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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 biomedical research projects 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
Manuel Ares, Jr. (MCD) RNA Splicing in Yeast and Humans
Phil Berman (BME) Biotechnology and Infectious Diseases
Needhi Bhalla (MCD) Meiotic Chromosome Dynamics
Hinrich Boeger (MCD) The Dynamics and Function of Chromatin Structure
Barry Bowman (MCD) The Biochemistry and Cell Biology of Membrane Proteins
Manel Camps (METX) Methylating Agents and the Treatment of Cancer
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
Ólöf Einarsdóttir (Chem) Linking Energy Metabolism and Oxygen Utilization
David Feldheim (MCD) How Neural Connections Are Generated during Development
Anthony Fink (Chem) Molecular Basis of Protein Aggregation and Protein Deposition Diseases
Camilla Forsberg (BME) How Stem Cell Fate Is Decided
Dietlind Gerloff (METX) Biogeochemical Cycling of Mercury in the Environment
Grant Hartzog (MCD) Transcription Elongation, Chromatin and Human Disease
David Haussler (BME) Genome Bioinformatics
Lindsay Hinck (MCD) Netrin-1 in Mammary Gland Development and Cancer
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) The Spliceosome - a Macromolecular Complex Critical to Gene Expression
Rohinton Kamakaka (MCD) Transcriptional Silencing and Insulators
Kevin Karplus (BME) Protein Structure Prediction and Design
Douglas Kellogg (MCD) Control of Cell Growth and Proliferation
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
Pradip Mascharak (Chem) Light-Activated Nitric Oxide Carriers: A New Path in Cancer Treatment
Roberto Manduchi (CE) Developing a Virtual White Cane for the Visually Impaired
Glenn Millhauser (Chem) Remarkable Protein Structures ..... and Where They Go Wrong in Disease
Harry Noller (MCD) Biomedical Implications of Ribosome Research
Karen Ottemann (METX) How Bacterial Pathogens Sense and Respond to Host Environments
Nader Pourmand (BME) Tools for Studying Genes and Proteins
Raquel Prado (AMS) Application of Bayesian Analysis to Biomedical Questions
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
Bill Saxton (MCD) Axonal Transport and Neurodegeneration
Thomas Schleich (Chem) Magnetic Resonance Techniques for the Detection and Management of Human Disease
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
Donald Smith (METX) Mechanisms Underlying Responses and Adaptations of Organisms to Toxic Metal Exposures
Susan Strome (MCD) Chromatin Regulation in Development and Disease
Josh Stuart (BME) Computational Functional Genomics
William Sullivan (MCD) Chemical Genetic-based Cancer Therapies
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) Mechanisms of Self-recognition Impact Transplant and Cancer Therapies
Yi Zuo (MCD) Glia-neuron Interaction and Structural Plasticity of the Synapse

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