Bioengineering
2011-12 General Catalog
Baskin School of Engineering
335 Baskin Engineering Building
(831) 459-2158
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu
Faculty and Professional Interests
Mark Akeson (Biomolecular Engineering)
DNA structure and dynamics, single molecule biophysics, bioethics, nanopore technology
Manuel Ares Jr. (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
RNA processing, structure and function of RNA
Phillip Berman (Biomolecular Engineering)
Drug development, vaccines, AIDS, monoclonal antibody therapeutics, immunology, molecular cell/biology, recombinant protein production (commercial scale)
David Deamer (Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry and Biochemistry; Emeritus, UC Davis )
Membrane biophysics, nanopore analysis, DNA sequencing, biomolecular self-assembly
David Draper (Applied Mathematics and Statistics)
Bayesian statistics, hierarchical modeling, Bayesian nonparametric methods, model specification and model uncertainty, quality assessment, risk assessment, statistical applications in the environmental, medical, and social sciences
William Dunbar (Computer Engineering)
Theory and application of feedback control, single-molecule biophysics, nanopore sensors, dynamics and control of biomolecules
Camilla Forsberg (Biomolecular Engineering)
Hematopoietic stem cells, transcriptional regulation, chromatin, blood cell development, cell surface receptors, genomics
Dietlind L. Gerloff (Biomolecular Engineering)
Protein to protein interactions, protein function prediction, functional genomics, protein structure prediction
Alexander A. Grillo (SCIPP)
Neurophysiology, neural systems, high-energy particle physics
Grant Hartzog (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
Biochemistry, genetics, chromatin and transcriptional regulation
David Haussler (Biomolecular Engineering; Distinguished Professor of Biomolecular Engineering; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Director, Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering; Scientific Co-Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences [QB3])
Cancer genomics, immunogenomics, molecular evolution, neurodevelopment, comparative genomics, bioinformatics, computational molecular biology, statistical models, machine learning, neural networks
Richard Hughey (Biomolecular Engineering and Computer Engineering)
(Chair, B.S. in Bioengineering)
Bioinformatics, hidden Markov models, computer architecture, parallel computation
Michael Isaacson (Electrical Engineering)
Nano- and microfabrication technology and applications to biomedical and diagnostic devices, nanocharacterization of materials with emphasis on the development of microscopy tools, novel modes of imaging, electron and light optics
Kevin Karplus (Biomolecular Engineering)
Protein structure prediction, protein design, genome assembly from next-generation sequence data
Douglas Kellogg (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
Coordination of cell growth and cell division
Joel Kubby (Electrical Engineering)
Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS), adaptive optics (AO), optical-MEMS, bio-MEMS, bio-imaging, AO microscopy
Sri Kurniawan (Computer Engineering)
Human-computer interaction; human factors and ergonomics; accessibility; assistive technology; usability; empirical studies; user-centered design
Alan M. Litke (SCIPP)
Neural systems; retinal processing; development and prosthesis; technology development for neurophysiology; high-energy physics
Wentai Liu (Electrical Engineering)
Retinal prosthesis, biomimetic systems, integrated neuro-electronics, molecular electronics, CMOS and SOI transceiver design, current mode band limited signaling, microelectronic sensor, timing/clock recovery and optimization, noise characterization and modeling, and computer vision/image processing
Todd Lowe (Biomolecular Engineering)
Experimental and computational genomics, ncRNA gene finders, and high-throughput RNA sequencing to study the biology of extremophile archaea and bacteria
Roberto Manduchi (Computer Engineering)
Computer vision and sensor processing, with application to assistive technology for the visually impaired
Dominic W. Massaro, Emeritus (Psychology)
Glenn L. Millhauser (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Electron spin resonance; nuclear magnetic resonance, melanocortin receptor signaling, agouti proteins, prions, peptide synthesis
Linda Ogren (Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology)
Endocrinology
Eric Palkovacs (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Freshwater ecology, eco-evolutionary dynamics, fisheries and fish ecology
Nader Pourmand (Biomolecular Engineering)
Bioelectronics, biosensors, chemosensors, nanotechnology, single cell characterization, sequencing, genotyping, pathogen detection, DNA fingerprinting
Raquel Prado (Applied Mathematics and Statistics)
Bayesian non-stationary time series modeling, multivariate time series, biomedical signal processing and statistical genetics
Jacob Rosen (Computer Engineering)
Biorobotics; human-centered robotics; medical robotics; surgery and rehabilitation; wearable robotics (exoskeleton); teleoperation, haptics and virtual reality, biomechanics, neuromuscular control and human-machine interfaces
Wendy Rothwell (Biomolecular Engineering)
Biotechnology, molecular genetics
Holger Schmidt (Electrical Engineering)
Optofluidics, hollow-core photonics for biomedicine and quantum optics, nanomagneto-optics, single-particle spectroscopy, ultrafast optics
Andrea Steiner (Community Studies)
Health-care systems, health justice, critical public health, gerontology, ageism, long-term care
Joshua Stuart (Biomolecular Engineering)
Computational functional genomics, comparative analysis of gene regulation, cross-species inference of gene networks, probabilistic graphical models
Ellen Kappy Suckiel (Emerita, Philosophy)
Ethics, William James, American philosophy, genetic ethics, ethics of biotechnology
John Tamkun (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
Transcriptional regulation, molecular genetics of Drosophila development, regulation of gene expression
John F. Vesecky (Electrical Engineering)
HF radar design and construction and observation of ocean surface winds, waves and currents with applications to coastal and deep water ocean processes; project MEDSAT
Alan M. Zahler (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
Molecular biology, splice site selection, and alternative pre-mRNA processing
Jin Z. Zhang (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Design, synthesis, characterization, and application of nanomaterials, including semiconductor and metal nanoparticles; femtosecond laser spectroscopy; ultrafast dynamics on surfaces and at interfaces; cancer biomarker detection; surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
Yi Zuo (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
Glia-synapse interaction and synaptic plasticity in vivo
Revised: 8/13/12
