Dr. Dawne Page joined the faculty of PLNU in 2002 and became chair of the Department of Biology in 2009. She enjoys teaching undergraduate and graduate students, and she has a long-term interest in teacher professional development. Her research interests are in the field of immunology.
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Education
- Ph.D., Immunology, University of California, San Francisco
- B.S. Honors, Biochemistry, Pennsylvania State University
Courses Taught
- Research Methodology – BIO 3001
- Genetics – BIO 3045
- Immunology – BIO 3090
- Internships – BIO 4090
- Immunology Section - MIMS 6003 (PA Students)
- Microbiology & Immunology – BIO 6060 (Grad Course)
- Genetics & Molecular Biology – BIO 6062 (Grad Course)
- Perspectives on Science – BIO 6092 (Grad Course)
Experience in Field
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego, 1990 – 1994
- Research Scientist, University of California, San Diego, 1994 – 2002
- Director of SEASAND, the Science Education Association of San Diego, a California Subject Matter Project, 2000 – 2009
- Director of the HHMI Undergraduate Science Education Grant, PLNU, 2004 – 2010
- PI, NIH R29 First Award, 1995 – 2000
- PI, NSF Major Research Instrumentation Award, 2006 – 2008
- PI, NSF: “B Cell Development and Activation in Danio Rerio,” 2011 – 2015
- Co-PI, NSF-SSTEM: “Scholarships to Support STEM Majors Computational Sciences Minors," 2015 – 2020
Professional and Community Involvement
- Director of SEASAND, the Science Education Association of San Diego, a California Subject Matter Project, 2000 – 2009
- Reviewer: National Science Foundation, Cell Biology Education
Awards and Honors
- San Diego Science Alliance Sustainable Program Partnership Award for Perspectives on Science Seminar Series, 2008
- Award for Excellence in Science Education, San Diego Science Education Association, 2004
Dissertations, Presentations, and Publications
- Botts R.T., Page D.M., Bravo J.A., Brown M.L., Castilleja C.C., Guzman V.L., Hall S., Henderson J.D., Kenney S.M., Lensink M.E., Paternoster M.V., Pyle S.L., Ustick L., Walters-Laird C.J., Top E.M., Cummings D.E. (2023) Polluted wetlands contain multidrug-resistance plasmids encoding CTX-M-type extended-spectrum β-lactamases. Plasmid 126:102682.
- Page, D.M., et al. (2013). An Evolutionarily Conserved Program of B Cell Development and Activation in Zebrafish. Blood. 122: e1-e11.
- Li, R., and D. M. Page (2001). Requirement for a Complex Array of Co-Receptors in the Negative Selection of Autoreactive Thymocytes in Vivo. J. Immunol. 166: 6050-6056.
- Page, D.M. (1999). Regulation of Thymic Selection and Autoreactivity by Co-Receptors Involved in T Cell Activation. J. Immunol. 163:3577.
- Page, D.M., et al. (1997). TNF Receptor-Deficient Mice Reveal Startling Differences Between Several Modes of Thymocyte Negative Selection. J. Immunol. 160:120-133.
- Page, D. M., Y. Tokugawa, J. Silver, and C. L. Stewart. (1997). Role of Thy-1 in T Cell Development. J. Immunol. 159:5285-92.
- Page, D.M., Kane, L.P., Allison, J.P., and S.M. Hedrick. (1993). Two Signals are Required for Negative Selection of CD4+CD8+ Thymocytes. J. Immunol. 151:1868.
