Faculty

enbess@uci.edu

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

jchaput@uci.edu

Research Focus: Chemical and Synthetic Biology

dnfortha@uci.edu

Research Focus: Viral Immunology

  hochbaum@uci.edu

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

kwonyj@uci.edu

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

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.

ccl@uci.edu

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

Lab Website: liulab.com

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

aluptak@uci.edu

Research Focus: Aptamers and ribozymes

rachel.martin@uci.edu

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

enelson@uci.edu

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

jsnowick@uci.edu

Research Focus: Chemistry and biology of peptides and their applications as antibiotics and in Alzheimer’s disease.

kpalczew@uci.edu

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

jpresche@uci.edu

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

asirya@uci.edu

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

quintons@uci.edu

Research Focus: Distilling the complexity of early human development to controllable factors, which allow computational modeling of early fate specification; creating synthetic biomaterials that support the differentiation and expansion of stem cell-derived organoids; build small and large-scale vascularized tissues from single donor iPSCs for regenerative medicine applications.

 rspitale@uci.edu

Research Focus: Chemistry and Chemical Biology; RNA Biology

gweiss@uci.edu

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

dwaswad@uci.edu

Research Focus: Regulation of protein function by covalent modification.

hbernard@uci.edu

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

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

mgcumsky@uci.edu

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

hyfan@uci.edu

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

bahamkal@uci.edu

Research Focus: Molecular basis of differential chromatin condensation

jemannin@uci.edu

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

amcphers@uci.edu

Research Focus: Molecular structure of biological materials

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

Professor Emeritus
Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences
Email: dfsenear@uci.edu

Research Focus: Interactions of proteins and DNA in transcriptional regulation

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

lpvillar@uci.edu

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