS 313 3 5 5 No Comments
6/1/04 BYS313,314 4 5 3 Dr. Bishop is extremely knowledgable about her field. She is grateful to help, you just have to ask. Her lectures are disorganized, but if you read your book, you’ll get an A. I learned alot.
4/22/04 BYS 313/14 3 3 1 Dr. Bishop is very unclear in her test preparation, grading, and overall teaching style. She is not at all organized and neither are her lab instructors. The tests are fairly easy and you never really have to go to class except on review day.
Typical liberal.
“Guns are bad” “Save the environment”... blah, blah, blah.
And as soon as her bubble of idiocy is popped, she goes homicidal.
Yes, that truly is a liberal in a nutshell.
I can see why they denied her tenure. *nods*
Lady, you get two choices:
1. No tenure.
2. Life in prison / death penalty.
You’ve got 10 seconds to decide.
Somehow I think she knew ahead of time. Guns on campi are generally against the law. But people intending to kill someone generally aren't too worried about breaking such laws, which have fairly minor penalties, at least compared to those for murder and assault with a deadly weapon.
The losses are far reaching obviously family, coworkers, students.
Years of research that each of these professors were involved in has been halted as well. Plans of students especially those graduating soon with Biology majors are in limbo. You depend on the professors you do research with to give you a strong recommendation to move on to Medical, Veterinarian, Bio Medical higher educations.
Now we heard the killer had killed her brother years before and it was ruled an accident. In hindsight one may ask was it really an accident or murder.