Dr. Dunham-Snary completed her HBSc in Applied Bio-Molecular Science at Lakehead University, conducting ancient DNA research on mummified tissues from Central and South America
She received a Master’s degree in Forensic Biology from the Pennsylvania State University, where she developed a field/crime-scene ready fingerprint stain to visualize epithelial cells in touch DNA.
She completed her PhD in Molecular and Cellular Pathology in the U. Alabama School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, investigating the role of mitochondrial genetics in nuclear gene expression in the context of diet-induced obesity. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Queen’s University in the Department of Medicine where she identified the molecular oxygen sensor in the pulmonary vasculature.
She joined Departments of Biomedical & Molecular Sciences, and Medicine at Queen’s in 2020, recently opened her research laboratory, and has been named a Tier II Canada Research Chair.
Her preclinical research laboratory, funded by the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Banting Research Foundation, and Queen’s Health Sciences, explores the links between mitochondrial genetics, organelle structure, and cell signaling in the context of cardiometabolic diseases (CMDs).
