Dr. Patrick Chappell is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the College of Veterinary Medicine. From 2006 until 2009, he was a research assistant professor in the Department of Zoology at OSU. He received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. and his Ph.D. in neuroscience from the Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience in Chicago, Ill.
Dr. Chappell’s laboratory predominantly investigates the role of endogenous intracellular circadian clocks in the neuroendocrine regulation of reproduction in mammals. The Chappell lab has also opened a new line of investigation into the role of clock gene expression patterns in the initiation and progression of hormone-responsive reproductive cancers, such as prostate and breast cancer.