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	Reading 1	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	Reading 2	* What is a model? * Model of a cell/model of a computer
2	16-Jan	Reading 3	* 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	Reading 4	* DNA structure
3	23-Jan	Reading 5	* Aipotu work session	Week 3 (due 12:01am 2/1) Class Journal Week 3
	25-Jan	Reading 6	* Genes as models * Central model of molecular biology * Paper and pencil exercise
4	30-Jan	Reading 7	* 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	Reading 8	* 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	Reading 9	* Week 4 work session	Week 5 (due 12:01am 2/15) Class Journal Week 5
	8-Feb	Reading 10	* 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	Reading 11	* Database presentations part 1	Week 6 (due 12:01am 2/22) Class Journal Week 6
	15-Feb	Reading 12	* Database presentations part 2
Part 2: Going Deeper (Gene Expression Data and Relational Databases)
7	20-Feb	Reading 13	* Human Genome Project to 'omics era	No Week 7 Assignment
	22-Feb	Reading 14	* Review Week 6 assignment
Spring Break	27-Feb	No class
	29-Feb
8	5-Mar	Reading 15	* More about 'omics analysis	Week 8 (due 12:01am 3/14) Class Journal Week 8
	7-Mar	Reading 16	* Begin transcriptomic analysis (part 1)
9	12-Mar	Reading 17	* Transcriptomic analysis (part 2)	Week 9 (due 12:01am 3/21) Class Journal Week 9
	14-Mar	Reading 18	* Transcriptomic analysis (part 3)
10	19-Mar	Reading 19	* Transcriptomic analysis (part 4)	Week 10 (due 12:01am 3/26, note Tuesday due date) Class Journal Week 10
	21-Mar	Reading 20	* Transcriptomic analysis (part 5) * Group requests due in class
Part 3: Integrating for Research (GRNsight Gene Expression Database Project)
11	26-Mar	Reading 21	* 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	Reading 23	* Literature searching and annotated bibliographies	Week 12 (due 12:01am 4/11)
	4-Apr	Reading 24	* Journal club presentations
13	9-Apr	Reading 25	* Status report * Work session	Week 13 (due 12:01am 4/18)
	11-Apr	Reading 26	* Status report * Work session
14	16-Jan	Reading 27	* Status report * Work session	Week 14 (due 12:01am 4/25)
	18-Apr	Reading 28	* Status report * Work session
15	23-Apr	Reading 29	* Status report * Work session	Week 15 (due 12:00 noon 5/3)
	25-Apr	Reading 30	* Status report * Work session
Finals	2-May		Final Presentations 11:00am
	3-May		Project Deliverables Due 12:00 noon