Merrill Garnett

Director, Garnett McKeen Laboratory, Inc

7 Shirley Street, Bohemia, NY 11716-1735

 

Phone: 631-277-1379 & 631-218-3400

Fax: 631-581-5149 & 631-218-6478

E-mail: newcode@aol.com

B.A., D.D.S., New York university, 1955

Internship: U.S.Naval Hospital, St. Albans

Graduate Studies: Biochemistry, New York University, Brooklyn College

Advanced Courses: Impedance Spectroscopy (University of Virginia and University of Twente, Holland); Infrared Spectroscopy (University of Connecticut); HPLC (Seton Hall University)

Principal Investigator: Damon Runyon Memorial Fund

Senior Research Chemist: Waldemar Medical Research Foundation

Distinguished Teacher Award: Westinghouse National Science Competitions, 1967

Lecturer: Federated Licensing Examination for Physicians (Biochemistry)- Central Islip State Hospital

Head, Institutional Research Review Board: Central Islip State Hospital

Research Chemist: Northport Veteran’s Medical Center- Hematology, Oncology

Director: Garnett McKeen Laboratory, Inc., High Technology Incubator, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Award of Excellence: Pan American Conference- Aging in America, 1999

 

 

Publications

 

1.      M. Garnett, C. V. Krishnan, and B. Chu, The Role of Hydrogen Peroxide in Evolution: Evidence from Impedance Measurements, 209th Meeting of Electrochemical Society, Denver, Colorado, 2006 submitted

2.      C. V. Krishnan, M. Garnett, and B. Chu, Spatio-temporal Oscillations in Biological Molecules: 2. Hydrogen Peroxide and Parkinson’s Disease, 209th Meeting of Electrochemical Society, Denver, Colorado, 2006 submitted

3.      C. V. Krishnan, M. Garnett, and B. Chu, Spatiotemporal Oscillations in Peroxo-Molybdate Complexes: 1. Impedance Measurements of H2Mo2O3(O-O)4(H2O)2,

          4th Meeting, International Society of Electrochemistry, Singapore, 2006 submitted

4.      C. V. Krishnan and Merrill Garnett, Spatiotemporal Oscillations in Biological Molecules: 1. DNA-Lysine, The 56th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry, Busan, Korea, 2005

5.      C. V. Krishnan and Merrill Garnett, Electrochemical impedance measurements for studying biological oscillations, 230th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Washington D.C., 2005

6.      C. V. Krishnan and Merrill Garnett, Liquid Crystal Behavior in Solutions, Electrode Passivation, and Impedance Locus in Four Quadrants, Abstract #67, 9th International Symposium on the Passivation of Metals and Semiconductors, and the Properties of Thin Oxide Layers, Paris 2005

7.      C. V. Krishnan and Merrill Garnett, Impedance Measurements of Liquid Crystal Proteins: 1. Collagen, XVIIIth International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics and 3rd Spring Meeting of Bioelectrochemistry, Coimbra, Portugal, 2005

8.      C. V. Krishnan and Merrill Garnett, Impedance Measurements of Liquid Crystal Proteins: 2. Prothrombin, XVIIIth International Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics and 3rd Spring Meeting of Bioelectrochemistry, Coimbra, Portugal, 2005

9.      C. V. Krishnan and Merrill Garnett, Modulation of Impedance in DNA Solutions by Ions and Molecules: 2. Effect of Tetraalkyl Ammonium Ions, 207th Meeting of Electrochemical Society, Quebec, Canada, 2005

10.   Merrill Garnett and C. V. Krishnan, Biologiocal Nano-Circulation By Radical Induced Dual Polarization, 207th Meeting of Electrochemical Society, Quebec, Canada, 2005

11.   Merrill Garnett and Chirakkal Krishnan, Periodicity measurements in liquid crystal lattices, American Physical Society Meeting, Abstract U13.00006, Tampa, Florida, April 2005

12.   C. V. Krishnan and Merrill Garnett, submitted : Molybdate-small molecule interactions: 1. Impedance measurements of molybdate-EDTA complexes, 229th American Chemical Society National Meeting, SanDiego, Abstract No. Inor    , 2005.

13.   Merrill Garnett and C. V. Krishnan, Bioinorganic Complexes as Nutritional Supplements and as Chemotherapy Agents, 29th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Preventive Oncology, Abstract 65, San Francisco, 2005

14.   Merrill Garnett and C. V. Krishnan, Liquid Crystal Signaling Routes to Drug Discovery and Therapy, Molecular Targets for Cancer Therapy, Third Biennial Meeting of H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, St. Petersberg Beach, Florida, Abstract No. 22, 2004

15.   C. V. Krishnan, M. Garnett, B. Hsiao, and B. Chu: Electrochemical measurements of isopolyoxomolybdates 1. pH dependent behavior of sodium molybdate, 228th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Philadelphia, Abstract No. Inor 485, 2004.

