Biological Sciences
2012-13 General Catalog
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Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Faculty and Professional Interests
Manuel Ares Jr.
RNA processing, structure and function of RNA
Needhi Bhalla
Meiotic chromosome dynamics
Hinrich Boeger
Chromatin structure and the regulation of transcription
Barry Bowman
Membrane biochemistry and genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology of membrane proteins
Bin Chen
Mammalian brain development
David Feldheim
Developmental neuroscience
Grant Hartzog
Biochemistry, genetics, chromatin and transcriptional regulation
Lindsay Hinck
Breast development and cancer, cell biology, development
Melissa Jurica
Structure and function of human splicing machinery
Rohinton T. Kamakaka
Chromatin domains, epigenetic gene regulation and insulators
Douglas R. Kellogg
Coordination of cell growth and cell division
Jeremy Lee
Molecular biology education and curriculum development; Drosphila models of neurodegeneration
Robert A. Ludwig
Plant microbe interactions, photorespiration, genetic recombination in plants
Amy Ralston
Origins and regulation of mammalian stem cells
Michael Rexach
Structure and function of nuclear pore complex, nuclear transport
Jeremy Sanford
Genomic analysis of protein-RNA interactions
William M. Saxton
Cytoskeletal motors and active transport processes
Susan Strome
Chromatin and RNA regulation in C. elegans
William T. Sullivan
Cell cycle, cytoskeleton, and host-pathogen interactions
John W. Tamkun
Transcriptional regulation, molecular genetics of Drosophila development, regulation of gene expression
Alan M. Zahler
Molecular biology, splice site selection, and alternative pre-mRNA processing
Martha C. Zúñiga
Molecular, cellular, and developmental biology of the immune system
Yi Zuo
Synaptic plasticity in learning and memory
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Emeritus Faculty
Charles Daniel
Robert Edgar
Jerry F. Feldman
Henry Hilgard
Kivie Moldave
Harry Noller
Clifton A. Poodry
Lincoln Taiz
Frank J. Talamantes
Howard H. Wang
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Lecturers
Michael Dalbey
Linda Ogren
Mary Zavanelli
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Victora Auerbach-Stone (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology)
The interaction between the gut pathogen Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and the mammalian immune system
Camilla Forsberg (Biomolecular Engineering)
Hematopoietic stem cells; transcriptional regulation; chromatin; blood cell development; cell surface receptors; genomics
David Haussler (Biomolecular Engineering)
Molecular evolution, neurodevelopment, genomics, bioinformatics, computational molecular biology, statistical models, machine learning, neural networks
Scott Lokey (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Organic chemistry; combinatorial synthesis, biotechnology, molecular cell biology
Todd M. Lowe (Biomolecular Engineering)
Experimental and computation genomics, ncRNA gene finders, DNA microarrays to study the biology of Archaea
Karen Ottemann (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology)
Environmental responses of pathogenic bacteria
Seth Rubin (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Biomolecular mechanisms of cell-cycle regulation and cancer; structural biology and biochemistry; macromolecular x-ray crystallography; nuclear magnetic resonance
William G. Scott (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Structure and function of RNA, proteins, and their complexes
Alexander Sher (Physics)
Development of experimental techniques for the study of neural function
Michael Stone (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Single-molecule Biophysics and Enzymology; Structure, function, and assembly of the telomerase ribonucleoprotein, Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), optical/magnetic trapping, sub-diffraction optical imaging of telomeres and the nucleus
Fitnat Yildiz (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology)
Microbiology, molecular genetics, genomics; the mechanism of persistence of survival of Vibrio cholerae
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Faculty and Professional Interests
Giacomo Bernardi
Fish biology, phylogenetics, evolution
Mark H. Carr
Marine ecology, applied marine ecology
Daniel P. Costa
Physiological ecology of marine mammals and birds
Donald Croll
Ecology and conservation of islands and seabirds
Laurel R. Fox
Terrestrial population and community ecology, plant-animal interactions
Kathleen M. Kay
Plant evolutionary ecology, speciation processes, phylogenetics, pollination biology
A. Marm Kilpatrick
Disease ecology, population biology, conservation
Bruce E. Lyon
Behavioral ecology, evolutionary ecology, avian ecology
Rita Mehta
Functional morphology of ectotherms, comparative vertebrate anatomy and physiology
Eric P. Palkovacs
Freshwater ecology, eco-evolutionary dynamics, fisheries and fish ecology
Ingrid M. Parker
Plant ecology, plant-pathogen interactions, biological invasions s
Jarmila Pittermann
Plant physiology
Grant H. Pogson
Molecular population genetics, ecological genetics, marine invertebrates and fishes
Donald C. Potts
Coral reef ecology, genetics, evolution, and geological history; marine biodiversity; tropical biology, global change, and remote sensing
Peter T. Raimondi
Marine ecology, evolutionary ecology, experimental design, applied ecology
Beth Shapiro
Evolutionary and molecular ecology, ancient DNA, genomics, pathogen evolution
Barry Sinervo
Animal behavior, evolution, physiological ecology
John N. Thompson
Coevolution, evolutionary ecology and genetics of species interactions, organization of biodiversity
Terrie M. Williams
Large mammal physiology, bioenergetics, exercise and environmental physiology
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Emeritus Faculty
Ralph Berger
William Jackson Davis
William Doyle
Lynda J. Goff
Ralph Hinegardner
Jean Langenheim
Burney LeBoeuf
Charles (Leo) Ortiz
A. Todd Newberry
John Pearse
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecturers
Baldo Marinovic
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Adjuncts
James Estes (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Marine sciences, community ecology, species interactions
Samantha Forde (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation)
Experimental evolutionary ecology
Stephen B. Munch (NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Ceter, Stony Brook University)
Population and ecosystem dynamics, contemporary evolution of life histories, transgenerational thermal plasticity
Devon Pearse (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; NOAA Fisheries Service’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center)
Evolutionary and ecological genetics, conservation biology
Luiz Rocha (California Academy of Sciences)
Fish ecology, systematics and evolution
Bernie Tershy (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Ecology and conservation of seabirds and island ecosystems
M. Tim Tinker (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Western Ecological Research Center, USGS)
Foraging ecology and demography of the southern sea otter
Kerstin Wasson (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve)
Evolutionary ecology, invasion biology, conservation science
Affiliates
Greg Gilbert (Environmental Studies)
Disease ecology, conservation biology, tropical forest ecology, microbial ecology
Karen D. Holl (Environmental Studies)
Restoration ecology, conservation biology, landscape ecology
Paul L. Koch (Earth Sciences)
Isotope biogeochemistry, vertebrate paleontology
Raphael Kudela (Ocean Sciences)
Ecological modeling and remote sensing, satellite oceanography, phytoplankton ecology and harmful algal blooms
Marc S. Mangel (Applied Mathematics and Statistics)
Mathematical modeling of biological phenomena, especially the evolutionary ecology of growth, aging, and longevity; quantitative issues in fishery management; mathematical and computational aspects of disease
Christopher Wilmers (Environmental Studies)
Wildlife ecology and conservation; food webs and climate change; movement ecology; animal behavior; predator-prey dynamics; ecological modeling
Jonathan Zehr (Ocean Sciences)
Aquatic microbial ecology, biological oceanography
Revised: 9/25/12
