Maria Ragland Davis was an American biologist and educator. She was associate professor of Biology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville

University of Alabama in Huntsville

The University of Alabama in Huntsville is a state-supported, public, coeducational research university, located in Huntsville, Alabama, United States, is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate, master's and doctoral degrees, and is organized in five...

 where she studied molecular biology and plant genetics.

Life and career

A native of Detroit, she received her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and a masters degree in the same discipline from North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University at Raleigh is a public, coeducational, extensive research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Commonly known as NC State, the university is part of the University of North Carolina system and is a land, sea, and space grant institution...

. Following her receipt of a masters degree, Davis completed her doctorate in biochemistry and plant biology. Davis studied strawberries, looking at the genetic makeup of strains that were drought-resistant and those that were not.

Death

She was one of three faculty members to lose their lives in the UA Huntsville shootings

2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting

At the University of Alabama in Huntsville in Huntsville, Alabama, three people were killed and three others wounded in a shooting on February 12, 2010. During the course of a routine meeting of the biology department attended by approximately 12 individuals, a professor stood up and began shooting...

on February 12, 2010. She was 50 years old.

Selected Works

1. Cold induced Botrytis cinerea enolase (BcEnol-1) functions as a transcriptional regulator and is controlled by cAMP. Molecular Genetics and Genomics Volume 281, Number 2. Ajay K. Pandey, Preti Jain, Gopi K. Podila, Bettina Tudzynski and Maria R. Davis.
2. Isolation and characterization of chicken aortic endothelial cells. Methods in Cell Science. Volume 15, Number 4, pgs. 171-5, Hana Van Campen and Maria R. Davis
3. Comparative Proteomic Analysis of Botrytis cinerea Secretome. J. Proteome Res., 2009, 8 (3), pgs. 1123–30, Punit Shah, James A. Atwood, III, Ron Orlando, Hind El Mubarek, Gopi K. Podila and Maria R. Davis
4. A First-Generation Whole Genome–Radiation Hybrid Map Spanning the Mouse Genome. Genome Res. 1997. 7: pgs. 1153-61. Linda C. McCarthy, Jonathan Terrett, Maria E. Davis, Catherine J. Knights, Angela L. Smith, Ricky Critcher, Karin Schmitt, Jim Hudson, Nigel K. Spurr, and Peter N. Goodfello

External links

1. Chronicle of Higher Education.
2. Ragland profile at UAHuntsville website