Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology
2018-19 General Catalog
430 Physical Sciences Building
Telephone (831) 459-4719
FAX (831) 459-3524
http://www.metx.ucsc.edu
Program Statement | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Victoria Auerbuch Stone, Associate Professor
Interactions between bacterial pathogens and the innate immune system
Manel Camps, Associate Professor
Evolution of drug resistance with a focus on genetic adaptation and plasmid homeostasis
A. Russell Flegal, Professor Emeritus
Karen Ottemann, Professor
How bacterial pathogens are able to chronically colonize mammalian hosts and cause disease outcomes such as inflammation and cancer
Chad Saltikov, Professor
Microbial processes that influence the biotransformation of pollutants in the environment
Donald R. Smith, Professor
Neurotoxicity, cellular and organismal responses to environmental toxins
Fitnat Yildiz, Professor
Understanding processes controlling transmission of bacterial pathogens
Adjunct Professor
Paul Blum
Repurposing bacterial toxins for therapeutic uses and genetics of microbial extremophiles
Ron Oremland
Microbial metabolism of reduced gases and of toxic elements, especially in extreme environments (e.g., Mono Lake)
Associate Adjunct Professor
Myra Finkelstein
Human impacts to wildlife with an emphasis on contaminant-induced effects
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Affiliated Faculty Who Sponsor METX Students
Adina Paytan, Research Scientist, Institute of Marine Sciences
Biogeochemistry, paleoceanography, environmental and aquatic chemistry
Jonathan Zehr (Ocean Sciences)
Aquatic microbial ecology, biological oceanography
Additional Affiliated Faculty
Environmental Toxicology
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)
Marine organic geochemistry and chemical oceanography, global biogeochemical cycles, compound-specific isotopes and radio carbon
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
Theodore 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 paramagnetic resonance; nuclear magnetic resonance, protein structure and function, peptide synthesis, prions, melanocortin signaling
Martha Zuniga (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Biology)
Negative selection of autoreactive T cells in the thymus and in peripheral lymphoid organs, immunological tolerance to epithelial antigens, MHC transfer between keratinocytes and dendritic cells
Microbiology
Grant Hartzog (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
Biochemistry, genetics, chromatin and transcriptional regulation
Douglas R. Kellogg (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
Control of cell growth and size
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)
Director, UCSC Genomics Sequencing Center
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: 07/15/18
