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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Michael Shapira, Integrative Biology

Michael Shapira

Dept of Integrative Biology

aging, host-microbe interactions, Microbiome, C. elegans

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

adaptation, evolutionary biology, genomics, genetics, toxicology, insect biology, plant biology, microbiology, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing

Rodrigo Almeida

Rodrigo Almeida

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

emerging diseases, disease ecology, vector-borne plant diseases, insect-microbe interactions

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbiology, microbial development, molecular genetics, biochemistry, microbial social behaviors, bacterial communities / microbiomes, collective behaviors

Britt Koskella in the greenhouse

Dept of Integrative Biology

Bacteriophage, Microbiome, plant-pathogen interactions, disease ecology, agricultural sustainability, Environmental Microbiology of Bacteria and Viruses, plant microbiome, evolutionary ecology

Ignacio Chapela

Ignacio Chapela

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

agriculture, biotechnology, environmental science, microbial biology, policy and management

Ashley Wolf

School of Public Health

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

gut microbiota, metabolism, genomics, host-microbe interactions

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

agricultural sustainability, plant–microbe interactions, plant immunity, crop disease resistance

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

agroecology, soil ecology, biogeochemistry, plan-soil-microbe interactions

Nicole King

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

choanoflagellates, multicellularity, evolution of animals, host-microbe interactions, bacterial cues

Dept of Integrative Biology

community ecology, estuarine host-parasite interactions, canopy gaps, Caribbean coast of Panama

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

TB, mycobacterium tuberculosis, M. tuberculosis, genetics, proteomics, transcriptional profiling, host-pathogen interactions, host-directed therapy

Dennis Baldocchi

Dennis Baldocchi

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

biometeorology, climate change and ecosystems, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, agricultural meteorology, ecosystem ecology, carbon cycle, evaporation, ecohydrology

Kristofer Pister

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

micro robotics, synthetic insects, smart dust

Vincent H. Resh

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

ecology, water resources, pollution, monitoring, water-borne diseases

Professor Michi Taga with Petri plate

Michi Taga

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

molecular biology, genetics, microbial biology, chemical biology, cofactors, nutrient exchange, microbial communities, bacteria

Dept of Integrative Biology

freshwater ecology, food webs, trophic dynamics, northern California rivers, watersheds

Bethanie Edwards

Bethanie Edwards

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

oceanography, chemical oceanography, environmental microbiology, molecular tools for microbial ecology, mass spectrometry, lipidomics, lipid metabolism, marine biogeochemistry, microbial carbon cycling, ocean carbon cycle dynamics

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

immunology, cell biology, infectious disease, innate immunity, Microbiome, autoimmune diseases

N. Cecilia Martinez-Gomez

Norma Cecilia Martinez-Gomez

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbial physiology, one-carbon metabolism, microbial molecular biology, bacteria, enzymes, enzyme activity, enzymology, enzyme kinetics, protein biochemistry, protein characterization

Dept of Integrative Biology

biomechanics, insects, invertebrate functional morphology, fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, marine animals, filtration, gliding vertebrates

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biology, cell motility, role of the actin cytoskeleton in cell locomotion, shape change, actin filament assembly, bacterial and viral pathogens

Mohammad Reza Kaazempur Mofrad is a Professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley and a Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research integrates biomechanics, mechanobiology, artificial intelligence, and computational biology to understand how physical forces regulate biological systems across molecular, cellular, and microbial scales.

Mohammad Reza Kaazempur Mofrad

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

molecular cell biomechanics, bacterial communities / microbiomes, deep learning for biology and medicine

Suzanne MJ. Fleiszig

Suzanne M.J. Fleiszig

School of Optometry

immunology, eye, microbiology, infectious disease, corneal physiology, tear film physiology, bacterial pathogenesis, contact lenses, pseudomonas aeruginosa, epithelial cell biology, innate immunity