Department
Department of Biology
Phone
+1 (210) 9997242
Email Address
fhealy@trinity.edu
Location
Center for the Sciences and Innovation
Room
317
Website
Frank Healy's Digital Commons Page

Outside of the lab, I enjoy bicycling and piano

Education

  • Ph.D., Cornell University
  • M.S., University of Maine at Orono
  • B.S., St. Mary's College of Maryland

Selected Publications

  • King, D., H. Basagaoglu, H. Nguyen, F. Healy, M. Whitman and S. Succi. 2019. Effects of advective-diffusive transport of multiple chemoattractants on motility of engineered chemosensory particles in fluidic environments. Entropy, 21(5), 465-475.
  • Nguyen, H., H. Başağaoğlu, C. McKay*, A. J. Carpenter, S. Succi, and F. Healy. 2016. Coupled RapidCell and lattice- Boltzmann models to simulate hydrodynamics of bacterial transport in response to chemoattractant gradients in confined domains. Microfluid. Nanofluid. 20:1-14.
  • Xu, F., R. Bierman*, F. Healy, and H. Nguyen. 2016. A multi-scale model of Escherichia coli chemotaxis from intracellular signaling pathway to motility and nutrient uptake in nutrient gradient and isotropic fluid environments. Comp. Math. Appl. 71:2466-2478.
  • Healy, F. G., K. P. Eaton*, P. Limsirichai*, J. F. Aldrich*, A. K. Plowman*, and R. R. King. 2009. Characterization of γ-butyrolactone autoregulatory signaling gene homologs in the angucyclinone polyketide WS5995B-producer Streptomyces acidiscabies J. Bacteriol. 191:4786-4797.
  • Hasona, A. H., K. Youngnyun, F. G. Healy, L. O. Ingram, and K. T. Shanmugam. 2004. Pyruvate formate lyase and acetate kinase are essential for anaerobic growth of Escherichia coli on xylose. J. Bacteriol. 186:7593-7600.

Subjects Taught

  • Molecular Biology
  • Microbiology
  • FYE
  • Microbial Mothership

Community Service & Involvement

  • 2011-present Board member AHISD Friends of Strings
  • 2008-present Laurel Heights United Methodist Church Scholarship Committee
  • 2005-2007 Board member Laurel Heights United Methodist Church Weekday School
  • 2007-present Development of microbiology classroom demonstrations in local schools
  • 2009-Present IRBM Workshop and Seminar Committee
  • 2009-Present United Way Committee
  • 2005 Advising and Registration Committee
  • 2006 Chair of Advising and Registration Committee
  • 2007 Advising and Registration Committee
  • 2005-Present Health Professions Advisory Committee

Teaching and Expertise

I explore questions in microbial physiology and biochemistry, and the behaviors of microorganisms in fluids