Mary Dunlop, PhD
Associate Professor
Boston University College of Engineering
Biomedical Engineering

PhD, California Institute of Technology
MS, California Institute of Technology
BS, Princeton University



Mary Dunlop is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University with additional appointments in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry and Bioinformatics. She graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a minor in Computer Science. She then received her Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, where she studied synthetic biology with a focus on dynamics and feedback in gene regulation. As a postdoctoral scholar, she conducted research on biofuel production at the Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute. Her lab engineers novel synthetic feedback control systems and also studies naturally occurring examples of feedback in gene regulation. In recognition of her outstanding research and service contributions, she has received many honors including a Department of Energy Early Career Award, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and the ACS Synthetic Biology Young Investigator Award.


NRT-URoL: A Convergent Training Program on Biological Control
08/01/2023 - 07/31/2028 (Multi-PI)
PI: Mary Dunlop, PhD
National Science Foundation
DGE-2244366

Optogenetic selection for dynamic phenotypes in bacteria
08/01/2023 - 07/31/2026 (PI)
National Science Foundation
MCB-2324909

Cell-to-cell heterogeneity and the emergence of antibiotic resistance
06/05/2019 - 05/31/2025 (PI)
NIH/National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
3R01AI102922-010S1

Transitions: Deep learning models for microbial image analysis and time-series predictions
01/01/2022 - 12/31/2024 (PI)
National Science Foundation
MCB-2143289

Single-cell feedback, optogenetics, and deep learning to control gene expression in bacteria
08/15/2020 - 07/31/2024 (PI)
National Science Foundation
MCB-2032357

High-throughput chemical imaging for optimizing biofuel synthesis using synthetic biology
09/15/2018 - 09/14/2023 (Multi-PI)
PI: Mary Dunlop, PhD
Department of Energy
DE-SC0019387

Quantifying Clostridioides difficile single-cell growth dynamics using time-lapse microscopy
01/15/2021 - 06/30/2023 (Subcontract PI)
Trustees of Tufts College NIH NIAID
1R21AI153853-01A1

Exploiting dynamics and cell-to-cell variation in metabolic engineering
07/01/2018 - 06/30/2022 (PI)
National Science Foundation
CBET-1804096

Efflux pumps and the emergence of antibiotic resistance in single cells
02/01/2018 - 01/31/2021 (PI)
NIH/National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
5R21AI137843-02

CAREER: Tunable Dynamics from Interlinked Feedback Loops in Synthetic and Natural Gene Circuits
01/01/2017 - 08/31/2020 (PI)
National Science Foundation
MCB-1740563

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Yr Title Project-Sub Proj Pubs
2023 Cell-to-cell heterogeneity and the emergence of antibiotic resistance 5R01AI102922-10
2023 Cell-to-cell heterogeneity and the emergence of antibiotic resistance 3R01AI102922-10S1
2023 Cell-to-cell heterogeneity and the emergence of antibiotic resistance 3R01AI102922-09S1
2022 Cell-to-cell heterogeneity and the emergence of antibiotic resistance 5R01AI102922-09
2021 Cell-to-cell heterogeneity and the emergence of antibiotic resistance 5R01AI102922-08 12
2020 Cell-to-cell heterogeneity and the emergence of antibiotic resistance 5R01AI102922-07 12
2019 Efflux pumps and the emergence of antibiotic resistance in single cells 5R21AI137843-02 2
2019 Cell-to-cell heterogeneity and the emergence of antibiotic resistance 2R01AI102922-06 12
2018 Efflux pumps and the emergence of antibiotic resistance in single cells 1R21AI137843-01 2
2018 Feedback and Noise in a Multiple Antibiotic Resistance Circuit 5R01AI102922-05 12
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  1. Blassick CM, Lugagne JB, Dunlop MJ. Dynamic heterogeneity in an E. coli stress response regulon mediates gene activation and antimicrobial peptide tolerance. bioRxiv. 2024 Dec 02. PMID: 39677761; PMCID: PMC11642793; DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.27.625634;
     
  2. Alnahhas RN, Andreani V, Dunlop MJ. Evaluating the predictive power of combined gene expression dynamics from single cells on antibiotic survival. bioRxiv. 2024 Nov 25.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39651301; PMCID: PMC11623535; DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.23.624989;
     
  3. Alnahhas RN, Dunlop MJ. Evaluation of Choudhary et al.: Single-cell gene expression dynamics in the E. coli oxidative stress response network. Cell Syst. 2024 Nov 20; 15(11):991-993.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39571531
     
  4. Jafarbeglou F, Dunlop MJ. Red Light Responsive Cre Recombinase for Bacterial Optogenetics. ACS Synth Biol. 2024 Dec 20; 13(12):3991-4001. PMID: 39558834
     
  5. Haynes KA, Andrews LB, Beisel CL, Chappell J, Cuba Samaniego CE, Dueber JE, Dunlop MJ, Franco E, Lucks JB, Noireaux V, Savage DF, Silver PA, Smanski M, Young E. Ten Years of the Synthetic Biology Summer Course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. ACS Synth Biol. 2024 Sep 20; 13(9):2635-2642. PMID: 39300908; PMCID: PMC11421210; DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.4c00276;
     
  6. Andreani V, South EJ, Dunlop MJ. Generating information-dense promoter sequences with optimal string packing. PLoS Comput Biol. 2024 Jul; 20(7):e1012276.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39047028; PMCID: PMC11268586; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012276;
     
  7. Lugagne JB, Blassick CM, Dunlop MJ. Deep model predictive control of gene expression in thousands of single cells. Nat Commun. 2024 Mar 08; 15(1):2148. PMID: 38459057; PMCID: PMC10923782; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46361-1;
     
  8. Tague N, Coriano-Ortiz C, Sheets MB, Dunlop MJ. Light-inducible protein degradation in E. coli with the LOVdeg tag. Elife. 2024 Jan 25; 12. PMID: 38270583; PMCID: PMC10945698; DOI: 10.7554/eLife.87303;
     
  9. Andreani V, South EJ, Dunlop MJ. Generating information-dense nucleotide sequences with optimal string packing. bioRxiv. 2023 Nov 03.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37961203; PMCID: PMC10635063; DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.01.565124;
     
  10. Tague N, Andreani V, Fan Y, Timp W, Dunlop MJ. Comprehensive Screening of a Light-Inducible Split Cre Recombinase with Domain Insertion Profiling. ACS Synth Biol. 2023 Oct 20; 12(10):2834-2842.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37788288
     
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Bar chart showing 65 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2023

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2022 National Science Foundation: Transitions Award
2020 College of Engineering: Teaching Excellence Award
2019 Biomedical Engineering: Professor of the Year
2017 ACS: Synthetic Biology Young Investigator
2015 University of Vermont, Graduate Student Senate: Nominee for Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award
2014 National Science Foundation : CAREER Award
2013 University of Vermont, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences: Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
2011 Department of Energy: Early Career Award
2008 California Institute of Technology: Dean’s Award for Community Service
2004 American Control Conference: Best Student Paper
2002-2006 Department of Energy: Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
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