Faculty
Quicklinks
Core MCD Faculty
Guido Bordignon
Biology education research (BER), evidenced-based teaching strategies
Tel: 459.4914
Email: guido@ucsc.edu
David Boyd
Viral immunology, respiratory viruses, stromal cells, lung biology, lung extracellular matrix
Tel: 459.5498
Email: dfboyd@ucsc.edu
Bradley Colquitt
Molecular mechanisms of behavioral development and evolution
Tel:
Email: colquitt@ucsc.edu
Valerie Cortez
RNA viruses, epithelial biology, and mucosal immunology
Tel: 502.7200
Email: vccortez@ucsc.edu
Oliver Fregoso
Virus-host interactions in the lifecycle of HIV and related viruses
Tel:
Email: ofregoso@ucsc.edu
Giulia Gurun
Inclusive Pedagogy in STEM, Biology Undergraduate Education and Curriculum
Tel: 502.7400
Email: ggurun@ucsc.edu
Lindsay Hinck
Cellular Interactions During Organogenesis and Tumorigenesis
Tel: 459.5253
Email: lhinck@ucsc.edu
Melissa Jurica
Structure and Functional Analysis of Spliceosomes
Tel: 459.4427
Email: mjurica@ucsc.edu
Euiseok Kim
The Development of Neural Circuits for Higher Brain Functions
Tel: 502.7233
Email: ekim62@ucsc.edu
Jeremy Lee
Molecular biology education & curricula; Drosophila models of neurodegeneration
Tel:
Email: jeremyl@ucsc.edu
Matthew Romero
Skeletal muscle biology, epigenetic regulation and metabolism
Tel:
Email: mromer37@ucsc.edu
Sofie Salama
Genomics, stem cell biology, neurodevelopment, molecular evolution, retrotransposons
Tel:
Email: ssalama@ucsc.edu
Madeline Sherlock
Translation regulation by viral RNA structures
Tel: 459-5131
Email: msherloc@ucsc.edu
Shaheen Sikandar
Functional heterogeneity among normal and cancer stem cells
Tel:
Email: ssikanda@ucsc.edu
William Sullivan
Cell cycle, cytoskeleton, and host-pathogen interactions
Tel: 459.4295
Email: wtsulliv@ucsc.edu
Martha Zúñiga
Cell Biology of Class I Histocompatibility Molecules
Tel: 459.3180
Email: mzuniga@ucsc.edu
Affiliates
| Faculty | Dept. | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Victoria Auerbuch-Stone | METX | The interaction between the gut pathogen Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and the mammalian immune system |
| Angela Brooks | BME | Transcriptome Analysis of RNA Splicing and Cancer |
| Manel Camps | METX | Use of Random Mutagenesis for Studies of Evolution and for Therapy |
| Raquel Chamorro-Garcia | METX | Epigenetic mechanisms of genome-environment interactions and transgenerational inheritance in mouse models |
| Russell Corbett-Detig | BME | Population and Evolutionary Genomics, Bioinformatics |
| Rebecca DuBois | BME | Structure, Function, and Engineering of Virus Proteins |
| Camilla Forsberg | BME | Hematopoietic stem cells; transcriptional regulation; chromatin; blood cell development; cell surface receptors; genomics |
| David Haussler | BME | Molecular evolution, neurodevelopment, genomics, bioinformatics, computational molecular biology, statistical models, machine learning, neural networks |
| Ted Holman | CHEM | Biochemical and Inhibitory Investigations into Lipoxygenase: a Possible Therapeutic for Stroke, Diabetes and Heart Disease |
| Tim Johnstone | CHEM | Medicinal bioinorganic chemistry; synthetic inorganic chemistry; nanoparticle drug delivery; inorganic spectroscopy; small-molecule X-ray crystallography; mammalian and microbiological cell culture |
| Jacqueline Kimmey | METX | Host pathogen interactions and dynamics in Streptococcus pneumoniae infection |
| Sarah Loerch | CHEM | Structure and function of RNA-protein complexes, electron cryo-microscopy, biochemistry and biophysics, image processing |
| Scott Lokey | CHEM | Organic chemistry; combinatorial synthesis, biotechnology, molecular cell biology |
| Todd M. Lowe | BME | Experimental and computation genomics, ncRNA gene finders, DNA microarrays to study the biology of Archaea |
| John MacMillan | CHEM | Natural products chemistry, chemical biology, structural elucidation, cancer biology, microbial natural products |
| Shaun McKinnie | CHEM | Discovery and application of natural product biosynthetic enzymology and chemistry |
| Jaron Mercer | CHEM | Synthetic organic chemistry, protein evolution, chemical biology |
| Karen Miga | BME | Centromere sequence characterization, satellite DNA evolution, epigenetic annotation of repeat-rich regions |
| Glenn Millhauser | CHEM | Prions, Metallobiochemistry, Agouti and Melanocortin Signaling, Total Protein Synthesis |
| Karen Ottemann | METX | Environmental responses of pathogenic bacteria |
| Carrie Partch | CHEM | Molecular Mechanisms of Circadian Rhythmicity |
| Benedict Paten | BME | Genome Analysis and Precision Medicine |
| Michael Patnode | METX | Defining competitive relationships among members of the human gut microbiota as it relates to carbohydrate metabolism |
| Seth Rubin | CHEM | Biomolecular mechanisms of cell-cycle regulation and cancer; structural biology and biochemistry; macromolecular x-ray crystallography; nuclear magnetic resonance |
| Shelbi Russell | BME | Symbiosis, evolutionary genetics, molecular evolution, developmental biology, cell biology |
| Chad Saltikov | METX | Understanding the Molecular Biology and Ecology of Bacteria that Metabolize Toxic Metals |
| William G. Scott | CHEM | Structure and function of RNA, proteins, and their complexes |
| Aleksandra Skrajna | CHEM | We are using interdisciplinary approaches, including proteomics and cryo-EM to study chromatin structure and function. |
| Beth Shapiro | EEB | Evolutionary and molecular ecology, ancient DNA, genomics, pathogen evolution |
| Tal Sharf | BME | Mapping human neuronal circuitry |
| Ali Shariati | BME | Cell division cycle, cellular differentiation, cell fate decision, genome engineering, pluripotency, stem cells, transcription, chromatin |
| Alexander Sher | Physics | Development of experimental techniques for the study of neural function |
| Donald Smith | METX | Molecular and Functional impacts of Neurotoxic Agents |
| Michael Stone | CHEM | Single-molecule Biophysics and Enzymology; Structure, function, and assembly of the telomerase ribonucleoprotein, Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), optical/magnetic trapping, sub-diffraction optical imaging of telomeres and the nucleus |
| Christopher Vollmers | BME | DNA Sequencing Tools for the Analysis of B cells |
| Andy Yeh | BME | Using Protein Design and Chemical Biology to build light-emitting systems and protein biosensors for biological discovery and diagnostics |
| Fitnat Yildiz | METX | Microbiology, molecular genetics, genomics; the mechanism of persistence of survival of Vibrio cholerae |