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CURRICULUM VITAE
| NAME: |
PATTLE
P. T. PUN |
| BIRTH
DATE: |
SEPTEMBER
30, 1946 |
| BIRTH
PLACE: |
HONG
KONG |
| COUNTRY
OF CITIZENSHIP: |
U.S.A. |
| MARITAL
STATUS: |
MARRIED
WITH TWO CHILDREN |
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(WIFE:
GWEN Y. Q. CHIU) |
| MAILING
ADDRESS: |
DEPARTMENT
OF BIOLOGY |
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WHEATON
COLLEGE |
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WHEATON,
IL 60187 |
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U.S.A. |
| PHONE:
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630-752-5303 |
| Fax: |
630-752-5996 |
| Email: |
Pattle.P.Pun@wheaton.edu |
| HOME
ADDRESS: |
0N727
PETER ROAD |
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WHEATON,
IL 60187 |
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U.S.A. |
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PHONE:
630-668-0348 |
EDUCATION:
| June,
1969 |
San
Diego State University |
B.S.
Chemistry |
| February,
1972 |
State
University of New York at Buffalo |
M.A.
Biology |
| February,
1974 |
State
University of New York at Buffalo |
Ph.D.
Biology |
| May,
1985 |
Wheaton
College |
M.A. Theology |
TEACHING AND RELATED EXPERIENCE:
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Research
Assistant, Summer, 1969
Laboratory of Dr. Harold
Segal, Department of Biology, State University of New York
at Buffalo. (Research Area: Mammalian glycogen synthetase).
Teaching
Assistant, 6/69 - 5/72
Laboratory instructors in the following courses at the State
University of New York at Buffalo. Introduction to Biological
Sciences (Freshman level); Molecular, Cellular Biology and
Genetics (Sophomore level); General Microbiology (Junior level);
Microbial Genetics (Senior level).
Research
Assistant, 6/72 - 7/73
Thesis research on bacterial sporulation.
Resident
Associate, 1/74 - 5/76
Department of Biological and Medical Research, Argonne National
Laboratory, Argonne, IL. (Research Areas: Immunochemistry
and Immunogenetics).
Visiting
Microbiologist, 12/80 - 2/81; 6/81 - 8/81
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois
at the Medical Center,
Chicago, IL at the laboratory of Dr. Ananda Chakrabarty. (Research
Area: Cloning of bacterial genes).
Visiting
Scientist, Summer, 1984
Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Drug Metabolism, American
Critical Care Inc., American Hospital Supplies Co., McGaw
Park, IL. (Research Area: Analysis of drug metabolites using
computerized High Pressure Liquid Chromatography).
Assistant
and Associate Professor, 9/73 - 6/88, Professor,
7/88 - present
Department of Biology, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL.
Collaborative
Research, Summer 1984 - 1989
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University,
with Dr. Patricia Vary.
(Research Area: Gene Cloning in Bacillus subtilis and
Bacillus megaterium).
Visiting
Microbiologist, Summer, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, and
Fall, 1987
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University,
DeKalb, IL.
Visiting
Pew Scientist, Summer 1990
Department of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Northwestern
University, Evanston, IL.
Visiting
Instructor, Summer 1991
Microbiology, Division of Natural Sciences, College of DuPage,
Glen Ellyn, IL.
Visiting
Research Associate, Summer 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois,
College of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Visiting
Instructor, Summer, 1996, 1997
Bacteriology, Dept. of Biology, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst,
IL
Visiting
Microbiologist, Fall, 2001
Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, The University
of Chicago, IL.
PUBLICATIONS
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1. "Characterization
of a conditionally asporogenous rifampicin resistant mutant
of Bacillus subtilis". Ph.D. thesis. State University
of New York at Buffalo. February 1974.
2. "Between Professor
and Students". Ambassadors. Vol. XV (2), March, April
1974, p. 14-18 (In Chinese).
3. Dissertation
Abstracts International, 74-20, 027, Vol. 35 (3), September
1974.
4. "Template specificity
changes of DNA-dependent RNA-polymerase in Bacillus subtilis
during sporulation". Charlyn D. Murray, Pattle Pun
and N. Strauss. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communication. Vol.
60 (1), 1974, p. 295-301.
5. "A study of
mutation rate in the immunoglobulin variable region". Pattle
Pun, David Thompson, Tatsuo Matshushita, and Bernard
Jaroslow in "Division of Biological and Medical Research,
Annual Report, 1974, Argonne National Laboratory", U.S. Energy
Research and Development Administration. ANL-75-30, June 1975,
p. 240-242.
6. "Characterization
of a Rifampin-resistant Conditional Asporogenous Mutant of
Bacillus subtilis". Pattle P. T. Pun,
Charlyn D. Murray, and Norman Strauss. Journal of Bacteriology,
American Society of Microbiology, Vol 123 (1), July, 1975,
p. 346-353.
7. "How to Witness
on Campus" (In English and Chinese). Monograph, Second North
American Congress of Chinese Evangelicals (NACOCE), Taipei,
Taiwan: Chinese Christian Mission. 1974, p. 142-147. (Published
in early 1976).
8. "Ultrastructural
Studies of the Effects of Hymenolepis diminuta, Parasite Tapeworm
in the Intestine of Rat". Pattle P. T. Pun,
David Jacobson and Ronald P. Babich. Abstract, 69th Annual
Convention of the Illinois State Academy of Science, Transactions
of the Illinois State Academy of Science. Vol 69 (2), 1976,
p. 239.
9. "Molecular
Genetics and Environmental Mutagens: A Study of Mutagenesis
in Mouse Myeloma Cells". Tatsuo Matshushita, Bernard Jaroslow
and Pattle Pun, in "Division of Biological
and Medical Research, Annual Report 1975, Argonne National
Laboratory", U. S. Energy Research and Development. Administration.
ANL-76-99, 1976, p. 229-230.
10. "Science and
Worldviews". Ambassadors. Vol XVII (4&5), October
1976, p. 1-4. (In Chinese).
11. Book Review,
Evolution and the Modern Christian by Henry Morris.
Philadelphia: The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co.,
1967. Chinese Translation by Paul Han. Taipei: Chinese Christian
Mission. Ambassadors. Vol. XVII (4 & 5) October
1976, p. 16-20. (In Chinese).
12. "A Critical
Evaluation of the Theory of Evolution: I". Ambassadors.
Vol. XVIII (1 & 2), January and March 1977, p. 18-35.
(In Chinese).
13. "A Critical
Evaluation of the Theory of Evolution: II". Ambassadors.
Vol. XVIII (3), June 1977, p. 13-20. (In Chinese).
14. "A Critical
Evaluation of the Theory of Evolution". Journal of the
American Scientific Affiliation. Vol. 29 (2), June 1977,
p. 84-91.
15. "Ultrastructural
Studies of the Effects of Nicotine on the Cardiac Tissues
of the Rat". James Smith, David Martinez, Glen Sedjo and Pattle
Pun. Abstract, 70th Annual Convention of the Illinois
State Academy of Science, Transactions of the Illinois State
Academy of Science,1977, Vol. 70 (2), p. 227.
16. "Science and
Worldviews", a chapter in I Have Found It. Taipei:
Chinese Christian Mission. September 1977, p. 47-53. (In Chinese).
17. "A Study of
the Immunosuppressive Effects of Tumorigenesis by Primary
Immune Splenocytes". Stephen Sugarbaker, Paul Sugarbaker and
Pattle Pun. Abstract, 71st Annual Convention
of the Illinois State Academy of Science, 1978.
18. "Chapter I.
A Panoramic View of Evolution". Ambassadors, Vol. XIX
(2 & 3), April and June 1978, p.28-32. (In Chinese).
