CESAR ARENAS-MENA, Ph.D.,
Universitat de Barcelona (1995).
Assistant Professor of Biology. Evolution of developmental
processes. Marine invertebrate embryos. Genomic regulatory
networks. MS and PhD student mentor.
SANFORD I. BERNSTEIN,
Ph.D., Wesleyan
University (1979). Professor of Biology.
Molecular analysis of gene expression during Drosophila muscle
development; molecular and ultrastructural
defects of Drosophila muscle mutants; function of muscle proteins
isoforms; mechanism of alternative
RNA splicing. MS and PhD student mentor.
RICHARD BIZZOCO, Ph.D.,
Indiana
University (1972). Professor of Biology.
Discovery/isolation of new Archaea;
membrane fusion in single cell algae. MS and PhD student mentor.
MICHAEL J. BUONO,
Ph.D., University
of Arizona
(1982). Professor of Biology and Exercise and Nutritional
Science. Thermoregulation and body temperature control; Exercise
physiology; Eccrine sweat gland
physiology; Cardiovascular dynamics. MS student mentor.
ROGER A. DAVIS, Ph.D.,
Washington State University
(1971). Professor of Biology. Gene therapy, molecular mechanisms
of protein secretion and molecular genetics of atherosclerosis.
MS and PhD student mentor.
KELLY
S. DORAN, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego (1998).
Assistant Professor of Biology. Pathogenesis of bacterial
meningitis. Molecular mechanisms of blood-brain barrier invasion
by Group B Streptococcus and characterization of
the host innate immune response. Role of bacterial pili in
disease progression. MS and PhD student mentor.
KATHLEEN
M. FISHER, Ph.D., University
of California, Davis
(1969). Professor of Biology. Biology /genetics /science education.
Learning for meaningful understanding. Use of knowledge representation
tools to support knowledge construction. Center for Research
in Mathematics & Science Education (& Department of
Biology)
TERRENCE G. FREY, Ph.D., University of California,
Los Angeles
(1975). Professor of Biology. Structure of biological macromolecules
and macromolecular assemblies; membranes and membrane proteins;
bioenergetics; electron microscopy; image processing. MS and
PhD student mentor. Faculty Page
RALPH FEUER,
Ph.D., University
of Nevada, Reno (1999). Assistant Professor of Biology.
Autoimmune diseases associated with a previous viral infection.
Mechanisms of enteroviral persistence
and pathogenesis. Susceptibility of stem cells to virus infection
and coxsackievirus-associated neonatal
disease.
CHRISTOPHER GLEMBOTSKI,
Ph.D., University
of California, Los
Angeles (1979). Professor of Biology.
Regulation of cardiac-specific gene expression; mechanisms
of cardiac myocyte derived hormone
secretion. MS and PhD student mentor.
ROBERTA
A. GOTTLIEB, M.D., Johns
Hopkins University
School
of Medicine (1984). Professor of Biology, and Director of
the BioScience Center. (Ph.D. program appointment in progress).
Myocardial ischemia and programmed cell death; mitochondrial
alterations,bioenergetics, autophagy,
calpains; role of cytochrome
P450 monooxygenases in ischemia/reperfusion
injury; studies at the organismal,
isolated organ, primary cells, and molecular levels; live
cell fluorescence microscopy, TAT-mediated protein transduction.
GREG L. HARRIS, Ph.D.,
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill (1981). Professor
of Biology. Molecular and physiological analysis of phototransduction
in Drosophila; biophysical analysis of ion channel function;
isolation of neuron- specific genes. MS and PhD student mentor.
TOM
HUXFORD, Ph.D., University
of California, San Diego (2001). Assistant Professor of Chemistry
& Biochemistry. Structural biology of proteins and protein
complexes involved in signaling to NF-kappaB.
SCOTT T. KELLEY,
Ph.D., University
of Colorado
(1998). Assistant Professor of Biology. Phylogenetic
approaches to RNA structure prediction, DNA and protein motif
pattern recognition, and genome sequence analysis. Molecular
systematics studies of insect and
microbial communities. MS and PhD student mentor.
DAVID
A. LIPSON, Ph.D., University
of Colorado
(1998). Assistant Professor of Biology. Soil microbial ecology;
plant-microbe interactions;
biogeochemistry; linking microbial diversity to ecosystem
processes.
MS student mentor.
JOHN LOVE,
Ph.D., University
of California, San
Diego (1998). Department
of Chemistry. Protein Engineering: Driving novel protein/protein
associations by computational and experimental design.
