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Daniel P. Kiehart

Professor of Biology
Biology
Box 90338, Dept. Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-1000
4330 French Family Science Cen, Science Drive, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0338

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Inoué Symposium at the Marine Biological Laboratory · July 1, 2023 Invited Talk Woods Hole, MA

Celebrating the life of Shinya Inoué and his contribution to cell biology.

Biophysics and Genetics of Cell Sheet Morphogenesis - Dorsal Closure in Drosophila as a Model System · May 19, 2021 Invited Talk Yale University , New Haven, CT

Seminar centered around the topics of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental biology.

Biophysics and Genetics of Cell Sheet Morphogenesis - Dorsal Closure in Drosophila as a Model System · April 13, 2021 Invited Talk Rice University, Houston, TX

Seminar in Department of Physics.

High and Super-Resolution Studies of Cell Sheet Morphogenesis - Shinya Inoué Lecture at the Marine Biological Laboratory’s Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy Course · May 7, 2020 Keynote/Named Lecture Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy Course, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA

Canceled due to Corona Virus Pandemic

Biophysical and Genetic Studies of Cell Sheet Morphogenesis: Dorsal Closure as a Model System - Department of Physics Seminar Series · April 21, 2020 Invited Talk Rice University, Rice University, Houston TX

Cancelled due to Corona Virus Pandemic. Rescheduled for 04/13/2021

Séminaires du Mecredi - "Cell Sheet Morphogenesis through the Lens of Drosophila's Dorsal Closure" · November 8, 2019 Invited Talk Institute of Biology Paris-Seine, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
The Advanced Light Imaging and Spectroscopy Facility at Duke and the Southeast Ultrafast Conference -"Imaging cell sheet morphogenesis: Mechanistic insights from laser surgical, genetic and molecular genetic manipulated dorsal closure in Drosophila" · October 7, 2019 Invited Talk Duke University , Durham, NC
Soft Condensed Matter Gordon Research Conference - "Molecular and Cellular Dynamics Drive Tissue Development in Drosophila Embryos" · August 11, 2019 - August 16, 2019 Invited Talk Colby Sawyer College, New London, NH
Toyama Lab and Adjoining Groups at the Mechanobiology Institute - "Molecular and Cellular Dynamics Drive Cell Sheet Morphogenesis: Dorsal Closure as a Model System" · June 21, 2019 Invited Talk National University of Singapore, Singapore
Chinese Academy of Sciences - "Molecular and Cellular Dynamics Drive Cell Sheet Morphogenesis: Dorsal Closure as a Model System" · June 13, 2019 Invited Talk Beijing, China
Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology - "Morphogenesis: Developmental Biology's Final Frontier viewed through the Lens of Drosophila's Dorsal Closure" · November 13, 2017 Invited Talk University of California, Santa Cruz
Mathematical Biosciences Institute Workshop on "The Biological Challenges in Morphogenesis" · February 17, 2017 - February 24, 2017 Invited Talk

In honor of the 100th Anniversary of the publication of D'Arcy Thompson's "On Growth and Form."

Mechanical Forces in Cell Biology: Mechanics and Information at the Scale of Cells and Tissues · October 5, 2016 Invited Talk National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India

