Faculty Spotlight: Conversation with Dr. Larry Myers

 

Name (pronouns):  Larry Myers

Hometown: Waitsfield, Vermont (currently resident of Norwich, VT)

Year at Geisel: 24th

The best thing about Geisel is: The students!

Favorite activity in the Upper Valley: Teaching

Book/poem Recommendation: Gather by Kenneth Cadow released in October 2023 (Ken Cadow is a Norwich resident and co-Principal of Oxbow High School just a few towns north of us in Bradford, VT)

Piece of music/song Recommendation: Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons (as arranged and performed by violinist - Sayaka Shoji - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXxkiXi0T70) 

Unknown fact about you: When I ‘accidentally’ took a year off from college, among other things I was the sound engineer for the largest Spanish language public radio daily news report (broadcast out of Fresno, CA) in the United States at the time.

 

Short Biography:

Dr. Larry Myers received his undergraduate degree in physics, where he conducted research in low-frequency vibrational modes in DNA. He then earned a Ph.D. in biophysics doing research on the structural biology, and bio-inorganic chemistry of DNA repair mechanisms. His post-doctoral research was directed toward using biochemistry to reveal mechanisms of eukaryotic transcriptional regulation. When he joined the Department of Biochemistry at Dartmouth, his laboratory research extended this work and applied it to understanding the transcriptional mechanisms that underlie virulence and drug resistance in human fungal pathogens such as candida albicans. In 2015, he expanded his already well-developed interest in teaching by joining the newly created Department of Medical Education at Geisel. Since then, he has focused on creating, through research and teaching, a positive environment for medical and graduate students to learn biochemistry and genetics. He endeavors to keep his teaching up to date with the fast pace of development in these areas by continuing his laboratory research through collaborations.