Dara Gilbert
Associate Professor - Teaching Stream, Biochemistry Undergraduate Advisor
Email: dara.gilbert@uwaterloo.ca
Location: C2 389
Phone: 519-888-4567 x45047
Research Interests
- Biochemistry
- Teaching methods in higher education
Education
- 1991, PhD, Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- 1982, BA, 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, 2024
- 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, 2024
- 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.