User:Logophile59/sandbox/Angela DePace

Angela DePace is an American biophysicist. During her Ph.D. work, she identified the prion domain in yeast prions, leading to insights into how a single protein can generate multiple infectious prion strains. She is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, where her laboratory investigates the mechanism and evolution of the regulation of gene expression in animals.

Education
Dr. DePace received her bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1996, and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California, San Francisco in 2002. She performed her graduate work in the laboratory of Jonathan Weissman. She was a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley in the laboratory of Michael Eisen.

Career
DePace's graduate work on prions is credited with solving the problem of what prevents prions that affect one species from infecting another species, and providing insight into how this transmission barrier fails, as happens in mad cow disease.

She joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School in 2008. Her laboratory investigates the mechanism and evolution of gene expression in animals, using Drosophila embryos as a model system. With Jeremy Gunawardena, she has argued that the effects of energy expenditure during gene regulation may be underestimated.

DePace is an advocate for broadening the training of biomedical researchers to prepare students and postdocs for careers outside academic research. With several of her trainees, she wrote an influential piece on the usefulness of individual development plans as a tool for career planning. She teaches communication as a core discipline essential for both academic science and other careers, and co-authored a book on science communication through graphics, "Visual Strategies: A Practical Guide to Graphics for Scientists and Engineers", with Felice Frankel. She founded the Science Citizenship Initiative at Harvard, which aims to train scientists for socially responsive and responsible work in the communities they serve, and as of 2019 serves as its Faculty Director.

, she is the Chair of the Public Affairs Committee of the Society for Developmental Biology.

Awards

 * 1995: William L. Learned Scholarship, Yale University
 * 1997: HHMI predoctoral fellowship


 * 2004: Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellowship


 * 2015: NSF Career Award