Minor Coordinator
Ira ClarkInstructors
Ira ClarkJohn Olsen
Rafael Romero
The Faculty Advisory Committee
| Utpal Banerjee | (Chair) Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Ellen Carpenter | Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences |
| Michael Carey | Professor of Biological Chemistry |
| John Colicelli | Professor of Biological Chemistry |
| Albert Courey | Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry |
| Frank Laski | Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Aldons J. Lusis | Professor of Human Genetics |
| Kelsey Martin | Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences |
| Jeffery F. Miller | Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics |
| Stephen Smale | Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics |
| Yi Sun | Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology |
| Hong Wu | Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology |
Participating Faculty
Biological Chemistry
| Eddy De Robertis | Molecular Biology of Development in Mice and Frogs |
| Mike Carey | Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Gene Regulation and Crosstalk Among Chromatin Remodeling Machines and Co-Activators |
| John Colicelli | Signal Transduction in Cancer and Neurobiology |
| David Eisenberg | Protein Structure, folding and design |
| Feng Guo | Molecular mechanism of miRNA biogenesis |
| Reid Johnson | Gene expression and chromosome biology in bacteria and yeast |
| Timothy Lane | Tumor genetics, microenvironment and endothelial stem cell recruitment, in breast and ovarian cancer. |
| Kelsey Martin | Cell Biology of Learning-related Synaptic Plasticity |
| Kathrin Plath | Epigenetic regulation of stem cell self-renewal, differentiation, and cancer. |
| Gabriel Travis | Biochemistry of Vertebrate Photoreceptors. |
| Gerry Weinmaster | Notch Signaling in Mammalian Cells |
| James Wohlschlegel | Proteomic Studies of Ubiquitin and SUMO-regulated Protein Networks |
| Larry Zipursky | The Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Neuronal Connection Specificity |
Human Genetics
| Esteban Dell'Angelica | Genetic Disorders of Organelle Biogenesis and Protein Trafficking |
| Paivi Pajukanta | Genetics of cardiovascular diseases |
| Karen Reue | Identification of metabolic disease genes |
MCDB
| Utpal Banerjee | Signal Transduction and transcriptional control of Neuronal and Hematopoietic Development |
| Jau-Nian Chen | Development of Vertebrate Cardiovascular System |
| Ann Hirsch | Molecular Analysis of Plant-Microbe Interactions; Role of Flavonoids and Other Plant Compounds in Human Health |
| Luisa Iruela-Arispe | Vascular Biology / Angiogenesis |
| Frank Laski | |
| William Lowry | Stem Cell Self-renewal and Differentiation |
| Karen Lyons | Growth Factor Signaling in Mammalian Development and Disease |
| Hanna Mikkola | |
| Matteo Pellegrini | Computational methods to interpret genomic data |
| Alvaro Sagasti | Development of complex cell shapes in zebrafish touch-sensing neurons |
MIMG
| Doug Black | The Regulation of Neuronal Gene Expression through Alternative Pre-mRNA Splicing |
| Ben Bonavida | Resistance and the induction of apoptosis in tumor cells |
| Ken Bradley | Anthrax Toxin |
| Peter Bradley | Host cell invasion and host-pathogen interaction in Toxoplasma gondii. |
| Rob Gunsalus | Regulation of Cellular Respiratory Functions in Microorganisms |
| Kent Hill | Mechanism and Biology of Cell Motility in African Trypanosomes |
| Beth Lazazzera | Mechanisms of Multicellular Behavior in Bacteria |
| Benhur Lee | Viral Attachment and Entry, HIV and Emerging Viruses, Glycobiology |
| Jeff F. Miller | Sensory Transduction in the Control of Bacterial Virulence |
| Wenyuan Shi | Biology and Biotechnology of Bacterial Pathogenesis |
| Steve Smale | Transcriptional Regulation in the Immune System |
| Fuyu Tamanoi | Signal Transduction involving the Ras-sperfamily G-proteins, protein farnesylation and anti-cancer drugs |
| Jerome Zack | Pathogenic processes of HIV-1 infection |