19. The Winn Essay
as a Model of Local Immunotherapy: Characterization of
in vivo Suppression of Syngeneic Tumor by Allogeneic Effector
Cells". P. H. Sugarbaker, S. P. Sugarbaker and Pattle
Pun. Abstract E-72, Annual Meeting of the American
Society of Microbiology, 1979, p. 66.
20. "Chapter III.
A Panoramic View of Evolution". Ambassadors. Vol. XX
(1 & 2), April 1979, p. 32-40; Vol. XX (3), June 1979,
p. 28-32; Vol XX (5), October 1979, p. 26-32. (In Chinese).
21. "Correlation
of the synthesis of highly phosphorylated nucleotides with
RNA synthesis and amino acid regulation of sporulation in
a conditionally asporogenous mutant of Bacillus subtilis."
P. P. Pun, D. Pennington and D. Maibenco.
Abstract I(129), Annual Meeting of the American Society for
Microbiology, 1980, p. 10.
22. "Characterization
of in vivo suppression of syngenic tumor by allogenic
effector cells." P. H. Sugarbaker, S. P. Sugarbaker, and P.
P. Pun. Journal of Surgical Oncology, Vol.
15, November 1980, p. 297-308.
23. "Adenosine
3'-5'bis-diphosphate (ppApp) stimulated RNA synthesis in a
rifampicin resistant conditional asporogenous mutant of Bacillus
subtilis". P. P. Pun, S. M. Ginn and
E. M Flint. Abstract I (4), Annual Meeting of the American
Society for Microbiology, 1981, p. 87.
24. "Stimulation
of sporulation by ppApp in a conditionally asporogenous rifampin
resistant mutant of Bacillus subtilis." P.
P. Pun and D. W. Pennington. Experientia.Vol.
37, 1981, p. 470- 472.
25. "Cloning of
a plasmid from Pseudomonas putida that encodes the
biological degradation of 3-chlorobenzoic acid in Escherichia
coli" P. P. Pun and A. M. Chakrabarty.
Research done from 12/80-2/81 and 6/81-8/81 at the Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois Medical
Center, Chicago.
26. "Regulation
of ppApp synthesis during sporulation of a conditionally asporogenous
rifampicin mutant of Bacillus subtilis". P.
P. Pun, S. M. Ginn, E. M. Flint. Experientia.Vol.
38, 1982, p. 663-664.
27. "Evolution:
Nature and Scripture in Conflict?". Grand Rapids: Zondervan,
1982. Reviewed by Paul Rothrock, Department of Biology, Taylor
University in the Journal of the American Affiliation.
September 1984, p. 184 and by Robert Fischer, Biola University,
Christian Scholars Review. Vol. XVI (2), 1985, p. 171-172.
Web edition, September, 2002, http://ibri.org/DVD-1/Books/Pun_Evolution/Pun_Contents.htm.
28. "Cloning of
the Spo(C) Rif(R) gene of Bacillus subtilis on a temperate
bacteriophage rho 11". P. P. T. Pun and D.
Ness. Abstract I 126, Annual Meeting of the American Society
for Microbiology,1983.
29. Evolution
in "Evangelical Dictionary of Theology". W. Elwell, (ed.).
Grand Rapids: Baker, 1984, p. 388-392, second edition (2001)
p. 415-422..
30. "Evolution:
Nature and Scripture in Conflict?". Chinese edition, Christian
Renewal Ministries: E. Brunswick, NJ. 1984, 1989, 1992, 1994(In
Chinese).
31. "Cloning of
the Conditional Asporogenous and Rifampicin Resistant Gene
of Bacillus subtilis and Its Genetic and Biochemical
Analysis". Collaborative research with Dr. Patricia Vary,
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University.
Summer, 1984 - 1989.
32. Summary Report
for Summer Research for Northern Illinois University and the
National Science Foundation, 1985.
33. "A New Look
at Evolution". Cosmic Light Magazine (139), November
1985, p. 54-57. (In Chinese).
34. "Contemporary
Theological Dialogs on Creation and Evolution". Proceedings
of the 3rd Quinquenial Chinese Congress of World
Evangelism. Chungli,Taiwan: August, 1986. (In Chinese).
35. Summary Report
of Summer Research for Northern Illinois University and the
National Science Foundation, 1986.
36. "A Theology
of Progressive Creationism". Journal of the American Scientific
Affiliation. Vol. 39 (1), March 1987, p. 9-19.
37. Summary Report
of Summer Research for Northern Illinois University and the
National Science Foundation, 1987.
38. "A Theology
of Progressive Creationism". China Graduate School of Theology
Journal. January 1988, p. 6-29. (In Chinese).
39. "Cloning of
the trpC gene of B. megaterium". P.
Pun and P. S. Vary. Abstract, 88th Annual
Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, May 1988.
40. "Genetics
of B. megaterium. P. S. Vary, Y. P. Tao and P.
Pun. Abstract. Conference on Biotechnology,
Argonne National Laboratory, November 1988.
41. "Cloning of
a starch degrading gene of B. megaterium". C. Klug,
P. Pun and P. S. Vary. Abstract. 88th Annual
Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, May 1988.
42. Summary Report
of Summer Research for Northern Illinois University and the
National Science Foundation, 1988.
43. Book Review
on J. P. Moreland's Christianity and the Nature of Science
(Baker, 1989). Themelios, (An international journal
of theology), Vol 17 (1), 10/11, p. 32-33, 1991.
44. P.
P. T. Pun. First Response to Christianity and
Modern Science, Evangelical Affirmation. K. Kantzer,
C. Henry, (eds.) 1990. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. p. 423-437.
45. "The Christian
Critique of Evolution". Christian Communications Incorporated
of USA, Sunnyvale, CA. September 1990. (In Chinese).
46. Response to
Professor Alvin Plantinga's article on "When Faith and Reason
Clash: Evolution and the Bible". Christian Scholar's Review.
Vol. XXI (1), September 1991, p. 46-54.
47. Book Review
on E. McCrady's Seen and Unseen, a biologist views the
universe. (University of the South, 1990). Christian
Scholar's Review, Vol. XXIII (4), June, 1994. p. 454-456.
48. "Critical
nucleotides in the Interaction of a LysR-type Regulator with
Its Target Promoter Sequence: catBC promoter Activation
by CatR". M. R. Parsek, R. Ye, P. Pun and
A. M. Chakrabarty, Journal of Biological Chemistry,
Vol. 269 (15), April 15, 1994, p. 11279-11284.
49. "Darwin on
Trial", by Phillip Johnson, Intervarsity Press, Downers Grove,
1993, Chinese translation by P.K Chien, P. Pun,
C.H. Lee, and T. Ho, Chinese Christian Missions, 1994, reprinted
in simplified scripts in China, 1999.(positive review by the
Chinese Newspaper, "Light Daily", December 1, 1999)
50. "Genetic Engineering
and the Future of Man". Christian Arts Press, Taipei, Dec.
1995 ( in Chinese). Second printing, Sep. 1997.
51. "The Cloning
and Sequencing of the Indoleglycerol Phosphate Synthetase
Gene (trpC) of Bacillus megaterium". L.M.
Jablonski, P.P.T.Pun, D.S.Hudspeth, D. Stevenson
and P.S.Vary (manuscript in revision).
52. "Towards an Ethics
of the Human Genome Project", Journal of the American Scientific
Affiliation. (Perspectives on Science and Christian
Faith), September, 1998, p. 164-175.
53. "Integration
of Christian Faith and Professions", Ambassadors, July/August,
1999, p. 26-30. (In Chinese). 54. Book Review on
Intelligent Design: The Bridge between Science and Theology, Christian Scholar's Review, Vol XXX #1, p. 124- 126, Fall,
2000.
