Profile
With a deep love for science and an endless curiosity about how the world fits together, Cynthia Davis brings both intellectual rigor and personal warmth to her work. She is just as passionate about helping students grow in their academic journey as she is about nurturing her own family. At home, she enjoys biking, museum-hopping, and cozy movie nights with her husband and two children. She’s also an avid scrapbooker and reader of murder mysteries, currently compiling a scrapbook for her daughter’s high school graduation.
Beyond the classroom, she finds joy in teaching Scripture and guiding young minds as a leader of children’s and teen Bible quizzing at her local church. Her faith and her love of learning are inseparably linked—both grounded in the belief that teaching is about transformation and discovery for everyone involved.
Education
- Ph.D. in Biology | Dartmouth College
- M.S. in Biochemistry | Marquette University
- B.S. in Biology | Eastern Nazarene College
Sample Publications
Cynthia R. Davis, Tamara J. Richman, Steven B. Deliduka, Jeffery O. Blaisdell, Cheryl C. Collins, and Douglas I Johnson 1998. Analysis of the Mechanism of Action of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Dominant Lethal cdc42G12Vand Dominant Negativ cdc42D118AMutations Journal of Biol.Chem. 273(2):849-858
Cynthia R. Davis, Mark A. McPeek, C Robertson McClung 1995. Molecular Characterization of the proline-1 (pro-1) locus of Neurospora crassa, which encodes ∆1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase. Mol. Gen. Genetics 248:341-350.
Cynthia R. Davis, Robert R. Kempainen, Michael S. Srodes and C. Robertson McClung 1994. Correlation of the Physical and Genetic Maps of the Centromeric Region of the Right Arm of Linkage Group III of Neurospora crassa. Genetics 136:1297-1306.
C. Robertson McClung, Cynthia R. Davis, Karen M. Page, and Sylvia Denome 1992 Characterizaton of the Format (for) Locus, Which Encodes the Cytosolic Serine Hydroxymethyltransferase of Neurospora crassa. Molec. Cell. Biology 12(4):1412-1421.