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UCSC Biomedical Research Faculty Alphabetical Listing

UCSC hosts a wide range of biomedical research in seven departments within the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences and the Baskin School of Engineering. The vast majority of these scientists are found in the Departments of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology (MCD), Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology (METX), Chemistry and Biochemistry (Chem), and Biomolecular Engineering (BME).

Read short summaries of faculty research by choosing alphabetical faculty links below. You can also search thematically via our research clusters page or by department.

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Faculty Member
Research Topic
Mark Akeson (BME, Chem) Control and Analysis of DNA and RNA Using Nanoscale Pores
Manuel Ares, Jr. (MCD) Intron Removal, Alternative Splicing, and Genomics
Victoria Auerbuch Stone (METX) Innate Immune Responses to the Human Pathogen Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Phil Berman (BME) Biotechnology and Infectious Diseases
Needhi Bhalla (MCD) Chromosome Structure and Function during Meiosis
Hinrich Boeger (MCD) The Dynamics and Function of Chromatin Structure
Barry Bowman (MCD) Membrane Function and Calcium Regulation
Manel Camps (METX) Use of Random Mutagenesis for Studies of Evolution and for Therapy
Bin Chen (MCD) Mammalian Brain Development
Phil Crews (Chem) Marine Natural Products As Potent Agents Against Human Disease
David Deamer (BME-Chem) Biophysics of Membranes and Single Molecules
Dave Draper (AMS) Bayesian Statistics and Nonparametric Methods, Hierarchical Modeling
Ólöf Einarsdóttir (Chem) Linking Energy Metabolism and Oxygen Utilization
Dave Feldheim The Generation of Neural Connections
Russ Flegal (METX) Biogeochemical Cycling of Mercury in the Environment
Camilla Forsberg (BME) How Stem Cell Fate Is Decided
Ed Green (BME) Genome Sequence Assembly and Comparative Genome Analysis
Dietlind Gerloff (BME) Bioinformatics of Protein Structure and Function
Grant Hartzog (MCD) Transcription Elongation, Chromatin and Human Disease
David Haussler (BME) Genome Bioinformatics
Lindsay Hinck (MCD) Cellular Interactions During Organogenesis and Tumorigenesis
Ted Holman (Chem) Lipoxygenase Inhibitors as Potential Anti-Cancer Drugs
Richard Hughey (CE) Bioinformatic Tools for Sequence Analysis and Prediction
Mike Isaacson (EE) Nano- and Microfabrication Technology for Biomedical and Diagnostic devices
Melissa Jurica (MCD) Structure and Functional Analysis of Spliceosomes
Rohinton Kamakaka (MCD) Transcriptional Silencing and Insulators
Kevin Karplus (BME) Protein Structure Prediction and Design
Doug Kellogg (MCD) Mechanisms that Control Cell Division and Cell Growth
David Kliger (Chem) Visual Pigment and Heme Proteins, Light, and Biological Processes
Joseph Konopelski (Chem) Natural and Man-made Chemotherapies from the Laboratory
Joel Kubby (EE) Applications of Adaptive Optics for Biological Microscopy
Roger Linington (Chem) Drugs from the Sea: Marine Natural Products as Chemical Probes
Alan Litke (SCIPP) A High Energy Physicist Turns His Attention to Neurobiology
Wentai Liu (EE) Microelectronics for the Development of Retinal Prothesess
R. Scott Lokey (Chem) A Small Molecule Approach for Studying Signaling Pathways Related to Cell Motility and Cancer
Todd Lowe (BME) Large Scale Approaches to Study Whole-Genome Biology
Roberto Manduchi (CE) Developing a Virtual White Cane for the Visually Impaired
Pradip Mascharak (Chem) Light-Activated Nitric Oxide Carriers: A New Path in Cancer Treatment
Glenn Millhauser (Chem) Remarkable Protein Structures ..... and Where They Go Wrong in Disease
Harry Noller (MCD) Structure and Function of the Ribosome
Scott Oliver (Chem) Cationic Materials for Trapping of Heavy Metal Pollutants
Karen Ottemann (METX) How Bacterial Pathogens Sense and Respond to Host Environments
Carrie Partch (BME) Molecular Mechanisms of Circadian Rhythmicity
Nader Pourmand (BME) Tools for Studying Genes and Proteins
Raquel Prado (AMS) Application of Bayesian Analysis to Biomedical Questions
Amy Ralston Origin and Regulation of Mammalian Stem Cells
Michael Rexach (MCD) The Structure and Function of the Nuclear Pore Complex
Seth Rubin (Chem) Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Cycle Regulation and Cancer
Chad Saltikov (METX) Microbes and Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water
Jeremy Sanford (MCD) Post Transcirptional Control of Gene Expression
Bill Saxton (MCD) Organelle Transport and Neurodegeneration
Holger Schmidt (EE) Integrated Optofluidics: Detecting and Analyzing Single Molecules on a Chip
William Scott (Chem) Understanding the Structure-based Mechanisms of Ribozyme-based Theraputic Agents
Alexander "Sasha" Sher (SCIPP) Neural Circuits: Function, Development, and Treatment
Donald Smith (METX) Mechanisms Underlying Responses and Adaptations of Organisms to Toxic Metal Exposures
Michael Stone (Chem) Assembly, Structure, and Regulation of the Telomerase Ribonucleoprotein
Susan Strome (MCD) Regulation of Germ Cell Development in C. elegans
Josh Stuart (BME) Computational Functional Genomics
William Sullivan (MCD) Cell Cycle, Cytoskeleton, and Host-pathogen Interactions
John Tamkun (MCD) Role of Chromatin in Gene Expression and Development
Hongyun Wang (AMS) The ATP Synthase Modeling Project
Fitnat Yildiz (METX) Ex-vivo Survival Mechanisms Used by Vibrio cholerae between Epidemics
Al Zahler (MCD) Regulation of Pre m-RNA Splicing
Jin Zhang (MCD) The Application of Molecular and Nanomaterial Systems to the Detection and Treatment of Cancer
Martha Zúñiga (MCD) Cellular and Molecular Regulation of Antigen Presentation in Health and Disease
Yi Zuo (MCD) Glia-neuron Interaction and Structural Plasticity of the Synapse

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