55. "Four taxa
protein sequence analyses using protein sequence parsimony
(PROTPARS) and neighbor joining (NEIGHBOR) methods suggest
sequence assortments into the three domains of Archeae, Bacteria,
and Eucarya as independent lineages", P.P.Pun1,
S. Schuldt1, B. Pun1, T. Wood2
and C. Ihm1, 1Wheaton Col. Wheaton,
IL and 2Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC, Abstract,
100th General Meeting of the American Society for
Microbiology, Los Angeles, CA, May 21-25, 2000.
56. "In the Beginning:
The Opening Chapters of Genesis", by Henri Blocker, Intervarsity
Press, Downers Grove, 1984, Chinese translation by P.
Pun and E. Chow, China Evangelical Seminary, Taipei,
Taiwan, released in May 2000.
57. "Towards an Ethics of the Human Genome Project (HGP)",
China Graduate School of Theology Journal, Issue #30, January,
2001, p. 163-186 (In Chinese).
58. Contributor to the book, Reading for Life, edited
by Jeff Davis, Tom Martin and Lee Ryken, Xlibris publisher,
Random House, 2001, p. 155-157.
59. "Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research", Ambassadors,
September/October, 2001, p. 46-49 (In Chinese).
60. "Cultural Renewal", Ambassadors, November/December,
2001, p.8-13 (In Chinese).
61. "A Christian Response to the Genetic Revolution" (in Chinese),
Christian Life Quarterly, Vol. 6, #2, 6/2002, p. 48-52.
62. "The Three Domains of Life: A Challenge to the concept
of the Universal Cellular Ancestor?", Abstract presented at
the 57th Annual Conference of the American Scientific
Affiliation, August, 2002.
63. "The Three Domains of Life: A Challenge to the concept
of the Universal Cellular Ancestor?", P.P.Pun,
S. Schuldt, and B. Pun, Progress in Complexity,
Information and Design, Vol. 4.2, November, 2005:
http://www.iscid.org/pcid/2005/4/2/pun_three_domains.php
64. "Validation
of a Genomics-Based Diagnostic Test for Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma"
Brian Pottorf (1), Scott Snyder (1), Pattle Pun (2),
Raphael Bueno (1), and Gavin J. Gordon (1). (1) Brigham and
Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
(02115); (2) Biology Department, Wheaton College, Wheaton,
IL (60187). Experimental Biology (EB) 2005 meeting of the
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biologists
(FASEB), San Diego, CA, April 1 – 5, 2005. Abstract
298.4.
65. Pattle
Pun, "Environmental Conservation in light of
a New Creation Eschatology", Feb. 2005, Chinese Churches
Today.
66. Pattle
Pun, "Environmental Conservation in light of
a New Creation Eschatology", "100 Lessons to equip
the 21st Century Christians", Coordination of Chinese
Congress of World Evangelization, Hong Kong, 2005, p. 665-667.
67. Pattle
Pun, "A Christian Response to the Genetic Revolution",
"100 Lessons to equip the 21st Century Christians",
Coordination of Chinese Congress of World Evangelization,
Hong Kong, 2005, p. 648-655.
68. “Application of a Genomics-Based Diagnostic Test
for Human Diseases.” Christine O’Rourke(1), Gavin
J. Gordon(2), and Pattle Pun(1). (1)Biology Department, Wheaton
College, Wheaton, IL (60187), (2)Brigham and Women’s
Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (02115). Abstract
in Experimental Biology (EB) 2006 meeting of the Federation
of American Societies for Experimental Biologists (FASEB),
San Francisco, CA, April 1 – 5, 2006.
69. "Evolution or Intelligent Design: The Mystery of
Life's Origin - No Universal Cellular Ancestor?", The
Blessings Magazine, October, 2006, (in Chinese), http://ccool.ccim.org/htdocs/bf21.nsf/e68dc19e63a9f71985256b42005d2dae/00f324a1c63779138525721400619bdf?OpenDocument
70. Pun, Pattle P. 2006. April 15 (Ephesians 5:17). In Stones of Remembrance 2: Wheaton’s Living Stones, ed. Emily Louise Zimbrick, p 117, Wheaton, IL: Wheaton College.
71. Pun, Pattle P. 2006. Chinese translation, The Soul of Science by Nancy Pearsey and Charles Thaxton, Crossway, 1994. Enoch Communications Inc., Chengdu, China.
72. Abstract 706.21: “Applicability of cDNA and Oligonucleotide Microarray to a Diagnostic Test of Human Disease using Gene Expression Ratios”, Nathan Gaines(1), Ryan Wilke(1), Pattle Pun(1), Gavin Gordon(2), (1)Biology Department, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL (60187), (2)Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (02115); Experimental Biology 2007: Today’s Research: Tomorrow’s Health. 2007 meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biologists (FASEB), Washington, DC, April 28 – May 2, 2007.
73. Pun, Pattle P. 2007. Integration and Confrontation of Contemporary Worldviews: Evolution and Intelligent Design. Perspectives in Science and Christian Faith, (June) 59(2): 102-109.
74. “Applicability of cDNA and Oligonucleotide Microarray to a Diagnostic Test of Human Disease using Gene Expression Ratios”, Nathan Gaines(1,) Christine O’Rourke(1), Pattle Pun(1), Gavin Gordon(2), (1)Biology Department, Wheaton College, Kenilworth Street, Wheaton, IL (60187), (2) Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA (02115) (manuscript in preparation)
OTHER
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (OFFICES HELD, LECTURESHIPS, GRANTS,
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Robert Shields
Foundation Scholarship Holder, 1968-69 academic year, San
Diego State University.
National Science
Foundation Undergraduate Research Award Holder, San Diego
State University. Summer, 1968.
B. S. with High
Honors--With distinction in Chemistry, San Diego State University.
June, 1969.
$3,600 awarded
by Research Corporation to study a project "A Study of Mutation
Rate in the Immunoglobulin Variable Region" from 3/21/74 to
3/20/75.
$3,720 awarded
by Research Corporation to continue the above project from
3/21/75 to 3/20/76.
Visited Dr. Matthew
Scharf's Laboratory in the Department of Cell Biology. Albert
Einstein Medical College, Bronx, NY for three days during
June of 1975.
$3,166 awarded
by the Wheaton College Alumni Association to support the book
project Evolution: Nature and Scripture in Conflict?.
Summer, 1977.
$12,000 awarded
by Research Corporation on February 25, 1979 to support a
project on "A Study of the Effects of Amino Acid in Bacillus
subtilis."
Lecturer, Cooperative
Course in Molecular Biology, Associated Colleges of the Chicago
Area. February 22, 1977.
Lecturer, Cooperative
Course in Virology, Associated Colleges of the Chicago Area.
October, 1978, September, 1983 and February, 1995.
Invited as Visiting
Associate Professor of Biology and Microbiology for the academic
year of 1978- 79, National Yang Ming Medical College, Taipei,
Taiwan. (Declined).
$15,700 awarded
by Research Corporation on March 1, 1982 to study the project
"Cloning of the Conditional Asporogenous and Rifampicin Resistant
[Spo(C) Rif(R)] Gene of Bacillus subtilis and Its Genetic
and Biochemical Analysis."
Elected as a member
of the Scholastic Honors Society of Wheaton College. May 1982.
Listed in "Who's
Who in the World" since 1984, and in "Who's Who in Technology",
"Who's Who in Religion."
Invited as a participant
in a focus group on a Microbiology text by William C. Brown
Publishers at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. April, 1984.
Completion of
a training course in "Separation of Proteins by Two-Dimensional
Electrophoresis" at Argonne National Laboratory. September
27-29, 1984.
Participant, Life
Science Symposium on Genetic Transformation In Eukaryotes,
Marquette University, Wisconsin. March 15-16, 1985.
$3,650 awarded
by the Wheaton College Alumni Association to support the continuation
of the project on the genetic study in Bacillus subtilis.
