Richard Fehon

Biography

Education: (1986-1991) Postdoctoral Fellow with Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas, Depts. of Biology and Cell Biology, Yale University and HHMI. (1980-1986) Ph.D., Department of Zoology and Developmental Biology Training Program, University of Washington, Seattle, Dissertation Research with Gerold Schubiger. (1978-1980) BS (magna cum laude) Department of Zoology, Duke University, Durham, NC. Professional Experience: (2007 - present) Chair of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago. (2005 - present) Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago. (2002-2004) Co-Director, Duke University Model Systems Genomics Unit. (2002-2004) Convener, Developmental, Cell, and Molecular Biology Group, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC (2001-2004) Director of Graduate Studies, Developmental Biology Training Program, Duke University, Durham, NC. (2000-2004) Associate Professor of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC. (1999-2000) Associate Professor of Zoology, Duke University, Durham, NC. (1992-1998) Assistant Professor of Zoology, Duke University, Durham, NC. (1989-1991) NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, CT. (1986-1989) ACS Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, CT. (1982-1986) NIH Predoctoral Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Research Interest

Research interests center on the molecular mechanisms by which signal transduction pathways are organized into specialized membrane domains. In addition to their known role in organizing receptors and downstream effectors into functional signaling complexes, such organized complexes function to integrate signaling activities from multiple pathways and to segregate simultaneous but distinct functions of a single pathway. We study this question in Drosophila because of the utility of this system for studying the functions of individual genes via mutagenesis, and for examining the functional interactions between different genes that work together in a particular cellular or developmental process.