Lab Members
Jay Dunlap
Principal Investigator - Curriculum Vitae
Jay earned dual BS degrees from the University of Washington and a PhD in biology from Harvard, then carried out postdoctoral research in molecular genetics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He joined the DMS faculty in 1984. He has worked on the molecular basis of circadian rhythms for several decades, chiefly using the Neurospora model but within the past decade also using mice and mammalian cell culture models.
Jennifer Loros
Principal Investigator - Curriculum Vitae
Jennifer earned a BA and PhD in biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She then came to Dartmouth Medical School as a post-doc, joining the faculty in 1988. Her work is focused on the genetic dissection of the circadian clock, clock-controlled gene expression and fungal photobiology.
Jill Emerson
Lab Manager
Jillian Emerson graduated magna cum laude from Quinnipiac University with a B.S. in Microbiology-Biotech and a minor in Chemistry in 2008. She spent the next year working as lab manager for Dr. Charles Brenner in the Norris Cotton Cancer Center. She transferred to the Dunlap/Loros labs in June 2009, where she is working on developing epitope-tagged constructs to study protein-protein interactions and to perform ChIP experiments with various transcription factors in a multi lab project.
Jennifer Hurley
Post-Doc - Curriculum Vitae
Jennifer Hurley left the snows of western New York to obtain her B.S. from Juniata College in 2004 and her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2009. At Rutgers, she studied bacterial Toxin-Antitoxin systems with the support of an NIH pre-doctoral training grant and was recognized by the ASBMB for excellence in research. She happily returned to the snow lifestyle and is now applying her varied experiences to the field of circadian clocks with a particular interest in the relationship of protein structure to function.
Nicole Knabe
Post-Doc - Curriculum Vitae
Nicole is originally from Germany. She joined the Dunlap Lab as a Postdoc-doc Fellowship in June 2009. She received her Ph.D. from the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena in Microbiology. Currently her work in the Dunlap Lab focuses on identifying transcription factors of the Neurospora circadian clock with ChIP-Seq experiments.
Hildur Colot
Lab Tech
Hildur received a BA from the University of Michigan in 1968 and an MA in Biology from Harvard University in 1969. After additional graduate studies, she followed a different path for awhile as a performer of early music. She resumed her scientific career in 1979 and, after more than 16 years in the laboratory of Michael Rosbash at Brandeis University studying both circadian rhythms and mRNA splicing, she moved to Dartmouth in 1997. Her work in the Dunlap/Loros labs has focused both on molecular aspects of circadian rhythms and on the functional genomics of Neurospora, for which she has directed the effort to create knockouts of all Neurospora genes.
Chris Baker
Student
Chris graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. from University of Vermont in 2004 and is originally from Austin, TX. While working at Dartmouth funded in part by an NIH predoctoral training grant his research has focused on applying proteomic tools to uncover post-translational mechanisms controlling the Neurospora circadian clock. He has won awards in brewing, woodwork, Texas BBQ, and science and considers himself a shoe-string air-cooled VW mechanic, but basically enjoys taking apart and - trying to - reassemble anything he can get his hands on.
Chen-Hui Chen
Student - Curriculum Vitae
Chen-Hui Chen received his B.S. and M.S. degree from National Yang-Ming University in Taiwan. As a graduate student in the joint laboratory of Drs. Jay Dunlap and Jennifer Loros, his research interests focus on dissecting the molecular mechanisms underlying the regulation of photoreception and photoadaptation in Neurospora. Recently, Chen-Hui was awarded with the "Eukaryotic Cell Outstanding Young Investigator Award" in 25th Fungal Genetics Conference at Asilomar (2009).
Randy Lambreghts
Student
Randy Lambreghts received his B.S. in Chemistry and M.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Ghent, Belgium. His current research involves identifying novel components of the Neurospora circadian clock using classical genetic mapping as well as next-generation sequencing techniques. He enjoys travelling and plans to see all of South America after graduation.
Bin Wang
Student - Curriculum Vitae
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Chris Hong
Post-Doc - Curriculum Vitae
Chris is originally from South Korea and grew up in Virginia. He received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in mathematical biology. He studied theories behind biochemical oscillators before coming to Dartmouth Medical School as a postdoctoral fellow. His research interests lies in interdisciplinary studies to understand the nuts and bolts of molecular mechanisms of circadian rhythms. He builds mathematical models and tests his hypotheses from his models with tools available in genetics and molecular biology. Chris is a recipient of National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Signaling Grant and the 2008 Kronauer Award in Excellence in Biomathematical Modeling.
Arun Mehra
Post-Doc
Arun Mehra is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the labs of Jay Dunlap and Jennifer Loros. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in Anatomy and Cell Biology. His training has been supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Post-doc Fellowship. As a Ph.D., Arun was a recipient of a Medical Research Council Studentship. He is interested in understanding principles underlying the action of biological oscillators, in particular the circadian clock.
Josh Gamsby
Post-Doc - Curriculum Vitae
Josh received his B.S. in Microbiology and Molecular Biology in 2001 from the University of Central Florida. In fall of 2005, he finished his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of South Florida and joined the Dunlap/Loros labs shortly thereafter. His research interests lie in the molecular underpinnings of the mammalian circadian oscillator, with a particular focus on the interaction between the clock and cell cycle. Josh is also interested in the connection between the mammalian circadian oscillator and cellular metabolism.
Sally Whitlock
Lab Tech
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Wei Wang
Lab Tech
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