1985.
$5,988 awarded
by the National Science Foundation as a subcontract to study
genetic cloning in Bacillus subtilis in collaboration
with Dr. Patricia Vary of Northern Illinois University. Summer,
1985.
$1,500 grant from
Dr. C. H. Lee and Del Monte Corporation of California to support
research in Molecular Biology, 1985-1986.
$6,476 awarded
by the National Science Foundation as a subcontract to study
Gene cloning in Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus
megaterium in collaboration with Dr. Patricia Vary
of Northern Illinois University. Summer, 1986.
Participant, national
or regional meetings of the American Society for Microbiology
or the Federation of the American Societies for Experimental
Biologists: 1977. 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986,
1987, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2000
Poster presentation
on "The Formation of a Bacillus megaterium gene library
using the pHV33 shuttle plasmid." Michael Putrus and Pattle
Pun in "A Conference on Gene-Splicing: Current Progress &
Ethical Concern" sponsored by the American Scientific Affiliation,
Eastern College, St. Davids, PA. July 27-30, 1987.
Interviewed by
the Daily Journal on reflections on the recent Supreme
Court Decision on the teaching of Creation/Evolution in Public
Schools, published in the Sunday Journal of June 28, 1987
p.4.
$7,052 awarded
by the National Science Foundation as a subcontract to study
Gene cloning in B. megaterium in collaboration
with Dr. Patricia Vary of Northern Illinois University. Summer,
1987.
Seminar speaker,
"Cloning of the trpC gene of Bacillus megaterium."
Hope College, Michigan. April 1988.
$7,814 awarded
by the national Science Foundation as a subcontract to support
the same project as above. Summer, 1988.
$4,000 awarded
by the Wheaton College Alumni Association, $1,400 awarded
by the Science Division Student Summer Laboratory Internship
Fund; $3,500 awarded from the Pew Trust Fund to support myself
and two students in a summer project on "Cloning of the regulatory
elements of the trp operon in Bacillus megaterium."
Summer, 1989.
$4,500 and travel
support awarded by the Pew Trust fund and $1,500 and housing
allowance from the Wheaton College Science Division Summer
Student Laboratory Internship fund to support me and a student
on a collaborative project of "Cloning and Sequencing of a
thermal adaptation gene of Bacillus stearothermophilus"
at Northwestern University, IL. Summer, 1990.
Reviewers for
pre-publication text in Genetic Engineering and DNA Technology,
William C. Brown Publishers.1991, 1993.
$15,000 awarded
by the National Science Foundation under the Research Opportunity
Award Program (ROA) to support a collaborative project on
"Degradative Plasmids: Regulatory sequences" at the laboratory
of Dr. Ananda Chakrabarty, Department of Microbiology and
Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago,
IL. Summer, 1992.
A Travel award
from the Wheaton College Alumni Association to support a Faculty
Missionary Project in preparing a Voice of Friendship seminary
program on the air entitled "Genesis and Science", Far East
Broadcasting Associates, Singapore, summer 1992. The program
was broadcast into China in February to April of 1995 and
received the third highest response in terms of listeners'
correspondence amongst the 64 programs of the seminary series.
Participant, "DNA,
The Double Helix; Perspective and Prospective at Forty Years",
Conference sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences,
10/1993.
Renewal of ROA
for 1993 and 1994, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL. Summers,
1993, 1994
$5,000 awarded
by the Wheaton College Alumni Association to continue the
project on "Degradative Plasmids: Regulatory Sequences" at
the University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, Summer 1995.
$5,000 granted
by Dr. Stephen Ginn, Wheaton Alumnus, class of 1982 to continue
the project on "Degradative Plasmids: Regulatory Sequences"
at the University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, Summer 1995.
$5,000 granted
by Dr. Stephen Ginn, Wheaton Alumnus, class of 1982 to support
the summer student project, "Characterization of the cloned
starch degradation gene of Bacillus megaterium. Summer,
1996.
Reviewer of a
Microbiology text, "Biology of Microorganisms", by Brock et.
al. 8th ed. by Prentice Hall, 1997.
Presentation of
a paper entitled "Towards an Ethics of the Human Genome Project",
in Science and Christianity: Into the New Millennium,
An international conference of the CiS and ASA, Churchill
College, Cambridge University, England, August 2-5, 1998.
$3,000 initial
grant from Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture,
Discovery Institute, to support a research project on "Polyphyletic
Punctualism: An Alternative model to explain Molecular Evolution",
August, 1998
$3,000 additional
grant from Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture,
Discovery Institute, to support a research project on "Polyphyletic
Punctualism: An Alternative model to explain Molecular Evolution",
summer, 1999.
$2,500 from Aldeen
Fund to support student summer research on the above project,
summer, 1999.
$2,500 from Wheaton
College Science Division Summer Research Internship Fund to
support student summer research on the above project, summer
1999.
$3,500 from Wheaton
College Science Division Summer Research Internship Fund to
support student summer research on the project, "Cloning and
sequencing of the trp operon of Bacillus megaterium",
summer, 2,000.
Reviewer of a textbook on Microbiology published by Prentice
Hall Publishers in 2000.
Nominated for
the Senior Teacher or Researcher of the year award, Wheaton
College, 2000.
Presenter of a
research paper entitled, "Four taxa protein sequence analyses
using protein sequence parsimony PROTPARS) and neighbor joining
(NEIGHBOR) methods suggest sequence assortments into the three
domains of Archeae, Bacteria, and Eucarya as
independent lineages", P.P.Pun1,
S. Schuldt1, B. Pun1, T. Wood2
and C. Ihm1, 1Wheaton Col. Wheaton,
IL and 2Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC, at the 100th
General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology,
May 21-25, 2000, Los Angeles, CA.
$3,500 from Wheaton
College Science Division Summer Research Internship Fund to
support student summer research on the project, "Cloning and
sequencing of the trpD gene of Bacillus megaterium",
summer, 2,001.
Invited participant,
"Design, Self-Organization and the Integrity of Creation",
Calvin College Seminars in Christian Scholarship, June 19
- July 28, 2000, Grand Rapids, MI.
Presenter, "The
Three Domains of Life: A Challenge to the concept of the Universal
Cellular Ancestor?" Calvin College Seminars in Christian Scholarship,
May, 2001, Grand Rapids, MI.
One of the faculty
panel presenting the issues on "Intelligent Design" to the
Board of Visitors of Wheaton College during Spring break,
2002.
Book Reviewer,
"The Situation We Find Ourselves In: Further Adventures of
a New Kind of Christian" by Brian McLaren, Jossey-Bass, San
Francisco, 2002.
$3,500 from Wheaton
College Science Division Summer Research Internship Fund to
support student summer research on the project, "Cloning and
Preliminary Characterization of Potentially Useful Genes in
Bacillus megaterium", summer, 2002.
Participant, The
Luso-American Foundation (FLAD) and National Science Foundation
(NSF) International Bioethics Institute, Lisbon, Portugal,
June 24 - July 4, 2002.
Presenter of a
paper, "The Three Domains of Life: A Challenge to the concept
of the Universal Cellular Ancestor?", 57th Annual
Conference of the American Scientific Affiliation, August,
2002.
Invited participant,
e-symposium of the International Society for Complexity, Information
and Design (ISCID), "The Teleological Origin of Biological
Information", October 10th - 12th 2002.
Participant, Summer
Institute at Dartmouth College (Ethical, Legal and Social
Implications of the Human Genome Project)- August 2003.
Editorial Reviewer,
Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, American Scientific
Affiliation, October, 2002 -
Collaborator,"Validation
of a Genomics-Based Diagnostic Test for Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma",
with laboratory of Dr. David Sugarbaker, head, Department
of Thoracic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, 2005 -
Co-organizer and lecturer, “Promises and Perils of Stem Cell Research”, CACE and Science Division symposium seminar series, Spring, 2006, Wheaton College.
