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Wally Wang standing in front of a white board Jen-Chywan (Wally) Wang
Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology
steroid hormones, glucocorticoids, molecular physiology, Metabolic Diseases, Type 2 diabetes, cellular signaling, factors regulated glucose/insulin homeostasis, fatty liver
Michael Marletta Michael A. Marletta
Dept of Chemistry
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
chemical biology, molecular biology, structure/function relationships in proteins, catalytic and biological properties of enzymes, cellular signaling, nitric oxide synthase, soluble guanylate cyclase, gas sensing, cellulose degradation, polysaccharide monooxygenases
smiling man in office setting; Gregory W. Aponte Gregory W. Aponte
Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology
health and nutrition, nutritional sciences, signaling between the gut and the brain, neuropeptides, G-protein coupled receptors
Steven E. Brenner Steven E. Brenner
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
molecular biology, computational biology, evolutionary biology, bioengineering, structural genomics, computational genomics, cellular activity, cellular functions, personal genomics
Helen Bateup Helen Bateup
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
Dept of Neuroscience
molecular and cellular neuroscience, neurodevelopmental disorders, autism, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease
headshot Hei Sook Sul
Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology
biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, physiology of adipogenesis, thermogenesis, lipogenesis and lipolysis
Photo of Sanjay Kumar Sanjay Kumar
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
biomaterials, molecular and cellular bioengineering, stem cells, cancer biology, translational medicine
David Drubin David Drubin
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
cellular morphogenesis, plasma membrane dynamics, microtubule cytoskeletons, cytoskeletal proteins, morphological development
Georjana Barnes Georjana Barnes
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
biochemistry, genetics, cancer, biology, microtubule cytoskeleton, cell cycle controls, cellular imaging
Xavier Darzacq Xavier Darzacq
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
transcription regulation during cellular differentiation, gene expression control mechanism, biophysical rules of nuclear organization
Ziyang Zhang Ziyang Zhang
Dept of Chemistry
synthetic chemistry, chemical biology, peptides, proteins, drug discovery, cellular signal transduction, cancer, autoimmune diseases
Robert Zucker Robert S. Zucker
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
Dept of Neuroscience
synaptic transmission, cellular neurophysiology: synaptic biophysics, properties of neural circuits, photolysis, vital dyes of vesicle membrane, electrophysiological techniques, neuromodulator
photo of Donald Rio Donald Rio
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
molecular genetics, drosophila melanogaster, transposable elements, RNA splicing, neurodegenerative diseases, nucleic acid rearrangement reactions, P elements and their cellular host
Ellen Robey Ellen Robey
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
fate determination in the T-lymphocyte lineage, T cell development in the mouse, thymic development, cellular maturation, parasitic infection, chronic infection, host-pathogen interactions, Toxoplasma gondii
Robert Tjian Jacket Robert Tjian
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
eukaryotic molecular biology; biochemistry, cellular differentiation, chromatin function, RNA synthesis, single cell imaging, single molecule imaging, disease mechanisms and translational drug therapy strategies including targeting, transcription factor activities with small molecule Glues via induced proximity and LockTac modalities
SHAOFAN LI Shaofan Li
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in engineering and sciences, structural mechanics, computational mechanics, computational materials, computational mechanics and computational physics, finite element methods and meshfree particle methods, ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, atomistic simulation and multiscale simulations, nonlinear continuum mechanics, soft matter mechanics, wave propagations, modeling and simulation of fracture, dislocations, modeling and simulation of material failures, nano-mechanics, bio-mechanics and bio-physics, cellular mechanics, micromechanics & composite materials, mechanics and physics of amorphous materials
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
Richard Kramer Richard H. Kramer
Dept of Neuroscience
Neurons, synaptic transmission, photopharmacology, ion channels, action potentials, optical imaging, vision, learning and memory, retina, neurodegenrative disease(1551)
Gloria Brar Gloria Brar
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
meiosis, translation, sORFs, stress responses
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Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology
aging, stem cell, metabolism, diseases of aging
Susan Marqusee Susan Marqusee
Dept of Chemistry
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
amino acids, determinants of protein structure and folding, biophysical, structural and computational techniques, translocation, protein synthesis
Adam Arkin Adam Arkin
Dept of Bioengineering
Systems and Synthetic Biology, Environmental Microbiology of Bacteria and Viruses, bioenergy, Biomedicine, Bioremediation, space, green and sustainable manufacturing, sustainability
David Weisblat David Weisblat
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
leech embryo, evolution & development, cell fate determination, lineage tracing, specification of neuronal phenotypes, genome evolution
headshot of Kunxin Luo Kunxin Luo
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
signal transduction pathways, mechanisms controlling the receptor kinases, regulation of mammary epithelial cell differentiation, breast carcinogenesis
Ahmad Nabhan in outdoor setting Ahmad Nabhan
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
decoding stem-niche communication
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