Service

University-Wide Service

  • Graduate Council, a University Standing Committee, Facilitator and Ex officio member, 12/2017-Present
  • Council on Community Engagement, 1/2023-Present
  • Communicators Network, 6/2022-Present
  • Mentoring Working Group, 6/2021-Present
  • Graduate School Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advisory Board, 9/2022-Present
  • Graduate School Mental Health and Wellness Advisory Board, 3/2021-9/2022
  • Meeting for Supporting Graduate Student Scholars 9/2019-Present
  • Student Experiential Learning Committee, 3/2019-Present
  • Graduate Recruiting Fellowship and Scholarship Committee, Chair, 10/2018-Present
  • Who’s Who Selection Committee, 10/2020-1/2021
  • Search Committee for Associate Provost and Assistant Provost, 2-4/2022
  • Search Committee for Dean of the Graduate School, 2-10/2018
  • Reviewer for Graduate Student Council Grant Proposals, 4/2017
    • Faculty Senate Executive Committee, 8/2015-8/2016
    • Faculty Senate General Academic Affairs Committee, 8/2012-8/2013
    • Faculty Senate Faculty Governance of Academic Policy Committee, 8/2011-7/2012; 8/2015-Present; chair, 8/2015-8/2016
    • Faculty Senate Academic Support Committee, 8/2009-7/2011
    • Faculty Senate, 5/2009-8/2013; 3/2015-8/2016
  • Advisory Board for the Center of Excellence in Teaching and Learning, 8/2012-7/2015
  • Undergraduate Council, a University Standing Committee, 2012-7/2015
  • Search Committee for Senior International Officer and Executive Director of the Office of Global Engagement, University of Mississippi, 9/2013-2/2014
  • Artist Series Committee, a University Standing Committee, 2012-2013
  • Library Council, 2011-2013
  • Dual and Second Degree Policy Task Force, 11/2012-3/2013
  • Instructional Technology Committee, a University Standing Committee, 2007-2010, 2011-2012

School of Pharmacy Service

  • American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Delegate for UM School of Pharmacy (2017-2018)
  • American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Alternate Delegate for UM School of Pharmacy (2016-2017)
  • Graduate Program Coordinator, Division of Medicinal Chemistry (1/2017-11/2017)
  • Faculty Council (2015-2017); vice-chair (1-8/2017); chair (8-11/2017)
  • Scholastic Standards (2007-2017); vice-chair (2007-2013;7-11/2017); chair (2013-6/2017)
  • Division of Medicinal Chemistry Faculty Search Committee (2017)
  • Division of Pharmacognosy Faculty Search Committee (2016-2017)
  • Graduate Program Coordinator, Medicinal Chemistry (2017-Present)
  • Honors, Awards, and Commencement Committee (2004-2005; 2011-2016)
  • Information, Resources and Computing Committee (2005-2014); vice-chair (2006-2007); chair (2007-2009)
  • School of Pharmacy Strategic Planning: Students Subcommittee for ACPE (Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education) Self-Study conducted to prepare for re-accreditation (Fall 2010-Spring 2012; 2006-2007)
  • School of Pharmacy Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Search Committee (2013)
  • Chair, Division of Pharmacognosy Faculty Search Committee (2016-2017)
  • Division of Medicinal Chemistry Faculty Search Committee (2016-2017)
  • Division of Medicinal Chemistry Faculty Search Committee (2015-2016)
  • Department of Medicinal Chemistry Faculty Search Committee (2012-2013)
  • Department of Medicinal Chemistry Chair Search Committee (2005-2006)
  • Facilities Subcommittee (ACPE Accreditation) (2004-2006)
  • Instructional Technology and Computing Committee (2004-2005)

Service to Students

  • Faculty advisor to Taiwanese Student Association, U. Mississippi chapter (2022-Present)
  • Faculty advisor to a Pharmacy student association, Christian Pharmacists Fellowship International, U. Mississippi chapter, founded Fall 2005 (2005-Present)
  • Faculty advisor to a Pharmacy student association, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, U. Mississippi student chapter (2010-2016)
  • APhA Auction Participant (Feb 2015, Feb 2016, Mar 2017)
  • Taste Contest Judge, SOP Relay for Life, 2nd Annual Taste of Relay (Mar 2016)

