1. Catherine Dulac is a professor at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Harvard University and, since 2022, has been the current Samuel W Morris University Professor.
13 Facts About Catherine Dulac
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Catherine Dulac's parents were academics and researchers in the humanities.
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Catherine Dulac entered the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1982, graduating with a BSc 4 years later.
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Catherine Dulac then conducted her PhD research under Nicole Marthe Le Douarin at the Institut d'Embryologie cellulaire et moleculaire in Nogent-sur-Marne, which was affiliated to both College de France and the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and defended her PhD thesis at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris in 1991.
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Catherine Dulac stayed at the Institut d'Embryologie cellulaire et moleculaire until 1992.
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In 1996, Catherine Dulac joined the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Harvard University as an assistant professor, She was promoted to associate professor in 2000 and then full professor in 2001.
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Catherine Dulac was the department chair between 2007 and 2013.
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Catherine Dulac was appointed Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology in 2006 and then Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences, a five-year position, in 2018.
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Catherine Dulac is currently a member of the Harvard Brain Science Initiative, as well as the Center for Brain Science and the affiliated Hock E Tan and K Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research at Harvard.
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Catherine Dulac has been an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1997.
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In 1995, working on mice, Catherine Dulac became the first to identify genes in mammals that encodes receptors for pheromones.
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Catherine Dulac continued researching the signalling pathway of pheromone in mice, discovering that Trpc2, an ion channel only found in the VNO in mice, played a major role in passing pheromone signals to downstream players in the pheromone signalling pathway.
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Apart from pheromones, Catherine Dulac has studied the regulation of the parental brain, reporting that a group of neurons which express galanin regulates parental responses in mice.