Faculty
Faculty Directory
Celia Goulding
Research Focus: Structural and biochemical studies of molecular assemblies in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Suzanne Bohlson
Research Focus: Arenaviruses, Coronaviruses, Biology of RNA Viruses, Viral Pathogenesis, Structural Biology of Viruses, Biology of Zoonotic and Emerging Viruses, Biodefense.
Melanie Cocco
Research Focus: NMR spectroscopy, DNA-binding proteins, membrane proteins, cancer.
David A. Fruman
Research Focus: Targeting signal transduction pathways in leukemia, lymphoma and autoimmune disease.
Paul D. Gershon
Research Focus: Protein mass spectrometry/systems biology; virus-host systems; virus structure; protein experimental molecular dynamics.
Charles G. Glabe
Research Focus: Amyloid A b peptide in Alzheimer’s pathogenesis; gamete recognition.
Shane Gonen
Research Focus: Electron cryo-microscopy (Cyro-EM); Membrane proteins; Protein complexes; Computational protein design
Michael T. Green
Research Focus: Chemical Biology, Inorganic and Organometallic, Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics, Theoretical and Computational
Christopher J. Halbrook
Research Focus: Pancreatic Cancer, Cancer Metabolism, Metaplasia, Pancreatitis, Organ Regeneration
Yilin Hu
Research Focus: Bioinorganic Chemistry, Assembly & Function of Metalloproteins
Christopher C.W. Hughes
Research Focus: Regulation of angiogenesis, tissue engineering and microphysiological systems
Matthew Inlay
Research Focus: Molecular mechanisms regulating developmental fate decisions in embryonic and adult hematopoietic stem cells in mice and humans
Anthony A. James
Research Focus: Genetic engineering of insect vectors of malaria and dengue
Pavan Kadandale
Research Focus: Increasing student learning and retention in Biology
Mei Kong
Research Focus: Nutritional microenvironment in tumor development and drug response, metabolism and epigenetics, protein phosphatase regulation in diabetes and obesity
Melissa Lodoen
Research Focus: Host-pathogen interaction, immune evasion, and parasite immunology
Ray Luo
Research Focus: Computational biochemistry and molecular biophysics. Intermolecular interactions in proteins and nucleic acids and their applications to drug design
Reginald (Reggie) McNulty
Research Focus: Cryo-transmission electron microscopy (Cryo-TEM), macromolecular complexes involved in inflammation and cancer
Naomi Morrissette
Research Focus: Parasitology, cell biology, microtubules and tubulin function, drug resistance, genetic analysis
Dequina Nicholas
Research Focus: ImmunoEndocrinology, lipid antigen presentation, cellular metabolism, diabetes, reproductive function
Olga Razorenova
Research Focus: Biology of cancer, including molecular, cellular and genetic basis of the disease
Brian Sato
Research Focus: Assessment of best practices that enhance student learning, Regulation of worm capture by a nematophagous fungus
Andrea J. Tenner
Research Focus: Complement mediated regulation: Neuroinflammation, Alzheimer’s disease, Neuroprotection, Autoimmunity
Roberto Tinoco
Research Focus: Mechanisms of T cell exhaustion during chronic viral infection and cancer
Craig Walsh
Research Focus: Signaling in immune homeostasis, tolerance and autoimmunity
Katrine Whiteson
Research Focus: Host-associated microbial communities in health and disease, polymicrobial interactions, metagenomics, metabolomics
Travis Wiles
Research Focus:
Host–Microbe Systems Biology, Microbiome Engineering, Pathogenesis, Antibiotic Resistance, Microbial Genetics
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: Biotechnology education, innate immunity, complement, macrophage activation
Michael J. Buchmeier
Research Focus: Gene expression of papillomaviruses; progression of cervical cancer
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
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