Rate My Professor Lauren Dalton

In her role at Oregon State University, Dalton instructs Cell and Molecular Biology (BB 314) and Scientific Theory and Practice (BB 317), focusing on experiential learning to prepare students for diverse careers in the life sciences and lifelong STEM engagement. Her scholarly contributions include peer-reviewed publications such as 'Quantitative high-content imaging identifies novel regulators of Neo1 trafficking at endosomes' published in Molecular Biology of the Cell (2017) and 'The chaperone Chs7 forms a stable complex with Chs3 and promotes its activity at the cell surface' in Traffic (2018). She also authored a chapter titled 'Large-Scale Analysis of Membrane Transport in Yeast Using Invertase Reporters' in Methods in Molecular Biology, Volume 1279 (2015). Dalton has significantly impacted education through open educational resources, co-authoring the open-access textbook Fundamentals of Cell Biology with Robin Young of the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Featuring custom illustrations and embedded animations, the textbook is utilized at 16 U.S. institutions and saves Oregon State students an estimated $50,000 annually. This achievement earned her the 2025 OER Champion Award in the Outstanding Publications category from Oregon State Ecampus. Additional honors include serving as an Ecampus Research Fellow in 2019-2020, receiving an Open Educational Resource Grant for her textbook project, and recognition as a Biophysics and Biochemistry Whiteley Faculty Scholar. She has presented on STEM writing instruction and participated as a panelist in the Women in Computing 25th Anniversary Celebration in 2019.