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Professor Kris Noel Dahl
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and BioMedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

1107 Doherty Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

Email address:
Phone: (412) 268-2230
Fax: (412) 268-7596

Research Interests

Professor Dahl's research uses rheological, biophysical and optical techniques to understand the structure and organization of the cell nucleus. These studies are relevant to dissecting the molecular pathology of diseases caused by defects in nuclear structure.

Biography

Kris Noel Dahl received her Ph.D. degree from the University of

Pennsylvania in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and was a post

doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Cell Biology and Anatomy

before joining Carnegie Mellon University. She has a joint appointment in

Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering and a courtesy appointment

in Materials Science and Engineering.

Recent Publications

Dahl KN, Engler AJ, Pajerowski JD and Discher DE (2005) Power-law rheology of isolated nuclei with deformation mapping of nuclear sub-structures. Biophys J 2005; 89: 2855-2864

Dahl KN, Kahn SM, Wilson KL and Discher DE (2004) The nuclear envelope lamina network has elasticity and incompressibility suggestive of a molecular shock absorber. J Cell Sci 2004; 117:4779-4786 with Editor's Highlight and Research highlight in October 7, 2004 issue of Nature.

Dahl KN, Parthasarathy R, Westhoff CM, Layton DM and Discher DE (2004) Protein 4.2 is critical to the CD47-membrane skeleton attachment in the human red cell. Blood 2004; 103:1131-1136

Dahl KN, Westhoff CM, and Discher DE (2003) Fractional attachment of CD47 (IAP) to the erythrocyte cytoskeleton and visual co-localization with Rh protein complexes. Blood 2003; 101:1194-119

Subramanian A, Ma H, Dahl KN, Zhu J and Diamond SL (2002) Adenovirus or HA-2 fusogenic peptide-assisted lipofection increases cytoplasmic levels of plasmid in nondividing endothelium with little enhancement of transgene expression. J Gene Med 2002; 4: 75-83