Carthene R. Bazemore-Walker

Education

B.S., Norfolk State University, summa cum laude
PhD, University of Virginia (Donald F. Hunt)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MIT (Lawrence J. Stern)

Biography

Dr. Bazemore-Walker is an accomplished academic leader, STEM educator, and bioanalytical chemist with over 25 years of experience in research, teaching, and leadership at top research universities, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and liberal arts institutions. Known for her commitment to fostering inclusive, intellectually engaging communities, Dr. Bazemore-Walker empowers individuals so that they may thrive and reach their full potential.

As an Associate Teaching Professor of Chemistry at Wake Forest, Dr. Bazemore-Walker focuses on the implementation and assessment of high-impact practices – such as transparent teaching, high structure, and authentic research – into introductory chemistry and liberal arts core courses for the broad educational benefit of students. Recently, she has shown that entering first-year students who participated in her “Introduction to Research in the Sciences” course had an increased interest in scientific research and entered mentored research within the next year at a significantly higher rate than their matched peers.

Prior to joining Wake Forest, Dr. Bazemore-Walker was the inaugural Assistant Dean for Diversity, Inclusivity, and Thriving at the University of Richmond’s School of Arts & Sciences. In this role, she led the effort to promote equity and inclusivity in A&S through faculty and staff hiring, evaluation, and professional development while also working collaboratively with university partners to craft and advance University of Richmond’s policies and practices of inclusive excellence.

Before her time at the University of Richmond, Dr. Bazemore-Walker served as Chief Research Officer and tenured professor of Chemistry at Winston-Salem State University, where she led a reimagining of the university’s research strategy. She has also served on the faculty at Brown University and the University of Virginia, where she trained and mentored graduate students (graduated 6 with PhDs) and undergraduate students (mentored over 50; advised 2 “Best Thesis” awards) in her biological mass spectrometry research laboratory.

Publications

Bazemore-Walker, C. R. “The (Ongoing) Plan for Student Success,” Peer Review, Winter/Spring
2016, 18 (1/2).

Cao, Y. and Bazemore-Walker, C. R. “Proteomic Profiling of the Surface-exposed Cell Envelope
Proteins of Caulobacter crescentus,” J Proteomics, 2014, 97:187-94. Epub 2013 Aug 21. PMID:
23973469.

Leymarie, N., et al. including Zhu, Y., Bazemore-Walker, C. R. “Interlaboratory Study on
Differential Analysis of Protein Glycosylation by Mass Spectrometry: the ABRF Glycoprotein
Research Multi-Institutional Study 2012,” Mol Cell Proteomics, 2013, 12:2935-2951. Epub Jun 13. PMID: 23764502

Poston, C. N. and Bazemore-Walker, C. R. “In-depth analysis of the mammalian mitochondria-
associated membrane (MAM) proteome,” J Proteomics, 2013, 79:219-30. Epub 2013 Jan 8. PMID: 23313214

Chen, S., Lu, C., Gu, H., Mehta, A., Li, J., Romano, P., Horn, D., Hooper, D.C., Bazemore-
Walker, C. R., and Block, T. “Aleuria Aurantia Lectin (AAL)-reactive immunoglobulin G
rapidly appears in sera of animals following antigen exposure,” PLoS ONE 2012, 7(9): e44422.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044422. PMID: 23024749

Cao, Y., Johnson, H. M. and Bazemore-Walker, C. R. “Improved enrichment and proteomic
identification of outer membrane proteins from a Gram-negative bacterium: Focus on
Caulobacter crescentus,” Proteomics, 2012,12(2):251-62. Epub 2011 Dec 19. PMID: 22106052

Poston, C. N., Duong, E., Cao, Y. and Bazemore-Walker, C. R. “Proteomic Mapping of Lipid-
raft Enriched Membranes Isolated from Internal Organelles,” Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.,
2011, 415(2):355-60. Epub 2011 Oct 20. PMID: 22037461

Turner, T. T., Lysiak, J. L., Nguyen, Q. A. T. and Bazemore-Walker, C. R. “Testicular Torsion
Alters the Presence of Specific Proteins in the Mouse Testis as Well as the Activation State of
Others,” J. Androl., 2006, 27, 285-293. PMID: 16474026

Tubbs, C. E., Hall, J. C., Scott, R. O., Clark, V. P., Hermon, T. L., and BazemoreWalker, C. R.
“Binding of Protein D/E to the Surface of Rat Epididymal Sperm Before Ejaculation and After
Deposition in the Female Reproductive Tract,” J. Androl., 2002, 23, 512-521. PMID: 12065458

Lim, K. B., Bazemore-Walker, C. R., Guo, L., Pellett, S., Shabanowitz, J., Hunt, D. F., Hewlett,
E. L., Ludwig, A., Goebel, W., Welch, R. A., and Hackett, M. “Escherichia coli alpha-
Hemolysin (HlyA) is Heterogeneously Acylated in vivo with 14, 15 and 17 Carbon Fatty
Acids,” J. Biol. Chem., 2000, 275, 36698-36702. PMID: 10978310

Hu, Q., Bazemore-Walker, C. R., Girao, C., Sun, J., Shabanowitz, J., Hunt, D. F., and Ashton-
Rickardt, P.G. “Specific Recognition of Thymic Self-Peptides Induces the Positive Selection of
Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes,” Immunity, 1997, 7, 221-231. PMID: 9285407

Hackett, M., Walker, C. B., Lin, G., Gray, M. C., Van Cuyk, S., Ullmann, A., Shabanowitz, J.,
Hunt, D. F., Hewlett, E. L., and Sebo, P. “Hemolytic, but Not CellInvasive Activity of Adenylate
Cyclase Toxin is Selectively Affected by Differential Fatty-Acylation in Escherichia coli,” J.
Biol. Chem., 1995, 270, 1-4. PMID: 7657593

Awards and Accomplishments

NIH NIDA Early Career Award in Chemistry of Drug Abuse and Addiction, 2009-2011

Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award, Brown University, 2010

ADVANCE at Brown University, Career Development Award, 2007-2009

American Society for Cell Biology Minority Affairs Committee Visiting Professorship Award,
2000-2001