Dave Dingal
Assistant Professor
davedingal@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-5161
Office: BSB 13.530
800 West Campbell Rd.
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
Education
Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2014
B.Eng. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2009
Overview
Dr. Dingal holds a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He was awarded a Cancer Research Institute-Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship for his innovative work at Stanford University in the interface of cancer immunotherapy and CRISPR-based genome regulation. He was recently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, where he developed molecular tools to control signaling during early embryo development. Dr. Dingal’s research interests lie in the intersection of molecular biology, cell and developmental biology, and systems and synthetic biology. He has published in high-impact journals, including Nature Materials, PNAS, and Nature Communications.
Research Interests
Cell biophysics, molecular biology, and synthetic biology