Carla Green, Ph.D.

1986-1991 Graduate Student with Dr. Simon Kwok, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center

1991-1996 Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Joseph Besharse, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center

1996-1997 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center

1997-2003 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Virginia

2003-2007 Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Virginia

2007-2009 Professor, Department of Biology, University of Virginia

2009-present Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern

Undergraduate

Southwest Missouri State Unive (1984), Biology

Graduate School

Southwest Missouri State Unive (1986), Biology

Graduate School

University of Kansas Medical C (1991), Biochemistry

• Circadian control of metabolism
• Molecular mechanisms of circadian rhythmicity
• Post-transcriptional regulatory mechanisms

Featured Publications

Importance of circadian timing for aging and longevity.

Acosta-Rodríguez VA, Rijo-Ferreira F, Green CB, Takahashi JS, Nat Commun 2021 05 12 1 2862

Spatiotemporal regulation of NADP(H) phosphatase Nocturnin and its role in oxidative stress response.

Laothamatas I, Gao P, Wickramaratne A, Quintanilla CG, Dino A, Khan CA, Liou J, Green CB, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020 01 117 2 993-999

Periodicity, repression, and the molecular architecture of the mammalian circadian clock.

Rosensweig C, Green CB Eur. J. Neurosci. 2018 Nov

An evolutionary hotspot defines functional differences between CRYPTOCHROMES.

Rosensweig C, Reynolds KA, Gao P, Laothamatas I, Shan Y, Ranganathan R, Takahashi JS, Green CB Nat Commun 2018 Mar 9 1 1138

Temporal Control of Metabolic Amplitude by Nocturnin.

Stubblefield JJ, Gao P, Kilaru G, Mukadam B, Terrien J, Green CB Cell Rep 2018 Jan 22 5 1225-1235

Mice under Caloric Restriction Self-Impose a Temporal Restriction of Food Intake as Revealed by an Automated Feeder System.

Acosta-Rodríguez VA, de Groot MHM, Rijo-Ferreira F, Green CB, Takahashi JS Cell Metab. 2017 Jul 26 1 267-277.e2

Molecular assembly of the period-cryptochrome circadian transcriptional repressor complex.

Nangle SN, Rosensweig C, Koike N, Tei H, Takahashi JS, Green CB, Zheng N Elife 2014 Aug e03674

Phosphorylation of the Cryptochrome 1 C-terminal tail regulates circadian period length.

Gao P, Yoo SH, Lee KJ, Rosensweig C, Takahashi JS, Chen BP, Green CB J. Biol. Chem. 2013 Oct

Kiss your tail goodbye: The role of PARN, Nocturnin, and Angel deadenylases in mRNA biology.

Godwin AR, Kojima S, Green CB, Wilusz J Biochim. Biophys. Acta 2012 Dec

Circadian control of mRNA polyadenylation dynamics regulates rhythmic protein expression.

Kojima S, Sher-Chen EL, Green CB Genes Dev. 2012 Dec 26 24 2724-36

• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  (2005)
• The Karl Kirchgessner Foundation Research Award
  (1998)
• C.J. Herrick Award
  Presented by The Anatomy Society for ?Outstanding Young Investigator in Comparative Neurology (1990)

• Society for Neuroscience
• Society for Research on Biological Rhythms