Invited participant,
Summer Institute Reunion at Dartmouth College (Ethical, Legal
and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project), presented
a paper on "Who Owns My Genes." August 2006.
Invited Speaker,
"Integration and Confrontation of Contemporary Worldviews:
Evolution and Intelligent Design", The Redemption of
Reason Conference, University of Chicago, November 9, 2006.
Student symposium faculty sponsors:
40th Annual ACCA , Student Symposium, Saturday April 14th, 2007 at University of St. Francis,
500 N. Wilcox, Joliet, IL 60435
(1) CONFIRMATION OF SPORULATION OF Bacillus subtilis rpoB TRANSFORMANTS IN spo0F STRAIN, Andrew Moy – Wheaton College, Faculty Advisor: Dr. Pattle P. Pun, Dept. of Biology– Wheaton College
(2) SEQUENCING OF MUTATIONS IN THE rpoB GENE OF THE CONDITIONALLY RIFAMPICIN RESISTANT ASPOROGENOUS BACILLUS SUBTILIS STRAIN SB22, Ryan Heath, Wheaton College, Faculty Advisor, Dr. Pattle Pun, Biology Dept.
Participant, 2007 GCAT Microarray Workshop, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA, July 8-13, 2007
MEMBERSHIPS
IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: Back
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- American
Society for Microbiology
- American Scientific
Affiliation
- International
Society for Complexity, Information and Design
- Fellow of the
American Scientific Affiliation.
RESEARCH:
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My research will be focused on genomic analysis: using bioinformatics
and/or molecular cloning techniques to examine various biological
systems including bacteria that undergo differentiation (Bacillus
subtilis) and human diseases. I am also interested in issues
in bioethics such as those involving genetically modified
organisms and the human genome project.
INSTITUTIONAL
SERVICE (MAJOR COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT, COUNSELING ETC.):
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Special
Convocation:
Arranged for a
convocation on "Genetic Engineering and the Future of Man"
held on campus of Wheaton College on May 13-14, 1976. The
speaker was Dr. Frank Young (M.D., Ph. D), former Dean of
the University of Rochester School of Medicine and former
Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Young
is one of the leading scientists in the controversial recombinant
DNA research. He was invited to be the featured speaker for
the 1978 student-faculty seminar of the Associated Colleges
of the Chicago Area held on February 3, 1978. I arranged for
his itinerary and he was on campus during the week of January
30, 1978 to speak in chapel; as well as, in research seminars
in the Biology Department.
One of two biologists
who arranged for the scientific sessions of the Trilog Ethics
Conference, March 13-15, 1996, cosponsored by the Center for
Applied Christian Ethics of Wheaton College. The featured
speaker on human genetics was Dr. Elving Anderson, Professor
emeritus, Dight Institute of Human Genetics, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis. Chaired one of the sessions
Member:
Health Professions
Committee, 1975-1993; 2002-
Assumed responsibility
for the Medical Technology degree program until 1977.
In charge of the
Basic Science Review Course 1978 - 1990, 1996 and also involved
in part of its instruction annually for health professions
students in preparation for the Medical/Dental College Admissions
Test.
Orientation Committee,
1975-1977.
Honors Committee,
Biology Department, 1980-1995. Chairman, overseeing students
graduating with honors in Biology.
Research and Internship
Committee, Biology Department, 1984-1990. Chairman, overseeing
students applying for credits for independent projects.
Spiritual Life
and Standards Committee, 1983-84.
Student Development
Committee, 1984-86.
Campus Life Committee,
1986-87.
Member of the
Board, Wheaton College Scholastic Honor Society, 1986-1989.
President, Board
of Directors, Wheaton College Scholastic Honor Society, 1987-1988.
Enrollment Management
Committee, 1992-94, Co-chair, 1993-94.
Freshman Adviser,
1995 - present.
Organizer of Biology
Departmental prayer meetings, 1991 - present
Organizer of Biology
Departmental chapels, 1991 to 2000.
Departmental Representative
to the Computer Resource Task Force of the Science Division
in administering the computer network funded by a grant from
the Hughes Foundation, 1998.
Member of the
Scholastic Honors subcommittee of the Educational Policies
and Curriculum Committee, 1998 - present
Nominated for
the Educational Policies and Curriculum Committee, 1999.
Secretary of the
ad hoc Minority Faculty Affairs Subcommittee, Spring, 1998
until its dissolution after the proposed statement on diversity
was delivered to the faculty for further discussion and resolution.
Nominated for
the newly created Technology and Institutional Research standing
committee, 2000
Nominated for
the Faculty Personnel standing committee, 2002
Member of the
Animal Care and Use subcommittee of the Technology and Institutional
Research Committee, 2000 to 2002.
Member of the
Scholastic Honors subcommittee of the Educational Policies
and Curriculum Committee, 1998 -2002.
Member of the Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, 2006-
Departmental, Science Division and Center for Applied Christian
Ethics Seminar: “Promises and Perils of Stem Cell Research”,
co-organizer and lecturer, Spring, 2006, Wheaton College.
Member of the Institutional Research and Assessment Committee
of Wheaton College, 2006- .
Soloist:
During Wheaton
College chapel for two occasions and in numerous occasions
in local churches.
Small Group
Chapel:
Led a small group
chapel on "The Normal Christian Life" for 20 students during
the spring quarter of the 1973-74 academic year.
Led a small group
chapel on "Progressive Creationism" for over 140 students
during the spring semesters of the 1982-83, 1983-84, 1984-85,
1985-86, 1986-87, 1987-88, and 1988-89 academic years.
Wheaton
Connection:
Served as representative
of the Biology Department during the campus visits of prospective
Wheaton students and their parents.
HNGR Internships:
Made arrangements
with Chung Yuan Christian University, Chungli, Taiwan; the
Research Institute for Christian Educators, Hong Kong; and
the "Build China" Foundation, Hong Kong for possible placement
of Wheaton student interns.
Department
Fellowships:
Led devotional
and fellowship time for the monthly voluntary prayer meetings
of the Biology Department.
Organized departmental
chapel programs.
Contact
with Industry and Research Laboratories for Equipment Donation:
Contacted the
University of Chicago; Blue M Manufacturer of Incubators in
Blue Island, IL; the American Critical Care Company in McGaw
Park, IL; and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee;
for several pieces of equipment donated to the Biology Department
of Wheaton College since 1974.
$23,900 Grant
Proposal for a Packard Liquid Scintillation Spectrometer,
in collaboration with Dr. Chappell, Former Chair of Biology
Department. Funded by outside sources. Equipment procured
in October, 1987.
Student Research:
Supervised 74
students on Independent Research Projects since 1974.
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Participant in
training camps for student leaders of Intervarsity Christian
Fellowship and Campus Crusade For Christ, California, 1967-68.
Leader in the
Chinese Christian Fellowship at the State University of New
York at Buffalo, 1969-73.
Involved in organizing
the annual East Coast Christian Conferences for Chinese students,
1970-73.
Coordinating Editor,
Chinese Bible Study Groups Bulletin of North America, 1971-72.
Attended the triennial
Missionary Conferences at Urbana, Illinois sponsored by the
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship in 1967, 1973, and 1976.
Active involvement
in the Chinese Christian Fellowships at the University of
Chicago, Northwestern University, Illinois Institute of Technology,
and the University of Illinois at the Medical Center from
1973 to 1977. Led a monthly discipleship training seminar
from November 1976 to October 1977 in the groups at Illinois
Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago.
Member of the
Church Board of the Chinese Bible Church of Oak Park, serving
occasionally as a lay preacher on the pulpit; soloist during
special services; choir member; song leader at worship services;
Sunday School teacher for College and Career Group; chairman
of the Christian Education Committee, 1981-82; Chairman of
the Worship Committee, 1984-1987.
