Sally G Pasion

Email: 

pasion@sfsu.edu

Phone: 

(415) 405-0736

Title: 

Associate Professor

Department: 

BiologyCollege of Science and Engineering

Building: 

Hensill Hall (HH)

 HH 668C

Office Hours: 

Thursday: 3:30 pm-5:30 pm

Office Hours (Additional Info): 

Spring 2024 Biology advising office hours are posted here: https://biology.sfsu.edu/advising/advisors My STUDENT HOURS are generally Thursday afternoons 3:30 - 5:30pm, on Zoom. They begin on Feb 1, 2024. NOTE: NO STUDENT HOURS ON Thursday 3/7/24 - alternate office hours to be posted Office hours are by Zoom. Appointments must be made via Navigator. Please make appointments on Navigator following this link: https://sfsu.campus.eab.com/pal/5tVebeuVMs. STUDENT HOURS are for current BA in Biology students current Minor in Biology students, discussion of changing major/minor to Biology degree, Biol 355-04 Genetics students, and Biol 357-01 Molecular Genetics students.

Website: 

Pasion Lab Research pageTeaching

At SF State Since: 

2001

Bio: 

Sally Pasion joined the faculty at San Francisco State in 2001, and is currently an Associate Professor of Biology, and teaches general education Biology courses to nonmajors, genetics and molecular biology to majors, and cell & molecular techniques to graduate students.  Her research interests include DNA replication and telomere maintenance in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the fission yeast, which is an excellent system for training undergraduate and graduates students in basic cell biology, molecular biology, and microbiology.  Her research has been funded by a National Institutes of Health-National Cancer Institute UCSF/SFSU Collaborative-Cancer Research and Research Training Grant and a National Institutes of Health MBRS-SCORE Grant.  

She completed a B.A. in Chemistry at Harvard University, and then worked as a research assistant in the Laboratory of Pharmacology at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, studying gene amplification in pituitary tumor cells. She received a Ph.D. in Biology from UCLA in 1995, studying a mitochondrial topoisomerase and the cell cycle regulation of DNA replication in the trypanosome Crithidia fasciculata.  She studied DNA replication in the fission yeast, at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies for her postdoctoral studies until 2000.  

Personal Pronouns: she/her/hers