User:Kdahlquist

Kam D. Dahlquist, Ph.D.

Contact Information

Professor
Department of Biology 
Loyola Marymount University 
1 LMU Drive, MS 8888 
Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659 
Tel: 310-338-7697 
Fax: 310-338-5317
E-mail: kdahlquist at lmu dot edu
Office: FEA 289 
Lab: FEA 263 

Office Hours (Spring 2024)

Mondays 2:00-3:30 PM, Tuesdays 3:15-4:45 PM and by appointment. See the course Brightspace page for a link to my Calendly to make an in-person or Zoom appointment.

For more information about me, please see my web pages:

• Dahlquist Lab website
• Dahlquist Lab page at OpenWetWare.org

Education

• Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Program, March 2000
• B.A., Pomona College, Claremont, California, Biology, cum laude, May 1993
• Study Abroad Program, University College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, Specialized tutorial in Philosophy of Science, Fall 1991

Work Experience

• Professor, Department of Biology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, 2017-present
• Chair, Department of Biology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, 2020-2023
• Affiliate Faculty, Bioethics Institute, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, 2013-present
• William F. McLaughlin Chair of Biology, 2010–2012
• Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, 2009–2017
• Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, 2005–2009,
• Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 2003–2005
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California, San Francisco, 2000–2003
• Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Biology, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, Spring 2000
• Visiting Researcher, Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1997–2000
• Research Assistant, Department of Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, 1994–1997

Publications

See the Dahlquist Lab Publications page or my Google Scholar profile.

Software and Datasets

• GRNmap (Gene Regulatory Network Modeling and Parameter Estimation)
• GRNsight (Web Application and Service for Visualizing Models of Gene Regulatory Networks)
• NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus Series GSE83656 Global transcriptional response of wild type and transcription factor deletion strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to the environmental stress of cold shock and subsequent recovery

Personal Interests and Hobbies

• Cooking and baking
• Reading science fiction
• Dance
• Needlework
  • cross stitch
  • needlepoint

BioDB Home page

LMU home page

Sandbox

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Week	Date	Before Class Reading	During Class Topic	After Class Assignment
Part 1: Building Blocks (Genetic Code and Manipulating Text)
1	9-Jan		Syllabus walkthrough Pairwise interviews and introductions Academic Honesty case studies Wiki account setup	Week 1 (due 12:01am 1/18) Class Journal Week 1
	11-Jan		What is a model? Model of a cell/model of a computer
2	16-Jan		Discuss the Week 1 assignment Wiki syntax overview Lab session to setup User wiki page	Week 2 (due 12:01am 1/25) Class Journal Week 2
	18-Jan		DNA structure
3	23-Jan		Aipotu work session	Week 3 (due 12:01am 2/1) Class Journal Week 3
	25-Jan		Genes as models Central model of molecular biology Paper and pencil exercise
4	30-Jan		Introduction to biological databases (part 1) What is bioinformatics? Open Science Ecosystem DataONE: Data management and the life cycle of data	Week 4 (due 12:01am 2/8) Class Journal Week 4
	1-Feb		Introduction to biological databases (part 2) Where's my stuff? An overview of computers, networks, files, web applications, web services, and databases Names, URLs, identifiers As applied to biology: genes, species "Stuff" on the worldwide web Accessing the web on a browser
5	6-Feb		Week 4 work session	Week 5 (due 12:01am 2/15) Class Journal Week 5
	8-Feb		Introduction to biological databases (part 3) Terminology, types, evaluation, four "Gold Standard" databases A closer look at evaluating biological databases DataONE: Data sharing Presentation Guidelines
6	13-Feb		Database presentations part 1	Week 6 (due 12:01am 2/22) Class Journal Week 6
	15-Feb		Database presentations part 2
Part 2: Going Deeper (Gene Expression Data and Relational Databases)
7	20-Feb		Human Genome Project to 'omics era	No Week 7 Assignment
	22-Feb		Review Week 6 assignment
Spring Break	27-Feb	No class
	29-Feb
8	5-Mar		More about 'omics analysis	Week 8 (due 12:01am 3/14) Class Journal Week 8
	7-Mar		Begin transcriptomic analysis (part 1)
9	12-Mar		Transcriptomic analysis (part 2)	Week 9 (due 12:01am 3/21) Class Journal Week 9
	14-Mar		Transcriptomic analysis (part 3)
10	19-Mar		Transcriptomic analysis (part 4)	Week 10 (due 12:01am 3/26, note Tuesday due date) Class Journal Week 10
	21-Mar		Transcriptomic analysis (part 5) Group requests due in class
Part 3: Integrating for Research (GRNsight Gene Expression Database Project)
11	26-Mar		Begin Database Project Team assignments Overview of project Work session to create Team wiki pages	Week 11 (due 12:01am 4/4)
Easter	28-Mar	No class
12	2-Apr		Literature searching and annotated bibliographies	Week 12 (due 12:01am 4/11)
	4-Apr		* Journal club presentations
13	9-Apr		Status report Work session	Week 13 (due 12:01am 4/18)
	11-Apr		Status report Work session
14	16-Jan		Status report Work session	Week 14 (due 12:01am 4/25)
	18-Apr		Status report Work session
15	23-Apr		Status report Work session	Week 15 (due 12:00 noon 5/3)
	25-Apr		Status report Work session
Finals	2-May		Final Presentations 11:00am
	3-May		Project Deliverables Due 12:00 noon