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.
Kevin Fuller, Ph.D.
Post-Doc - Curriculum Vitae
Kevin is originally from exciting northwest Ohio. After receiving his B.S. in microbiology from Bowling Green State University, he completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 2010. Kevin's graduate training and research interests are in the area of fungal biology and pathogenesis. Along these lines, he is currently studying the genetic components and physiological contributions of the light responsive and circadian pathways in the opportunistic mold pathogen, Aspergillus fumigatus. Outside of the lab, Kevin enjoys martial arts, tennis and talking about fungus to anyone that will listen.
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.
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.
Chandru Mallappa, Ph.D.
Post-Doc
Chandru earned his PhD from National Institute for Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India working on functional characterization of Z-Box binding factors in Arabidopsis thaliana. He then worked as postdoc at Imbalzano lab at UMass Medical School, Worcester, MA understanding the eukaryotic transcription. His current interest in the Dunlap and Loros labs is to use next generation sequencing techniques to understand gene regulatory and metabolic pathway networks of circadian clock controlled transcription factors. Outside lab he enjoys hiking, spending time with his new born daughter.
Qijun Xiang
Post-Doc
Qijun is originally from China. He earned his Ph.D. in Microbiology from University of California Berkeley where he studied the genetic basis of fungal hyphal fusion and heterokaryon incompatibility. Before he joined the Dunlap Lab, he did postdoctoral research on the molecular genetics of Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of potato and tomato late blight disease. He is interested in the functions of novel genes in the regulation of circadian rhythmicity in Neurospora as well as the molecular basis of rhythmic activities in P. infestans.
Arko Dasgupta
Graduate Student
A lot of research in circadian biology is based on studies in constant conditions. I am trying to understand how the clock behaves under natural conditions of changing light intensities during the day. Another aspect of my research involves understanding how clocks are temperature compensated and identifying the non-core clock components (kinases, phosphatases and other interactors) play a role in the process.
Alexander Crowell
Student
Alec graduated from Williams College with a BA in Astrophysics and Biology (Honors). He joined the Dunlap/Loros labs in June 2012. His work is focused on the clock in mammalian cells, specifically the interplay between the clock and metabolism.
Bin Wang
Student - Curriculum Vitae
Sally Whitlock
Lab Tech
Wei Wang
Lab Tech