Symposium

Department of Biological Sciences - "Forces and their regulation in cell sheet morphogenesis: Dorsal Closure in Drosophila as a model system" · October 3, 2016 Invited Talk Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Forces and regulation of cell sheet morphogenesis: Dorsal closure in Drosophila as a model · April 28, 2016 Keynote/Named Lecture National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD
Tissue as active matter - Quantitative approaches in developmental biology - "Forces and regulation of cell sheet morphogenesis: Dorsal closure in Drosophila as a model system" · September 11, 2015 - September 19, 2015 Invited Talk Göttingen, Germany
Biophysics - "Forces and regulation of cell sheet morphogenesis: Dorsal closure in Drosophila as a model system" · April 3, 2015 Keynote/Named Lecture Ohio State University
62nd National Institute for Basic Biology Conference on "Force in development" · November 14, 2014 - November 20, 2014 Keynote/Named Lecture Okazaki, Japan
HFSP Awardees Meeting · July 2014 Other Lugano, Switzerland
HFSP Awardees Meeting · July 2013 Other Strasbourg, France
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Ninth Structural Birth Defects Meeting · April 8, 2013 - April 10, 2013 Invited Talk Rockville, MD
Symposium in Honor of Anne Marie Weber · February 1, 2013 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA
Invited Speaker: Declined because of teaching obligations · September 6, 2012 Lecture Physics of cells - from soft to living matter, Meeting in Hyeres, France
Contractility and morphogenesis: Dorsal closure in Drosophila · August 8, 2012 - August 12, 2012 Lecture Santa Cruz Develomental Biology Meeting
Dorsal closure in Drosophila as a model for investigating the coordination of contractility and morphogenesis · July 26, 2012 Lecture Banff International Research Station - Alberta, Canada
HFSP Awardees Meeting · June 28, 2012 - July 7, 2012 Other Daegu, Korea
"Applying Physical Sciences Perspectives from Developmental Biology and Tissues Engineering to Cancer Research" · April 25, 2012 - April 26, 2012 National Scientific Meeting Workshop for the National Cancer Institute on the Bethesda, National Institute of Health Campus
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Morphogenesis: Powering Cell Sheet Movements During Dorsal Closure in Drosophila · April 19, 2012 Lecture Department of Biology, Indiana University
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Morphogenesis: Powering Cell Sheet Movements During Dorsal Closure in Drosophila · March 15, 2012 Lecture Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Ohio
Future Advances in Drosophila Research: Imaging · March 7, 2012 Lecture Annual Drosophila Research Conference, Chicago, Illinois
EMBO Workshop on the Biophysical Mechanisms of Development - "Dorsal Closure: Forces, Molecules and Regulation" · May 24, 2011 Invited Talk Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian - Oeiras, Portugal
CIT Workshop Talk on Biology Gateways · April 29, 2011 Lecture Perkins Library, Duke University
Forces for Morphogenesis: Dorsal Closure as a Model System · March 24, 2011 Lecture International Workshop on the Mechanics and Grow of Tissues, from Development to Cancer. Held at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
Biophysical Contributions to Development in a Post Genomic World:_x000B_Morphogenesis, Development’s Final Frontier · February 9, 2011 Lecture National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Scientific Vision Workshop on Development.
Forces and Regulation for Cell Sheet Movements in Dorsal Closure · September 29, 2010 Lecture Symposium on the Physics of Living Matter, Cambridge, UK
Coordinating Morphogenesis: Fly as a Model System · June 1, 2010 Lecture Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago
Coordinating Morphogenesis: Fly as a Model · April 14, 2010 Lecture Department of Cell Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Closing a Hole: Biophysical, Genetic and Pharmacological Analysis of Cell Sheet Morphogenesis · May 28, 2009 Lecture Instituto de Biología Molecular de Barcelona Parc Cientific de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Closing a Hole: Biophysical, Genetic and Pharmacological Analysis of Cell Sheet Morphogenesis · May 24, 2009 Lecture Biophysical Mechanisms of Development Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Lisbon, Portugal
Closing a Hole: Biophysical, Genetic and Pharmacological Analysis of Cell Sheet Morphogenesis · February 2, 2009 Lecture Department of Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute, Troy, N.Y.
A Myosin Motor Powers Dorsal Closure · January 16, 2009 Lecture Symposium Honoring Bob Adelstein at the National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute, Bethesda, MD
The Biophysics and Genetics of Molecular Motors for Morphogenesis and Sensory Perception · May 20, 2008 Lecture Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine
Biophysics of Tissue Morphogenesis: Genetic, Molecular Genetic and Pharmacological Investigation of Drosophila Dorsal Closure · May 6, 2008 Lecture Department of Develomental and Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Biophysical, Genetic and Pharmacological Analysis of Morphogenesis: Dorsal Closure as a Model System · April 22, 2008 Lecture Institute for Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
7th Annual Retreat and Symposium - "Molecular Motors in Cell Biology," "Biophysical and Genetic Analysis of Morphogenesis" · November 12, 2007 Lecture University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA

Invited Andrew P. Somlyo Lecturer.