16.   C. V. Krishnan, M. Garnett, J. Chen, C. Burger, B. Hsiao, and B. Chu, Electrochemical

      and X-ray measurements of isopolyoxomolybdates: 2. Mono, di, and

      heptaoxymolybdates, 228th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Philadelphia,   

      Abstract No. Inor 742, 2004

17.   C.V. Krishnan, and Merrill Garnett, Enhancement of the DNA π-way by intercalation, 228th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Philadelphia, Abstract No. Biol 46, 2004

18.   C.V.Krishnan, and M.Garnett, New Insight Into the Double Layer Structure from Impedance Measurements: Implications for Biological Systems, Presented at the 6th International Symposium on Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, Session TB2, Biomedical and Biological Systems, Cocoa Beach, Florida, 2004

19.   M.Garnett, and C.V.Krishnan, DNA Tunnel Diode Behavior, Presented at the 205th Meeting of Electrochemical Society, San Antonio, Texas, Abstract No. 740(2004)

20.   C.V.Krishnan, and M.Garnett, Solute-Solvent Interactions from Impedance Measurements: Concentration Dependence of DNA, Presented at the 205th Meeting of Electrochemical Society, San Antonio, Texas, Abstract No. 739(2004)

21.   M.Garnett, and C.V.Krishnan, Peroxide Doping of DNA Enables Dissipative Impedance, 204th Meeting of Electrochemical Society, Orlando, Florida, Abstract No. 1379(2003)

22.   C.V.Krishnan, and M.Garnett, Modulation of Impedance in DNA Solutions by Ions and Molecules: 1. Effect of Alkali Metal Ions, 204th Meeting of Electrochemical Society, Orlando, Abstract No. 1378(2003)

23.   M.Garnett, and C.V.Krishnan, A New Model For DNA Charge Transfer: Variable Electronic Circuitry, 204th Meeting of Electrochemical Society, Orlando, Abstract No. 1377(2003)

24.   C.V.Krishnan, and M.Garnett, Duplex semiconductor behavior of mercury electrode in aqueous solutions, 226th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Abstract No. Inor. 0028(2003)

25.   C.V.Krishnan, and M.Garnett, Dopant Catalyzed Charge Dissipation In A Liquid Crystal, 203rd Meeting of Electrochemical Society, Paris, Abstract No. 2703(2003)

26.   C.V.Krishnan, and M.Garnett, Dissipative Impedance in a Doped Liquid Crystal, 1st Spring Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry, Spain, Abstract No. P06(2003)

27.   M.Garnett, and C.V.Krishnan, Pulsed Electrospinning of Biopolymers, 201st Meeting of Electrochemical Society, Philadelphia, Abstract No. 78(2002)

28.   M.Garnett, and J.L.Remo, Mesophase Interaction Between Biological Polymers, 200th Meeting of Electrochemical Society, San Francisco, Abstract No. 1132(2001)

29.   M.Garnett and J.L.Remo, DNA Reductase: A Synthetic Enzyme with Opportunist Clinical Activity Against Radiation Sickness, International Symposium on Applied Enzymes in Chemical and Biological Defense, DARPA, p.41(2001)

30.   M.Garnett, and J.L. Remo, Increased Pseudoinductance in Paired Mixtures of Biopolymers is a Model for Twin Wire Mutual Inductance in RNA and DNA, 198th Meeting of Electrochemical Society, Phoenix, Abstract No. 1152(2000)

31.   M. Garnett and J.L.Remo, Soluble Sensors of Telephonic Signals, in: Microfabricated Systems and Mems V, Electrochemical Society proceedings, 185(2000)

32.   M. Garnett, and W. Garnett, Impedance Spectroscopy of DNA, The 9th

      International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Minneapolis, Minnesota,

      July(1999), Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 74, 136(1999)

33.   W. Garnett, and M. Garnett, Charge relay from Molybdate Oxyradical to Palladium-Lipoic Complex to DNA, University of Minnesota Conference on Oxygen Intermediates in Nonheme Metallobiochemistry, 81(1996)

34.   M.Garnett, Synthetic DNA Reductase, J.Inorg. Biochem, 59, 231(1995)

35.   M. Garnett, Electrogenic Effect of a Synthetic Oxygen Carrier, J.Cell Biol., 43, 42a(1969)

36.   M. Garnett, A Laboratory Model for Heterochromatin, J.Cell Biol., 35, 44(1967)

 

 

Patents

 

1.      M. Garnett, Palladium Complexes and Methods for Using same in the Treatment of Psoriasis, U.S.Patent, No. 5,776,973, July7, (1998)

2.      M. Garnett, Palladium Complexes and Methods for Using same in the Treatment of Tumors, U.S.Patent, No. 5,679,697, Oct.21, (1997)

3.      M. Garnett, Palladium Complexes and Methods for Using Same in the Treatment of Tumors and Psoriasis, U.S.Patent, No. 5,463,093, Oct.31(1995)

 

 

Monograph

 

1.      M. Garnett, “FIRST PULSE”, A Personal Journey In Cancer Research, First Pulse Projects, Inc, New York, 2nd edition, (2001); 1st Edition (1998)