Faculty Council

Leadership

Dean Madden, Ph.D.
Director, bioMT
Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Vice Provost for Research
Dartmouth College
Ion Channel Trafficking

Deborah Hogan, Ph.D.
Associate Director, bioMT
Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Airway Pathogens

Current Research Projects

Jiwon Lee, Ph.D.
Project Leader
“Understanding Early-life Influenza Antibody Repertoire Imprinting Through Infection or Vaccination”
Ralph and Marjorie Crump Assistant Professor
Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
Antibody repertoire profiling

Soni Lacefield, Ph.D.
Project Leader
“Understanding the Role of Meiotic Misregulation in Germ Cell Tumor Formation”
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Mammalian oogenesis and ovarian tumors

 

Prerna Malaney, PhD
Project Leader
“Understanding the role of RNA-binding protein mutations in cancer”
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
RNA-binding proteins in. disease

 

Mentors

Scott Gerber, Ph.D.
Mentor
Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Mass Spectrometry

David Leib, Ph.D.
Mentor
Chair and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Viral Immunity

Armenia Kettenbach
Mentor
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Mechanisms of phosphorylation signaling in cell division

 

Yina Huang
Mentor
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
T cell migration and activation, Cancer Immunology

Core Advisory Committee

Jon Kull, Ph.D.
Chair, Core Advisory Committee
Dean of the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies
Rodgers Professor of Chemistry
Dartmouth College
Cholera Virulence

Henry Higgs, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Molecular Interactions & Imaging Core (MIIC)
Mentor

Core Advisory Committee Member
Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Cytoskeleton/Organelle Interactions

Dale Mierke, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Molecular Tools Core (MTC)
Core Advisory Committee Member
Professor of Chemistry
Dartmouth College
Protein–Protein Interactions

 

Magdalena Bezanilla, Ph.D.
Core Advisory Committee Member
Ernest Everett Just 1907 Professor
Professor of Biological Sciences
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Arminja Kettenbach, Ph.D.
Core Advisory Committee Member
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Michael Ragusa, Ph.D.
Core Advisory Committee Member
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Radu Stan, MD, Ph.D.
Core Advisory Committee Member
Director, Optical Cell Imaging Facility 
Co-Director, Irradiation, Pre-clinical Imaging and Microscopy Shared Resource
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Andreia Verissimo, Ph.D.
Core Advisory Committee Member
Co-Director, Molecular Tools Core
Co-Director, Molecular Interactions & Imaging Core

Past Research Project Leaders

Amanda Amodeo, Ph.D.
Project Leader
“Investigating Histone Control of Cell Size in the Drosophila Embryo”
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Cell size in developmental contexts

 

Pam Rosato, Ph.D.
Project Leader
“Impact of Pre-existing T Cell Memory on Oncolytic Virus Therapy”
Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

 

Prachee Avasthi, Ph.D.
Project Leader
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

 

Michael Ragusa, Ph.D.
Project Leader
“Identifying Mitophagy Receptors as Targets in Ras-dysregulated Cells”
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Dartmouth College

Michael Hoppa D.Phil
Project Leader
“Electrogenic Modulation of Signal Decoding in Presynaptic Terminals”
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Dartmouth College

 

Arminja Kettenbach, Ph.D.
Project Leader
Proteomic Approaches to Target the PP6-mTORC2 Pathway in Glioblastoma”
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

 

Jason McLellan, Ph.D.
Project Leader
Molecular Mechanisms of RSV F Activation and Inhibition”
Professor of Molecular Biosciences
University of Texas at Austin 

 

Gevorg Grigoryan, Ph.D.
Project Leader
Protein Design for Selective Interference with LPA Signaling in Colon Cancer”
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Dartmouth College

 

Alix Ashare, MD, Ph.D.
Project Leader
Mechanisms of Increased Lung Disease Secondary to Polymorphisms in the ACE Gene”
Associate Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology 
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College