Song leader in
the 1977 joint Sunrise Service of the Chinese Churches in
Metropolitan Chicago.
Member of the
Wheaton Chinese Alliance Church serving as lay preacher, Sunday
School Teacher, speakers at various church fellowship groups,
and pulpit interpreter, 1990-2002
Member of the
Chinese Christian Mandarin Church serving as lay preacher,
Sunday School Teacher, speakers at various church fellowship
groups, and small group advisor, 2003-
Member (from 1976-1980)
of the Board of Directors of Ambassadors For Christ, Inc.,
P. O. Box AFC, Paradise, PA. A non-profit missionary organization
reaching Chinese intellectuals in North America for Christ
serving in the capacities of overseeing the literature work
and as area representative. Honorary staff, 1989 to present.
Coordinating editor
(February, 1973 to December, 1974) for Ambassadors,
a Chinese missionary magazine published by Ambassadors For
Christ, Inc., with a circulation of approximately 9,000 at
that time.
Secretary of the
Board, Christian Communication Inc., USA, a non-profit missionary
organization emphasizing literature ministry with headquarters
in Hong Kong, 1987-2006. Vice Chairman of the Board, March
to December, 1987.
Workshop leader
on Basic Christianity during the 1976 annual summer joint
retreat of the Chinese Christian Fellowships of Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, and other midwestern states.
Featured speaker,
Youth Conference on Evolution, December 30-31, 1977. Ambassadors
For Christ Retreat Center,
Paradise, PA.
Featured speaker,
Evangelistic Reception for international students at the University
of Michigan sponsored by International Students Inc., Ann
Arbor, MI. February, 1981.
Led a workshop
on 'Creation and Evolution", June 16-18, 1983 at the 1983
Midwest Chinese Bible Conference at Taylor University, Upland,
IN.
Taught a Sunday
School lesson on "Progressive Creationism" on June 26, 1983
to approximately 100 adults at the Wheaton Bible Church, Wheaton,
IL.
Led a study group
on "Creation and Evolution" for the Chinese Mission of the
First Baptist Church of Palatine, IL. March, 1984.
Taught a Sunday
School lesson on "Progressive Creationism" on December 9,
1984 to a combined high school and college Sunday school class
with 55 people at the Chinese Christian Union Church, Chicago,
IL.
Interviewed by
Dr. Walter Brown, Regional Director of the Institute for Creation
Research. April 1984.
Guest speaker,
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship Symposium on "Creation and/or
Evolution", Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL. December
7, 1985.
Featured speaker,
on "Evolution: Nature and Scripture in Conflict?", Richwoods
Christian Church, Peoria, IL. December 7, 1985.
Guest speaker
on Evolution and Genetic Engineering at China Evangelical
Seminary, Taipei, Taiwan, sponsored by Cosmic Light Inc. December
28, 1985.
Guest speaker
on "Evolution: Nature and Scripture in Conflict?" at the Research
Institute for Christian educators on the campus of the Honk
Kong Baptist College. December 21, 1985.
Led an informal
discussion on "Creation and/or Evolution" at a faculty gathering
of Chung Yuan Christian University, Chungli, Taiwan. December
31, 1985.
Gave a brief talk
on the Integration of Faith and Learning at a chapel gathering
of the China Graduate School of Theology, Hong Kong on January
8, 1986.
Featured speaker
on "Evolution: Nature and Scripture in Conflict?" College
and Professional Fellowships at the Chinese Christian Union
Church, Chicago, January 29, 1986 and the Chinese Mission
at the First Baptist Church of Palatine, IL. March 9, 1986.
Featured speaker
on "Evolution: Nature and Scripture in Conflict?" Illinois
Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL. April 4, 1986.
Presented a paper
on the Contemporary Dialogs in Creation and/or Evolution at
the Third Quinquenial Chinese Congress of World Evangelism
at Chungli, Taiwan. August, 1986. (By Proxy).
Featured speaker
in an evangelistic meeting geared towards Chinese intellectuals
on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University. October, 1986.
Featured speaker
on "Evolution: Nature and Scripture in Conflict?" at the Chinese
Christian Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
November 14, 1986.
Featured speaker
in an evangelistic meeting for Chinese students on "Creation
and/or Evolution" at Texas Technological University, Lubbock,
TX. July 11, 1987.
Invited speaker,
Consultation on the Biological Sciences, Institute for Christian
Studies, Toronto, Canada July 23-24, 1987.
Invited speaker
on "Evolution and/or Creation" Chinese Christian Mission,
East Texas State University, Commerce, TX. October 2, 1987.
Featured speaker,
"Evolution: Nature and Scripture in Conflict?", evangelistic
outreach meeting, Dallas Chinese Fellowship Church, Richardson,
TX. October 3, 1987.
Speaker, Worship
Service, Dallas Chinese Fellowship Church. October 4, 1987.
Invited participant.
Christianity Today Institute on Cosmology, December, 1987;
proceedings published in the August 12, 1988 issue of Christianity
Today.
Invited speaker,
Issues in Science and Religion Class, Hope College, Michigan.
April, 1988.
Workshop leader
on "Creation and/or Evolution", Ambassadors For Christ, Inc.,
summer Conference, Washington, DC. May, 1988.
Respondent, conference
on "Information Transfer in DNA and the Origin of Life," sponsored
by the American Scientific Affiliation, Tacoma, WA. July,
1988.
Discussion leader,
seminar on Science and Scripture, Wheaton College. October,
1988.
Featured speaker,
evangelistic outreach of the Detroit Chinese Bible Study group.
November 19, 1988.
Sunday service
speaker, Detroit Chinese Christian and Missionary Alliance
Church. November 20, 1988.
Speaker, evangelistic
outreach meeting, Chinese Baptist Church, Chicago, IL. December
17, 1988.
Featured
Speakers at the Following occasion 1989:
3/11 Chinese Mandarin
Church of Greater Milwaukee, WI
4/15 Conference
of North America Chinese Christian Professionals and Business
People, Houston, TX (Workshop Speaker)
5/17 Conference
on 'Evangelical Affirmation," Deerfield, IL (Respondent)
5/28 Summer Student
Conference sponsored by Ambassadors For Christ, Inc., Washington,DC
(Workshop Speaker)
7/2 Summer Conference
of the Formosan Church in Chicago
8/18 Gainsville
Chinese Christian Fellowship, FL
9/2-4 Kentucky
Chinese Christian Fellowship Church, Lexington, KY
11/17 Morgantown
Chinese Christian Fellowship, WV
12/24 Chinese
Bible Church of Oak Park, IL
Interviewed on
"Open Line", a popular call-in Radio Talk Show of Moody Broadcasting
Network, on October 11, 1989 in a debate with Ken Hamm, Associate
Director of the Institute of Creation Research, San Diego,
CA; the program was extended to 2 hours because of the enthusiastic
responses from the call-in listeners.
