Biomolecular Engineering
Baskin School of Engineering
335 Baskin Engineering Building
(831) 459-2158
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu
Program Description | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Mark Akeson
Development of nanopore sensors for single molecule identification, epigenetics, bioethics
Phillip Berman
Distinguished Professor of Biomolecular Engineering
Drug development, vaccines, AIDS, monoclonal antibody therapeutics, immunology, molecular cell/biology, recombinant protein production (commercial scale)
David Haussler
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Director, Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering; Distinguished Professor, Biomolecular Engineering; Director, Cancer Genomics Hub; Scientific Co-Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences [QB3]; Consulting Professor, Biophamaceutical Sciences, Stanford Medical School; Consulting Professor, Biopharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
Bioinformatics, genomics, computational genomic data analysis, molecular evolution and comparative genomics, genomic and clinical data sharing and standards, cancer genomics, neurodevelopment, stem cell research, immunogenomics, information theory, pattern recognition, machine learning, artificial intelligence, information theory, theoretical computer science
Richard Hughey (joint with Computer Engineering)
Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education
Bioinformatics, hidden Markov models, computer architecture, parallel computation
Kevin Karplus
Genome assembly from next-generation sequence data (Formerly protein structure prediction), signal processing and statistics for nanopore signals
Todd Lowe
Experimental and computational genomics, non-coding RNA gene finders, and high-throughput small RNA sequencing small RNA roles in cancer, evolution of RNA-based gene regulation
Joshua Stuart
Associate Director, CBSE for Cancer and Stem Cell Genomics; Jack Baskin Endowed Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
Computational functional genomics, comparative analysis of gene regulation, cross-species inference of gene networks, probabilistic graphical models
Associate Professor
Camilla Forsberg
Hematopoietic stem cells. transcriptional regulation, chromatin, blood cell development, cell surface receptors, genomics
Nader Pourmand
Director, UCSC Genomics Sequencing Center
Bioelectronics, biosensors, chemosensors, nanotechnology, single-cell characterization, sequencing, genotyping, pathogen detection, DNA fingerprinting
Assistant Professor
Rebecca M. Dubois
Protein engineering; structural virology and biomedical applications
Richard “Ed” Green
Genomics, computational molecular biology, genome assembly, human evolutionary genetics, ancient DNA, high-throughput sequencing, mRNA-processing and alternative splicing
Research Professor
David W. Deamer (UC Davis Emeritus)
Membrane biophysics, nanopore analysis, DNA sequencing, biomolecular self-assembly
Adjunct Professor
Robert Coffman
Regulation of innate and adaptive immunity, systems biology of human immune responses, development of novel vaccines and oligonucleotide-based drugs
Jonathan Trent
Organic aggregates, marine snow, microbial physiology, microenvironments, robust proteins, genetic engineering for nanotechnology
Lecturer
Sandra Dreisbach
Ethics, moral psychology, ontology, philosophy of technology
Wendy Rothwell
Biotechnology, molecular genetics
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Manuel Ares, Jr. (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
RNA processing, structure and function of RNA
Hinrich Boeger (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
Chromatin structure and gene regulation
Manel Camps (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology)
Molecular mechanisms of reactive DNA methylation toxicity
William Dunbar (Computer Engineering)
Theory and application of feedback control, single-molecule biophysics, nanopore sensors, dynamics and control of biomolecules
Lars Fehren-Schmitz (Anthropology)
Palaeogenetics/anthropological genetics, human evolutionary ecology, evolutionary demography, gene-culture coevolution, migration theories, population history of the Americas, archaeology of South America
A. Russell Flegal (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology)
Anthropogenic perturbations of biogeochemical cycles, applications of isotopic tracers in anthropology and archaeology
Robert S. Lokey (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Organic chemistry, combinatorial synthesis, biotechnology, molecular cell biology
Glenn L. Millhauser (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Electron spin resonance; nuclear magnetic resonance, melanocortin receptor signaling, agouti proteins, prions, peptide synthesis
Karen Ottemann (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology)
Bacterial pathogenesis, response of bacterial pathogens to their environments
Beth Shapiro (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Evolutionary and molecular ecology, ancient DNA, genomics, pathogen evolution
John W. Tamkun (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
Transcriptional regulation, molecular genetics of Drosophila development, regulation of gene expression
Hongyun Wang (Applied Mathematics and Statistics)
Single molecule studies and biophysics, statistical physics, stochastic processes and stochastic differential equations, classical analysis, numerical analysis
Manfred K. Warmuth (Computer Science)
Online learning, machine learning, statistical decision theory, game theory, analysis of algorithms
W. Todd Wipke, Emeritus (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Fitnat H. Yildiz (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology)
Microbiology, molecular genetics, genomics; the mechanism of persistence of survival of Vibrio cholerae
Alan M. Zahler (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
Alternative pre-mRNA splicing and small RNA function
Revised: 09/01/14
