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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Dept of Bioengineering

stem cell niche engineering, tissue repair, stem cell aging and rejuvenation

Dept of Sociology

social networks, American social history, technology, urban sociology, sociology

Jesse Rothstein

Dept of Economics

Goldman School of Public Policy

labor economics, inequality, education policy, unemployment, tax policy, local public finance, teacher quality, segregation, economics of education, labor market, public impact research/scholarship, research practice partnership, partnership research, higher education

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

urban design and planning, design history, social and cultural factors in landscape design

Marvalee H. Wake

Dept of Integrative Biology

development, evolution, systematics, amphibians, reproductive biology, vertebrate evolutionary morphology, fishes, reptiles, comparative analysis, biodiversity issues

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Dept of Geography

Latin America, human rights, peasantry, migrations, social movements, political conflict, Mayan communities in Guatemala, issues of memory, grief

Jeffrey R. Long

Jeffrey R. Long

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Dept of Chemistry

inorganic and materials chemistry, synthesis of inorganic molecules and higher dimensional solids, precise tailoring of chemical and physical properties, gas storage, molecular separations and catalysis in porous materials, magnetic and conductive materials

With the Global Health Fellows (I'm the one with the Cal cap)

Stefano M. Bertozzi

School of Public Health

HIV/AIDS, HIV prevention, HIV treatment programs, reproductive health, health economics, anti-poverty programs, impact evaluation

Qiang Zhou

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry of HIV gene expression, transcriptional elongation, Tat activation, stage of transcriptional elongation, HIV replication, anti-HIV therapy

Ken Light

School of Journalism

journalism, photojournalism, documentary photography

john powell at lectern

john powell

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Civil rights and civil liberties, structural racialization, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, needs of citizens in a democratic society

Douglas Koshland

Douglas Koshland

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

higher order chromosome structure, genome integrity, sister chromatid cohesion, chromosome condensation, desiccation tolerance, microbial genetics

Egyptian Museum Turin, facsimile of the Book of the Dead of Iuefankh

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Egyptology, Egyptian, afrofuturism, magic, demonology, digital humanities, 3D modeling, virtual reality, prison higher education, ritual and religion

Dept of Sociology

Haas School of Business

organizations, social stratification, inequality, economic sociology, comparative studies, quantitative methods, comparative gender in the workplace, hiring, promotions, wages

music composition, music theory, popular music, music performance, music pedagogy

Michael Rape in Woo Fai Han Hall

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cancer, protein degradation, siRNA, Berkeley Screening Center

Dept of African American Studies

social movements, visual culture, memory, photography, African American history and culture

David Kirp

Goldman School of Public Policy

public policy, law, social policy, higher education policy, politics and policy, primary and secondary education policy, race and ethnicity, early childhood policy

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

synthetic biology, plant biology, microbiology, evolutionary biology

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

chromosome structure and function, higher order chromosome structure, cell cycle controls, chromosome remodeling and reorganization during meiosis, spatial pattern formation in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, genome mapping, eukaryotic genomes, whole-genome analysis

environmental law, natural resource law, law and science, biodiversity conservation, public and private land management, property rights

Robert P. Merges

antitrust, intellectual property, property rights, patent law, law and economics, copyright law, digital content, online contracts

Professor Fleming in Photosynthesis Lab

Graham R. Fleming

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

chemistry, proteins, chemical and biological dynamics in the condensed phase, ultrafast spectroscopy, liquids, solutions, glasses, photosynthetic proteins, role of solvents in chemical reactions, electronic energy transfer, electron transfer, regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting

Rich Lyons standing in outside setting with students in background

Rich Lyons

Haas School of Business

stablecoins, foreign exchange markets, culture, innovation, entrepreneurship, online education, blockchains

Michael Frenklach

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

chemical kinetics, computer modeling, uncertainty quantification, combustion chemistry, pollutant formation (carbon black, soot), chemical vapor deposition of diamond films, homogeneous nucleation of silicon, diamond and graphene, diamond powders; interstellar dust formation