Dara Gilbert

Dara Gilbert
Lecturer, Biochemistry Undergraduate Advisor
Location: C2 389
Phone: 519-888-4567 x45047

Research Interests

  • Biochemistry
  • Teaching methods in higher education

Education

  • 1991 Ph.D., Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
  • 1982 B.A., Geology, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Awards

  • 1991-1994: NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, US. Public Health Service National Research Service Award GM114548
  • 1989-1990: UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship
  • 1986-1989: Cellular and Molecular Biology Training Grant, US. Public Health Service National Research Service Award GM07185

Teaching*

  • CHEM 233 - Fundamentals of Biochemistry
    • Taught in 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024
  • CHEM 237 - Introductory Biochemistry
    • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
  • CHEM 331 - Fundamentals of Metabolism 1
    • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • CHEM 333 - Metabolism 1
    • Taught in 2020, 2021
  • CHEM 357 - Physical Biochemistry
    • Taught in 2020, 2022, 2024
  • CHEM 432 - Metabolism 2
    • Taught in 2022, 2023
  • CHEM 433 - Advanced Biochemistry
    • Taught in 2023, 2024
  • NE 224 - Biochemistry for Nanotechnology Engineers
    • Taught in 2023

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

Selected/Recent Publications

  • Goldenberg, DP; Koehn, RE; Gilbert, DE; Wagner, G. (2001). Solution structure and backbone dynamics of an omega-conotoxin precursor. Protein Science, 10: 538-550.
  • Allain, FHT; Gilbert, DE; Bouvet, P; Feigon, J. (2000). Solution structure of the two N-terminal RNA-binding domains of nucleolin and NMR study of the interaction with its RNA target. JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, 303:227-241.
  • del Rio-Portilla, F; Gaskell, A; Gilbert, D; Ladias, JAA; Wagner, G.(1999). Solution structure of the hRPABC14.4 subunit of human RNA polymerases. NATURE STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY, 6:1039-1042.
  • Gilbert, D.E. and Feigon, J. (1999). Multistranded DNA Structures. Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 9, 305-314.