Sophie Dumont, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Cell & Tissue Biology, Dept of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco
Cancer Center Program Memberships
Affiliate MemberEducation
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, B.A., 08/95-06/99, Physics
University of Oxford, UK, D.Phil. candidate, 09/99-08/00, Theoretical Physics
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, Ph.D., 08/00-12/05, Molecular Biophysics
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, Postdoc, 01/06-03/06, Molecular Biophysics
Harvard Society of Fellows, Junior Fellow, 07/06-06/09, Cellular Biophysics
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Postdoc, 07/06-05/12, Cellular Biophysics
Professional Experience
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1997-1999
Undergraduate Student Researcher, Princeton University, Advisor: Prof. Stanislas Leibler (Physics), Thesis: Thermal sensing network of E. coli -
1999-2000
Graduate Student Researcher, University of Oxford, Advisor: Prof. Douglas Abraham (Theoretical Physics), Topic: Statistical mechanics of neural networks -
2000-2005
Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Berkeley, Advisor: Prof. Carlos Bustamante (Physics), Thesis: Force and helicase-catalyzed mechanical unfolding of single RNA molecules -
2006
Postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Berkeley, Advisors: Prof. Carlos Bustamante (Physics), Prof. Ignacio Tinoco Jr. (Chemistry), Topic: Helicase mechanochemistry -
2006-2009
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Mentor: Prof. Timothy J. Mitchison (Systems Biology), Topic: Mechanical forces in cell division -
2006-2012
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Mentor: Prof. Timothy J. Mitchison (Systems Biology), Topic: Mechanical forces in cell division -
2012-
Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco, Dept of Cell & Tissue Biology, Dept of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology
Honors & Awards
- 1999
Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Xi - 1999
Allen G. Shenstone Prize in Physics, Princeton University - 1999-2000
Rhodes Scholarship - 1999-2001
Québec Fund for Nature and Technology Research Fellowship (masters) - 2001-2003
Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada Fellowship (doctoral) - 2001-2004
Québec Fund for Nature and Technology Research Fellowship (doctoral) - 2004
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley - 2004
Teaching Effectiveness Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley - 2004-2005
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellowship (doctoral) - 2006
Alan Bearden Outstanding Graduate Research Award, UC Berkeley - 2006
Weintraub Graduate Student Award - 2006-2009
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows - 2007-2009
Harvard University William F. Milton Fund Award - 2009-2011
Charles A. King Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship - 2010-2015
NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award - 2013-2015
Sloan Research Fellow - 2013-2015
Kimmel Cancer Foundation Scholar - 2013-2016
Searle Scholar - 2013-2018
Rita Allen Foundation and Milton E. Cassel Scholar - 2015-2020
NIH New Innovator Award - 2016
Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award of the Biophysical Society
Selected Publications
- Long AF, Kuhn J, Dumont S. The mammalian kinetochore-microtubule interface: robust mechanics and computation with many microtubules. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2019 May 24; 60:60-67.
View on PubMed - Hueschen CL, Galstyan V, Amouzgar M, Phillips R, Dumont S. Microtubule End-Clustering Maintains a Steady-State Spindle Shape. Curr Biol. 2019 Feb 18; 29(4):700-708.e5.
View on PubMed - Neahring L, Dumont S. Chromosome Segregation Fidelity Integrates Information across Scales. Dev Cell. 2018 12 03; 47(5):525-526.
View on PubMed - Shah KN, Bhatt R, Rotow J, Rohrberg J, Olivas V, Wang VE, Hemmati G, Martins MM, Maynard A, Kuhn J, Galeas J, Donnella HJ, Kaushik S, Ku A, Dumont S, Krings G, Haringsma HJ, Robillard L, Simmons AD, Harding TC, McCormick F, Goga A, Blakely CM, Bivona TG, Bandyopadhyay S. Aurora kinase A drives the evolution of resistance to third-generation EGFR inhibitors in lung cancer. Nat Med. 2019 Jan; 25(1):111-118.
View on PubMed - Elting MW, Suresh P, Dumont S. The Spindle: Integrating Architecture and Mechanics across Scales. Trends Cell Biol. 2018 Nov; 28(11):896-910.
View on PubMed - Serra-Marques A, Dumont S. Shining light on spindle positioning. Elife. 2018 07 09; 7.
View on PubMed - Hueschen CL, Kenny SJ, Xu K, Dumont S. NuMA recruits dynein activity to microtubule minus-ends at mitosis. Elife. 2017 11 29; 6.
View on PubMed - Elting MW, Prakash M, Udy DB, Dumont S. Mapping Load-Bearing in the Mammalian Spindle Reveals Local Kinetochore Fiber Anchorage that Provides Mechanical Isolation and Redundancy. Curr Biol. 2017 Jul 24; 27(14):2112-2122.e5.
View on PubMed - Hueschen CL, Kenny SJ, Xu K, Dumont S. NuMA Targets Dynein to Microtubule Minus-Ends at Mitosis. BioRxiv doi.org/10.1101/148692. 2017.
View on PubMed - Long AF, Udy DB, Dumont S. Hec1 Tail Phosphorylation Differentially Regulates Mammalian Kinetochore Coupling to Polymerizing and Depolymerizing Microtubules. Curr Biol. 2017 Jun 05; 27(11):1692-1699.e3.
View on PubMed - Kuhn J, Dumont S. Spindle assembly checkpoint satisfaction occurs via end-on but not lateral attachments under tension. J Cell Biol. 2017 06 05; 216(6):1533-1542.
View on PubMed - Karg T, Elting MW, Vicars H, Dumont S, Sullivan W. The chromokinesin Klp3a and microtubules facilitate acentric chromosome segregation. J Cell Biol. 2017 06 05; 216(6):1597-1608.
View on PubMed - Guild J, Ginzberg MB, Hueschen CL, Mitchison TJ, Dumont S. Increased lateral microtubule contact at the cell cortex is sufficient to drive mammalian spindle elongation. Mol Biol Cell. 2017 Jul 07; 28(14):1975-1983.
View on PubMed - Guild J, Haque A, Gheibi P, Gao Y, Son KJ, Foster E, Dumont S, Revzin A. Embryonic Stem Cells Cultured in Microfluidic Chambers Take Control of Their Fate by Producing Endogenous Signals Including LIF. Stem Cells. 2016 06; 34(6):1501-12.
View on PubMed - Hueschen CL, Long AF, Dumont S. Kinesin-5: A Team Is Just the Sum of Its Parts. Dev Cell. 2015 Sep 28; 34(6):609-10.
View on PubMed - Udy DB, Voorhies M, Chan PP, Lowe TM, Dumont S. Draft De Novo Transcriptome of the Rat Kangaroo Potorous tridactylus as a Tool for Cell Biology. PLoS One. 2015; 10(8):e0134738.
View on PubMed - Dumont S, Prakash M. Emergent mechanics of biological structures. Mol Biol Cell. 2014 Nov 05; 25(22):3461-5.
View on PubMed - Elting MW, Hueschen CL, Udy DB, Dumont S. Force on spindle microtubule minus ends moves chromosomes. J Cell Biol. 2014 Jul 21; 206(2):245-56.
View on PubMed - Dumont S. Spindle size: small droplets and a big step forward. Curr Biol. 2014 Feb 03; 24(3):R116-8.
View on PubMed - Kuhn J, Dumont S. Imaging and physically probing kinetochores in live dividing cells. Methods Cell Biol. 2014; 123:467-87.
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