Kara Bernstein's Bio

Past Funding:

PA Breast Cancer Coalition
RAD51C function in breast cancer
Role: PI
Direct costs: $100,000
1/1/24-12/31/24

Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award R01-ES024872
Replication fork dynamics and repair by Rad51 paralogues after DNA alkylation
Role: PI
Direct costs: $1,438,276
12/1/14 - 10/31/19

R01-ES030335-02S1
Replication fork dynamics and repair by Rad51 paralogues after DNA alkylation
Role: PI
Direct costs: $150,849
3/8/21 - 4/1/22

R01-CA218112 

Mechanisms of genome instability induced by APOBEC cytidine deaminases and their impact during cancer development
Role: co-I (Roberts)
Direct costs: $80,000
9/30/18-9/29/20

Stand Up to Cancer Innovation Grant
Uncovering how RAD51 paralog mutations contribute to cancer predisposition
Role: PI
Direct costs: $681,818
10/1/16 - 3/30/20

American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award
Role of the Shu complex mediated protein interactions in genome maintenance
Role: PI
Direct costs: $660,000
7/1/16 - 6/30/20

V Scholar Award
Uncovering how mutations in the RAD51 paralogues contribute to cancer predisposition and response to therapy
Role: PI
Direct costs: $200,000
10/1/14 - 9/30/16

The Ellison Foundation New Scholar in Aging Award
Using live cell imaging to uncover how misrepair of double-strand breaks contributes to aging
Role: PI
Direct costs: $368,000
7/1/12 - 6/30/16

K99/R00 GM088413
Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health
Mechanistic insights into the Shu complex and Sgs1 in DNA repair and replication
Role: PI
Direct costs: K99 $166,666 and R00  $527,063
8/1/09 - 6/30/15

F32 GM078840
Post-doctoral fellowship from the National Institutes of Health
Role of Sgs1, yeast Werner/Bloom homolog, in DNA repair
Role: PI
Direct costs: $89,972
12/1/06 - 7/30/09

F31 GM67564
Pre-doctoral fellowship from the National Institutes of Health
Cell cycle regulation of the SSU processome
Role: PI
Direct costs: $136,304

9/16/02 - 5/31/06

Talks:

2025 NAR Cancer 5th Anniversary Symposium, Virtual

2025 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

2024 American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

2024 12th 3R+3C International Symposium on Recombination, Replication, and Repair, Fukuoku, Japan

2024 Fusion 4th Exploring DNA Repair Pathways as Targets for Cancer Therapy Conference, St. Julians, Malta

2024 Academia Sinica, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Taipei, Taiwan

2024 UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (2024 UNC Marc J. Mass Memorial Lecture)
2024 Medical Center of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
2024 Gordon Research Conference DNA Damage, Mutation and Cancer, Ventura, CA
2024 Fusion 4th DNA Repair/Replication Structures and Cancer Conference, Cancun, Mexico

2023 Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
2023 Fusion Recombination Mechanisms Conference, Torres Vedras, Portugal
2023 NY Genome Integrity Discussion Group, New York, NY
2023 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2023 Francois Jacob Institute of Biology, Paris, France

2022 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2022 University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
2022 University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
2022 Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA
2022 7th US-EU Conference on Repair of Endogenous DNA Damage, Stony Brook, NY
2022 FASEB Genetic Recombination and Genome Rearrangements Conference, Steamboat CO
2022 Basser Center Annual Symposium, Philadelphia, PA
2022 University of Michigan Human Genetics Post-Doctorate Symposium (Keynote), Ann Arbor, MI
2022 Gordon Research Conference, DNA Damage, Mutation and Cancer

2021 Cold Spring Harbor-Asia Conference on DNA Metabolism, Genomic Stability and Human Disease
2021 Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society Annual Meeting

2020 EMBO EMBL HHMI Gender Roles and Their Impact in Academia Conference, Virtual
2020 Abcam Mechanisms of Recombination Meeting, Cambridge, England
2020 Columbia University, New York, NY
2020 Fusion 4th DNA Repair/Replication Structures and Cancer Conference, Nassau, Bahamas

2019 EMBO Conference on the DNA Damage Response in Physiology and Disease, Sounio, Greece
2019 Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2019 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 Gordon Research Conference on Mammalian DNA Repair, Ventura, CA

2018 Biennial Ovarian Cancer Research Symposium, Seattle WA
2018 University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
2018 Outstanding New Environmental Scientist Awardee Symposium, Research Triangle Park, NC
2018 Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
2018 Stevenson University, Pikesville, MD
2018 Gordon Research Conference on DNA Damage, Mutation and Cancer, Ventura, CA
2018 Penn State University School of Medicine, Hershey, PA

2017 Panelist for Mock Study Section at the American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, Philadelpha, PA
2017 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
2017 IFOM- Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Milan, Italy
2017 Fusion 2nd DNA Replication as a Source of DNA Damage Conference, Rome, Italy
2017 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelpha, PA
2017 Keystone Symposia on DNA Replication and Recombination, Santa Fe NM

2016 The Allied Genetics Conference (TCGA), Orlando FL
2016 European Research Institute for the Biology of Ageing, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
2016 Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2016 Mechanisms of Recombination Meeting, Alicante, Spain
2016 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Meeting, San Diego, CA
2016 Panelist for American Association for Cancer Research-sponsored Congressional Briefing at the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative, Washington, DC
2016 Dynamic DNA and RNA Structures in Damage Responses and Cancer Conference, Cancun, Mexico

2015 Wright State University, Dayton, OH
2015 Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomic Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
2015 Columbia University 30th Genetics Department Retreat, NY, NY
2015 Zing Genomic Integrity Conference, Cairns, Australia
2015 FASEB Genetic Recombination & Genome Rearrangements Conference, Steamboat, CO
2015 Northwestern School of Medicine, Pathology, Chicago, IL
2015 University of Texas at Austin, Molecular Biosciences, Austin, TX

2014 DNA Replication as a Source of DNA Damage Conference, El Jadida, Morroco
2014 National Institute for Medical Research, London, England
2014 Panelist for Teaching and Academic Research Panel, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2014 Yale University, Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics, New Haven, CT

2013 DNA repair research interest group, NIEHS
2013 University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

2012 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2012 Senior Vice Chancellor's Research Series "12@12" University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

2011 Responses to DNA damage: from molecular mechanisms to human disease conference, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands

2010 Brooklyn College, Department of Biology, Brooklyn, NY
2010 International Yeast Meeting, Vancouver, Canada
2010 Yale University, Therapeutic Radiology, New Haven, CT
2010 Cleveland Clinic, Cancer Biology, Cleveland, OH
2010 University of Pittsburgh, Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2010 Panelist for NIH Career Development Workshop, Columbia University, NY, NY

2009 New York Academy of Sciences Genome Integrity Meeting, NY, NY

2008 Rockefeller University Yeast Club, NY, NY

2006 Ribosome Synthesis Meeting, Arlington, VA