(photo) Kristen Chambers manages the dynamic BioInformatics staff, assists in the planning, development and design of the computing systems and resources for new research, and consults on all projects in the department. She was a programmer on the Colorectal Cancer Family Registry project before assuming directorship of the group in August 1999.

Before coming to Dartmouth, Kristen was a bioinformaticist and team leader with Genetics Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She worked on the DiscoverEase protein development platform, a tool for novel gene discovery. For five years before joining GI, Kristen performed crystallographic research with Carl Pabo, PhD, with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at MIT. She focused mainly on the p53 and LEF1-HMG DNA-binding complexes. Kristen earned an AB in Human Biology from Stanford University in 1985, and an MS in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University in 1991.

Kristen maintains keen interest in the bioinformatics of genomics and proteomics, particularly in integrating and interfacing large data sets to generate information about the possible functionality of novel genes and proteins.

Kristen lives with her family in Brownsville, Vermont.

Phone: (603) 650 3402, Fax: (603) 650 3411, Email: Kristen