Local/Regional Service to Profession

  • Drug Discovery and Development Colloquium 2021 (DDDC 2021), Little Rock, AR (Jul 2021) Organizing Committee
  • MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS) Board of Directors (March 2018-Present)
  • Conference of Southern Graduate Schools (CSGS)
    • Faculty Awards Committee (5/2018-2/2021)
    • Membership Committee (2/2018-3/2020)
  • Drug Discovery and Development Colloquium 2019 (DDDC 2019), Little Rock, AR (Jun 2019)
    • Judge in the poster competition for graduate students
    • Judge in the podium presentation competition for graduate students
    • Panel member in the career panel for graduate students
  • MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS) Annual Meeting, Birmingham, AL (Mar 2019)
    • Session chair
    • Judge in the poster competition for graduate students
  • Drug Discovery and Development Colloquium 2018 (DDDC 2018), Lexington, KY in March 29-31, 2018, Dr. Doerksen was a judge in the poster competition for graduate students.
  • MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS) Annual Meeting in Starkville, MS (Mar 2018)
    • Session chair
    • Judge in the poster competition for graduate students
  • MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS) Annual Meeting in Memphis, TN (Mar 2016)
    • Judge in the oral presentation competition for graduate students
    • Judge in the poster competition for graduate students
  • MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS) Annual Meeting in Little Rock, AR (Mar 2015)
    • Co-chaired an oral session
    • Judge in the oral presentation competition for undergraduate students
    • Judge in the poster competition for graduate students
  • 2013 Southeast Regional National Institutes of Health (NIH) IDeA (Institutional Development Award) Meeting, Little Rock AR (Nov 2013)
    • Hosted a Breakfast Topic Table on Chemoinformatics
    • Co-chaired an oral session on the Central Nervous System
    • Judge in the oral presentation competition for undergraduate students
    • Judge in the poster competition for graduate students
  • Ad-hoc Reviewer for NSF MS EPSCoR Seed Grant (Apr 2014)
  • Internal Review for NSF Major Research Infrastructure Award competition, University of Mississippi (Dec 2014)
  • Mississippi State Science & Engineering Fair Judge, Apr 2016, Oxford, MS
  • Mississippi Region VII Science & Engineering Fair Judge, Feb 2016, Oxford, MS (high school)
  • Mississippi Region VII Science & Engineering Fair Best of Fair Judge, Mar 2015, Oxford, MS (high school)
  • Mississippi Region VII Science & Engineering Fair Judge, Apr 2015, Oxford, MS (elementary)
  • Mississippi Region VII Science & Engineering Fair Best of Fair Judge, Mar 2013, Oxford, MS (high school)
  • Mississippi Region VII Science & Engineering Fair Judge, Mar 2013, Oxford, MS (elementary)
  • Steering Committee member for Mississippi NSF EPSCoR (12/2010-4/2012)
  • Mississippi Region VII Science & Engineering Fair Judge, Mar 2011, Oxford, MS (high school)
  • Mississippi Region VII Science & Engineering Fair Judge, Mar 2011, Oxford, MS (elementary)
  • Mississippi Region VII Science & Engineering Fair Judge, Mar 2010, Oxford, MS (high school)
  • Mississippi Region VII Science & Engineering Fair Judge, Mar 2010, Oxford, MS (elementary)
  • Internal reviewer for Seed Grants for Mississippi NSF EPSCoR program, Jackson, MS, Dec 2009
  • Mississippi State Science & Engineering Fair Judge, Spring 2008, Oxford, MS

National/International Service to Profession

Grant Review

NIH Grant Review

  • NIH ZRG1 BCMB-G (02) Member Conflict: Chemistry, Biochemistry and Macromolecular Biophysics (Virtual Meeting) (June 2021)
  • Program Evaluation of NIH Peer Review Processes: The Role of Anonymization (Apr-Jul 2018)
  • NIH ZRG1 BCMB-G (10) B Drug Discovery & Development SBIR/STTR Review Panel (Mar 2017)
  • NIH MSFD (Macromolecular Structure and Function D) Study Section (Feb 2016)
  • NIH Small Business: Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Drug Discovery SBIR/STTR study section ZRG1 IMST-G (10) B (Jun 2015)
  • NIH Small Business: Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Drug Discovery SBIR/STTR study section ZRG1 IMST-G (10) B (Nov 2014)
  • NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) Special Emphasis Panel/Scientific Review Group 2012/01 ZCA1 SRLB-V (J1) R meeting (Nov 2011)

DoD Grant Review

  • Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) Pre-Application peer review panel of the 2020 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) (May 2020)
  • Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) Clinical Trials-Infectious Diseases (ID) peer review panel of the 2018 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP), Reston VA (Nov 14-16, 2018)
  • Department of Defense Medical Research and Materiel Command (MRMC) Medical Infectious Diseases Research Program (MIDRP) (Jan 2018)
  • Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) Pre-Application Hepatitis B & C (Pre-HEPBC) peer review panel of the 2017 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) for Investigator Initiated Research Awards (IIRA) and Technology/Therapeutic Development Awards (TTDA) (Jul-Aug 2017)