Featured
Speakers at the following occasions in 1990:
1/19-21 Texas
A&M University Chinese Christian Fellowship, College Station
2/9-10 Illini
Chinese Christian Fellowship, Champaign, IL
3/10 Wayne State
University Chinese Christian Fellowship, Detroit, MI
4/29 Faith Lutheran
Church, Arlington Heights, IL
5/25-28 Summer
Student Conference organized by Ambassadors For Christ, Inc.,
Washington,DC
9/3-5 Fall Evangelistic
Retreat, Christian Testimony Inc., Wyckoff, NJ
9/30 Southwest
Chinese Baptist Church, Houston, TX
11/4 Illini Chinese
Fellowship, Champaign, IL
Featured
Speakers at the following occasions in 1991:
1/91 University
of Texas at Arlington and Arlington Chinese Christian Church,
Arlington,TX
3/91 Purdue Chinese
Christian Fellowship, W. Lafayette, IN
3/91 Chicago Chinese
Fellowship Church, Wilmette, IL
4/91 Ames Chinese
Bible Fellowship, Ames, IA
5/91 Summer Student
Conference, Ambassadors For Christ, Inc., Washington, DC
6/91 Ohio Chinese
Christian Summer Conference, Ada, OH
7/91 Wheaton Chinese
Alliance Church Mandarin Fellowship, Naperville, IL
8/91 Illini Chinese
Christian Fellowship, Champaign, IL
9/91 Chinese Baptist
Church of Arlington Heights, IL
12/91 Chinese
Mission, First Baptist Church, Lafayette, LA
12/91 North Central
Chinese Christian Winter Conference, Oak Brook, IL
Featured
Speakers at the following occasions in 1992:
1/92 Far East
Christian Communication Association, Oak Park, IL
1/92 New Orleans
Chinese Baptist Church, LA
2/92 Trinity Evangelical
Divinity School, Founders Day Respondent, Deerfield, IL
5/92 International
Students Inc., Spring Evangelical Retreat, Holland, MI
6/92 Pittsburgh
Chinese Christian Church, PA
6/92 Indiana University
International Christian Fellowship, Indiana, PA
7/92 Far East
Broadcasting Associates, Voice of Friendship Seminary Course
on "Genesis and Science" (39 lessons),
Singapore
8/92 Hong Kong
Polytechnic, Great Commission Fellowship (faculty and staff),
Hong Kong
8/92 Seminar on
"Evolution: Nature and Scripture in Conflict?" China Graduate
School of Theology, Hong Kong
9/92 Luncheon
Seminar on "Evolution: Nature and Scripture in Conflict?,
AT&T Laboratory, Warrenville, IL
11/92 Ann Arbor
Chinese Christian Church, MI
Featured
Speaker at the following occasions in 1993:
1/93 Northshore
Chinese Church, Highland Park, IL
2/93 New Orleans
Chinese Baptist Church, LA
3/93 Peninsula
Chinese Church, San Mateo, CA
6/93 Wheaton Chinese
Alliance Church, IL
8/93 San Francisco
Bay Area Apologetic Seminar, Christian Communication Inc.,
USA. Mountain View, CA
8/93 Stanford
University Chinese Christian Fellowship, "Creation and Evolution,"
Palo Alto, CA
8/93 Peninsula
Chinese Church, San Mateo, CA
8/93 Christ Church
of Oakbrook, Single Adults Fellowship, "Progressive Creationism,"
Oak Brook, IL
10/93 - 11/93
First Presbyterian Church, Midweek Study Group, "Progressive
Creationism", Wheaton, IL
Featured
speakers at the following occasions in 1994:
2/94 Lubbock Chinese
Mission, TX
3/94 Madison Chinese
Christian Church, WI
10/94 Rockford
Chinese Christian Fellowship, IL
Featured
speakers at the following occasions in 1995:
2/95 Houston Chinese
South West Baptist Church, TX
2/95 Madison Chinese
Christian Church Cantonese Fellowship, WI
4/95 Madison Chinese
Christian Church, WI
7/95 Madison Chinese
Christian Church, WI
12/95 Conference
on "Science, Technologies and Humanities", Tung Hai University,
Tai Chung, Taiwan.
12/95 "Genetic
Engineering and the Future of Man", Campus Crusade Chapter
at Fung Jia University, Tai Chung,
Taiwan
12/95 "Genetic
Engineering and the Future of Man", Fu Ren University, Taipei,
Taiwan.
12/95 "Genetic
Engineering and the Future of Man", Faith, Love and Hope Fellowship,
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
12/95 "Interpretation
of the Early Chapters of Genesis", Central Theological College,
Tai Chung, Taiwan.
Steering Committee
Member on an International Conference on "Mere Creation: Reclaiming
the Book of Nature", Campus Crusade For Christ, Christian
Leadership Ministries, 10/95, 2/96, 11/96
Featured
speakers at the following occasions in 1996:
3/96 "Genetic
Engineering and the Future of Man", Galveston Chinese Mission,
TX
3/96 Sunday sermon,
Houston Chinese Mandarin Church, TX
4/96 - 5/96 Adult
Sunday School lessons on Creation and/or Evolution, Naperville
Congregational Church, IL
5/96 "Genesis
and the Origin of Life", Formosan Christian Church, Naperville,
IL
6/96 "Genetic
Engineering and the Future of Man", Wheaton Chinese Alliance
Church, IL.
8/96 "A Christian
View of Vocation", Wheaton Chinese Alliance Church, IL.
9/96 Sunday Sermon,
Wheaton Chinese Alliance Church, IL.
10/96 Sunday Sermon,
Wheaton Chinese Alliance Church, IL.
Featured
Speakers at the following occasions in 1997:
1/97 "Possible
Interpretation of the Earlier Chapters of Genesis", Southwest
Chinese Baptist Church, Houston, TX
2/97 Sunday School
lesson on "Possible Interpretation of the Earlier Chapters
of Genesis", Chinese Lutheran Church, Houston, TX
2/97 Sunday Sermon,
Chinese Lutheran Church, Houston, TX
4/97 Sunday Sermon,
Wheaton Chinese Alliance Church, IL
5/97 Summer Student
Conference sponsored by Ambassadors For Christ, Inc., Elizabethtown,
PA
6/97 "Reasons
for reconsidering Darwinism", China '97, a national conference
sponsored by International Students Inc., San Diego, CA
10/97 Sunday sermon,
Wheaton Chinese Alliance Church, IL
12/97 "Rethinking
about Darwinism", University of Alabama Chinese Christian
Fellowship, Tuscaloosa, AL
12/97 "Possible
Interpretation of the Earlier Chapters of Genesis", Birmingham
Chinese Christian Fellowship, AL
Featured
Speakers at the following occasions in 1998:
2/98 Sunday sermon,
Wheaton Chinese Alliance Church, IL
6/98 Sunday sermon,
Wheaton Chinese Alliance Church, IL
8/98 Paper presentation:"Towards
an Ethics of the Human Genome Project", ASA/CiS Conference
on "Christianity and Science: Towards the New Millennium".
Cambridge University, England.
9/98 Evangelistic
Meeting: "Technological Challenges in the 21st
Century", Deerfield Chinese Church, Deerfield, IL
11/98 Science
Faith Discussion, Inter-cultural fellowship, Wheaton Chinese
Alliance Church, Wheaton, IL
11/98 Sunday Sermon,
Wheaton Chinese Alliance Church.
12/98 China Missions
98, Triennial Missions Conference, Ambassadors For Christ,
Inc., Washington, DC
Featured
Speakers in the following occasions in 1999:
1/99 Sunday Sermon,
Wheaton Chinese Alliance Church
2/99 Local chapter
of the American Scientific Affiliation, Denver, CO, "Towards
an Ethics of the Human Genome Project"
9/99 Chinese Entrepreneur
Association, on genetic ethics, inaugural symposium, Power
Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century, Philadelphia, PA
9/99 "Intelligent
Design: An Alternative to Evolution", Chinese Christian Church
of Philadelphia, PA.
10/99 "Intelligent
Design: An Alternative to Evolution", Chinese Christian Union
Church North, Highland Park, IL.
Featured
Speakers in the following occasions in 2000:
3/00 Sunday sermon:
"Health: the Strength to be Human", Houston Chinese Christian
Church, TX.
