People

People

Co-Directors

Nicole King (nking at berkeley.edu) http://kinglab.berkeley.edu/

Noah Whiteman (whiteman at berkeley.edu) http://www.noahwhiteman.org/

Executive Committee

Rachel Brem (PMB)

Iswar Hariharan (MCB)

Michael Nachman (IB)

External Advisory Board

Prof. David Booth, UCSF, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Prof. Florentine Rutaganira, Stanford University Medical School, Department of Biochemistry

Prof. Dmitri Petrov, Stanford University, Department of Biology

Current Trainees

Current Trainees

Current Trainers 

The GDTP has 51 faculty who apply genetics to the study of seven major branches of the tree of life (Viruses/Phage, Bacteria, Archaea, Microbial Eukaryotes, Fungi, Plants, Insects, Nematodes, Vertebrates). Our faculty are experts in four broad areas of genetics: 

Developmental and neurogenetics. D. Bilder (Drosophila epithelial biology), A. Dillin (aging in C. elegans and mammals), Y. Fisher (genetics of spatial navigation in Drosophila), J. Fletcher (plant stem cells), H. Garcia (transcriptional regulation in Drosophila), I. Hariharan (Drosophila growth and regeneration), S. Lewis (mitochondrial form and function), M. Martik (gene regulatory networks in development), B. Meyer (sex determination in C. elegans), and D. Titov (metabolism and aging). 

Evolutionary genetics. B. Blackman (genetics of developmental plasticity in plants), R. Brem (natural genetic variation and evolution), N. King (choanoflagellates, origin of multicellularity), C. Miller (morphological evolution in stickleback fish), P. Moorjani (genetic variation in human populations), M. Nachman (adaptation and genetic variation in mice), R. Nielsen (quantitative evolutionary genetics), D. Rokhsar (genome evolution), and R. Tarvin (genetics of poisonous animals).

Genetics of microorganisms and interspecies interactions. J. Cox (genetics of mycobacterial pathogenesis), K. Gibbs (collective behaviors in bacteria), A. Komeili (bacterial organelles), B. Koskella (host-pathogen co-evolution), K. Krasileva (genetics of innate immunity), J. Lewis (plant-pathogen interactions), N. Martinez-Gomez (genetics of metabolism), S. Merchant (metal nutrition and photosynthesis), D. Nayak (evolution of archaea), K. Niyogi (photosynthesis in algae and plants), M. Ohainle (HIV), K. Ryan (growth and morphogenesis of Caulobacter), K. Seed (bacteria-phage interactions), M. Shapira (microbiomes), P. Shih (plant and microbial biology), M. Taga (bacterial interactions), M. Traxler (interspecies interactions in bacteria), N. Whiteman (genetic basis of host-parasite interactions in diverse organisms), and M. Wildermuth (plant-pathogen interactions). 

Chromosomes, gene expression, epigenetics. G. Brar (translational regulation in yeast), X. Darzacq (advanced imaging technology), A. Dernburg (meiosis in C. elegans), J. Doudna (genome editing, RNA structure), D. Hockemeyer (gene editing in stem cells, telomerase), N. Ingolia (translation, RNA biology), G. Karpen (chromatin), J. Nuñez (epigenetics), P. Sudmant (somatic mutation and aging), R. Tjian (regulation of transcription), E. Ünal (meiosis and aging in yeast), F. Urnov (human epigenetics), and B. Williams (plant epigenetics).

Former Trainees