Associate Professor
Education:
Ph.D. Ag. & Env. Chemistry - University of California, Davis - 1997
B.S. Microbiology- California State Polytechnic University - 1976
Discipline(s):
Products, Food Safety, and Quality
Courses Taught:
Advanced Meat Science (AS 555.01)
Molecular Biology Techniques (AS/FST 868)
Grants & Awards:
Lin, Y.C., Huang, T.H., Sugimoto, Y., Wick, M.P., Yan, P.S. NIH, Environmental Health and Safety. Epigenetic modulation of PTP-γ by Zeranol in beef. $1,800,000. 6/07 - 6/12.
Wick, M., Ottobre, J.S. USDA, CSREES Special Grants Program, Ohio aquaculture research and development initiatives. $92,000. 9/07- 9/09
Wick, M., Ottobre, J.S. USDA, CSREES Special Grants Program, Ohio aquaculture research and development initiatives. $81,000. 9/06- 9/08
Pending Research Support:
Lin, Y.C, Kulp, S., Lilburn, M.S., Wick, M.P. 2007 USDA-CSREES NRI Potential anticancer effect of meat and eggs from chickens fed (-) gossypol enriched cottonseed meal.
Publications:
1. Wick, M., J.S. Sawdy, Y.C. Lin. 2007. Primary Cultured Human Breast Epithelial Cells Upregulate Protein Disulfide Isomerase in Response to Zeranol. Anticancer Res. 27:407-410.
2. Updike, M.S., Zerby, H.N., Sawdy J.C., Lilburn M.S., Kaletunc G., Wick, M.P. 2006. Proteins Associated with Thermally-Induced Gelation of Turkey Breast Meat. J. Food Sci. 71: E398-E402.
3. Reddish, J.M., M. Wick, N. R. St-Pierre, and M. S. Lilburn. 2005. Analysis of myosin isoform transitions during growth and development in diverse chicken genotypes. Poult. Sci. 84:462-466
4. Updike, M.S., Zerby, H.N., Sawdy J.C., Lilburn M.S., Kaletunc G., Wick, M.P. 2005. Turkey breast meat functionality differences among turkeys selected for body weight and/or breast yield. Meat Sci. 71:706-712.
5. Reddish JM, Latshaw D, St-Pierre NR, Pretzman C, Wick M. 2005. Myosin Heavy Chain Isoform Expression is Not Altered in the Pectoralis major Muscle in Selenium Deficient Chickens Recovering from Exudative Diathetic Myopathy. Poult. Sci. 84:462-466.
6. Updike MS, Davis ME, Wang LS, Huang YW, Wick M, Lin YC. 2005. Decreased MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cell Proliferation by Serum from a Selected Line of Beef Cattle. Anticancer Res. 25:871-874.
7. Wick, M., J.M. Reddish, N.R. St-Pierre, M.S. Lilburn. 2004 Biochemical Analyses of Muscles from Poultry Bred for Rapid Growth. Poult. Sci. 82:1980-1984.
8. Sawdy, J.C. M. Wick., S.A. Kaiser, N.R. St-Pierre. 2004 Myofibrillar 1-D fingerprints and myosin heavy chain MS analyses of beef loin at 36 h postmortem correlated with tenderness at 7 days. Meat Sci. 67:421-426.
9. Reiser, P.J. Wick, M., and Pretzman, C. I. Cardiac Myosin Heavy Chain Polymorphism in Sprague Dawley Rats. Electrophoresis 25:389¡V395.
10. M.P. Wick, S.G. Velleman, C.S. Coy, D.C. McFarland, C.I. Pretzman, N.R. St-Pierre and J.C. Sawdy. 2003 Ventricular myosin heavy chain isoform expression is altered in vitro in low score normal chickens. Comp. Biochem. Physiol., A. 136(2):401-408.
11. Wick, M. 2002. Protein functionality associated with turkey breast meat. Turkeys 50:21-24.
12. Li, C., Wick, M., Marriott, N. G., and. McClure, K. E. 2001. Dietary Intake of Vitamin E Affects the Peroxide Value of Subcutaneous Lamb Fat. J. Mus. Foods. 12:237-243.
13. Li, C, and M. Wick. 2001. Improvement of the physicochemical properties of pale soft and exudative (PSE) meat products with an extract from mechanical deboned turkey meat (MDTM). Meat Sci. 58:189-195.
14. Velleman, S.G., C.S. Coy, L. Gannon, M. Wick, and D.C. McFarland. 2000. β-1 Integrin expression during normal and Low Score Normal avian myogenesis. Poult. Sci. 79:1179-1182.
Abstracts past 5 yrs.