Winter/00 Adult
Sunday School teacher: "Christ and Culture", Wheaton Chinese
Alliance Church, IL
Spring/00 Adult
Sunday School teacher: "Eschatology", Wheaton Chinese Alliance
Church, IL
10/00 Sunday sermon:
Wheaton Chinese Alliance Church, IL
Fall/00 Adult
Sunday School: "Early Chapters of Genesis", coteach with my
wife, Wheaton Chinese Alliance Church, IL
Featured
Speakers in the following occasions in 2001:
Spring/01 Adult
Sunday School: "Hebrews", coteach with my wife, Wheaton Chinese
Alliance Church, IL.
01-07-01 Sunday
Sermon, Chinese Christian Church, Peoria, IL
02-24-01 "Christianity
and Life Science": Chinese For Christ Church, Wilmette, IL
03-11-01 "Intelligent
Design", Combined Adult Sunday School Session Houston Chinese
Church, Houston, TX
04-01-01 Sunday
sermon, Chinese Christian Church, Peoria, IL
07-01 Sunday sermon,
Chinese Christian Church, Peoria, IL
11-01 "Intelligent
Design", Deerfield Chinese Christian Church, IL
12-01 "The Ethics
of Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research". China Mission, 2001,
Triennial Missions Conference, Ambassadors For Christ, Inc.,
Philadelphia, , PA
Featured
Speakers in the following occasions in 2002:
03-02 "Intelligent
Design", Combined Adult Sunday School Session, Clearlake Chinese
Christian Church, TX.
03-02 Sunday Sermon,
Clearlake Chinese Christian Church, TX.
04-02 Sunday sermon,
Chinese Christian Church, Peoria, IL
11-02 Panel for
youth group discussion on faith and reason, Wheaton Chinese
Alliance Church, IL
11-02 "The Ethical
Challenges of the Genetic Revolution", Purdue University Chinese
Christian Fellowship, IN
11-02 "Christianity
and the Origins Science", Chat Room Program for International
Students Inc., Wheaton College, IL
Featured
Speakers in the following occasions in 2003:
1-03 "Christianity
and the Origins Science", Chinese and American Fellowship,
University of Illinois, Chicago
3-03 "Christianity
and the Origins Science", Calvary Memorial Church, Oak Park,
IL, outreach to International Students
4-03 "Christianity
and the Origins Science", University of Texas, Austin, Tx,
outreach to Chinese students/scholars.
"Christianity
and the Origin of Life", small group fellowship meeting, Chinese
Christian Mandarin Church, Hinsdale, IL
5-03 "The Ethical
Challenges of the Genetic Revolution", small group fellowship
meeting, Wheaton Chinese Alliance Church, IL
"Christianity
and the Origins Science" and "The Ethical Challenges of the
Genetic Revolution", workshops, Chinese summer conference
at Lynchburg, VA
7-03 "Integration
of Christian Service and Professional Growth", Chinese Christian
Faculty Network conference, Ambassadors For Christ, Inc.,
Paradise, PA
7-03 "Christianity
and the Origin of Life" and "The Ethical Challenges of the
Genetic Revolution",Evangelistic and integrative seminars,
Sunday sermon, Chinese Christian Church and Center at Philadelphia,
PA.
9-03 Sunday sermon,
Chinese Christian Mandarin Church, Willowbrook, IL
10-03 Sunday sermon,
Chinese Christian Mandarin Church, Naperville, IL
12-03 "Christianity
and the Origin of Life" and "The Ethical Challenges of the
Genetic Revolution", Evangelistic and integrative seminars,
Sunday sermon, Pennsylvania State University Christian Fellowship,
State College, PA
12-03 "Intelligent
Design: An Alternative to Evolution", Southwest Winter
Gospel Conference, Dallas, TX
Featured
Speakers in the following occasions in 2004:
2-04 "Christ
and Culture", Peter Fellowship, Chinese Christian Mandarin
Church, Naperville, IL
3-04 "Towards
an Ethics of the Human Genome Project", Wednesday Forum
on Contemporary Issues, University of IL at Urbana, IL
3-04 "God
of Creation, Lord of Salvation", Sunday Sermon, Chinese
American Fellowship Church, Houston, TX
3-04 "Science
and World View", Peter Fellowship, Chinese Christian
Mandarin Church, Naperville, IL
4-04 "Christianity
and the Origin of Life", "Towards an Ethics of the
Human Genome Project", "Christ and Culture",
"The Doctrine of Creation", "God of Creation;
Lord of Salvation", Chinese Christian Church, Los Angeles,
CA
5-04 "Christianity
and the Origin of Life", "Science and Worldviews",
workshops at the Quest for Life conference at Eastern University,
St. Davids, PA
6-04 Evangelistic
and Integrative seminars, Chinese Christian Fellowship, University
of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
9-04 "Theology
of Creation", Peter Fellowship, Chinese Christian Mandarin
Church, Naperville, IL
10-04 "A
Christian Response to the Genetic Revolution", "Christianity
and the Origin of Life", LSU Health Science Center, Shreveport,
LA, "God of Creation, Lord of Salvation", "Knowing
the Church", Shreveport Chinese Baptist Church, LA
Featured
Speakers in the following occasions in 2005:
3-05 "Integration
and Confrontation of Contemporary Worldviews: Evolution and
Intelligent Design", Science Division Luncheon Seminar,
Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
4-05 "Christianity
and the Origin of Life", Chinese Christian Fellowship,
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
6-05 "Science
and Worldviews", "Health: The Strength to be Human",
Lincoln Chinese Christian Fellowship, Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln,
NB
8-05 “An
examination of the philosophical development of science from
the perspective of Creation” and “Intelligent
Design: An Alternative Paradigm of Life Science?”, Second
Annual Academic Conference of Science and Faith sponsored
by the Research Center of Science and Faith in the Chinese
Society for Dialectics of Nature as well as The Center for
Science and Humanities Studies of Beijing Normal University,
Beijing, China.
9-05 “Intelligent
Design: An Alternative Paradigm of Life Science?”,
Joseph Fellowship, Chinese Christian Mandarin Church, Naperville,
IL.
Featured
Speakers in the following occasions in 2006:
1-06, "Overview of the Advantages & Ethics of Biotechnology",
Stem Cell Research Seminar, Wheaton College, IL
5-06, “Human cloning & Christian ethics.”
, “Progressive Creationism: an Evangelical scientist’s
perspective.” , “Intelligent Design: An Alternative
to Darwinism?” Alliance Bible Seminary and Wing Kwong
Pentecostal Church, Hong Kong
6-06, "Ethical Challenges of Human Cloning and Stem
Cell Research", Lincoln
Chinese Christian Fellowship, Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln, NB.
7-06, "Christianity and the Origin of Life", Michiana
Chinese Church, Mishawaka, IN.
11-06, "Integration and Confrontation of Contemporary
Worldviews: Evolution and Intelligent Design." Redeeming
Reason, A Conference for Intentional Christian Scholars in
conversation with the Secular Mindset today, University of
Chicago.
12-06, “Promises and Perils of Human Cloning and Stem
Cell Research: Human Ingenuity vs. Human Dignity?” Hong
Kong Baptist University, conference on “When Science
meets Faith: New Milestone in the 21st Century” jointly
sponsored by Hong Kong Christian Scholarship Forum, Fellowship
of Evangelical Students (HKFES), Graduate student fellowship
of FES, Professional Educational Service International, the
Chinese Christian Scholars Association of North America, and
the chaplaincy of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chung
Chi College.
12-06, “Three Domains of Life: A Challenge to the Concept
of Universal Cellular Ancestor?” Chinese University
of Hong Kong, conference on “When Science meets Faith:
New Milestone in the 21st Century” jointly sponsored
by Hong Kong Christian Scholarship Forum, Fellowship of Evangelical
Students (HKFES), Graduate student fellowship of FES, Professional
Educational Service International, the Chinese Christian Scholars
Association of North America, and the chaplaincy of the Chinese
University of Hong Kong, Chung Chi College.
12-06, "Ethical Challenges of Human Cloning and Stem
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