Matthew Romero

Assistant Professor

 MCD Biology

Research Areas: Skeletal muscle biology, epigenetic regulation and metabolism

Joshua Arribere

Professor

 MCD Biology

Research Areas: RNA, gene expression and quality control

Setting: Wet lab

Olena Morozova Vaske

Assistant Professor

 MCD Biology: Colligan Presidential Chair in Pediatric Genomics

Research Areas: Genomics of pediatric cancers and rare diseases

Setting: Wet and dry lab

Josh Stuart

Professor 

Biomolecular Engineering; Genomics Institute Director of Cancer and Stem Cell Genomics

Research Areas: Systems biology, cancer genomics

Michael Stone

Professor 

Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Areas: molecular mechanisms of telomere length control using single molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET) and micro-manipulation techniques, such as magnetic trapping.

Setting: Mostly wet lab, some computational work

Benedict Paten

Associate Research Scientist 

Director of Comparative Genomics and the Computational Genomics Laboratory (CGL)

Research Areas: Computational genomics

Setting: Dry lab

Vanessa Jonsson

Assistant Professor 

Applied Mathematics and Biomolecular Engineering 

Research Areas: Immune system evolution in the context of human disease, create mathematical models and computational methods for the analysis of high throughput genomic and immunological data

Setting: Dry lab

Sofie Salama

Professor

Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Faculty Director of Diversity at the UCSC Genomics Institute, Executive Committee at the Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells

Research Areas: Functional analysis of recently evolved human genome sequences in early and cerebral cortex development using pluripotent stem cell models, molecular biology, cell biology, stem cells, genomics, neurobiology, development, cancer

Setting: Mostly wet lab

Susan Carpenter

Associate Professor

Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Research Areas: Molecular mechanisms that control the innate immune responses, understanding role of long noncoding RNA in controlling inflammatory gene programs in macrophages and dendritic cells 

Setting: Wet and dry lab

Ali Shariati

Assistant Professor

Biomolecular Engineering

Research Areas: cell division and differentiation in stem cells

Setting: Wet and dry lab

John Carlos Garza

Adjunct Professor

Physical & Biological Sciences

Research Areas: genetic monitoring and evaluation techniques to provide scientifically-based support for salmonid management and recovery efforts in California, population genetics, ecology, evolution, conservation, marine biology

Setting: Wet lab, computational analysis

Russell Corbett-Detig

Assistant Professor

Biomolecular Engineering

Research Areas: evolutionary genomics, evolutionary biology, statistics, computer science, tool development and applications for SARS-CoV-2 phylogenomics

Setting: Wet and dry lab

Parisa Nejad

UCSC Genome Browser, Project Manager of Stem Cell Hub and UCSC's Human Cell Atlas Data Wrangling Team

Research Areas: single-cell genomics, stem cell biology, human development

Setting: Dry lab only

Marcella Gomez

Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics

Research Areas: Control and dynamical systems with applications to synthetic biology including modeling, analysis, and design of biological networks involved in gene regulation, metabolic engineering, and spatial patterning

Setting: Dry lab only

Angela Brooks

Professor, Biomolecular Engineering

Research Areas: Bioinformatics,Molecular Biology, Cancer Biology

Setting: Wet and dry labs

Ann McCartney

Post-doctoral Scholar

Research Areas: Ethics, legal, and social implications of genomics

Setting: Computational analysis

Rachel Meyer

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Research Areas: eDNA, conservation genetics, ecology and evolution

Setting: TBD