Education

• Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Canada

Research Interests

Amanda Dickinson is a developmental biologist with broad interests that range from the basic mechanisms that regulate morphogenesis to the genetic and environmental causes of human birth defects. 

Select Publications

• Brent H. Wyatt, Thomas O. Raymond, Lisa A. Lansdon, Benjamin W. Darbro, Jeffrey C. Murray, J. Robert Manak, A.J.G. Dickinson.  Using an aquatic model, Xenopus laevis, to uncover the role of Chromodomain 1 (CHD1) in craniofacial disorders. Genesis 2020 Sep 11;e23394. doi: 10.1002/dvg.23394.
• Amanda J. G. Dickinson*, Stephen D Turner, Stacey Wahl, Allyson E Kennedy, Brent H Wyatt, Deborah A Pridgen. E-liquids and vanillin flavoring disrupts retinoic acid signaling and causes craniofacial defects in Xenopus embryos.  Dev Biol. 2021 Sep 17;481:14-29. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2021.09.004. PMID: 34543654

Affiliations

• Department of Human and Molecular Genetics

Courses

• BIOL 340: Development and Stem Cells
• BIO 660: Advanced Topics in Cell and Developmental Biology

Awards

• CHS Eminent Scholar
• NSF CAREER award

Links

• Researchers receive NSF CAREER awards, VCU News, 3/20/2014
• Some E-Cigarette Flavors May Be More Harmful Than Others, The Atlantic, 11/28/2017