Amy Gladfelter

Amy Gladfelter is a quantitative cell biologist interested in fundamental mechanisms of cell organization. One area of her work focuses on molecular specificity in biomolecular condensates and her team has identified key roles of RNA sequence in determining the molecular identity of condensates. Her work is characterized by a blend of genetics, biophysics, and theory along with advanced imaging. She is an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also affiliated with the Lineberger Cancer Center and a fellow of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. She trained at Princeton University (AB) with Bonnie Bassler, Duke University (Ph.D.) with Danny Lew, and UniBasel Biozentrum (post-doc) with Peter Philippsen, before starting her independent career at Dartmouth in 2006, where she was until 2016. She has been honored with the 2014 Graduate Mentoring Award from Dartmouth, the 2015 Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Research from the American Society of Cell Biology and is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty Scholar.