Other Grant Review

  • Wellcome Trust / DBT India Alliance (partnership between The Wellcome Trust, UK, and the Government of India) Early Career Fellowship Application (Mar 2018)
  • AACP NIP (New Investigator Program) Review (Sep 2015)
  • Ad-hoc Reviewer for ACS Petroleum Research Fund (2013-2014; 2014-2015)
  • External reviewer for Louisiana Board of Regents’ Pilot Funding for New Research (Pfund) program (12/2011)
  • Ad-hoc Reviewer for National Science Foundation (2010)
  • External reviewer for City University of New York Research Award (2009)
  • Discovery Grant Application Referee for Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant (2005)

Peer Review of Publications

Journal Article Referee for 66 journals, including: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Nature Protocols, Chemical Reviews, Protein Journal, Cancer, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Organic Letters, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Marine Drugs, Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, Journal of Computational Chemistry, Accounts of Chemical Research, Current Pharmaceutical Design, Journal of Functional Foods, Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, Biochemistry, Biochemical Pharmacology, Journal of Molecular Biology, Journal of Chemical Information & Modeling, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Journal of Natural Products, Natural Product Research, Chemical Physics Letters, Molecules, Structural Chemistry, Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM, Journal of Molecular Structure, Letters in Drug Design, Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Journal of Enzyme Inhibition & Medicinal Chemistry, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, Journal of Computational Chemistry, Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Drug Discovery Today, SAR QSAR Environmental Research, Medicinal Chemistry Research, Perspectives in Medicinal Chemistry, Future Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Research, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, Journal of Saudi Chemical Society, Biologia, PLOS Computational Biology, Computational Biology and Chemistry, Molecular Informatics, Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modeling, Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Kuwait Journal of Science, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Scientific Reports, Tetrahedron, and Organometallics (>190 manuscripts reviewed, >300 review opportunities declined, 2006-Present)

Other Review

  • Guest Editor, “Featured Papers in Medicinal Chemistry” Molecules (2021 Impact Factor 4.4), submission deadline Dec 2021
  • Guest Associate Editor, Proceedings of MCBIOS 2018, BMC Bioinformatics (2018)
  • Guest Editor, “Allosteric Modulator” Molecules (2017 Impact Factor 3.1), submission deadline Jan 2019
  • Member of two Master’s and three PhD Thesis examining committees for students for National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Department of Food Science (Jun 2017)
  • AACP 2017 National Meeting Poster Peer Review (Biological Sciences Section) (Mar 2017)
  • External (foreign) examiner for PhD Dissertation from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research (NIPER), Nagar, Punjab, India by S. Abbat entitled ‘Pharmacoinformatics Analysis of PfDHFR Substrate and Inhibitors’ (2016-2017)
  • National Cheng Kung University External Reviewer for new faculty applicants (Mar 2017)
  • Member of several Master’s Thesis examining committees for MS students of National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Department of Food Science and Department of Biological Science and Technology (Jun 2014)
  • External (foreign) examiner for a PhD Dissertation in Pharmacy from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (Ranchi, India) (2013)
  • Reviewed a medicinal chemistry textbook proposal for John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010
  • External (foreign) examiner for a PhD Dissertation in Pharmacy from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (Ranchi, India) by J. Venkatesan entitled ‘Design, synthesis and pharmacological screening of mycobactin analogues’ (2010)
  • External (foreign) examiner for PhD Dissertation from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research (NIPER), Nagar, Punjab, India (2008)
  • External (foreign) examiner for a PhD Dissertation in Pharmacy from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India for S. Vadivalen entitled ‘Computer-aided design, synthesis and receptor binding studies for the discovery of potential PPAR ligands’ (2008)

Other Service

  • American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Council of Sections Task Force for National Meeting Student Poster Competition Program (8/2017-Present; Co-Chair 7/2018-Present)
  • American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Teachers of Chemistry Section Programming Committee (8/2018-7/2019)
  • American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy National Meeting Mentor (Jul 2015)
  • Co-organizer of “Understanding molecular properties and interactions: A symposium in honour of Ajit Thakkar’s 60th birthday” for the 94th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC2011), Montreal, Canada (Jun 2011)
  • Intel International Science & Engineering Fair Grand Judge, Los Angeles, CA (May 2011)
  • Session Chair, “Quantum chemistry. The quantum and physical worlds meet.” 237th ACS National Meeting, Division of Computers in Chemistry, Salt Lake City, UT (Mar 2009)
  • Session Chair, “Molecular Mechanics. General Oral Session.” 236th ACS National Meeting, Division of Computers in Chemistry, Philadelphia, PA (Aug 2008)
  • Co-organizer of Michael Klein 65th Birthday Symposium, 229th ACS National Meeting, Division of Computers in Chemistry, San Diego, CA (Mar 2005)
  • Consultant for Medacorp and Round Table Group