PROGRAM IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
ALL PARTICIPATING FACULTY
Forty-four faculty members from the Departments of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology participate in the overall program. Faculty overlap is considerable in the three interdisciplinary training tracks – Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BCB), Mechanistic, Structural & Chemical Biology (MSCB), and Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology (MCD). Faculty members are listed below.
| Mark Akeson |
Computational Tools for Angstrom-scale Control and Analysis of DNA and RNA Using Nanoscale Pores |
| Manny Ares |
Splicing and RNA Processing |
| Vicki Auerbuch-Stone |
Innate Immune Responses to the Human Pathogen Yersinia pseudotuberculosis |
| Phil Berman |
Biotechnology and Infectious Diseases |
| Needhi Bhalla |
Meiotic Chromosome Dynamics |
| Hinrich Boeger |
Chromatin Structure and Gene Regulation |
| Bin Chen |
Mammalian Brain Development |
| Ólöf Einarsdóttir |
Bioenergetics, Redox Metalloproteins, Electron Transfer, Proton Translocation, Flash-Photolysis, Time-Resolved Spectroscopy |
| David Feldheim |
The Generation of
Neural Connections |
| Camilla Forsberg |
Mechanisms of Stem Cell Fate Decisions |
| Dietlind Gerloff |
Structural Bioinformatics (Protein Structure/Function Analysis and Prediction), Data Sharing for Functional Genomics and Biology, Malaria Bioinformatics |
| Grant Hartzog |
How Chromatin Influences Transcription |
| David Haussler |
Computational Biology |
| Lindsay Hinck |
Cellular Interactions During Organogenesis and Tumorigenesis |
| Ted Holman |
Bioinorganic Chemistry, Lipoxygenase, Heme Binding |
| Richard Hughey |
Bioinformatic Tools for Sequence Analysis and Prediction |
| Melissa Jurica |
Structure and Functional Analysis of Spliceosomes |
| Rohinton Kamakaka |
Transcriptional Silencing and Insulators |
| Kevin Karplus |
Protein Structure Prediction and Design |
| Doug Kellogg |
Molecular Switches and the Cell Cycle |
| Dave Kliger |
Dynamics of Biomedical Molecules in Vision, Allostery, and Folding |
| Roger G. Linington |
Marine Natural Products, Drugs for Neglected Diseases, Chemical Biology, and Chemical Probes |
| Scott Lokey |
Chemical Biology, Cyclic Peptides, Small Molecule Screening |
| Todd Lowe |
Computational and experimental discovery of non-coding RNAs, microbial genomics, extremophile biology |
| Pradip Mascharak |
Inorganic Chemistry, Drug Design, Protein Active Site Modeling |
| Glenn Millhauser |
Prions, Metallobiochemistry, Agouti and Melanocortin Signaling, Total Protein Synthesis |
| Harry Noller |
Structure and Function of the Ribosome |
| Karen Ottemann |
The Molecular Virulence Factors of Helicobacter pylori |
| Nader Pourmand |
Biosensors, microarray, nanotechnology, pathogens, sequencing, genotyping, DNA fingerprinting |
| Amy Ralston |
Origin and Regulation of Mammalian Stem Cells |
| Michael Rexach |
Structure and Function of the Nuclear Pore Complex |
| Seth Rubin |
Biochemical Mechanisms in Cell Growth and Division |
| Chad Saltikov |
Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Redox Transformation of Toxic Metals |
| Jeremy Sanford |
Post Transcriptional
Control of Gene Expression |
| Bill Saxton |
Cytoskeletal Motors and Active Transport Processes |
| Bill Scott |
Structure and Mechanism of RNA Enzymes |
| Donald Smith |
Mechanisms Underlying Responses and Adaptations of Organisms to Toxic Metal Exposures |
| Michael Stone |
Structure, Function, and Assembly of the Telomerase Ribonucleoprotein |
| Susan Strome |
Chromatin and RNA Regulation in C. elegans |
| Josh Stuart |
Computational Functional Genomics |
| Bill Sullivan |
Cell Cycle, Cytoskeleton, and Host-pathogen Interactions |
| John Tamkun |
Chromatin Remodeling in Drosophila Development |
| Fitnat Yildiz |
Molecular Mechanisms of Biofilm Formation in Vibrio cholerae |
| Al Zahler |
Exon Recognition and Alternative Splicing |
| Yi Zuo |
Functions of Glia at the Synapses in the Mammalian Nervous System |
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UCSC's
graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences and Engineering is
supported by training grants from the National Institute of General Medical
Science. |
