UCSC Participating Faculty
UCSC Participating Faculty
(Possible summer research mentors)
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Professor
MCD Biology
Research Areas: RNA, gene expression and quality control
Setting: Wet lab
Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
Research Areas: Bioinformatics,Molecular Biology, Cancer Biology
Setting: Wet and dry labs
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
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
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
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
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
Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research Areas: Complex Trait Evolution, Functional Genomics, Transcriptomics
Setting: Wet and dry labs
Post-doctoral Scholar
Research Areas: Ethics, legal, and social implications of genomics
Setting: Computational analysis
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Research Areas: eDNA, conservation genetics, ecology and evolution
Setting: TBD
Assistant Professor
MCD Biology: Colligan Presidential Chair in Pediatric Genomics
Research Areas: Genomics of pediatric cancers and rare diseases
Setting: Wet and dry lab
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
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research Areas: global biodiversity change, population genetics, population dynamics, ecology and evolution
Setting: TBA
Associate Research Scientist
Director of Comparative Genomics and the Computational Genomics Laboratory (CGL)
Research Areas: Computational genomics
Setting: Dry lab
Assistant Professor
MCD Biology
Research Areas: Skeletal muscle biology, epigenetic regulation and metabolism
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
Assistant Professor
Biomolecular Engineering
Research Areas: cell division and differentiation in stem cells
Setting: Wet and dry lab
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
Professor
Biomolecular Engineering; Genomics Institute Director of Cancer and Stem Cell Genomics
Research Areas: Systems biology, cancer genomics
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