Education

B.S. in Biochemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1982
Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1987
Post-Doctoral Training; Research Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 1987-1991;
Instructor, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 1991-1996;
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology,
The Brody School of Medicine at ECU, 1996-2001
Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology,
The Brody School of Medicine at ECU, 2001-2003
Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology,
The Brody School of Medicine at ECU. 2003-Present

Professional Affiliations

American Society of Cell Biology, 1990-Present
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1997-Present
Society for the Study of Reproduction, 2001-Present

Professional Service

Member of Review Panel for the journal Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, May 1997-Present
Member of Review Panel for the journal Alcohol, May 1998-Present
Member of Review Panel for University Grants Committe, Hong Kong, March 1999-Present
Member of Review Panel for Biology of Reproduction, 2003-Present
Ad hoc Member Cellular, Molecular, and Integrative Study section, NIH, June 21-22, 2004
Peer Reviewer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2004

Honors and Awards

Graduated Magna Cum Laude, 1982
Awarded "Most Outstanding Biochemistry Student" 1981-1982
Robert A. Welch Predoctoral Fellow, 1983-1984
NIH Predoctoral Fellow, 1984-1985
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, 1989-1991
American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant In-house Awardee, 1992-1993

Publications

Sperry, A.O. and S.M.Berget. 1986. In vitro cleavage of the simian virus 40 early polyadenylation site adjacent to a required downstream TG sequence.  Mol. Cell Biol. 6: 4734-4741.

Sperry, A.O., V.C. Blasquez, and W.T. Garrard. 1989.  Dysfunction of chromosomal loop attachment sites: illegitimate recombination linked to matrix association regions and topoisomerase II.   P.N.A.S. USA. 86: 5497-5501.

Fishel, B.R., A.O. Sperry, and W.T. Garrard. 1993. Yeast calmodulin and a conserved nuclear protein participate in the in vivo binding of a matrix association region.  P.N.A.S. USA 90: 5623-5627.

Sperry, A.O., and L.-P.Zhao. 1996. Kinesin-related proteins in the mammalian testes: candidate motors for meiosis and morphogenesis.  Mol. Biol. Cell 7: 289-305. Abstract

Navolanic P.M. and Sperry, A.O.  1999.  Identification and tissue-specific expression of three carboxyl-terminal kinesin-related proteins in mouse spermatogenesis. Mol. Bio. Cell. 10:1597a. Abstract

Patrick, M.N. and A.O. Sperry. 2000. Identification of isoforms of a mitotic motor in mammalian spermatogenesis.  Biol. Reprod. 62: 1360-1369.

Zou, Y., C.F. Millette, and A.O. Sperry. 2002. KRP3A and KRP3B: candidate motors for spermatid maturation in the seminiferous epithelium.  Biol. Reprod.  66: 843-855. Abstract

Yang, W.-X. and A.O. Sperry. 2003. C-Terminal kinesin motor KIFC1 participates in Acrosome biogenesis and vesicle transport.  Biology of Reproduction. 69:1719-1729.

Zhang, Y. and A.O. Sperry. 2004. Comparative analysis of two C-terminal motors: KIFC5A.  Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton. 58:213-230.

Research Interests