Jacqueline Dresch

Associate Professor, Biology

Jackie Dresch received a B.A from SUNY Geneseo in 2006, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Quantitative Biology from Michigan State University in 2012.  She has been at Clark since 2015.

Professor Dresch’s research focuses on modeling transcriptional regulation in fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster).  She is interested in many topics at the interface of mathematics and biology, including reaction-diffusion equations, numerical solvers, sensitivity analysis, parameter estimation, image processing, and bioinformatics.

Professor Dresch enjoys teaching a wide range of Mathematics courses, including Calculus, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis, and Mathematical Biology.

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Mathematics and Quantitative Biology, Michigan State University, 2012
  • B.S. in Mathematics, SUNY Geneseo, 2006

Affiliated Department

Biology

Scholarly and creative works

  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Transcription factor expression landscape in Drosophila embryonic cell lines

    Published in BMC Genomics
    2024
    2024
    Vol. 25
    Issue #1
    Robert A. Drewell, Daniel Klonaros, Jacqueline M. Dresch
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    The Dictyostelium discoideum genome lacks significant DNA methylation and uncovers palindromic sequences as a source of false positives in bisulfite sequencing

    Published in NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics
    June
    2023
    Robert Drewell, Tayla C Cormier, Jacob L Steenwyk, James St. Denis, Javier F Tabima Restrepo, Jacqueline M. Dresch, Denis A Larochelle
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Transcriptome profile in Drosophila Kc and S2 embryonic cell lines.

    Published in G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics
    May
    2023
    Daniel Klonaros, Jacqueline M. Dresch, Robert Drewell
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Investigating the sequence landscape in the Drosophila initiator core promoter element using an enhanced MARZ algorithm. 

    Published in PeerJ
    2023
    Issue #11
    Jacqueline M. Dresch, Regan D. Conrad, Daniel Klonaros, Robert Drewell
  • Presentations

    Improving bioinformatic tools using protein-DNA binding data

    Joint Mathematics Meetings
    Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
    January
    2023
    Jacqueline M. Dresch
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Transcriptome profile in Drosophila Kc and S2 embryonic cell lines

    Published in G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics
    03
    2023
    Vol. 13
    Issue #5
    Daniel Klonaros, Jacqueline M Dresch, Robert A Drewell
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Fitting thermodynamic-based models: Incorporating parameter sensitivity improves the performance of an evolutionary algorithm.

    Published in Mathematical Biosciences
    2021
    Michael Gaiewski, Robert Drewell, Jacqueline M. Dresch
  • Papers Published – Conference Proceedings

    Biophysical and structural analysis of Antennapedia and Ultrabithorax homeodomain transcription factor-DNA binding affinities
    Protein Science

    2019
    Vol. 28
    Jeanmarie Loss, Jacqueline M. Dresch, Robert Drewell, Donald E. Spratt
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Analyzing the stability of gene expression using a simple reaction-diffusion model in an early Drosophila embryo

    Published in Mathematical biosciences
    2019
    Vol. 316
    Gregory D McCarthy, Robert A Drewell, Jacqueline M Dresch
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Rapid and efficient purification of Drosophila homeodomain transcription factors for biophysical characterization

    Published in Protein expression and purification
    2019
    Vol. 158
    Rachel Orlomoski, Aaron Bogle, Jeanmarie Loss, Rylee Simons, Jacqueline M Dresch, Robert A Drewell, Donald E Spratt
  • Presentations

    Getting the most out of an interdisciplinary undergraduate research experience

    Gryphon and Pleiades Honors Society Seminar Series
    Clark University
    April
    2019
    Sponsored by Gryphon and Pleiades Honors Society
    Jacqueline M. Dresch
  • Presentations

    Biophysical and structural analysis of Drosophila transcription factors

    Next-in-BIO 2018
    Worcester MA
    November
    2018
    Aaron Bogle, Jacqueline M. Dresch, Robert Drewell, Donald E. Spratt
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    The folded k-spectrum kernel: A machine learning approach to detecting transcription factor binding sites with gapped nucleotide dependencies

    Published in PloS one
    2017
    Vol. 12
    Issue #10
    Abdulkadir Elmas, Xiaodong Wang, Jacqueline M Dresch
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Whole genome bisulfite sequencing reveals a sparse, but robust pattern of DNA methylation in the Dictyostelium discoideum genome

    Published in BIORXIV
    2017
    Jacob Steenwyk, James St. Denis, Jacqueline M. Dresch, Denis A Larochelle, Robert Drewell
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Spatial distribution of predicted transcription factor binding sites in Drosophila ChIP peaks