Molecular and Developmental Biology Research Retreat - "Biophysical and Genetic Analysis of Cell Sheet Morphogenesis: Dorsal Closure as a Model System" · June 11, 2007 - June 13, 2007 Invited Talk Department of Biology McGill University, Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, University of Montreal - Mont Gabriel, Ste-Adele, Canada
Department Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - "Biophysical and Genetic Analysis of the Forces that Drive Morphogenesis" · April 10, 2007 Lecture University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
International Workshop on Cellular and Genomic Studies of Wound Healing - "Genetic Analysis of Cell Sheet Morphogenesis" · February 22, 2007 Keynote/Named Lecture Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Technologicas - Madrid, Spain
International Biophysical Discussions - "Force Generation by Myosins During Morphogenesis" · October 22, 2006 Invited Talk Asilomar Conference Center - Monterey, CA
Human Frontier Science Program Annual Meeting - "Interdisciplinary Research" · July 3, 2006 Invited Talk Paris, France
Biological Sciences - "Biophysical and Genetic Analysis of Morphogenesis" · April 12, 2006 Invited Talk Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
British Society of Cell Biology and British Society of Developmental Biology Annual Meeting - "Biophysical and Genetic Analysis of Morphogenesis" · March 21, 2006 Invited Talk York, England
Department of Genetics - "Motors for Morphogenesis: Tales of Two Myosins" · March 13, 2006 Invited Talk North Carolina State University - Raleigh, NC
Huntsman Cancer Institute - "Myosins Motor Morphogenesis to Close a Hole and Make a Hair" · February 15, 2006 Invited Talk University of Utah - Salt Lake City, UT
Duke Department of Cell Biology Retreat - "Biophysical, Genetic and Cell Biological Analysis of Morphogenesis" · September 24, 2005 Invited Talk Wilmington, NC
Gordon Research Conference on Motile & Contractile Systems - "Biophysical and Genetic Analysis of Dorsal Closure Points to a Myosin Motor that Mediates Multiple, Redundant Forces for Morphogenesis" · July 11, 2005 Keynote/Named Lecture Colby-Sawyer College - New London, NH
Human Frontier Science Program Awardee's Meeting · June 2005 National Scientific Meeting Bethesda, MD
Duke Frontiers - "Imaging and Visualization of Morphogenesis In Vivo" · May 10, 2005 Invited Talk Duke University - Durham, NC
Department of Biology - "Cellular and Molecular Basis of Morphogenesis" · May 6, 2005 Invited Talk University of Iowa - Iowa City, IA
Mill Seminar Series - "Crinkled Encodes an Unconventional Myosin" · May 5, 2005 Invited Talk University of Iowa - Iowa City, IA
American Association of Anatomists - "Imaging Drosophila Development" · April 2, 2005 Keynote/Named Lecture San Diego, CA
49th Annual Meeting Biophysical Society - "Morphogenesis: Biophysics and Genetics of Dorsal Closure" · February 16, 2005 Keynote/Named Lecture Long Beach, CA
Duke University Program in Structural Biology and Biophysics - "Tails of 3 Myosins" · November 1, 2004 Keynote/Named Lecture Durham, NC
Inoué Symposium at the Marine Biological Laboratory - "Biophysical Studies on Dorsal Closure" · July 8, 2004 Keynote/Named Lecture Woods Hole, MA
Department of Cell Biology - "Morphogenesis: Biophysical and Genetic Analysis of Dorsal Closure" · May 20, 2004 Keynote/Named Lecture Kyoto, Japan
National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology - "Tails of 3 Myosins: Contractility for Diverse Biological Functions" · May 14, 2004 Keynote/Named Lecture Tsukuba, Japan
Department of Biology - "Biophysical and Genetic Analysis of Morphogenesis" · May 13, 2004 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Tokyo - Tokyo, Japan
Developmental Biology Program - "Forces for Morphogenesis: Molecular, Genetic and Biophysical Analysis in Drosophila" · May 5, 2004 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, OH
Muscle Institute - "Morphogenesis: Biophysics and Genetics of Dorsal Closure" · March 12, 2004 Keynote/Named Lecture University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA
Subgroup meeting on "Unconventional Myosins" at the Annual American Society for Cell Biology Meetings · December 13, 2003 Invited Talk San Francisco, CA

