Before the Bench: Previously, Amy Gladfelter was Professor of Biology and Associate chair at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2016-2023 and at Dartmouth College from 2006-2016.
At the Bench: Amy Gladfelter is a quantitative cell biologist interested in fundamental mechanisms of cell organization. She is currently a Distinguished Duke Health Science and Technology Professor in the Cell Biology and Biomedical Engineering Departments at Duke University. She remains a longstanding fellow of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA and is currently the course co-director of the Physiology Course. In her research program, she uses microscopy, biophysical and genetic approaches to study syncytial cells and how these large cells spatially organize the cytoplasm via biomolecular condensates and sense their shape.
Away from the Bench: She enjoys gardens, dancing, poetry and caring for family.