MS and PhD student mentor.
STANLEY MALOY, Ph.D. University of California,
Irvine
(1981). Professor of Biology. Research focuses
on Salmonella, using a combination of genetic, molecular,
biochemical, and genomic approaches to answer questions about
general biological processes, and questions that relate to
the evolution of pathogenesis. MS and PhD student mentor.
Shelli McAlpine, Ph.D., Assistant
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
KATHLEEN MCGUIRE,
Ph.D., University
of Texas Southwestern Medical School
(1985). Professor of Biology. Interleukin 2 stimulation of
primary and HTLV-1 infected human T lymphocytes; Mimicking
natural products to develop novel cancer and immunosuppressive
drugs. MS and PhD student mentor.
ROBERT METZGER,
Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry. Enzymes of carbohydate
metabolism, Diabetes mellitus, protein browning (Maillard)
reactions, natural products. MS student mentor.
PAUL J. PAOLINI, Ph.D., University
of California, Davis (1968). Professor of Biology. Physiology
and mechanics of cardiac and skeletal muscle cells: biophysical
methods, including video-enhanced and automated light microscopy,
optic diffractometry, digital image analysis and x-ray microscopy;
muscle cell ultrastructure; computer
applications to biological research. MS and PhD student mentor.
JACQUES PERRAULT, Ph.D.,
University of California,
San Diego
(1972). Professor of Biology. Molecular biology of RNA viruses
using vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) as a model for Ebola, measles, and
other medically important agents; engineering of virus vectors
for protein expression and gene therapy; host cell antiviral
mechanisms; methods for inactivating bioterrorism virus agents.
MS and PhD student mentor.
ROBERT POZOS, Ph.D. Department
of Biology.
JENNIFER QUINTANA,
Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Graduate
School
of Public Health. Human exposure assessment to chemical agents
in the work environment, respiratory protection in industry,
indoor air quality. MS student mentor.
FOREST
ROHWER, PhD. San
Diego State
University.
(1997). Assistant Professor of Biology. Genomic analysis
of marine phage, opportunistic infections and coral disease,
diversity of coral-associated bacteria.
ROGER A. SABBADINI,
Ph.D., University
of California, Davis
(1974). Professor of Biology. The Sabbadini
lab studies the role of sphingolipid
second messengers in disease, including cancer inflammation
and heart disease. MS and PhD student mentor.
ANCA SEGALL, Ph.D., University of Utah (1987). Professor of Biology. DNA
recombination and chromosome structure. MS and PhD student
mentor.
WILLIAM E. STUMPH, Ph.D.,
California Institute of Technology (1979). Professor of Chemistry.
Regulation of transcription in eukaryotic cells; characterization
of genes encoding the small nuclear RNAs
U1, U2, and U4; identification and characterization of cis-acting
and trans-acting factors; sequence-specific protein-DNA interactions
and assembly of the transcriptional complex. MS and PhD student
mentor.
MARK A. SUSSMAN, Ph.D.,
University
of Southern California
(1989). Professor of Biology. Mechanisms which regulate the
assembly, organization, and degeneration of myofibrils. In
addition to these studies of myofibril structure in the myocardium,
my research also extends to examination of focal adhesion
complex regulation, apoptotic signaling in heart failure,
and the potentiation of stem cells
to retard cardiac aging. MS and PhD student mentor.
CONSTANTINE D. TSOUKAS,
Ph.D., University
of California,
San Francisco (1975). Professor of Biology. Proteins involved
in differentiation and function of lymphocytes with special
emphasis on human T-cells and thymocytes; use of monoclonal antibodies and hybridization
techniques to study T-cell development. MS and PhD student
mentor.
PETER
van der GEER, Ph.D., University of Amsterdam
(1993). Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
Molecular, biological and biochemical analysis of signal transduction
by protein-tyrosine kinases.
ELIZABETH WATERS, Ph.D.,
Washington
University
(1993). Assistant Professor of Biology. Plant evolution. The
origin of Land Plants. Molecular evolution. MS and PhD student
mentor.
ROLAND WOLKOWICZ, PhD. The
Weizmann Institute of Science (1998). Assistant Professor
of Biology. Use of random peptide libraries and other chemical
genetics approaches for the study of viral pathogenesis and
the search of antiviral factors. Main focus on HIV-1.
ROBERT W. ZELLER, , Ph.D.,
California Institute of Technology, 1995. Assistant Professor
of Biology. The developmental biology of ascidians; the evolution
of developmental gene regulatory networks in primitive chordates.
MS and PhD student mentor.
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