Christian Rocheleau
Dr. Christian Rocheleau聽attended his undergraduate studies at Assumption College in Worcester (1990-94), where he developed聽an interest in cell biology and signal transduction.聽 He pursued these聽interests during his Ph.D. (2000) at the University of Massachusetts Medical聽School, working with Dr. Craig Mello in the Department of Cell聽Biology.聽There, he used the then-new technique of RNA-mediated interference聽(RNAi) and the emerging genome sequence to elucidate a novel Wnt/MAPK-like聽pathway as establishing polarity and cell fates in the early C. elegans聽embryo.聽As a Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Postdoctoral fellow, he continued studies in signal transduction in the Department of Genetics at the聽University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), working with Dr. Meera Sundaram (2000-05).聽There, he characterized the role of scaffold proteins in the聽Ras/MAPK pathway and identified numerous novel regulators of Ras/MAPK聽signaling via mutagenesis screens and RNAi.
In 2005, Dr. Rocheleau established his own lab聽in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine at聽海角社区 and the MUHC Research Institute as an Assistant Professor聽and Canada Research Chair.聽In 2011, he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure and joined the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology as an聽associate member.