MCDB FACULTY

Manuel Ares, Jr. Splicing & RNA Processing

Needhi Bhalla Meiotic Chromosome Dynamics

Hinrich Boeger Chromatin Structure and Gene Regulation

Barry Bowman Functions of ATPases in Active Transport

Bin Chen Mammalian Brain Development

David Feldheim Mammalian Brain Development

Grant Hartzog How Chromatin Influences Transcription

Melissa Jurica Structure and Functional Analysis of Spliceosomes

Rohinton Kamakaka Transcriptional Silencing and Insulators

Doug Kellogg Control of Cell Cycle Events by Cyclin-dependent Kinase

Robert Ludwig Plant-microbe Interactions & Plant Gene Cloning

Harry Noller Structure & Function of the Ribosome

Amy Ralston Origins and regulation of mammalian stem cells

Michael Rexach Structure & Function of the Nuclear Pore Complex

Jeremy Sanford Genomic Analysis of Protein-RNA interactions

Bill Saxton Cytoskeletal Motors and Active Transport Processes

Susan Strome Chromatin and RNA Regulation in C. elegans

Bill Sullivan Cell Cycle, Cytoskeleton, and Host-pathogen Interactions

John Tamkun Chromatin Remodeling in Drosophila Development

Alan M. Zahler Exon Recognition & Alternative Splicing

Martha Zúñiga Cell Biology of Class I Histocompatibility Molecules

Yi Zuo Functions of glia at the synapses in the mammalian nervous system

AFFILIATES

Camilla Forsberg (Biomolecular Engineering) - Mechanisms of Stem Cell Fate Decisions

David Haussler (Biomolecular Engineering) HHMI Investigator. Computational Biology

Scott Lokey (Chemistry) Bioorganic Chemistry, Cyclic Peptides, Cell Cycle and Signaling

Todd Lowe (Biomolecular Engineering) Non-coding RNA gene discovery; extremophile computational & experimental genomics

Karen Ottemann (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology) Molecular mechanisms of Helicobacter pylori pathogenesis

Seth Rubin (Chemistry) Biochemical Mechanisms in Cell Growth and Division

Bill Scott (Chemistry) Structure and Mechanism of RNA Enzymes

Michael Stone (Chemistry) Single-molecule Biophysics and Enzymology

Fitnat Yildiz (Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology) Ex-vivo Survival Mechanisms