Susan Gilbert

Department Head

About

Dr. Gilbert received her A.B. in Chemistry from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, VA and her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in Cell Biology with Dr. Roger Sloboda and the late Dr. Robert Allen. Dr. Gilbert trained as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Kenneth Johnson at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, and joined the faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh in 1995. During her time at University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Gilbert was a member of the Graduate Faculty, the Graduate Program in Biological Sciences, the Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology Graduate Program, and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. Dr. Gilbert joined Rensselaer in 2007 as Professor and Head of the Department of Biology. Dr. Gilbert’s research focuses on cellular movements, and the molecular motors that drive these movements to better understand cellular function and dysfunctions such as cancer. She performed much of her early research at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Dr. Gilbert received the March of Dimes Basil O’Connor Scholar Research Award, American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Research Award, and a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Career Development Award through the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS). Her research program has been supported throughout her career by grants from the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences including a prestigious MERIT Award. Dr. Gilbert is a member of the American Society for Cell Biology, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Biophysical Society where she served as a member of Council and the Executive Committee. She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and has served on the editorial boards for the Biophysical Journal, and the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Dr. Gilbert served as a standing member of the National Institutes of Health Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Structure/Function and Dynamics Study Section (2010-2014) and received the 2014 Rensselaer William H. Wiley 1866 Distinguished Faculty Award.

Research

Other Focus Areas

Cell Biology, Biophysics and Biochemistry, Structure-Function Analysis of Kinesins

Publications

The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Susan Gilbert has 79 indexed publications in the subjects of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Multidisciplinary, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Alex Garbouchian, Andrew C. Montgomery, Susan P. Gilbert, Marvin Bentley
Molecular Biology of the Cell
, 33
, 2022
.
Madeline Frank, Alec T. Nabb, Susan P. Gilbert, Marvin Bentley
Molecular Biology of the Cell
, 33
, 2022
.
Mandira Dutta, Susan P. Gilbert, José N. Onuchic, Biman Jana
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
, 118
, 2021
.
Sean M. Quinn, Troy Vargason, Nilisha Pokhrel, Edwin Antony, Juergen Hahn, Susan P. Gilbert
Journal of Biological Chemistry
, 296
, 2021
.
Brandon M. Bensel, Michael S. Woody, Serapion Pyrpassopoulos, Yale E. Goldman, Susan P. Gilbert, E. Michael Ostap
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
, 117
, 2020
, pp.15632-15641
.
Stephanie K. Deeb, Stephanie Guzik-Lendrum, Jasper D. Jeffrey, Susan P. Gilbert
Journal of Biological Chemistry
, 294
, 2019
, pp.20070-20083
.
Sean M. Quinn, Daniel P. Howsmon, Juergen Hahn, Susan P. Gilbert
Journal of Biological Chemistry
, 293
, 2018
, pp.13389-13400
.
Kellie A. Woll, Stephanie Guzik-Lendrum, Brandon M. Bensel, Natarajan V. Bhanu, William P. Dailey, Benjamin A. Garcia, Susan P. Gilbert, Roderic G. Eckenhoff
Journal of Biological Chemistry
, 293
, 2018
, pp.11283-11295
.
Susan P. Gilbert, Stephanie Guzik-Lendrum, Ivan Rayment
Journal of Biological Chemistry
, 293
, 2018
, pp.4510-4518
.
Stephanie Guzik-Lendrum, Ivan Rayment, Susan P. Gilbert
Biophysical Journal
, 113
, 2017
, pp.1845-1857
.

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