    Published in Mechanisms of development
    2016
    Vol. 141
    Kade P Pettie, Jacqueline M Dresch, Robert A Drewell
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Quantitative perturbation-based analysis of gene expression predicts enhancer activity in early Drosophila embryo

    Published in eLife
    2016
    Vol. 5
    Rupinder Sayal, Jacqueline M Dresch, Irina Pushel, Benjamin R Taylor, David N Arnosti
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Nucleotide Interdependency in Transcription Factor Binding Sites in the Drosophila Genome

    Published in Gene regulation and systems biology
    2016
    Vol. 10
    Jacqueline M Dresch, Rowan G Zellers, Daniel K Bork, Robert A Drewell
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    The Wisdom of Crowds: Can Mathematical Models Crack the cis Regulatory Code?

    Published in Cell systems
    2015
    Vol. 1
    Issue #6
    Jacqueline M Dresch, David N Arnosti
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Global sensitivity analysis of a dynamic model for gene expression in Drosophila embryos

    Published in PeerJ
    2015
    Vol. 3
    Gregory D McCarthy, Robert A Drewell, Jacqueline M Dresch
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    MARZ: an algorithm to combinatorially analyze gapped n-mer models of transcription factor binding

    Published in BMC bioinformatics
    2015
    Vol. 16
    Rowan G Zellers, Robert A Drewell, Jacqueline M Dresch
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Deciphering the combinatorial architecture of a Drosophila homeotic gene enhancer

    Published in Mechanisms of development
    2014
    Vol. 131
    Robert A Drewell, Michael J Nevarez, Je S Kurata, Laure N Winkler, Lily Li, Jacqueline M Dresch
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    A primer on thermodynamic-based models for deciphering transcriptional regulatory logic

    Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta
    2013
    Vol. 1829
    Issue #9
    Jacqueline M Dresch, Megan Richards, Ahmet Ay
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Flanking sequence context-dependent transcription factor binding in early Drosophila development

    Published in BMC bioinformatics
    2013
    Vol. 14
    Jessica L Stringham, Adam S Brown, Robert A Drewell, Jacqueline M Dresch
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    TWO-LAYER MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF GENE EXPRESSION: INCORPORATING DNA-LEVEL INFORMATION AND SYSTEM DYNAMICS

    Published in SIAM journal on applied mathematics
    2013
    Vol. 73
    Issue #2
    Jacqueline M Dresch, M A Thompson, David N Arnosti, Chichia Chiu
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Global parameter estimation for thermodynamic models of transcriptional regulation

    Published in Methods (San Diego, Calif.)
    2013
    Vol. 62
    Issue #1
    Yerzhan Suleimenov, Ahmet Ay, Md A Samee, Jacqueline M Dresch, Saurabh Sinha, David N Arnosti
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Thermodynamic modeling of transcription: sensitivity analysis differentiates biological mechanism from mathematical model-induced effects

    Published in BMC systems biology
    2010
    Vol. 4
    Jacqueline M Dresch, Xiaozhou Liu, David N Arnosti, Ahmet Ay
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Network structure, and vaccination strategy and effort interact to affect the dynamics of influenza epidemics

    Published in Journal of theoretical biology
    2007
    Vol. 246
    Issue #2
    G Hartvigsen, J M Dresch, A L Zielinski, A J Macula, C C C Leary
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Two shadow enhancers regulate twin of eyeless expression during early Drosophila development

    Jacqueline M. Dresch, Luke L. Nourie, Regan D. Conrad, Lindsay T. Carlson, Elizabeth Tchantouridze, Biruck Tessema, Eleanor Verhagen, Mahima Gupta, Diego Borges-Rivera, Robert Drewell
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Precise measurements of protein-DNA binding affinities support the use of PWM-based approaches in modeling transcriptional regulation

    Jacqueline M. Dresch, Fadwa Mekkaoui, Eleanor Verhagen, Rachel Orlomoski, Sean Monroe, Aaron Bogle, Navid Al-Hassan, Robert Drewell, Don E. Spratt

Awards and grants

  • Investigating the molecular mechanisms of transcriptional regulation at Drosophila homeotic genes

    National Institutes of Health

    clock icon May. 1, 2020 – Apr. 30, 2023
  • Investigating the nature of TF-DNA interactions through biophysical measurements, bioinformatics, and synthetic biology

    Faculty Development Funds (Larry Fechter and Thomas Macke Stansbury)

    clock icon Jun. 1, 2020 – May. 31, 2021
  • Decoding cis-regulatory grammar at Hox genes

    National Institutes of Health

    clock icon Apr. 1, 2016 – Mar. 31, 2020