Mauro Tiso Senior Professorial Lecturer Chemistry
- Additional Positions at AU
- Bacterial Core Facility Manager HoS
- Academic Senator
- Special Volunteer, Molecular Medicine Branch, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD
- Degrees
- PhD, Clinical Bio-analytical chemistry, Cleveland State University, OH
- Bio
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Dr. Tiso joined the Chemistry Department of American University in September 2015.
A native of Italy, he earned his M.S. in Chemistry at the University of Padova, Italy in 2001 and a Ph.D. in Clinical Bioanalytical Chemistry with specialization in Molecular Medicine at the Cleveland State University, Ohio while performing his thesis project on nitric-oxide synthase enzymes at the Cleveland Clinic Learner Research Center. At CSU he was a teaching assistant of general and organic chemistry for several years. As a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, Dr. Tiso acquired a broad experience in biochemistry research and since 2012 he taught continuously “Biochemistry in Health and Diseases” and “Introduction to Molecular Medicine” at the Foundation for Advanced Education in Sciences (FAES) Graduate School in Bethesda, MD.
In addition to the classic lecturing method, in his classes Dr. Tiso shares his passion and enthusiasm for the natural sciences and strives to use the problem-based learning methodology to engage students in solving real-world problems or answering a complex question. He values students’ individual backgrounds and experiences, encourages them to work together and learn from each other and stimulates students to teach back to the class using group exercises and class discussions.
Dr. Tiso research interests are the molecular pathways governing the link between dietary nitrate metabolism, the microbiome and human health, including the reactions of nitrate and nitrite with globin hemoproteins (such as hemoglobin, myoglobin and neuroglobin) to generate nitric oxide.
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Teaching
Spring 2024
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CHEM-100 Chemistry in Everyday Life
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CHEM-211 General Chemistry II Lab
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CHEM-436 Clinical Laboratory
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CHEM-466 Biochemistry II
Summer 2024
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CHEM-210 General Chemistry II