Faculty
Faculty Directory
David A. Fruman, PhD
Chair & Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: dfruman@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-1947
Rachael Barry, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: rmbarry@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-7998
Suzanne Bohlson, PhD
Teaching Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: bohlsons@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-9026
Melanie Cocco, PhD
Associate Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: mcocco@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-4487
Nir Drayman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: nirdra@uci.edu
Paul D. Gershon, PhD
Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: pgershon@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-9606
Charles G. Glabe, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: cglabe@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-6081
Shane Gonen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: gonens@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-2896
Celia Goulding, PhD
Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: cgouldin@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-0337
Michael T. Green, PhD
Vice Chair and Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: michatg1@uci.edu
Christopher J. Halbrook, PhD
Assistant Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: chalbroo@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-0046
Yilin Hu, PhD
Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: yilinh@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-4615
Christopher C.W. Hughes, PhD
Chancellor’s Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: cchughes@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8771
Matthew Inlay, PhD
Associate Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: minlay@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8226
Anthony A. James, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: aajames@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-5930
Pavan Kadandale, PhD
Teaching Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: pavan.k@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8362
Mei Kong, PhD
Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: meik1@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-5244
Melissa Lodoen, PhD
Vice Chair and Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: mlodoen@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-7805
Ray Luo, PhD
Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: ray.luo@ui.edu
Phone: 949-824-9528
Reginald (Reggie) McNulty, PhD
Assistant Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: rmcnulty@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-5541
Benjamin R. Morehouse, PhD
Assistant Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: b.morehouse@uci.edu
Naomi Morrissette, PhD
Associate Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: nmorriss@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-9243
Dequina Nicholas, PhD
Assistant Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: dequinaa@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8590
Olga Razorenova, PhD
Associate Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: olgar@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8156
Markus Ribbe, PhD
Chancellor’s Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: mribbe@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-9509
Brian Sato, PhD
Teaching Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: bsato@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-0661
Andrea J. Tenner, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: atenner@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-3268
Roberto Tinoco, PhD
Assistant Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: rtinoco@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-4926
Sheryl Tsai, PhD
Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: sctsai@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-4486
Craig Walsh, PhD
Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: cwalsh@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8487
Katrine Whiteson, PhD
Chancellor’s Fellow and Associate Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: katrine@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-9032
Travis Wiles, PhD
Assistant Professor
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: travis.wiles@uci.edu
Elizabeth Bess
Research Focus: Uncovering chemical reactions encoded in the gut microbiome to understand and treat human disease
Allon I Hochbaum
Research Focus: Biological and bioinspired materials; chemical and biophysical regulation of bacterial biofilms; supramolecular protein assembly
Young Jik Kwon
Research Focus: Gene therapy, drug delivery, cancer-targeted therapeutics, combined molecular imaging and therapy, cancer vaccine
Thomas Edward Lane
Research Focus: To evaluate underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms contributing to neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, and repair in pre-clinical models of neurologic disease.
Chang C. Liu
Research Focus: Engineered Genetic Systems for Rapid Evolution, Chemical Biology, Synthetic Biology, and Cell Biology
Lab Website: liulab.com
Wendy F. Liu
Research Focus: Understanding how microenvironmental cues regulate cell behavior in order to better understand and treat diseases of the cardiovasculature
Lab Website: liu.bme.uci.edu
Rachel Martin
Research Focus: Solid-state NMR, protein structure, membrane proteins, physical chemistry, chemical biology
Edward L. Nelson
Research Focus: Tumor immunology, dendritic cell biology, and anti-tumor immunotherapeutics
Krzysztof Palczewski
Research Focus: Age-related macular degeneration and inherited retinal degeneration
Jennifer Prescher
Research Focus: Probing biological systems with chemical tools and noninvasive imaging
Albert Siryaporn
Research Focus: acterial mechano-sensation, signal transduction, virulence regulation, and biofilm development
Greg Weiss
Research Focus: Inventing chemical tools to explore biology at the level of atoms and bonds
Dana W. Aswad
Research Focus: Regulation of protein function by covalent modification.
Hans Ulrich Bernard
Research Focus: Gene expression of papillomaviruses; progression of cervical cancer
Michael J. Buchmeier
Research Focus: Arenaviruses, Coronaviruses, Biology of RNA Viruses, Viral Pathogenesis, Structural Biology of Viruses, Biology of Zoonotic and Emerging Viruses, Biodefense
Michael G. Cumsky
Research Focus: Mitochondrial protein import; regulation of gene expression in yeast.
Hung Fan
Research Focus: Molecular biology and pathogenesis of mouse and human retroviruses
Barbara A. Hamkalo
Research Focus: Molecular basis of differential chromatin condensation
Jerry E. Manning
Research Focus: Major surface proteins and their genes in Trypanosoma cruzi
Thomas L. Poulos
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: poulos@uci.edu
Donald F. Senear
Research Focus: Interactions of proteins and DNA in transcriptional regulation
Luis P. Villarreal
Research Focus: Tissue-specific viral and cellular gene expression; viral vectors