David L. Mork

        Associate Professor of Chemistry

        Concordia College

        901 S. 8th Street

        Moorhead, MN 56562

         

        Phone: 218-299-3574

        Office:  Ivers 334D

         

        Email: dmork@cord.edu

         


         
        Education:
             PhD: University of Oklahoma (1993)
             BS:  St. Olaf College (1981)
        Courses for Fall 2004 Courses for Spring 2005
        Biochemistry 373 Biochemistry 374
        Principia General Chemistry II Laboratory
        Personal Information:
        Family Pam, wife of 18 years
        Joshua, 11, loves chess, superheroes and school
        Hannah, 8, passionate about horses and dogs
        Rebekah, 5, adores dressing up like a princess
        Leah, 3, loves to color and chatter
        Hobbies Playing trombone, photography, tennis, singing, model ship building, stamp collecting, science history, and gardening (most "on hold" during "the child-raising years"!).
        Research interest I have been investigating the regulation of enzymes: What makes them go faster or slower?  Enzymes catalyze almost everything that take place in the body's cells.  In my lab we have been doing fairly repetitive experiments aimed at understanding both the bonding energy involved (enthalpy) and energy that results from how tightly the enzyme and substrate are held (entropy).  This should lead to very fundamental understandings of how enzyme activities are controlled in bacterial cells or in our bodies.
        Worst lab accident I was working at Mayo clinic.  We were moving our lab to a new building.  I picked up and dropped an old plastic container of used mineral oil that had low levels of radioactive P-32 in it.  It dropped, bounced, shattered and sprayed radioactive mineral oil everywhere! It was all over the benches, the floor, my shoes, and my pants.  We had to sop up everything and put it into radioactive waste disposal bags.  I had to go home and take off my pants, shoes and socks and put them in the bags and then shower.  It was a good thing they were remodeling that lab since they had to scrape up the cork tiles from the floor and dispose of them too!
        Favorite Chemical Compound Buckminsterfullerene--C60

        What I would be if I

        were not a chemist

        		 I would love to fly experimental aircraft.
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