Marea Blake

Assistant Professor

Marea Blake
+1 (615) 898-57
Room 3139, Science Building (SCI)
MTSU Box 68, Murfreesboro, TN 37132

Degree Information

  • PHD, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2024)
  • BS, Austin Peay State University (2019)

Areas of Expertise

Nonlinear optics, Bio interfaces, Bacterial membranes, Biophysical and bioanalytical chemistry

Publications

Selected works prior to MTSU:

 

8. Blake, M.J., Kim, S., Yang, Z., Meyer III, H.M., Retterer, S.T., Carrillo, J.-M., Doughty, B. Hydration and
restructuring of polar polymer interfaces: Implications in antifouling and responsive materials. ACS Applied
Materials and Interfaces 2025, 17, 47, 65253–65261.


7. Cordova-Huaman, A.V., Craven, N.C., Blake, M.J., Doughty, B., McCabe, C., Jennings, G.K. Evaluating the...

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Selected works prior to MTSU:

 

8. Blake, M.J., Kim, S., Yang, Z., Meyer III, H.M., Retterer, S.T., Carrillo, J.-M., Doughty, B. Hydration and
restructuring of polar polymer interfaces: Implications in antifouling and responsive materials. ACS Applied
Materials and Interfaces 2025, 17, 47, 65253–65261.


7. Cordova-Huaman, A.V., Craven, N.C., Blake, M.J., Doughty, B., McCabe, C., Jennings, G.K. Evaluating the
Structural Response of Amphiphilic Monolayers to Environmental Stimuli. Langmuir 2025, 41, 36,
24906-24917.


6. Page, E.F., Blake, M.J., Calhoun, T.R. Probing bacterial membranes with polarization-resolved second
harmonic scattering Proc. SPIE 13139, 2024 Ultrafast Nonlinear Imaging and Spectroscopy XII, 1313907.


5. Blake, M.J., Page, E.F., Smith, M.E., Calhoun, T.R. Miltefosine impacts small molecule transport in
Gram-positive bacteria RSC Chemical Biology 2024, 5, 10, 981-988.


4. Blake, M.J., Castillo, H.B., Curtis, A.E., Calhoun, T.R. Facilitating flip-flop: Structural tuning of
molecule-membrane interactions in living bacteria Biophysical Journal 2023, 122, 10, 1735-1747.


3. Page, E.F., Blake, M.J., Foley, G.A., Calhoun, T.R. Monitoring membranes: The exploration of biological
bilayers with second harmonic generation Chemical Physics Reviews 2022, 3, 4, 041307.


2. Miller, L.N., Blake, M.J., Page, E.F., Castillo, H.B., Calhoun, T.R. Phosphate ions alter the binding of
daptomycin to living bacterial cell surfaces ACS Infectious Diseases 2021, 7, 11, 3088-3095.


1. Blake, M.J., Colon, B.A., Calhoun, T.R. Leaving the limits of linearity for light microscopy The Journal of
Physical Chemistry C 2020, 124, 45, 24555-24565.

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Courses

General Chemistry (CHEM 1110/1111)