Art Goven

Professor and Chair

940-369-7487

Goven@unt.edu

B.S. Biology, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1972

M.S.P.H. Public Health, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1973

Ph.D. Immunoparasitology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1978

Research

Environmental Toxicology, Immunotoxicology: Assessment of chemical stress in terrestrial environments.  Immunoparasitology:  Biochemical and cellular aspects of host response against helminth parasites.  Effects of psychological stress on human immune function.

Professional Experience

Interim Vice Provost for Research  2001- present

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas  1993- present

Faculty Executive Assistant to the Chancellor, University of North Texas  1997-01

Post-Doctoral, Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens  1979

Representative Publicatons

Giggleman, M., Fitzpatrick, L.C., Goven, A. J., and Venables, B.J.  1998.  Effects of   pentachlorophenol (PCP) on survival of earthworms Lumbricus terrestris and on phagocytosis by their immunoactive coelomocytes. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.  17:2391-2394

Chikovic, M.A., Fitzpatrick, L.C., Goven, A.J., Venables, B.J., Giggleman, M.A., and Cooper, E.L.  1999. Wound healing in earthworms Lumbricus terrestris: A cellular-based immunity biomarker for assessing sublethal chemical toxicity.  Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 62:508-514.

Burch, S.W., Fitzpatrick, L.C., Goven, A.J., Venables, B.J., and Giggleman, M.A., 1999.  In vitro earthworm Lumbricus terrestris coelomocye assay for use in terrestrial toxicity identification evaluation.  Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology.  62:547-554.

Robino-Watkins, M.F., Doster, J.A., Franks, S., Kelly, K.S., Sonnier, M.A., Goven, A.J., and Moorefield, R.  1999.  Oral Contraceptive Use: Implications for cognitive and emotional functioning.  The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.  187:275-280.

Brown, S.K., Doster, J., Rubino-Watkins, M.F. and Franks, S.  2000.  Psychological implications of oral contracetpive use.  Primary Psychology, 7, 56-66.