Carla Green

Dr. Carla Green received her Ph.D. and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, respectively, at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Following twelve years in the Department of Biology at University of Virginia, she moved to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, where she is a Professor and Distinguished Scholar of Neuroscience. Her lab studies the molecular mechanism of the mammalian circadian clock and how it controls rhythmic physiology. She originally identified the rhythmic gene Nocturnin and demonstrated that this gene encodes a deadenylase and showed that this protein contributes to the circadian gene expression patterns through post-transcriptional regulation of mRNA stability and translation. Her lab continues to focus on Nocturnin and on other circadian post-transcriptional regulatory mechanisms, as well as studying more broadly the general role of the circadian clock in metabolism. The Green lab also works on the molecular mechanism of the central clock with an emphasis on the roles of the Cryptochrome proteins. She has received multiple awards, participated in several NIH and NSF study sections and advisory committees, chaired numerous scientific meetings, and is a member of several Editorial Boards including Journal of Biological Rhythms, Scientific Reports and Neurobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms and is a scientific consultant for Reset Therapeutics, Inc.