Faculty
| Photo | Who | Research summary |
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Adam Abate Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences |
Microfluidic technologies for ultrahigh-throughput single cell analysis |
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Nadav Ahituv Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences |
Deciphering the role of gene regulatory sequences in human biology and disease |
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Steven Altschuler (he/him/his) Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry |
Systems pharmacology and quantitative cell biology for drug discovery in cancer, intestinal and neurodegenerative diseases |
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Sergio Baranzini Professor, Neurology |
Genetics, microbiome and bioinformatics |
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Steven Brenner Professor, UC Berkeley; Adjunct Professor Computational Genomics Research Group |
Phenotypic and clinical impacts of human genome variation, Regulation by alternative splicing, protein function prediction |
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Fred Chang (he/him/his) Professor, Cell & Tissue Biology |
Cell morphogenesis, regulation of cell shape and size, and cell mechanics |
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Bruce Conklin Professor in Residence, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease |
Signaling and functional genomics |
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Bill DeGrado (he/him/his) Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry |
Molecular design as an approach to understanding macromolecule structure and function |
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Joseph DeRisi Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics |
Infectious disease, genomics |
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Tejal Desai (she/her/hers) Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Physiology |
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Shawn Douglas (he/him/his) Assistant Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology |
Computer-aided design, method development, and applications of biomolecular nanotechnology |
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Sophie Dumont (she/her/hers) Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences |
How cellular machines generate and respond to mechanical force to coordinate cell division; imaging and biophysical perturbations of cells |
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Hana El-Samad Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics |
Computational biology/stochastic biological dynamics; modeling of biological systems |
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Stephen Floor (he/him/his) Assistant Professor, Cell & Tissue Biology |
Molecular, cell, and systems biology of RNA and its chaperones |
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James Fraser (he/him/his) Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences |
Determining how engineering protein conformational ensembles change in response to chemical, physical, and genetic perturbations using structural, computational, and evolutionary approaches |
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Jennifer Fung Associate Professor In Residence, Ob/ Gyn CRS Division |
Chromosome synapsis and recombination control during meiosis |
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Zev Gartner Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry |
New methods for synthesizing and perturbing functional biological structures |
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Hani Goodarzi (he/him/his) Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics |
Cancer systems biology and translational genomics |
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Michael Grabe Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry |
Computational methods for understanding ion channel and transporter function |
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Carol Gross Professor, Cell & Tissue Biology |
Regulation of gene expression |
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Bo Huang (he/him/his) Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry |
Using super-resolution optical microscopy to understand the molecular architecture inside a cell |
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Alexander (Sandy) Johnson Professor, Microbiology & Immunology |
Yeast genetics and genomic |
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Natalia Jura (she/her/hers) Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute and Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology |
Structure/function studies of proteins kinases and their signaling networks |
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Martin Kampmann (he/him/his) Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics |
Protein homeostasis in normal and disease states of human cells, in particular neurodegeneration. We integrate CRISPR-based functional genomics and bioinformatics with mechanistic biochemistry and biophysics to identify disease mechanisms and therapeutic targets. |
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Michael Keiser (he/him/his) Assistant Professor, Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases |
How small molecules perturb entire protein networks to achieve their therapeutic effects |
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Tanja Kortemme (she/her/hers) Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences |
Computational biology, prediction and design of protein interactions and networks, synthetic biology |
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Nevan Krogan (he/him/his) Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology |
Functional insights from genetic and physical interaction maps |
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Hao Li Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics |
Computational genomics |
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Wendell Lim Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology |
Cellular signaling systems |
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Hiten Madhani Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics |
Signaling, chromatin, and infectious disease |
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Wallace Marshall Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics |
How cells count and measure |
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Dyche Mullins (he/him/his) Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology |
Dynamics of structure of the cytoskeleton |
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Geeta Narlikar Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics |
Chromatin remodeling |
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Katie Pollard Professor, Gladstone Institutes |
Comparative genomics, metagenomics, evolution, machine-learning, multivariate statistics |
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Kira Poskanzer (she/her/hers) Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics |
Physiology of astrocytes and neurons in cortical microcircuits |
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Andrej Sali Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences |
Computation grounded in the laws of physics and evolution to study the structure and function of proteins |
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Leor Weinberger Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Director, Gladstone Center for Cell Circuitry |
Single-cell imaging and mathematical modeling of fate-selection circuits |
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Orion Weiner Professor in Residence, Cardiovascular Research Institute |
How cells generate polarity; cell migration; chemotaxis |
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Jonathan Weissman Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology |
Mechanism of molecular chaperones and protein folding in vivo |
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James Wells Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry |
Small molecule drug discovery; drug mechanisms as they relate to apoptosis and cancer |
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Lani Wu (she/her/hers) Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry |
Drug discovery, cancer drug resistance, neurodegeneration, high-throughput imaging, machine learning, organoid models of disease |