I deferred talk to my graduate student, Jody Franke, because of my Father's death in late November 2003.

Duke University Thursday Series - "Musings on the Mechanisms of Morphogenesis: Modeling Movement and a Myosin Motor" · October 16, 2003 Keynote/Named Lecture Durham, NC
EMBO/FEBS Workshop on Frontiers in Cytoskeleton Research - "Modeling Morphogenesis: Dorsal Closure" · September 16, 2003 Invited Talk Gosnau, Austria
Duke University Nanosciences Symposium - "Modeling Morphogenesis" · May 2003 Invited Talk Duke University, Searle Center
Keystone Meeting on the Dynamics of Cellular Organization - "Modeling Morphogenesis: Laser Microsurgery, Mechanical Jump Experiments and Analysis of Mutants Reveal the Origin of Forces for Dorsal Closure" · February 26, 2003 Invited Talk Taos, NM
Department of Biology - "Modeling Morphogenesis" · February 15, 2003 Keynote/Named Lecture McGill University - Montreal, Canada
Department of Biology - "Modeling Morphogenesis" · November 19, 2002 Invited Talk University of Texas - Austin, TX
11th Annual Symposium on Egg to Organ Series - "Dorsal Closure" · September 29, 2002 Lecture University of Minnesota - St. Paul, MN
Euresco Conference on Cellular and Molecular Basis of Regeneration - "Morphogenesis in Drosophila Dorsal Closure" · August 31, 2002 Lecture Castelvecchio Pascoli, Italy
Santa Cruz Conference on Developmental Biology - "Morphogenesis in Drosophila Dorsal Closure" · August 15, 2002 Invited Talk UC Santa Cruz - Santa Cruz, CA
25 Minute Research Talk - "Cell Sheet Morphogenesis" · June 29, 2002 Invited Talk Yale University

Pollard 60th Birthday Reunion

Department of Physics - "Quantitative Modeling of Cell Sheet Morphogenesis" · June 4, 2002 Keynote/Named Lecture Duke University - Durham, NC

Joint with Professor Glenn Edwards.

Department of Biology - "Morphogenesis in Drosophila Dorsal Closure" · April 15, 2002 Keynote/Named Lecture New York University - New York, NY
International Workshop on Cytoskeleton in Cell Motility, Division and Polarity - "Morphogenesis in Drosophila Dorsal Closure" · March 5, 2002 Keynote/Named Lecture National Centre for Biological Science - Bangalore, India

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Data+ · June 2016 - July 2016 Projects & Field Work flag United States of America

Service to the Profession


Member, NIH Study Panel for MIRA Awards · November 9, 2020 - November 10, 2020 Consulting National Institutes of Health, Center for Scientific Review, Virtual
Invited Shinya Inoué Lectureship, Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy Course · 2020 Event Attendance Marine Biological Laboratory - Woods Hole, MA
Nuclear Educator Orientation Visit to Aircraft Carrier Theodore Roosevelt at sea off the coast of California · July 8, 2019 - July 11, 2019 Event Attendance U.S. Navy, San Diego, CA and Pacific Ocean

Academic Administrator visit to observe day and night flight operations of a nuclear carrier at sea.

