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Biomedical Hands-On Laboratory Faculty
Chad Pearson is a research associate in the University of Colorado at Boulder's Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. His research’s objective is to understand the basic mechanisms for cilia formation. Cilia are essential cellular organelles required for environmental sensation and mechanical beating. Disruption of cilia and the basal bodies responsible for organizing cilia cause defects in development, sensory perception, and cancer. Dr. Pearson has identified novel components that comprise basal bodies to determine the molecular architecture required for proper basal body and cilia assembly and function. His studies utilize molecular biology and high resolution light and electron microscopy techniques in both Tetrahymena and human tissue culture systems.
Dr. Pearson earned his BS from the University of California in 1996, and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 2004. He has been a co-director of the MBL's Science Journalism Program since 2007, and an instructor since 2001. Dr. Pearson has also taught courses at Cold Spring Harbor, NY and Gulbenkian Institute, Oeiras, Portugal. He is currently a Damon Runyan Cancer Research Foundation Fellow, and was awarded the Lineberger Cancer Center Graduate Fellow Award in 2003 and the Delill Nasser FASEB Genetics Travel Award in 2006.
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