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Faculty

Our faculty is made up of accomplished visionaries who believe in the power of your ideas.Although our Faculty is focused on their research to make the world a better place, they are also dedicated to training the next generation of talented Biologist. Driven by the School’s theme MIND | BODY | WORLD, they are also more than happy to help you realize those ideas.
    • 7 AAAS Fellows

      7 Faculty members have been named AAAS Fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

    • A Diverse Faculty

      The MBB faculty research interests include cell repair and regrowth, cancer origins, developmental disorders and more.

    • Collaboration

      MBB faculty travel around the world to collaborate with top scientists and researchers from many distinguished institutions.

Faculty Directory

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Celia Goulding, PhD

Chair and Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: cgouldin@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-0337

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Dr. Rachel Barry

Rachael Barry, PhD

Assistant Teaching Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: rmbarry@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-7998

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Suzanne Bohlson, PhD

Teaching Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: bohlsons@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-9026

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Melanie Cocco, PhD

Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: mcocco@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-4487

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Nir Drayman, PhD

Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: nirdra@uci.edu

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David A. Fruman, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: dfruman@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-1947

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Paul D. Gershon, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: pgershon@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-9606

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Charles Glabe

Charles G. Glabe, PhD

Distinguished Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: cglabe@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-6081

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Shane Gonen

Shane Gonen, PhD

Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: gonens@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-2896

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Michael T. Green, PhD

Vice Chair and Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: michatg1@uci.edu

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Christopher J. Halbrook, PhD

Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: chalbroo@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-0046

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Yilin Hu, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: yilinh@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-4615

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Christopher Hughes

Christopher C.W. Hughes, PhD

Chancellor’s Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: cchughes@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8771

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Matthew Inlay

Matthew Inlay, PhD

Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: minlay@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8226

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Anthony A. James, PhD

Distinguished Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: aajames@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-5930

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Pavan Kadandale, PhD

Teaching Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: pavan.k@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8362

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Mei Kong, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: meik1@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-5244

 

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Melissa Lodoen

Melissa Lodoen, PhD

Vice Chair and Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: mlodoen@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-7805

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Ray Luo, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: ray.luo@ui.edu
Phone: 949-824-9528

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Reginald (Reggie) McNulty, PhD

Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: rmcnulty@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-5541

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Benjamin R. Morehouse, PhD

Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: b.morehouse@uci.edu

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Naomi Morrissette, PhD

Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: nmorriss@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-9243

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Dequina Nicholas, PhD

Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: dequinaa@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8590

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Olga Razorenova, PhD

Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: olgar@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8156

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Markus Ribbe, PhD

Chancellor’s Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: mribbe@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-9509

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Brian Sato, PhD

Teaching Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: bsato@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-0661

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Andrea Tenner

Andrea J. Tenner, PhD

Distinguished Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: atenner@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-3268

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Roberto Tinoco, PhD

Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: rtinoco@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-4926

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Shiou-Chuan (Sheryl) Tsai

Sheryl Tsai, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: sctsai@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-4486

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Craig Walsh, PhD

Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: cwalsh@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-8487

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Katrine Whiteson, PhD

Chancellor’s Fellow and Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: katrine@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-9032

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Travis Wiles, PhD

Assistant Professor
School of Biological Sciences
Email: travis.wiles@uci.edu

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Elizabeth Bess

enbess@uci.edu

Research Focus: Uncovering chemical reactions encoded in the gut microbiome to understand and treat human disease

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John Charles Chaput

jchaput@uci.edu

Research Focus: Chemical and Synthetic Biology

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Donald Forthal

dnfortha@uci.edu

Research Focus: Viral Immunology

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Allon I Hochbaum

  hochbaum@uci.edu

Research Focus: Biological and bioinspired materials; chemical and biophysical regulation of bacterial biofilms; supramolecular protein assembly

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Young Jik Kwon

kwonyj@uci.edu

Research Focus: Gene therapy, drug delivery, cancer-targeted therapeutics, combined molecular imaging and therapy, cancer vaccine

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Thomas Edward Lane

tlane@uci.edu

Research Focus: To evaluate underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms contributing to neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, and repair in pre-clinical models of neurologic disease.

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Chang C. Liu

ccl@uci.edu

Research Focus: Engineered Genetic Systems for Rapid Evolution, Chemical Biology, Synthetic Biology, and Cell Biology

Lab Website: liulab.com

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Wendy F. Liu

Wendy.liu@uci.edu

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

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Andrej Luptak

Andrej Luptak

aluptak@uci.edu

Research Focus: Aptamers and ribozymes

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Rachel Martin

rachel.martin@uci.edu

Research Focus: Solid-state NMR, protein structure, membrane proteins, physical chemistry, chemical biology

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Edward L. Nelson

Edward L. Nelson

enelson@uci.edu

Research Focus: Tumor immunology, dendritic cell biology, and anti-tumor immunotherapeutics

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Krzysztof Palczewski

kpalczew@uci.edu

Research Focus: Age-related macular degeneration and inherited retinal degeneration

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Jennifer Prescher

jpresche@uci.edu

Research Focus: Probing biological systems with chemical tools and noninvasive imaging

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Albert Siryaporn

asirya@uci.edu

Research Focus: acterial mechano-sensation, signal transduction, virulence regulation, and biofilm development

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Robert Spitale

Robert Spitale

 rspitale@uci.edu

Research Focus: Chemistry and Chemical Biology; RNA Biology

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Greg Weiss

Greg Weiss

gweiss@uci.edu

Research Focus: Inventing chemical tools to explore biology at the level of atoms and bonds

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Dana W. Aswad

dwaswad@uci.edu

Research Focus: Regulation of protein function by covalent modification.

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Hans Ulrich Bernard

hbernard@uci.edu

Research Focus: Gene expression of papillomaviruses; progression of cervical cancer

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Michael J. Buchmeier

m.buchmeier@uci.edu

Research Focus: Arenaviruses, Coronaviruses, Biology of RNA Viruses, Viral Pathogenesis, Structural Biology of Viruses, Biology of Zoonotic and Emerging Viruses, Biodefense

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Michael G. Cumsky

mgcumsky@uci.edu

Research Focus: Mitochondrial protein import; regulation of gene expression in yeast.

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Hung Fan

Hung Fan

hyfan@uci.edu

Research Focus: Molecular biology and pathogenesis of mouse and human retroviruses

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Barbara A. Hamkalo

Barbara A. Hamkalo

bahamkal@uci.edu

Research Focus: Molecular basis of differential chromatin condensation

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Jerry E. Manning

jemannin@uci.edu

Research Focus: Major surface proteins and their genes in Trypanosoma cruzi

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Alexander McPherson

amcphers@uci.edu

Research Focus: Molecular structure of biological materials

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Thomas L. Poulos

Distinguished Professor Emeritus
School of Biological Sciences
Email: poulos@uci.edu

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Donald F. Senear

Donald F. Senear

dfsenear@uci.edu

Research Focus: Interactions of proteins and DNA in transcriptional regulation

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Luis P. Villarreal

lpvillar@uci.edu

Research Focus: Tissue-specific viral and cellular gene expression; viral vectors

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