Dean's Trip to Asia (Beijing, Kunshan, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore · June 11, 2019 - June 22, 2019 Event Attendance Trinity College of Arts and Sciences,

Traveled with Dean Valerie Ashby to Asia

Member - Howard Huges Gilliam Fellowship (for Diversity) Study Panel · 2018 Editorial Activities
External Visiting Committee Member · 2017 Committee Service College of Natural Sciences, U. Texas - Austin
Chair - HFSP Career Development Grant Panel · 2012 - 2016 Editorial Activities Strasbourg, France
Human Frontier Science Program Letter of Intent Panel · 2010 - 2011 Other
Member - National Academies Education Fellow in the Life Sciences - NSF · 2009 - 2010 Other U. Wisconsin, Madison Summer Institute
Chair - Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Structure/Function and Dynamics Study Section (formerly CSF) NIH Study Section · 2009 - 2011 Editorial Activities
Member, Special Review Committee for NIGMS Glue Grant -- Cell Migration Consortium · December 6, 2008 Editorial Activities
Ad Hoc Reviewer for professional journals · 2008 Editorial Activities
Founding Editor (one of four) - HFSP Journal, now called Frontiers in Life Science · 2007 - 2012 Editorial Activities
Member - NIH Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Structure/Function an Dynamics Study Section · 2006 - 2011 Editorial Activities

*Changed its name from Cell Structure and Function

Member - Human Frontier Science Letter of Intent Panel · 2004 - 2008 Editorial Activities
NIH BRT (Graduate) Training Grant Study Panel · 2001 - 2005 Professional Development
Member - Human Frontier Science Program Grant Panel · 1998 - 2003 Event Attendance
Director - University Program in Genetics · 1997 - 2001 Editorial Activities
Editorial Board - Developmental Biology and Biology of the Cell · 1995 - 2000 Editorial Activities
NIH Reviewers Reserve - Molecular Cytology and Biological Sciences II Study Sections · 1992 - 2006 Editorial Activities
Chief - Division of Developmental Biology · 1992 - 2000 Editorial Activities Duke University Medical Center
Instructor - Physiology Course, Marine Biological Laboratory · 1986 Professional Development Woods Hole, MA

Other years also include 1997 and 1998.

Student - Physiology Course, Marine Biological Laboratory · 1975 Other Woods Hole, MA

Service to Duke


Research Townhall Panelist: Improving Grantspersonship from a Reviewer's Perspective · December 3, 2018 Event Attendance Duke University
Bass Connections Faculty Advisory Council (Program) · 2014 - 2015 Committee Service
Dean of Natural Sciences · August 2013 - June 2019 Event/Organization Administration Trinity College of Arts and Sciences - Duke University
Provost's Committee to Review John Simon, Vice Provost (Other) · February 2011 - April 2011 Committee Service
Committee to Review Dean of Duke Chapel, Sam Wells (University) · February 2010 - May 2010 Committee Service
Provost's Committee to Review the Duke Institute for Genomic Sciences and Policy (University) · December 2007 - January 2008 Committee Service
Search Committee for the Chair of Biochemistry (Department) · July 2007 - July 2010 Committee Service
Chair . Department of Biology · July 2007 - June 2013 Editorial Activities
Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty (Department) · September 2006 - February 2007 Committee Service
Provost's Advisory Committee on the Provost's Lecture Series (Program) · July 2005 - May 2006 Committee Service
Committee to Review R. Sanders Williams, Dean of the School of Medicine (School) · June 2005 - September 2005 Committee Service
Graduate Program in Nanosciences, Department of Biology Representatives (Program) · September 2003 - May 2004 Committee Service
Chancellor's Search Committee (Other) · August 2003 - May 2004 Committee Service
Department of Biology Chair Search Committee, Committee Member (Department) · September 2001 - May 2002 Committee Service
Provost's Advisory Committee on Appointment, Promotion and Tenure, Committee Member (Other) · September 2001 - June 2005 Committee Service