Jeanine Amacher
Dr. Jeanine Amacher grew up in Portland, Oregon before attending the University of Oregon. Following her undergraduate studies, she was a research technician at Oregon Health & Sciences University before joining the Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) program at Dartmouth for her Ph.D. In Dean Madden's lab at Dartmouth, Jeanine fell in love with protein biochemistry and structural biology, as well as in using PDZ domains to think broadly about how specificity in encoded in protein domain families that recognize short peptide sequences. Following her graduate work, Jeanine moved to California and joined John Kuriyan's lab, where she was a Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research postdoctoral fellow. In the Kuriyan lab, Jeanine studied ubiquitin ligases and tyrosine kinases. In 2017, Jeanine began her independent career at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, where she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022. She continues to investigate peptide-binding domains including PDZ, SH2, and SH3 domains, as well as bacterial sortase enzymes. She has mentored over 40 undergraduate and master's students, and her lab is currently funded by NSF CAREER, NIH R15, and Cottrell Scholar awards. When not in the lab, Jeanine is often running the local trails, teaching spinning at the campus rec center, or finding adventures with her scientist husband and three young children.
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