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Dr. Virginetta S. Cannon

Associate Professor, Biology
Email:
vcannon@talladega.edu

Dr. Virginetta Cannon joined the Talladega College faculty as an associate professor of biology in 2021. Previously she taught at Georgia State University, Georgia Piedmont Technical College, Georgia Perimeter College, Spelman College, and Morehouse College. She also was a research consultant at the Tuskegee University Center for Cancer Research and was a senior scientist at the Morehouse School of Medicine Neuroscience Institute. In 2002, Dr. Cannon was a visiting professor at the University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories.

She is a member of several professional organizations including American Society for Cell Biology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Black Microbiologist Association.

Dr. Cannon’s research has been published in the following peer-reviewed journals:

  • Pulliam, John V.K., Z. Xu, G.D. Ford, C. Liu, Y. Li, K.C. Stovall, V.S. Cannon, T. Tewolde, C.S. Moreno, and B.D. Ford. 2013. Computational Identification of Conserved Transcription factor binding sites upstream of genes induced in rat brains by transient focal ischemic stroke. Brain Research 1495: 76- 85.
  • Zhou, J., H. Wang, V. Cannon, K.M. Wolcott, H. Song, and C. Yates. 2011. Side Population rather than CD133 expression distinguishes enriched Tumorginicity in hTERT- immortalized primary prostate cancer cells. J. Molecular Cancer. 10:112.
  • Cannon, V.S., A Hardin, B.D. Ford. 2008. Neuregulin-1 regulates cytoskeletal reorganization and cell migration in PDGF-BB stimulated rat vascular smooth muscle cells. Molec. Biol Cell 19 (Suppl ): 730.
  • Colnot, C., M. A. Ripoche, D. Fowlis, V. Cannon, F. Scaerou, D.N.W. Cooper, and F. Poirier. 1997. The role of galectins in mouse development. Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology. 9(45): 31-40.
  • Cannon, V.S., M.A. Reidy, and D.N.W Cooper. 1995. Downregulation of galectin-1 may promote migration of vascular smooth muscle during angioplasty restenosis. Molec. Biol. Cell suppl. 6: 278a.
  • Cannon, V., D.N.W. Cooper, E.M. Farrell, and R.I. Clyman. 1995. Galectin-1 binds to integrin 51 on vascular smooth muscle and inhibits their migration. FASEB 9(6):1502a.
  • Cannon, V., F. Poirier, S.H. Barondes, and D.N.W. Cooper. 1994. Absence of galectin-1 in null mutant mice is not compensated for by altered expression or localization of other galectins. Molec. Biol. Cell suppl. 5: 180a.
  • Marschal, P., V. Cannon, D.N.W. Cooper, and S.H. Barondes. 1994. Xenopus laevis L-14 is expressed in a typical pattern in the adult but is absent from embryonic tissues. Glycobiology. 4(3): 297-305.