Updike, M.S., M. Wick. 2007. Predicting Beef Tenderness using Proteomic Analysis of 36 hour Postmortem Muscle. ASAS Joint Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
Gevin, J.A., H.N. Zerby, P.S. Kuber, S.J.Moeller, M.P. Wick, M.R. Mousel, T.D. Leeds, D.R. Notter. 2007. Relationship Between Calpastatin Activity and Lamb Carcass Characteristics. ASAS Joint Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
Huffman, K.M., J.M. Reddish, M.S. Lilburn, M. Wick. 2007. Myosin heavy chain isoform transitions in the breast muscle of a bodyweight selected line and genetic control line of turkeys. ASAS Joint Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
Reddish, J. M., J. C. Sawdy, G. Wallat, N. R. St-Pierre and M. Wick. 2005. Whole muscle 1-D fingerprints of yellow perch Perca flavescens associated with body weight and length. World Aquaculture Society, New Orleans, LA.
Sawdy, J. C, Reddish, J. M., G. Wallat, N. R. St-Pierre and M. Wick 2005. Further characterization of whole muscle 1-D fingerprints of yellow perch Perca flavescens associated with body weight and length. World Aquaculture Society, New Orleans, LA.
Johnson, R., M.S. Updike, H. Zerby, J.C. Sawdy, and M. Wick. 2004. Predicting palatability of bovine longissimus dorsi. 57th Reciprocal Meat Conference, St. Louis, MO.
Wick, M. Functional analysis of turkey breast muscle. 2004. Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Breeders Roundtable, Poultry and Egg Society. St. Louis, MO.
Reddish, J.M, M. Wick, J.C. Sawdy, N.St-Pierre and M.S. Lilburn. 2003. Comparison of myosin heavy chain isoform transitions in poultry lines selected for breast yield, an unimproved line and Single Comb White Leghorns. 98th Meeting of the Poultry Science Association, Madison, WI.
Wick, M., H. Zerby, M. Murphy, S. Kaiser, M.S. Lilburn, 2002. The effect of stress on breast muscle functionality in different turkey genotypes. Poult. Sci. 81 (Suppl. 1): 37.
Wick, M., J. Sawdy, S. Kaiser, M. Lilburn. 2002. The effect of paternal genotype on breast muscle development in embryonic and post-hatch chicks. Poult. Sci. 81 (Suppl. 1): 153.
Kaiser, S.A., M. Wick, J.C. Sawdy, N R. St-Pierre. 2003. Myofibrillar proteomic fingerprints in beef loin at 36 h postmortem correlated with ultimate carcass tenderness. Presented Institute of Food Technologists, Chicago, IL
Bringardner, A.J., U.Y. Bhatt, T.J. Sferra, M.P. Wick, N.S. Nahman Jr. 2002. Kidney Gene Expression Signatures Following Microparticle Injection: Implications for Arterial Delivery of DNA-Particle Complexes. Presented European Society of Microvascular Biology.
Bringardner AB, U.Y. Bhatt,T.J. Sferra, M.P. Wick, N.S. Nahman Jr. 2002. Genechip analysis of rat kidney following microparticle injection or renal artery cross-clamp: insights for arterial delivery of glomerular DNA-particle complexes. Presented. Midwest AFMR. J Invest Med, 50:224A.
Bringardner AB, U.Y. Bhatt,T.J. Sferra, M.P. Wick, N.S. Nahman Jr: 2002. Gene expression profiling of the ischemic rat kidney. Presented. American Society of Nephrology, 2002. J Amer Soc Nephrol, 13:143A.
Species:
Beef
Poultry
My laboratory investigates the environment by genetic interaction on muscle growth, development and meat quality in animal species of agricultural importance to include: Yellow Perch (Perca flavascens), lamb, beef, and poultry.
My laboratory focuses on improving meat animal production through protein structure/function analyses Muscle proteins play important roles in determining the economic value of fresh and processed meat products. Identifying those proteins and their association with muscle growth, development and meat quality will allow producers to devise genetic selection strategies to improve taste, tenderness and the functional properties of meat for further processed meat products.
Equally important is the investigation of the mechanisms of muscle growth and development in animals of agricultural importance establishes these species as models of human muscle growth and repair. This is especially evident in fish where their muscle tissue is able to grow through the mechanisms of hyperplasia (increase in cell numbers) as well as hypertrophy (increase in cell size). Because humans are not capable of growing muscle employing hyperplasia after birth, understanding how fish can elicit hyperplastic muscle growth will have ramifications for humans suffering from spinal cord injury, prolonged bed rest and muscle atrophy due to prolonged space flight.
