Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology
2013-14 General Catalog
430 Physical Sciences Building
Telephone (831) 459-4719
FAX (831) 459-3524
http://www.metx.ucsc.edu
Program Description | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Victoria Auerbuch Stone, Assistant Professor
Interactions between the pathogen Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and the innate immune system
Manel Camps, Assistant Professor
Molecular mechanisms of chemotherapeutic agent action and resistance
A. Russell Flegal, Professor
Anthropogenic perturbations of biogeochemical cycles, applications of isotopic tracers in anthropology and archaeology
Karen Ottemann, Professor
Environmental responses of pathogenic bacteria
Chad Saltikov, Associate Professor
Microbial that influence the biotransformation of pollutants in the environment
Donald R. Smith, Professor
Neurotoxicity, cellular and organismal responses to environmental toxins
Fitnat Yildiz, Professor
Microbiology, molecular genetics, functional genomics, signal transduction, biofilm formation
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Affiliated Faculty Who Sponsor METX Students
Roberto Bogomolni (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Biophysical chemistry, photobiology, light energy conversion and signal transduction in biological systems
Adina Paytan, Research Scientist, Institute of Marine Sciences
Biogeochemistry, paleoceanography, environmental and aquatic chemistry
Jonathan Zehr (Ocean Sciences)
Aquatic microbial ecology, biological oceanography
Myra Findlestein (METX Adjunct Professor)
Human impacts to wildlife with an emphasis on contaminant-induced effects
Lynn Rothschild (METX Adjunct Professor)
Astrobiology research at NASA Ames
Ron Oremland (METX Adjunct Professor)
Microbial metabolism of reduced gases and of toxic elements
Additioncal Oceanographal Affiliated Faculty
Environmental Toxicology
Kenneth W. Bruland (Ocean Sciences)
Biogeochemistry of trace metals
Don Croll (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Foraging ecology of marine sea birds and mammals, island conservation/ecology
Andrew Fisher (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Hydrology, crustal studies, heat flow modeling
Raphael Kudela (Ocean Sciences)
Ecological modeling and remote sensing, satellite oceanography, phytoplankton ecology and harmful algal blooms
Matthew McCarthy (Ocean Sciences)
Organic geochemistry, marine organic geochemistry, global biogeochemical cycles
Peter T. Raimondi (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Applied marine ecology
Cellular Toxicology
Lindsay Hinck (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
Breast development and cancer, cell biology, and development
Ted Holman (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Bioinorganics and biological chemistry
Pradip K. Mascharak (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Bioinorganic chemistry, design of antitumor drugs, modeling of active sites of metalloenzymes, design of catalysts for hydrocarbon oxidation, studies on intermediates in non-heme oxygenase chemistry, design of NO-donors for photodynamic therapy
Glenn Millhauser (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Electron spin resonance; nuclear magnetic resonance, melanocortin receptor signaling, agouti proteins, prions, peptide synthesis
Martha Zuniga (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Biology)
Molecular, cellular, and developmental biology of the immune system
Microbiology
Grant Hartzog (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
Biochemistry, genetics, chromatin and transcriptional regulation
Douglas R. Kellogg (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
Coordination of cell growth and cell division
Roger Linington (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Marine Natural Products, Drugs for Neglected Diseases, Chemical Biology, Chemical Probes
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
Nader Pourmand (Biomolecular Engineering)
Development of new tools and technologies that integrate biology, electronics, and nanofabrication for the detection and study of genes and proteins
Joshua Stuart (Biomolecular Engineering)
Computational genomics
Revised: 09/01/13
