Name: Dr. Evan Dewey, Ph.D.
Title: Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D. Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; B.S. Biochemistry University
of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Office: Dalton Hall 218
E-mail: deweye@winthrop.edu
Dr. Dewey is a graduate of the University of Oregon, obtaining a B.S. in Biochemistry. He obtained his Ph.D. in Cell Biology from the University of New Mexico, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. As an undergraduate and graduate student, Dr. Dewey studied regulators of the cell cycle using Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) as a model system, focusing on how disruption of mitosis can lead to genome instability and cancer. As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Dewey continued research in Drosophila, but shifted to investigate the genes involved in DNA repair, how they function, and how misregulation leads to genome instability and cancer.
At Winthrop, Dr. Dewey investigates the molecular mechanisms of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing to better understand and improve gene editing outcomes. He also continues to investigate genetic, molecular, and cellular mechanisms of DNA repair genes to more fully understand how disruption of these genes leads to disease.